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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published 1992
Cover Price $2.75
Pages 36
Editing Bill Black; Bill Feret (Contributing Editor)

Cover Details

Genre Jungle
Pencils Bill Black (signed)
Inks Bill Black (signed)

1 page Editorial text article "Irish Returns"

Synopsis Editorial; article about Irish McCalla, including long section written by McCalla
Script Bill Black
Notes Inside front cover

12 page Rulah, Jungle Goddess story "The Frenzy of the Dishonored Idol!"

Characters Rulah; Borden (villain); Waloo, Nimba (servants of Borden)
Synopsis Borden masquerades as Rulah to enter a temple and steal its rubies, with the help of Nimba. She overcomes Rulah but is seized by an ape. Rulah blows up the temple, saves Borden for the villagers' justice, and takes the rubies to buy medicine.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker? (see notes)
Inks Matt Baker? (see notes)
Notes Art credit from ZOOT COMICS #10 listing in GCD; in editorial, Black states "Although Matt Baker never drew a Rulah story, the art (by artists unknown) was done in the popular 'Baker style'."
Reprinted from ZOOT COMICS #10 (November 1947)

6 page Tiger Girl story "The twinkling light of a thousand eyes..."

Characters Tiger Girl; Abdola; N'Pogi, a potter; The Professor, Bones, Charlie (villains)
Synopsis Tiger Girl saves blind potter N'Pogi from an attack by mandrills. Later, N'Pogi guides three white men to the Sun Temple of Takala, where they plan to steal jewels. They fight their way past giant tarantulas to discover the jewels are all fake. Meanwhile, Tiger Girl goes to N'Pogi's empty hut, where she is attacked by a leopard.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker
Inks Bill Black
Notes This reprint continues in JUNGLE GIRLS #6
Reprinted from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #60

10 page Rulah, Jungle Goddess story "The Ice Beast"

Characters Rulah; Monstro the Sorceror, Gade (villains); Tombi (native boy)
Synopsis Monstro brings Gade to the jungle with a weather machine, which they use to cause a heavy snow-fall. Rulah helps villagers sew heavy clothing, then sets out in search of Monstro. She finds him, he tries to kill her, she gets away and turns off the machine. With heavy western clothes on, Monstro dies in the resulting flood.
Genre Jungle
Pencils Matt Baker?
Inks Matt Baker?
Notes Art credit from ZOOT COMICS #10 listing in GCD; in editorial, Black states "Although Matt Baker never drew a Rulah story, the art (by artists unknown) was done in the popular 'Baker style'."
Reprinted from ZOOT COMICS #10 (November 1947)

1 page Irish McCalla as Sheena (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Photo"

Genre Jungle
Notes Still from 1950s TV show (smaller version is in article in JUNGLE GIRLS #4)