Jumbo Comics, #36

Published: February 1942

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Jumbo Comics #36

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Issue Contents:
Voodoo Flames
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
Voodoo Flames (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"Sheena, Bob and Chim trek down a path..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Chim (a chimpanzee)
  • Chief Bazi
Credits
Story Notes

The title is taken from the cover.

Story 2 6 pages science fiction

"Wintry blasts howl through the city as Stuart..."

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Laura Hayward
  • Eric the Red
  • Rolvaag
  • Leif Ericson
Credits
Story 3 1 page humor; children

"Mom says I ought to save my pennies..."

Characters
  • Bobby
  • his mother
  • his uncle Wilbert
  • Spike
Credits
Story 4 6 pages western-frontier

"Through the western badlands thunders the wonder horse..."

Characters
  • Midnight (a black stallion)
  • Rick
  • Helen
  • Tonto Pete
Credits
Story 5 8 pages superhero

"An apparently innocent gesture, the mere snap of..."

Characters
  • Lightning [Fred Larkin]
  • General Larkin
  • Private Schwarz
Credits
Dead Man's Share
Story 6 2 pages adventure

"There's a small fortune in pelts..."

Characters
  • Leo Leroux
  • Toto
  • Jack
Credits
Story Notes

Tom Russell is a known pseudonym for Toni Blum, but the Who's Who lists a writer of this name at Centaur around this date, so possibly this is the same man.

Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery

"Murder is a dangerous game to play with..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • Fatso Jenks
  • Detective Jim O'Malley
  • Rose
  • Biff Maloney
  • Officer Riley
  • Foxy Lupin
  • Wexler
Credits
To My Valentine (1)
Story 8 1 page humor
Characters
  • Uncle Otto
Credits
Reprint Notes

Reprint from ?

Story 9 8 pages spy

"ZX-5 answers an urgent call to his..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Agatha Thistlewaite
  • Franz
  • Governor Thistlewaite
  • Annie Thistlewaite [a Nazi saboteur]
  • Joseph the butler [a Nazi spy]
Credits
Story 10 6 pages war

"In a whirl of R.A.F. propeller power and..."

Characters
  • Tom Devlin
  • Dick Swenson
  • Harry Carson
  • Marshal Takoffski
  • Vladnef
  • Herr Wurtzel
Credits
Story 11 1 page humor; children

"Pee Wee, when I grow up I'm goin'..."

Characters
  • Pee Wee Myers
Credits
Story 12 6 pages historical

"To fulfill an errand of mercy, the Hawk..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Captain Michael Hoolihan
  • Caleb
  • Fluth
  • Jeremy Clogg
Credits
Story Notes

Iger Shop personnel have collaged old Eisner art from "Hawks of the Seas" syndicated strips and modified them to tell a different story. All Eisner art here is reprinted from early issues of Jumbo Comics (1938 series).