Jungle Comics

In the 1940s, long before the founders of Image were twinkles in their parents’ eyes, Fiction House made the important discovery that people would buy comics to look at pictures of half-naked women. Jungle Comics was one of their flagship titles, with a format featuring (white) African adventurers (both male and female) wrestling with lions, discovering lost cities and elephant graveyards, hunting down cruel native kings and craven poachers—all while wearing as little clothing as physically possible.

Among the regular features in Jungle Comics were Ka’a’nga, Lord of the Jungle (the obligatory Tarzan clone), Wambi the Jungle Boy, explorer Terry Thunder, and, of course, Camilla, a variation on their own character Sheena, who appeared in Jumbo Comics. Top artists like Lou Fine and Will Eisner worked on early issues of the run, then left the features in the hands of the workman-like Fiction House staff.

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#76

Apr 1946

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Kaanga

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#79

Jul 1946

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Kaanga

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#85

Jan 1947

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W: Frank Riddell, Ed Hunt, Pierre La Rue, Roy L. Smith, Mack, Victor Ibsen · A: Bob Lubbers

Kaanga, Camilla, Simba

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#91

Jul 1947

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Kaanga, Camilla, Tabu

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#92

Aug 1947

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Kaanga, Camilla, Tabu

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#93

Sep 1947

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Kaanga, Camilla, Tabu

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#97

Jan 1948

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Kaanga

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#98

Feb 1948

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Contains Hidden pictures within pictures panel cited in Seduction of the Innocent; Kaanga

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#100

Apr 1948

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Kaanga, Camilla, Wambi

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#101

May 1948

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Kaanga

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#102

Jun 1948

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Kaanga

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#103

Jul 1948

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Kaanga

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#104

Aug 1948

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Kaanga, Camilla, Wambi, Simba, Terry Thunder

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#115

Jul 1949

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Kaanga, Camilla, Wambi

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#160

Sep 1953

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Kaanga, Tiger Girl, Jungle Mysteries, Congo Patrol

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