Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) comic books 1947

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $145.00 View scans

Untitled story, art by John Celardo; Mad scientist Roho takes N'Tito's brain and places it in ape. He then kidnaps Ann and plans to allow the ape inhabiting N'Titi's body to kill her; Kaänga and N'Tito arrive in time to save Ann but N'Tito and Roho are both killed. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba protects a lost white child from buffalo stampede and mandrill attack until the boy's parents find him. Untitled story, art by Bob Lubbers; Terry rides to rescue the sultan's daughter from her kidnapper, Ali Khan. Keeeto, disguised as the Desert Whip, a notorious criminal, manages to get the better of Ali Khan and the girl is rescued. Cecil Rhodes bio, art by George Evans. Untitled story, pencils by Alex Blum; Two hunters trick Wambi into letting them record his voice while he is giving animals commands; Using the recording, they manage to capture dozens of animals with no effort. Brief descriptions of several jungle traps. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; The witch doctor Sikulu convinces his people that white men have killed their chief; He takes the tribe to the camp of innocent scientists with the intent of murder; Tabu arrives, tells the men the truth—that Sikulu had attempted to kill the chief. Untitled story, pencils by Fran Hopper; A pair of jewel thieves kidnap Trader Tom and hope to torture him into revealing the location of his cache of pearls; Camilla rescues Tom, but not before one of the thieves has been killed by a viper. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $81.00 View scan 2.5" Cumulative spine split. Water spotting.

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Firegems of L'hama Lost," art by John Celardo; Jewel thieves steal the L'homas' sacred jewels and kill their sacred leopard; The L'homas blame Kaänga and Ann; After a brief fight, they leave Kaänga for dead and take Ann to their village for execution; the jewel thieves accompany them. Kaänga recovers and pursues the L'homas. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba is forced to lead a safari of gold hunters to a cave with gold dust. Untitled story; Using drug addled slaves, Anders is stealing sacred gems from the local idols; Captain Terry Thunder and Keeto put an end to his plundering. Jungle Lore; A brief description of the sources of women's clothing in the jungle. Untitled story, pencils by Alex Blum; A mad riverboat captain takes a pair of hunters and their animals captive; Wambi boards the boat and frees the hunters and the animals. "Blood-Priest of the River God" text story. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; A crocodile cult takes a pair of white hunters captive; Tabu rescues the pair and leaves the cultists to a pack of mandrills. Untitled story, art by Fran Hopper; While investigating a pair of slavers, Camilla is taken; She challenges one of the slavers to a duel on elephant-back and kills her. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $149.95 or Best Offer View scan 2 1/2" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation. Interior tearing. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Skulls for the Altar of Doom!", art by John Celardo; Treasure hunters Riggan and Slade want to capture Ann to offer her to a tribe of white women for sacrifice to their god; To this end, Slade disguises himself as a witch doctor and lures Ann away from the N'logas' village; Kaänga and N'geeso follow and rescue Ann. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Mrs. Simba, responding to the cries of a water buffalo being killed by Cape dogs, is believed by the buffalo herd to be the killer herself; Simba searches for clues to her innocence and is given a bit of dog fur from the scene of the crime by a mole. Jungle Lore, art by George Evans; Trivia regarding the uses of various spiders, insects, and lizards of the jungles. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Captain Terry Thunder and Keeto escort a young woman into the interior to find her father and his partner and to see their land claim; The partner, Wrenne, having killed the girl's father, is collecting tribute from villagers with threats of death at the hands of a gorilla idol. "Thirst" text story. Untitled story; A royal brother and sister come to Wambi's jungle seeking a lost gem; Wambi finds it but greed turns the brother and sister against each other and they are then killed by their trained leopard. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; Cut throat geologist Neale is working with a lion cult to locate a rare rock specimen; Tabu puts a stop to the cults murdering ways and sees Neale killed by a lion. Untitled story, art by Fran Hopper; Ruthless hunter Curtis captures a sacred white leopard and, through trickery, makes it appear that the leopard will not attack him, thus making him holy to the natives. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $105.00 View scans

