For a heroine with a risible name like "Judy of the Jungle." she has a touch of psychological seriousness to her origin. She's raised in the jungle with her widowed, research-minded father, and he explicitly says he doesn't trust anyone, for unspecified reasons. Then the dad is killed by bad white guys. The dying father tells Judy not to ever trust any men, which for a lot of girls would scar them for life.
Nevertheless, when Judy goes hunting for daddy's murderers, she finds a really handsome guy in their midst, one who boasts an even sillier name, that of "Pistol Roberts." After the killers capture Judy, Pistol sets her free, and they flee the killers, moments before Judy returns Pistol's favor with a similar rescue. He turns out to be a government agent, and thus not really one of the murderers, though it's interesting that it's through the agency of the father-killers that Judy meets her new love interest, at least for the episodes I've read.
Here's Judy getting a kick out of life.
And some punchy art from Frank Frazetta.
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