Jumbo Comics, #30

Published: August 1941

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Jumbo Comics #30

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Issue Contents:
Slashing Fangs
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
Slashing Fangs (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"Unscrupulous jungle traders find that their criminal methods..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • M-Gali
  • Gaston De Mond
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Matt
Credits
Story Notes

The story title is taken from the cover. The signature is found in the final panel.

Story 2 6 pages science fiction

"High over a desolate spot in mid-Atlantic hover..."

Characters
  • Dr. Hayward
  • Laura
  • Pilari
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Story 3 1 page humor; children

"No, you can't have any more cookies tonight..."

Characters
  • Bobby
  • Bobby's mother
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Story 4 6 pages western-frontier

"Captured as a colt in the bad lands..."

Characters
  • Joe
  • Gray Fox
  • Helen
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Story 5 6 pages superhero

"General Larkin, U.S. army, never suspects that..."

Characters
  • General Larkin
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Story Notes

This is same date as Feature #47 when Elkan begins Samar. I think there's a different inker here and it just might be John Cassone...

The Horrible Hands
Story 6 2 pages science fiction
Characters
  • Studs Logan
  • Professor Harken
Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery

"It takes quick wits and fast shooting to..."

Characters
  • Rinkie
  • Arthur Salt
  • Marion Windsor
  • Marty Dugan
  • Pine Box
  • Mike the Cabbie
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Story 8 7 pages spy

"The famous international agent goes to school again..."

Characters
  • Hansi
  • Von Herring
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Story 9 0 pages humor

"They's two things in life I hate an'..."

Storyline

Pee Wee complains to his friend about having to eat spinach.

Characters
  • Pee Wee
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Story Notes

A three panel gag.

Pantomime Gag Strip (1)
Story 10 1 page humor
Characters
  • Uncle Otto
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Story 11 5 pages war

"Tom Devlin and Dick Swenson, American aces in..."

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Story Notes

I guess we're seeing the same team as on Lightning. Note that "Tansul" is an anagram of "Sultan".

Story 12 1 page humor

"But I tell you, madame, I am not..."

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Story Notes

Could this really be THAT Stan Lee? Four unrelated gag panels.

Story 13 10 pages historical

"Up and down the Carolinas roam vicious buccaneers..."

Characters
  • Fluth
  • Don Filippo Alvarez
  • Caleb
Credits
Story Notes

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).