CATALOG RECORD

Jungle Comics #8

Fiction House · Series began 1940 · August 1940

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Dates

Cover date: August 1940
On sale: June 17, 1940
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Bob Powell, George Tuska, Art Peddy, Charles Sultan, Bill Bossert, Henry Kiefer, Nick Cardy, Bill Allison, Fletcher Hanksinks: Bob Powell, George Tuska, Art Peddy, Charles Sultan, Bill Bossert, Henry Kiefer, Nick Cardy, Bill Allison, Fletcher Hanksscript: Robert Lewis, Pierre La Rue, Roy L. Smith, Fletcher Hanksletters: Fletcher Hanks

Stories

Safari into Shadowland · 10 pages
Criminals drive out the workers of a diamond mine and bring in their own natives to work the mine. Kaänga, together with a group of black-maned lions, restores the mine to its rightful owners.
Untitled · 5 pages
After a savage tribe wipes out a group of missionaries, the Panther sees to it that they are punished by a flood that leaves their leader dead.
Untitled · 8 pages
A group of scientists are stricken with a plague after they open an ancient Egyptian tomb in the jungle. Tabu goes to a lost ancient Egyptian outpost for a cure. At the outposts, the descendants of the Egyptians force Tabu to battle and defeat a group of degenerate ratmen and a giant serpent before they give him the cure for the plague.
Untitled · 6 pages
With the aid of a band of gorillas, Camilla and her army repulse an attack by a medieval Asian army.
The Dark Horde · 2 pages
Untitled · 7 pages
Yak-ho and his savage tribe attack the peaceful Kadahs. Terry uses a stick of chewing gum as a bribe to stop the attacks, but later must exorcise the evil spirit of the gum with a piece of jewelry.
Untitled · 7 pages
The Ingas, weakened by disease, are attacked by the Kurgas. Wambi goes to the military outpost to get both military and medical assistance.
Untitled · 6 pages
Roy helps a diamond mine owner find his mine with the aid of the thieves who stole the map to the mine.
Untitled · 5 pages
Simba rescues the pilot of a crashed airplane who is looking for his kidnapped fiance. With the help of Simba and some apes, he frees the girl and captures the kidnappers.
The Strange Aardvark; The Bird of Paradise · 1 pages
A brief natural history of the aardvark and the bird of paradise.
The Temple in the Mud Pit · 7 pages
When Mr. X steals a mystical headpiece that causes a boiling mud-pit to overflow into the jungle, he is confronted by Fantomah who transforms him into a mud being and condemns him to live underground forever.

Reprinted in

You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (2009), Divas, Dames & Daredevils (2013)