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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published 1993
Cover Price USD 2.95
Pages 36
Editing Bill Black; Bill Feret (Contributing Editor)
Notes Art is signed "Gorby from Black"

Cover Details - "Beware of Those!"

Characters Cave Girl
Genre Jungle
Pencils Bill Black (layouts?; see notes); Brad Gorby (signed)
Inks Mark Heike (signed)
Notes Art is signed "Gorby from Black"

1 page Taanda (White Princess) illustration "Pinup"

Characters Taanda
Genre Jungle
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes This is probably an enlarged panel from WHITE PRINCESS OF THE JUNGLE #2 or #3, where Kinstler did story art; the character is named based on that assumption
Reprinted from WHITE PRINCESS OF THE JUNGLE #?

8 page Wild Side story "Sandwitch! (Wild Side Part 3)"

Characters Princess Pantha; Cave Girl; Nyoka; Tygra; Queen Silaaca (villain)
Synopsis Tara has disappeared in a mysterious purple beam. The four remaining heroes accidentally drive the Terra Sled into a huge sink hole in the sand and end up prisoners in an underground city where mole-men are ruled by a human woman, Queen Silaaca. The four heroes flee down a tunnel and find the Terra Sled; they fly away in it, but Silaaca jumps on the hood of the sled and Cave Girl fights her. When they reach the surface, Silaaca explodes. The End!
Genre Jungle
Script Nick Northey
Pencils Nick Northey
Inks Nar Castro
Notes Continued from JUNGLE GIRLS #15; Tara plotline continued in FEMFORCE #64

1 page Editorial text article "Jungle Girls"

Script Bill Black
Notes Identifies some reprint sources; announces cancellation of the series

1 page Letter Column letters page "Jungle Call"

10 page Tygra story "The Slaves of Babylon!"

Characters Tygra; Terry Winton
Synopsis Accused by the Kokuri chief of spiriting away hundreds of his warriors, Tygra and Terry are thrown into an extinct volcano. They find an ancient Assyrian city under the mountain. Terry conveniently speaks Classical Persian, which is enough like Assyrian to allow communication. They find the Kokuri being used as slaves to make weapons for an invasion of the surface world. They marshall the slaves to rebel, overcome the Assyrians, and clear their names.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Artie Saaf (signed)
Inks Artie Saaf (signed)
Reprinted from STARTLING COMICS #52 (July 1948)

5 page Tangi story "The Idol with Four Paws!"

Characters Tangi; Mason, a convict (villain); Davis, a lawman; Chief Tansa
Synopsis Prisoner Mason kills Davis, but Tangi disarms him and tells him to leave the jungle. He goes to the Nakkla village where he uses ventriloquism to convince the natives his pet albino monkey is their ancient god. The people give the monkey the jeweled collar Mason was after all along; as he secretly escapes he is attacked troops of monkeys angered by the presence of the albino and is killed.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Reprinted from Dagar (Fox, 1948 series) #16 (June 1948)

5 page Shirl the Jungle Girl story "It is I, Shirl, beautiful but muscular..."

Characters Shirl
Genre Jungle; Satire
Pencils Howard Nostrand
Inks Howard Nostrand
Notes Parody of jungle-girl stories
Reprinted from ?

1 page Tarinda illustration "Pinup"

Characters Tarinda (White Princess)
Genre Jungle
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Inside back cover; character was formerly called Taanda; reprint citation based on #5 being the only issue in which White Princess was called Tarinda, and Overstreet statement that the inside cover was the only Kinstler art in that issue
Reprinted from WHITE PRINCESS OF THE JUNGLE #5 inside front cover