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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published June 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing John C. Mitchell (Editor)
Notes The cover is a signed Zolnerowich image reprinted from the cover of Jungle Comics #18 with Kaänga's head redrawn by Moreira and Zolne's signature removed.

Cover Details - "Master of the Moon-Beasts"

Genre jungle
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich; Ruben Moreira
Inks Dan Zolnerowich; Ruben Moreira
Letters typeset
Notes The cover is a signed Zolnerowich image reprinted from the cover of Jungle Comics #18 with Kaänga's head redrawn by Moreira and Zolne's signature removed.
Reprinted from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #18 [with modifications, see note]

14 page Kaänga story Master of the Moon-Beasts ["Terror seethes over the grim walls of a..."]

Genre jungle
Script ? [as Frank Riddell]
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb. Traditionally these inks have been credited to Moreira, but according to Robert Barrett, Reed Crandall indicated to him that these were his own inks. This fact gives added depth to the talent that was Reed Crandall.

6 page Simba, King of Beasts story ["A small child toddles away from his mother..."]

Genre jungle
Script ? [as Ed Hunt]
Pencils Nick Cardy [as Nick Viscardi] (signed)
Inks Nick Cardy [as Nick Viscardi] (signed)

10 page Wambi, The Jungle Boy story ["The woman was young and beautiful, and cruel..."]

Genre jungle
Script ? [as Roy L. Smith]
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

7 page Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs story "A courageous explorer, Hakoan, returns to Khefra with..."

Genre jungle
Script ? [as W.B. Hovious]
Pencils George Appel (signed)
Inks George Appel (signed)

2 page text story "The Madman's Ape"

Genre jungle
Script ? [as Buck Stanley]
Letters typeset

7 page Captain Terry Thunder story ["In the native settlement of Baou, a village..."]

Genre adventure
Script ? [as Pierre La Rue]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Jack Kamen?

10 page Camillla story ["Death in a thousand forms lurks behind every..."]

Genre jungle
Script ? [as Victor Ibsen]
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf