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CATALOG RECORD

Jungle Comics #117

Fiction House · Series began 1940 · September 1949

Dates

Cover date
September 1949
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Iger Shop, Maurice Whitman, Bill Walsh, Kurt Caesar, Bob Webb, Henry Kiefer, Enrico Bagnoliinks: Iger Shop, Maurice Whitman, Kurt Caesar, Henry Kiefer, Enrico Bagnoliscript: Frank Riddell, Ed Hunt, Nils Van Duren, Pierre La Rue, Sidney Elias, Roy L. Smith

Stories

  • The Fangs of the Hooded Scorpion! · 10 pages

    Borkha is raiding traders' safaris and Tania is buying their trading concessions on the cheap. Kaänga steps in and puts a stop to their raids. In the process, they rescue a mysterious mute boy from a funeral barge.

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    When white prospectors build a dam, the water holes in Simba's jungle dry up and his subjects demand that he restore the water. Meanwhile, his cubs are captured by the prospectors' whose Geiger counter has detected radioactivity from mud on the cubs. Simba trails his missing cubs to the prospectors' steamboat and, in his attack, he causes the steamboat to crash into the dam, restoring the water holes.

  • C · 1 pages

    Facts on several animals whose names start with 'C.'

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    Jingo stows away on the plane for a trading trip by King and Bertha. However, when escaped convicts tie up King and Bertha, it's Jingo's flying that saves the day.

  • Untitled · 7 pages

    Unlicensed traders Kenyon and Battersby have been intimidating the K'wombes for some time. Terry buys a helicopter, hoping to show the K'wombes that his magic was greater than the traders'. The traders' steal the helicopter but Terry recovers it and the K'wombes agree to deal only with licensed traders in the future.

  • Andorra · Stamps · 1 pages
  • Congo Mission · 2 pages
  • Untitled · 6 pages

    The adult animals of Wambi's jungle do not want their children swimming because they are afraid of Old Toothy, a crocodile. Wambi takes the children swimming despite the children's parents' disapproval. He then tricks the crocodile into eating sticky tree sap, thereby sealing his mouth.

  • D · 1 pages

    Facts on several animals whose names start with 'D.'

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    As Tabu is taking Langa to Zan for judgement, the N'kaos attempt to free her. Tabu recovers his prisoner and destroys the N'kao's idol of Mu.

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