Jumbo Comics, #42

Published: August 1942

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Jumbo Comics #42

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Issue Contents:
Plague of Spotted Killers
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • leopard cultists
Plague of Spotted Killers (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"The poisonous fangs of the Nazi devil know..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Luaga
  • Chim
Credits
Story Notes

The story title is taken from the cover.

Story 2 8 pages detective-mystery

"Weird, fantastic, yet undeniably true, are the strange..."

Characters
  • Drew Murdoch
  • Magnolia Chandler
  • Jackson
  • Aunt Chloe
Credits
Story Notes

I: Drew Murdoch

Story 3 1 page humor; children

"Hello, Bobby. What's wrong, Bobby? Why don't you..."

Characters
  • Bobby
Credits
Story 4 6 pages western-frontier

"An ebony thunderbolt streaks over the wild western..."

Characters
  • Rick
  • Helen
  • Charlie
  • Mac
Credits
The Killer from Beyond
Story 5 2 pages adventure

"Captain J.R. Shaw of the Royal Indian Cavalry..."

Characters
  • Captain J. R. Shaw of the Royal Indian Cavalry
  • Ali Ruza
  • Mahatma Randu
  • Sanda Bey
Story 6 6 pages science fiction

"Open Sesame!"

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Laura
  • Dr. Hayward
  • Ali Baba
  • Cassim
Credits
Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery

"Like a thief in the night comes death.. unannounced..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
Story 8 1 page humor; children

"Hurry up, Pee Wee, I'll wait on the corner..."

Characters
  • Pee Wee Myers
Credits
Story Notes

This has the appearance of having been cannibalized from an earlier strip.

Story 9 8 pages spy

"Nazi spies attempt to infiltrate the blood stream..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Agent B-47
  • Wessel (a Nazi soldier)
Credits

Featuring Tom Dick and Harry

Story 10 6 pages war

"From the English Channel to the Russian front..."

Characters
  • Tom Devlin
  • Dick Swenson
  • Harry Carson
  • Miss James
  • Lieutenant Trent [Operative T214, alias Schmeller - a spy]
Credits
Story 11 6 pages adventure; historical

"With billowing topsails his gulding star and storm-tossed..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Fluth
  • Crump
  • Caleb
  • The Governor
Credits
Reprint Notes

All Eisner "art" is traced and reworked from earlier true episodes of "Hawks of the Seas."

Story Notes

All art here is collaged together from the work of other artists and modified to fit the script of a new storyline.