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Issue Details

Issue #620
Published April 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Rudyard Kipling's MOWGLI JUNGLE BOOK, No. 620." Code number is MOWGLI O.S. #520-554. Copyright 1955 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company. Based on the "Mowgli" stories from "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.

Cover Details

Characters Mowgli
Genre jungle
Pencils Morris Gollub (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub (painting)
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Dholes - Wild Dogs of India"

Synopsis Facts about the wild dogs of India.
Genre fact; animal
Pencils Morris Gollub ?
Inks Morris Gollub ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration and typeset text.

17 page Mowgli story "Mowgli and Red Dog"

Characters Mowgli; Akela; Phao; Gray Brother; Bagheera
Synopsis With the aid of Bagheera, Mowgli plans an ambush in a river gorge to fend off an attack by a pack of Dhole - wild dogs.
Genre jungle
Pencils Morris Gollub
Inks Morris Gollub
Notes Death of Akela. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

17 page Mowgli story "Mowgli and the King's Ankus"

Characters Mowgli; Bagheera; White Hood
Synopsis Bagheera takes Mowgli to the deserted city of Cold Lairs, where he finds treasure guarded by an ancient white cobra.
Genre jungle
Pencils Morris Gollub
Inks Morris Gollub
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).