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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published 1992
Cover Price 2.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bill Black; Bill Feret (Contributing Editor)

Cover Details

Genre Jungle
Pencils Bill Black (signed)
Inks Bill Black (signed)
Notes Based on splash panel of Camilla story in JUNGLE COMICS (Fiction House, 1940 series) #100 (April 1948) by Matt Baker, which is reprinted in JUNGLE GIRLS #7

1 page Editorial text article "Irish, Queen of the Jungle!"

Synopsis Editorial; article about Irish McCalla, including 1950s photo of her as Sheena (larger version of photo is on back cover of JUNGLE GIRLS #5)
Script Bill Black
Notes Inside front cover

6 page Tara story "My Heart Belongs to Kong"

Characters Tara; Saul Blazewell (villain); Kongaa, a gorilla; Mr. Frankovich
Synopsis Blazewell, a disgruntled special effects man unleashes a mechanical gorilla that battles Tara during a publicity appearance for a film. After defeating the robot, Tara goes Blazewell's house and finds him with the real gorilla from the movie. When Blazewell sends another mechanical contraption against Tara, Kongaa defends her. Director Frankovich shows up with the police but Tara convinces him to hire Blazewell instead of pressing charges.
Genre Jungle
Script Bill Black
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Bill Black, Mark Heike

6 page Tiger Girl story "Tiger Girl, I will take these two for a run..."

Characters Tiger Girl; Abdola
Synopsis Cattle are mysteriously stampeding. Investigating, Tiger Girl is netted by Wantu pygmy warriors and fights her way free. She tracks her assailants to a herd of rhinos, which also suddenly stampede. She discovers the pygmies underwater, spearing the animals; she breaks their breathing reeds and they drown.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker
Inks Matt Baker
Notes Art credit from FIGHT COMICS #42 listing in GCD, where story is called "[Bloody Hoof-Prints!]"
Reprinted from FIGHT COMICS #42 (February 1946)

8 page Camilla story "Oil!"

Characters Camilla; Sandra; Tibu; Daniel Thompson (villain); Neesi
Synopsis While Tibu is running to file a deed to an oil discovery for Sandra and Thompson, Thompson shoots him; Camilla saves him. Thompson bribes the Mansuni tribe to attack Sandra at the camp and murder all the porters. They lash Sandra to a canoe and send her over a waterfall, but Camilla saves her and Thompson dies in the fray.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Reprinted from JUNGLE COMICS (1940 series) #97 (January 1948)

11 page Sheena, Queen of the Jungle story Death Guards the Congo Keep ("What dreadful force drove the fright-paled girl...")

Characters Sheena; Bob; Sylvia Montross; Chief M'Kuli (villain); Brad Carter (villain); Dr. Montross
Synopsis Sheena and Bob rescue Sylvia, under attack by natives, and they offer to escort her. While Sheena is separated from them, Bob and Sylvia are taken prisoner; Sheena rescues them but their canoe is attacked by a giant squid. It turns out to be a submarine, which brings Bob and Sylvia to the hidden island where Brad Carter rules supreme. Sylvia tries to ransom her father off the island, Carter plans to kill them all, Bob, Sylvia, and her father escape in the sub and Sheena battles Carter to his death.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Robert Hayward Webb
Inks Robert Hayward Webb
Notes Title from cover of JUMBO COMICS (1940 series) #110.
Reprinted from JUMBO COMICS (1940 series) #110

1 page Sheena illustration

Characters Sheena [modeled by Irish McCulla]
Genre Jungle
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
Notes Still from 1950s TV show