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Publisher: Fiction House

Title: Jungle Comics
Issue: 97
Page Count: 52
Publish Date: January 1948
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Contributors: Editor: J.F. Byrne (managing editor)(credited); John C. Mitchell (editor)(credited)

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Story Title: Wizard of the Whirling Doom - cover
Features:Kaänga
Pages:1
Genre:jungle
Characters:Kaänga; Ann Mason


Story Title: Wizard of the Whirling Doom - comic story
Features:Kaänga
Pages:10
Pencils:John Celardo
Inks:John Celardo
Genre:jungle
Characters:D'Hama (introduction; villain; death); Bonako (introduction; death); Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sulakis (African tribe)
Synopsis:Kaänga and Ann visit the village of Tonga, where their friend Bonako is to celebrate his chieftanship by use of a ritual bow. The witch doctor, D'Hama, spoils the ceremony by poisoning the bowstring and causing an arrow to be shot from hiding, killing Bonako. Kaänga exposes the trick and D'Hama is killed by the tribe.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Simba, King of Beasts
Pages:6
Pencils:August Froehlich (signed)
Inks:August Froehlich (signed)
Genre:jungle
Characters:Simba; N'gura (leopard)
Synopsis:When lightning starts a forest fire that traps many of the animals of his kingdom, Simba instructs the elephants in the building of a dam, in imitation of some natives he had seen earlier. The dam diverts the river, quenching the fire.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Captain Terry Thunder
Pages:7
Pencils:Charles Sultan
Inks:Charles Sultan
Genre:jungle
Characters:Gail (introduction); N'Muli (introduction; villain); Nuba (introduction; villain); Bwana One-Eye (introduction; villain); Terry Thunder; Trader Brown; Keeto
Synopsis:Raiders take the jungle fever drugs that Terry had promised to the natives at N'gwando. He and the lancers, joined by the commissioner's daughter, steam upriver and take back the drugs.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Pages:6
Pencils:Frank Doyle
Inks:Frank Doyle
Genre:jungle
Characters:Mogawa (introduction; villain; death)(leopard); Wambi; Garno (deer); Chika (gibbon); Tawn; Ogg; Ahizar (cobra); Ragana (eagle); Laka (water buffalo); Sirdah (tiger)
Synopsis:When a deer is accidentally killed through the discharge of a discarded rifle that he stumbles over, the animals all believe that Wambi has reverted to man's ways. It is only through the animals overhearing Mogawa describe what happened that Wambi is exonerated.


Story Title: No. 4: Richard Burton - text story
Features:Men of Adventure
Pages:5
Pencils:Mike Peppe (signed)
Inks:Mike Peppe (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:Sir Richard Burton biography.


Story Title: Kraal of the Dead - comic story
Features:Tabu
Pages:6
Pencils:Maurice Whitman (signed)
Inks:Maurice Whitman (signed)
Genre:jungle
Characters:Karl (introduction; villain); Vera (introduction; villain; death); Zaraba (introduction); M'Buli (introduction; death); Tabu
Synopsis:Ivory hunters murder any natives who spy them stealing fossil ivory from a volcano-destroyed village. Tabu arrives and allows the criminals to be gored and stomped by draft oxen.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Camilla
Pages:8
Pencils:Bob Lubbers
Inks:Bob Lubbers
Genre:jungle
Characters:Sandra (introduction); Tibu (introduction); Neesi (introduction); Daniel Thompson (introduction; villain; death); Mansunis (introduction; villains); Camilla; Fang (dog)
Synopsis:Oil woman Sandra's partner, Thompson, attempts to prevent the filing of a joint deed to their oil claim in order to have it all for himself. Camilla exposes his plotting and Thompson is killed in an oil fire.


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