Number 320
Jungle Vengeance
How many white girls in tight-fitting animal-skin costumes were running around in the comic book jungle, anyway? Off hand I can think of Sheena, Rulah, Jann, Lorna, Judy, Tiger Girl, Shanna the She-Devil, Nyoka (who wore shorts) Jun-Gal…and Taanda, White Princess of the Jungle. I wonder if those jungle babes formed a coffee klatsch, got together in a hut somewhere once a week to swap stories of lions they'd killed, witch doctors they'd foiled, or white hunters they'd chased out of their jungles.
Well, whatever. Taanda appeared for a time in Avon Comics, drawn by Everett Raymond Kinstler, who went on to become a famous portraitist. This is from Skywald's 1971 Jungle Adventures #1, reprinted from White Princess Of The Jungle #2, from 1952.
"You will pay for your thievery, pigs!" Ahh, from out of the mouths of jungle babes. Cool story, Kinstler is one of my faves though I don't own much by him... we should have joined forces this week Paps as your alligator headed menace matches up perfectly with mine this week.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the story. I loooove Jungle Girl comics!
ReplyDeleteI think I see Wally Wood pencils
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Pappy.
ReplyDeleteI really don't get to see much Kinstler comics art, so this is a real treat for me.
Kinstler was at the San Diego Comic-Con a couple of years ago and it was great to see such a well know, "legitimate" artist reveling in his old comic book work.
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