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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Fiction House
Title: Jungle Comics
Page Count: 52
Genre: Animal, Jungle, Nature, Non-fiction
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: August 1948
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Country: United States
The overseers of the Hamiltons' mine discover that a vein previously thought to be worked out still has yields. They plot to kill the Hamiltons and claim the mine for themselves. They are foiled by Kaänga.; His mind destroyed by jungle fever, Dr. Wertham turns on his colleagues and, with the aid of a lion cultist, attempts to make off with all the gold the group had looted from the Zulu Tombs. Thwarted by Camilla, he seeks revenge and is killed by a black leopard.; Terry is transporting prisoners down river when an animal trader, working in concert with the prisoners, attacks Terry's boat. Terry is captured but Keeto leads the lancers to his rescue. The trader is killed by one of his captured leopards.; Monkeys loot a steamboat of traders' gold and use throw the gold at thieves who would kill Simba, causing them to flee.; A pair of bird hunters are attacked by lynx. Wambi, Tawn, and Ogg drive the lynx away. Tawn eats some of the food abandoned by the hunters and becomes mad. Wambi and Tawn hurry to Ogg's ape tribe and warns them that Ogg is not in his right mind. Young apes through Ogg into the river but he is rescued by Wambi and Tawn. Later, the effects of the food wear off.; The ghost of murdered Carl Thurston, gold miner, asks Tabu to avenger him against his wife and her snake charmer partner. Tabu complies and the wife and snake charmer fall from a cliff to their deaths.; Brief natural histories of some dangerous African animals.