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 Nyoka. nullifying nuisances.

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Sheena leads the pack, as always.

However, Camilla comes in second with two strong showings.

However, a story I'll entitle (for reference) as "The Death Idol" (JUNGLE COMICS #46, 1943) requires a little explication. In it, an evil chieftain named Kann has set up an idol that dispenses death to those who come near it, for the idol dispenses deadly germs. Kann denies his sister Lelia the right to marry her beloved, the strangely named tribesman "Red Rogue," though Kann gives no reason for the injunction. Foreign Legionnaire Terry Thunder, having wandered very far from his usual North African haunts, gets involved. Despite the hero's presence, Lelia saves the day. She stumbles across the door in the back of the idol, and when her brother gets close, she triggers the germs, kills him, and gains the freedom to marry her beloved. As for the most unusual aspect of "Idol," Lelia is portrayed as the only White person in an otherwise Black tribe. But since this wasn't a strip by Black artist Matt Baker-- an artist who frequently had his heroes encounter tribes of Black men married to White women, I suppose for his own amusement-- it's pretty likely that Lelia was simply intended to be Black but a colorist rendered her as White.            

JUMBO THRILLS

 No scene like the cover of JUMBO 105 inside the comic. 

The Sheena story concerns the Jungle Queen contending with juvenile warriors, whom her mate calls "the Dead End Kids of the jungle." Along the way she beats up some more standard villains.

 

SWING OUT, NYOKA

 

CAMILLA DROPPINGS

 

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Despite her Polynesian-looking attire, zombie queen Tiana does her corpse-calling in a Brazilian jungle, courtesty of OUT OF THE NIGHT #13.

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 From JUMBO #35.                                                                                       

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 More Sheena sockery from issue #16.                                                                                                           

  

                                                                                                                The jungle queen also takes down a forgettable bird-cultist named Zinda.                                                                                                                     

MAKING AMERICOMICS GREAT AGAIN

 Two outings for TARA OF THE JUNGLE...

And one for DRAGONFLY.

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 All the jungle-action from the series ALL TOP.

Rulah tries to save a hunter who falls in love with his prey, a lady named Taba, whose idea of "being catty" is to change into a black panther.

Rulah finds herself in a feline rut, as she contends with "The Cat Maidens," a tribe of all-female clawed-casians.

Then Jo-Jo gets to go-go with Ape Woman action.

And MORE monotony, as a mad female scientist changes an innocent girl named Larri into a savage gorilla-girl.

Then it's time for Jo-Jo to clip the wings of a bevy of hawk-maidens.

Ea sports legs so long, they extend into other panels.

Then one last turn for Rulah, taking on evil jungle-queen Bel.

And Jo-Jo gets to battle an evil crook from the U.S, with the hugely impressive name of-- "Winnie."

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I found various new and reprint goodies in the 1952 TERRORS OF THE JUNGLE (Star Publishing). The cover seems to reference a "Jungle Jo" story below.

If so, then the blonde above is one LURA.

And here's main heroine TANGI in two tales. Not sure if original art has her brunette like this reprint. The one with blonde hair is reputedly an unused non-reprint.

Most interesting is a Jay Disbrow story which combines elements of Haggard's novel SHE (character's name, the old-age thing) and Burroughs' TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD (evil queen kills herself after hero kills her pet lion).