Jumbo Comics, #22

Published: December 1940

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Jumbo Comics #22

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Issue Contents:
Victims of the Super-Ape
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
Victims of the Super-Ape
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"So that is where Chim has been keeping..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Chim
  • Panzee
  • Orang
  • Reginald Barrows
  • Colonel Picard
  • Sergeant Korilenko
  • Memsa Siba
  • Luigi
  • A giant gorilla
Credits
Story Notes

Powell signs in the final panel.

Story 2 1 page humor

"Bobby, my frand, when you put on theez..."

Characters
  • Bobby
  • Shoyn Du, Mr. Von Snitzel
  • Mr. De Flicker
Credits
Story Notes

This is a parody of Little Nemo.

Story 3 8 pages adventure; historical

"After his last treasure hunt, The Hawk returns..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Lord Conway
  • Jeremy
  • Carlos Sandos
  • Bruce
Credits
Story Notes

Retelling of The Hawk's origin. Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics).

Sabotage
Story 4 8 pages superhero

"Now watch this plane do a power dive!"

Characters
  • Lightning [Fred Larkin]
  • General Larkin
  • Mr. Morrose
  • Voneer
Credits
The 13th Notch
Story 5 2 pages crime

"The Shadows in Death Alley..."

Characters
  • Big Buck Conovan
  • Weasel
  • Rattler Vito (crook)
Credits
Story 6 2 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"In the last installments our friends are trapped..."

Characters
  • Peter Pupp
  • Zula
  • Budah
  • Tinymite
Credits
Reprint Notes

Pages 2 and 3 of the story in Jumbo Comics #5.

Story Notes

"By Golleh" on previous episodes is here spelled "By Golly" as if to explain the joke.

Story 7 7 pages science fiction

"Dr. Hayward's amazing time machine speeds the time travelers..."

Storyline

Somewhere in the past Stuart Taylor has to rescue Dr. Hayward and Laura from the clutches of Queen Starina and her wizard.

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Doctor Hayward
  • Laura
  • Queen Starina
  • Lina (death)
Story Notes

Tuska, Celardo, Cardy, and perhaps others - someone swiping Lou Fine or doing a decent imitation. Possibly collaged from earlier strips a la "Hawk." See "Inspector Dayton" later in this issue. Bill Black reports the artist as being Lou Fine in Golden-Age Men of Mystery #12.

Story 8 1 page humor; children

"Aunt Minnie's been expecting you, Mister Bore!"

Characters
  • Pee Wee Myers
  • Mr. Bore
Burglars
Story 9 1 page humor
Characters
  • Uncle Otto
Credits
Story 10 7 pages spy

"Raiding bombers scream across the peaceful plains to..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Operator 22
  • Baron Rathskull
  • Otto
Credits
Story Notes

Other hands at work including Art Peddy, R.L. Golden? Possibly collaged from earlier episodes. Note also the "W. Morgan Thomas" loses his first initial in this episode.

Story 11 4 pages western-frontier

"The map of the ancient Montezuma treasure takes..."

Characters
  • Wiley Wilton
  • Samuel Carson
  • Steve
Credits
Story Notes

"Fred" Sande returns.

Story 12 7 pages detective-mystery

"In the temple of the Si-Lun, Mongi Lin, wrathful..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • Mongi Lin
  • Doctor Sung
  • Wini
  • Martha
Credits
Story Notes

This resembles a very early Bob Powell style and some panels are certainly collaged from earlier strips. The car in the first two panels of page two is traced from the ZX-5 story in Jumbo #10, for instance.

Introducing Tom Dick and Harry
Story 13 5 pages adventure
Characters
  • Dick Swenson (First Appearance)
  • Tom Devlin (First Appearance)
  • Harry Carson (First Appearance)
  • Sally
Credits
Story Notes

"Tansul" is "Sultan" spelled sideways.