Jungle Comics

    (Fiction House, 1940-1954)
©1948 Glen-Kel Publishing Co.

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

April, 1946
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#79

July, 1946
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1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#85

January, 1947
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1 copy available for $350.00 		Frank Riddell, Ed Hunt, Pierre La Rue, Roy L. Smith, Mack, Victor IbsenBob Lubbers
#91

July, 1947
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1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#92

August, 1947
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1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#93

September, 1947
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#97

January, 1948
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1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#98

February, 1948
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1 copy available for $350.00 		  
#100

April, 1948
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1 copy available for $375.00 		  
#101

May, 1948
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1 copy available for $300.00 		  
#102

June, 1948
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1 copy available for $300.00 		  
#103

July, 1948
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $300.00 		  
#104

August, 1948
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $300.00 		  
#115

July, 1949
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $16.80 		  
#160

September, 1953
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $27.00