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Monsters from the Mist Lands!", art by John Celardo; A schemer from Princess Valla's city comes to Kaänga's jungle and takes the princess's bracelet from Kaänga. Kaänga, Ann, and N'geeso pursue the thief back to the city, where Ann is taken captive; The schemer, Kasna, demands that Valla follow the law and wed the holder of the bracelet; if she refuses, he will kill Ann. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba journeys to a new land where he is challenged by that country's lion-king, Zingara; Simba defeats Zingara but is then attacked by a tribe of apes, believing that he is Zingara, whom they hate. The Kavirondo, art by Mike Peppe; A brief description of a tribe living on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Escorting a government official and his daughter on a hunt for a white giraffe, Terry and the hunters are taken captive by a white priestess and her tribe; Keeto arrives in time to save the party from death by leopard. "Dead Man's Revenge" text story. "Shirkah!"; Prince Kopur comes to Wambi's jungle to capture animals; He captures Wambi, as well, when Wambi attempts to free the captives; When Kopur elects to torture Wambi, he makes his escape and sets a fire that allows the captive animals to escape. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; Tabu interferes in a magician's effort to extract payment from the N'ganzos for the return of their princess from the grip of the god of the mists. Untitled story, art by Fran Hopper; Priestess Senga plots to have her personal assassin, K'bali, exonerated of his crimes at a public trial; Camilla thwarts her plans and Senga and K'bali are both killed by leopards. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $310.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4345765009

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Terror Raid of the Congo Caesar!", art by John Celardo; N'tomba is leading his people on murderous raids; He captures a trio of hunters and Ann, planning to execute them; Kaänga arrives in time to prevent the executions, and N'tomba is dethroned in a duel with one of the hunters. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; A witch secretly poisons the local water hole and uses the death of the animals to convince her tribe that she is very powerful; However, Simba attacks her and she falls into the water hole and dies of her own poison. Superstitions; A brief description of some jungle superstitions. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Two treasure hunters, posing as anthropologists, work with the Kafka chief to located a buried treasure; Terry thwarts their plan, and they are killed and the map destroyed in an explosion. "At Close Quarters with a Galongwa" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. Untitled story, at by Frank Doyle; A prince and a slave girl elope and Wambi hides them in a cave; The jungle animals call a conference and tell Wambi that by allowing humans to hide in the jungle he is breaking the jungle law; Wambi dissolves the conference by throwing a wasps' nest at the animals. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Tabu goes to the village of Tuwalla to rescue the kidnapped princess, Lia, and to return her to her own people to rule. Untitled story, pencils by Nick Cardy and Bob Lubbers, inks by Nick Cardy; Two slavers battle over a party of slaves; Camilla insures the death of one slaver and the defeat of the other, freeing the slaves. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $305.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4203914014

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $65.00 View scan 5" Cumulative spine split. Tape under staples. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Untitled story, art by John Celardo; Prof. Northam, his daughter, Alice, and his assistant, Prof. Barton, discover valuable, ancient artifacts in the Gwaha country; They set up fake appearances by the Gwahas' gods to frighten the natives away, making it easier to seize the artifacts; An hallucinogenic drug, intended by Barton to drive Northram mad so that Barton could claim the discoveries as his alone, is smeared inside a pith helmet that is worn successively by Northram, Ann, and Barton. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; While fleeing a lion cult, Simba becomes covered in phosphorescent mud; The cultists believe him to be a ghost and call off their hunt. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Nolan and Billings, disguised as lancers, take a group of native men as slaves; Terry, escorting a newspaper reporter into the interior, frees the slaves and, with their help, take Nolan and Billings prisoner. Jungle Scrapbook!, art by Mike Peppe; Brief natural histories of several jungle animals. Untitled story, art by Frank Doyle; Wambi is captured a white woman hunter who wants to use his power to communicate with animals; That night, Sirdah the tiger prowls the camp and Wambi agrees to do anything Sirdah asks if he will free him. "Death on Film" text story. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; A pair of treasure hunters use mind control drugs on the jungle witch Serpina, in order for her to steal a sacred idol; Tabu discovers their plot and creates an illusion of the idol coming to life and threatening the hunters. Untitled story, pencils by Nick Cardy and Bob Lubbers, inks by Nick Cardy; Treasure hunters, working to get illicit gold out of the jungle, run afoul of the Jawalas, who capture them and torture them to death; Camilla returns the gold to the Jawalas. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.