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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Fiction House
Title: Jungle Comics
Page Count: 52
Genre: Jungle, Nature, Non-fiction
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: July 1948
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Country: United States
Treasure hunters seek the ship of the Emperor Khan. Kaänga locates the ship but the hunters believe that there is no treasure on board. One of the hunters is killed by a rhinoceros and Kaänga kills the other. It is then discovered that the armor of the skeletons aboard the wreck of the ship is made of gold.; When mine owner's daughter Jane Bronson learns that her father's overseers are using slave labor in her father's mines, she hurries to tell him. However, she accidentally stumbles into a trap set by Camilla for hyenas. Jane is brought to her father as dead and he blames Camilla. Camilla escapes and goes to the mine to prove the villainy of the overseers. Their blasts have agitated a colony of vampire bats who kill the overseers. Camilla returns to the mine owner's camp and discovers that Jane was not killed, only wounded.; A young man infiltrates the lancers and frees his brother from the fort jail. The brother, Unganda Bill, and his accomplice, T'Gara, go on an ivory raid but are captured by Terry and the lancers with help from Bill's brother.; A hunting cheetah escapes from his masters and is befriended by Simba. The two of them free the animals captured by the cheetah's masters.; The Scepter of Guru, a sacred object, is stolen from a village in Wambi's jungle and winds up with Ogg. The villagers seize Ogg and prepare to sacrifice him for profaning their sacred scepter. Wambi, who had been experimenting with diving, manages to save Ogg from drowning and returns the scepter.; Priestess Zotara rigs King N'Mongo's annual kingship ritual to cause N'Mongo's death and her own ascension to the throne. Tabu re-enacts the ritual in the Land of Mists -- a nebulous after-life -- and demonstrates Zotara's criminal acts. She falls into quicksand and is killed.; Brief natural histories of several jungle cats.