Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1952-07-29
Editing: Jack Byrne (credited as J. F. Byrne) (managing editor); S. M. Iger (credited as Jerry Iger) (art director)
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Safari of Savage Spears
(Table of Contents)

Kaänga / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:jungle
Characters:
Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals 1952, page 133

Death Web of the Amazons
(Table of Contents: 1)

Kaänga / comic story / 9 pages

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  • Genre:jungle
Characters:
Kaänga; Ann Mason; Zulu; Lawson; the spider queen; Bafus (African tribe); spider cultists
Synopsis:
A trader refuses to sell guns to a spider cult. In retaliation, they capture him and attempt to have him killed by leopards. Kaänga rescues him and agrees to investigate the spider cult. When he arrives at their village, he attacks them and overcomes their queen, who is bound over for the colonial commissioner.

Map of Mystery
(Table of Contents: 2)

Kaänga / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:jungle
Characters:
Kaänga; Ann Mason; Weber
Synopsis:
Believing that Kaänga has an old prospector's map to the Katanga mine fields, Weber and his henchmen kidnap Ann and then attack Kaänga. Kaänga quickly dispatches them and explains that the only map was in the prospector's head.

The Music Box
(Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages

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typeset
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

King of the Congo / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lonely ranch houses attacked and looted...who were the phantom raiders...
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Indexer Notes

Art credits from the GCD entry for the original publication.

Safari of Savage Spears
(Table of Contents: 5)

Kaänga / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:jungle
Characters:
Kaänga; Ann Mason; Pete; Weida; Walter; Gurda (gorilla); Maxime
Synopsis:
A pair of treasure hunters track an archaeologist to his dig, only to find that what they believed to be gold idols were made of gilded clay.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Safari of Savage Spears
    Kaänga
  2. Death Web of the Amazons
    Kaänga
  3. Map of Mystery
    Kaänga
  4. The Music Box
  5. ["Lonely ranch houses attacked and looted...who were the phantom raiders..."]
    King of the Congo
  6. Safari of Savage Spears
    Kaänga
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