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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Fiction House
Title: Jungle Comics
Page Count: 52
Genre: Adventure, Animal, Jungle, Nature, Non-fiction
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: February 1949
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Country: United States
Jewel thieves disguise themselves as the L'tongas' sacred mandrills and attempt to steal the tribe's sacred diamonds. Kaänga exposes the plot and turns the thieves over to the tribe for punishment.; A white slaver, working with Arabs, comes up the scheme of disguising a woman as Camilla and having her lure villagers into a trap. This works until Camilla becomes aware of the scheme and puts a stop to it. The white slaver falls into the workings of his paddle-wheel steamer and is killed.; Zarkah, a tiger captured in India, escapes his captors in an African port and makes his way to Simba's jungle. He is killed when he challenges Simba for kingship of the jungle.; Wambi suffers from amnesia after a fall and is persuaded to guide two white treasure hunters to a hidden temple. The treasure hunters begin their looting but dislodge a roof support and are killed in the ceiling collapse. Wambi recovers his memories.; Treasure hunters install an artillery gun in a giant idol and attack river traffic in order to keep nosy visitors from finding their hidden platinum mine. Terry and Keeto manage to destroy the idol and arrest the treasure hunters.; Saraz-san gives a jewel to every family member who will make the trek to her jungle home. But each family member winds up dead. Tabu asks her to give him a gem and he goes to the Land of Mists. There he learns that the jewels belonged to the chief of the Opalis and that he was murdered by Saraz-san. He returns to her home and she agrees to turn herself over to the authorities. Tabu returns the jewels to the Opalis.; Brief natural histories of several jungle birds.; Brief natural histories of several animals.