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Issue: #28
Published: April 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Color: Color Cover; Black And White Interior Dimensions: Early Issues Standard Golden Age U.S.; Later Issues Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Vengeance of the Flame God
Featuring:	Kaänga
Credits:	Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich (signed) \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich (signed) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (14 pages)	Vengeance of the Flame God
Featuring:	Kaänga
Synopsis:	Kaänga restores a deposed chief to his chieftanship.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] \| Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	A Witch Doctor (introduction, Villain) Kaänga Ann Mason Ngeeso

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs
Synopsis:	Fantomah is framed for killing a dog sacred to Anubis and sentenced to death. She calls on Anubis to recognize her innocence and the sacred dogs attack the false priest.
Credits:	Script: ? [as W. B. Hovious] \| Pencils: George Appel \| Inks: George Appel
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Ghazia (introduction, Villain, Death) Wosret (introduction, Villain, Death) A Nubian (introduction, Villain, Death) An Assassin (introduction, Villain, Death) Camilla

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi Jungle Boy
Synopsis:	Pilot Pete is deranged by a blow to the head during an emergency landing of his plane. In his madness, he allies himself with the Lanchi cannibals and gives his traveling companions, Ann and Tom, to them. Wambi and his jungle friends manage to rescue them all when Pete recovers his memories and is once more sane.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] \| Pencils: Henry Kiefer \| Inks: Henry Kiefer
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Pete (introduction, Villain) Lanchis (African Tribe) Ingas (African Tribe)(introduction, Villains) Anne (introduction) Tom (introduction) Wambi Tawn (elephant) Owark Babu (baboon) Mambo

Text Story (2 pages)	The Brass Goddess
Credits:	Script: ? [as Theodore Roscoe] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Peter Scarlet (introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Synopsis:	Ivory thieves convince the Bantus that their recently deceased chief is a vampire and that he can only be placated by the Bantus surrendering their ivory. Tabu exposes their plot and reveals that the chief was not even dead, only in a coma induced with a poison by the thieves.
Credits:	Script: ? [as "Mack"] \| Pencils: George Carl Wilhelms \| Inks: George Carl Wilhelms
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wanculu (introduction) Koli (introduction) De Vigne (introduction, Villain) Guillard (introduction, Villain) Tabu Bantus (African Tribe)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	The gang follows Terry on a date and then discovers that his lady friend is a Nazi spy.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue] \| Pencils: Al Stahl ? \| Inks: Al Stahl ?
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	A Female Spy (introduction, Villain) An Andama Arab (introduction, Villain) Terry Thunder Anderson The Arab Kismet Vincent

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Jungle Jingles
Synopsis:	Brief natural history of the mangabey, the mongoose, and the jackal.
Genre:	Non-fiction Jungle Nature

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Simba
Synopsis:	Believing Boko kidnapped by baboons, Simba pursues the baboon troop, only to learn that they have selected Boko to be their leader.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] \| Pencils: Al Walker \| Inks: Al Walker
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Boko Simba

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	Camilla
Synopsis:	Camilla and Ben discover a lost diamond mine controlled by a lost hermit. The hermit is determined to kill Ben and marry Camilla, but he meets his own end at the hands of his pet gorilla.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] \| Pencils: Frank Frollo ?
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wilson (introduction, Villain, Death) Ben Austin Camilla Blitzer (gorilla)

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