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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published 1993
Cover Price USD 2.95
Pages 36
Editing Bill Black; Bill Feret (Contributing Editor)
Notes Art credit from editorial

Cover Details

Characters Tara, Nyoka, Cave Girl, Tygra, Princess Pantha
Genre Jungle
Pencils Rik Levins
Inks Rik Levins
Notes Art credit from editorial

1 page Editorial text article "Jungle Girls: Wild Side"

Script Bill Black
Notes Inside front cover; includes contemporary photo of Irish McCalla (who played Sheena in 1950s TV show) and Gordon Scott (who played Tarzan in 1950s films)

13 page Wild Side story "5 Tickets to Taragonia! (Wild Side Part 1)"

Characters Tara; Nyoka; Cave Girl; Tygra; Princess Pantha; Ms. Victory (cameo); Synn (cameo); T.C. Fremont, Tara's father (cameo)
Synopsis The five women go to Taragonia, an island owned by Tara's father and leased many years ago to the government for nuclear tests. Their mission is to survey the island in preparation for clean-up. In this episode Princess Pantha and Tygra battle a dinosaur, Cave Girl and Nyoka battle monkey men, and Tara is sucked up by a huge plant. They also squabble among themselves.
Genre Jungle
Script Nick Northey
Pencils Nick Northey
Inks Rene Maglalang; Ray Arias; Mark Heike; Mike White
Notes Continued in JUNGLE GIRLS #15

10 page Princess Pantha story "The Girl Who Kept Faith!"

Characters Princess Pantha; Dane Hunter; Alice McGregor; Big Jeff Masters aka Senor Piranha (villain); Toltec; Tom Mason; Waiwai
Synopsis Alice McGregor comes to Porto Blanco in search of her missing fiancee, Tom Mason, an oil explorer. Pantha and Dane save her from a kidnapping; that night she slips away with Toltec, who promises to take her to Mason. Tom is being held by Senor Piranha until he reveals the map to his oil discovery. Pantha saves Alice from being thrown into the river to be devoured by piranhas; she throws the map into the river instead and Piranha/Masters jumps in after it.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Notes Reprint citation from editorial
Reprinted from THRILLING COMICS (Standard, 1940 series) #68 (October 1948)

8 page Camilla story "The gold shall bring thieves..."

Characters Camilla; Chief N'Kowa; Witch Doctor Losako (villain); Zantra, Barton's daughter; Koru; Barton, Sammy Stone (villains)
Synopsis Camilla sails down-river with the temple treasure of Chief N'Kowa's village, to barter for salt and quinine. Losako tells Barton and Stone where the caravan will stop; they attack, dispatch Camilla and the Bantus, and masquerade as the natives. They bring the treasure to the trading post, demanding money, but Camilla stops them. In the fight, Stone is killed and Barton is captured.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker
Inks Matt Baker
Notes In JUNGLE COMICS (1940 series) #108 listing in GCD, story is called "[Gold of the Bantus]"
Reprinted from JUNGLE COMICS (1940 series) #108 (December 1948)