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Jumbo Comics, #31

Published: September 1941

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Jumbo Comics #31

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Voodoo Treasure of Black Slave Lake
1 page jungle
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Voodoo Treasure of Black Slave Lake (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"Sheena and Bob meet hazardous adventures lurking in..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Doctor Edmond Brian
  • Professor Thomas Dodd
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Jeffers Blaque
  • Chim (a chimpanziee)
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Story Notes

The story title is from the cover.

Story 2 6 pages science fiction

"Back...back...through the remote stretches of antiquity..."

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Dr. Hayward
  • Laura Hayward
  • Mercury
  • Oracle of Delphi
  • Medusa
  • Mars
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Story 3 1 page humor; children

"D'ya know who wrote the song,"After the..."

Characters
  • Bobby
  • Percy Pembrook
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Story 4 6 pages western-frontier

"Treachery noses toward the home stretch as Midnight..."

Characters
  • Midnight (a black stallion)
  • Randy Pope
  • Helen
  • Sambo (a jockey)
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Story 5 6 pages superhero

"Fred Larkin, U.S. army, can become lightning..."

Characters
  • Lightning [Fred Larkin]
  • General Larkin
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Story Notes

Some minor signs of Elkan (or whoever the previous artist is) on Lightning's face. Otherwise, a totally different art team.

Suicide Channel
Story 6 2 pages adventure

"Skipper Collins was standing..."

Characters
  • Skipper Collins
  • Peter Collins
Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery

"The department's ace undercover sleuth trails a fabulous..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • Jane
  • Rinkie
  • Crumby Davies
  • Hadley
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Story 8 1 page humor

"It's all right, I'm givin' a hitchhiker..."

Credits
Story Notes

Four unrelated gag panels. If this Is Bob Kane the panels must be either reprints or old inventory.

Story 9 7 pages spy

"The status of many colonial empires is undecided..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Henri D'Ouest
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Story 10 5 pages war

"Tom Devlin and Dick Swenson, ace warbirds of..."

Characters
  • Tom Devlin
  • Dick Swenson
  • Harry Carson
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Story Notes

Different penciller, but similar inks to previous issue.

Story 11 10 pages historical

"On a tiny token hinges the peace of..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Mynheer Dyck
  • Fluth
  • Jeremy Clogg
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).