One of the last artistically strong gasps of the jungle-girl subgenre in comics appeared as a backup in Magazine Enterprise's THUN'DA #2 (1952). Like most jungle girls, Cave Girl starts out as a little Caucasian kid. But whereas most such proto-heroines simply get dumped in some jungle by a fallen airplane or wrecked boat, the jungle-- in the form of an eagle-- actually comes and gets the foundling and inexplicably takes her to "the Dawn Lands," yet another "Lost World" with dinos and Amazons and anything else artist Bob Powell cared to put in it.
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