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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published Fall 1953
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing J. F. Byrne (managing editor); Jerry Iger (art director)
Notes Title on cover and in indicia is Kaänga Jungle King.

Cover Details - "Tembu of the Elephants"

Genre Jungle
Pencils Maurice Whitman (signed) [as MW]
Inks Maurice Whitman (signed) [as MW]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes House ad for 6 Fiction House comics

7 page Kaänga story "Tembu, the Elephant!"

Genre Jungle
Script ? [as Frank Riddell]
Pencils Maurice Whitman (signed)
Inks Maurice Whitman (signed)
Notes This is part 1 of a 2-part story

2 page text story "The Tabu City"

Script John Rensler
Letters typeset

5 page Kaänga story "The Battle of Giants (also Tembu's Terror Trail)"

Pencils Maurice Whitman (signed)
Inks Maurice Whitman (signed)
Notes part 2 of a 2-part story

Half page Stamp Page filler "Fonopost"

Script Sidney M. Elias
Letters typeset

7 page Captain Terry Thunder story "The jungle spawns strange evils, but none more deadly than revenge!..."

Genre Jungle
Script ? [as Pierre LaRue]
Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan
Reprinted from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #92

1 page Jungle Kings filler

6 page Kaänga story "King of the River!"

Genre Jungle
Script ? [as Frank Riddell]
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman
Notes The art from the original 10 page story has been cut up and re-arranged with all-new text and dialog.
Reprinted from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) # 119