Jungle Comics #9 (Fiction House, 1940) CGC VF- 7.5 Light tan to off-white pages....

Auction amount: $660.00

Sold: Dec 10, 2024

Jungle Comics #9 Values

Publisher: Fiction House, 1940

About Jungle Comics #9

Kaänga cover by Nick Cardy. George Tuska, Henry Kiefer, and Bob Powell art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Captive of the Voodoo Master

Characters: Kaänga

Pencils: Nick Cardy

Inks: Nick Cardy

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(11 Stories)

Title: Captive of the Voodoo Master

Characters: King Tongo (introduction, villain, death); Kaänga; Ann Mason; Mogo; Togo (elephant)

Synopsis: Suffering from amnesia, Kaänga becomes King Tongo's chief warrior and assists in the capture of a group of monks and Ann. Ann's voice restores Kaänga's memory and he frees the captives and ensures Tonga's death at the hands of his pet elephant.

Pages: 10.000

Script: ? [as Red Bradey]

Pencils: George Tuska

Inks: George Tuska

Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb. first line: "The jungle man falls victim to a tropic fever and prey to a madman's schemes." The dieresis is used inconsistently in Kaänga's name.

Characters: a mad scientist (introduction, villain, death); the Red Panther

Synopsis: A mad scientist develops a process for granting humans super-human strength at the cost of their minds. The Panther forces the scientist to reverse the process. The scientist then perishes in a laboratory explosion.

Pages: 5.000

Script: ? [as Taylor Martin]

Pencils: Arthur Peddy

Inks: Arthur Peddy

Characters: Sir Champion; Amura (introduction, villain, death); Camilla; Gorgo (gorilla)

Synopsis: Sir Champions saves the city from a herd of stampeding elephants who had been set on the city by Arab slavers.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell

Title: Jungle Justice

Characters: Roy Lance; Tony; Maurice

Synopsis: Roy puts a stop to the brutal treatment by a jungle rubber company of their native employees.

Pages: 6.000

Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb. first line: "When the white man introduced his civilization into the jungle..."

Characters: Mark Lord (introduction, villain); Fantomah

Synopsis: Mark Lord captures 50,000 giant royal panthers to use in his plan to destroy civilization by loosing them on the streets of New York. Fantomah takes the panthers back to the jungle and then transforms Lord into a caveman to await his fate at the hands of the panthers.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg]

Pencils: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg](signed)

Inks: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg](signed)

Letters: Fletcher Hanks

Characters: Allerton (introduction); Jean Allerton (introduction); Antonio (introduction, villain, death); Simba: Miguel

Synopsis: Simba assists a pair of missionaries in disposing of a white gang of slavers.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: William M. Allison

Inks: William M. Allison

Characters: Lt. Joe Snile (introduction, villain, death); Abdulla (introduction, death); Terry Thunder; Kismet (camel)

Synopsis: Terry must retake his fort after it is captured by Arabs led by a treacherous soldier.

Pages: 7.000

Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue]

Pencils: Bill Bossert

Inks: Bill Bossert

Characters: Nat Zittler (introduction, villain); Wambi; Tawn (elephant); Lupa (wolf); Oger (eagle)

Synopsis: Zittler, planning on stealing native land, hypnotizes Wambi and passes him off to one group of natives as a god. Wambi's jungle friends realize that something is wrong and take Wambi to a nearby waterhole where they restore his will. Then Wambi and his friends expose Zittler's chicanery and induce the warring natives to peaceful relations.

Pages: 7.000

Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith]

Pencils: Henry Kiefer

Inks: Henry Kiefer

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	3	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	3	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	15

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