George of the Jungle

    (Gold Key, 1969)
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After the runaway success of Rocky and Bullwinkle and the middling successes of follow-up series such as Fractured Flickers and Hoppity Hooper, Jay Ward made one more attempt at a weekly animated series in 1967 with George of the Jungle, starring a Tarzan-like clone whose brain capacity was similar to Bullwinkle’s. Other segments included Superchicken and Tom Slick, but those segments didn’t make it into the comic books. George also makes an appearance in America’s Best TV Comics, a comic book produced for ABC television designed to promote the latest Saturday morning cartoon line-up. Years later, Disney had a hit feature film about George, starring Brendan Fraser.

— Mark Arnold
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February, 1969
Cover Price: $0.15
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