Though the 1938 SHEENA is the unrivaled Queen of the Jungle, the 1947 jungle girl Rulah was the closest she ever had to a heir apparent. A lot of jungle girls tended to be pretty but not that demonstratively tough, but Rulah was seen doing tons of punches, kicks, and knifings throughout her career, most of which was drawn by Black American artist Matt Baker. (Perhaps because of his heritage, Baker makes the "African" tribes around Rulah a real polyglot of racial types, with some suggested interbreeding between white and black tribes.) Rulah was also one of the few jungle types of either sex who came to the primeval life in adulthood, rather than being raised by animals or natives.
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