Jumbo Comics, #51

Published: May 1943

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Jumbo Comics #51

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Issue Contents:
Monsters with Wings
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
Monsters with Wings (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"The power of the devil... cold, calculating and..."

Characters
Story Notes

The story title is taken from the cover. It's very likely that Iger Shop animal expert Richard Case had a hand in many Sheena episodes. The lions here look like his work.

Story 2 8 pages spy

"Behind the serene exterior of a small neutral..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Von Loomis
  • Madame Martinique
  • Gardeau
  • Vogel
  • Muller
Credits
Story Notes

On page 14, the names listed beneath the French hotel desk pigeon holes include 'A. Rub.' Artist Aldo Rubano was at the Iger Shop at this time, and a story by him appears in this issue. Keith Chandler : A previous indexer suggested that the partially obscured name 'Jacque' might be a 'probable reference to the Lloyd Jacquet Shop', but it seems more likely (given that this is a French hotel and all the other names listed are French) that the Christian name Jacques is meant.

Story 3 6 pages western-frontier

"Death stalks the wild, untamed range.. as compunchers..."

Characters
  • Ellen
  • Mike Carr, Rick
  • Crosston
  • Jerard
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Story 4 6 pages science fiction

"Since the dawn of time, man's lust for..."

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Laura
  • Dr. Hayward
  • Dickey Raynor
  • Ferdinand Magellan
Credits
Story 5 6 pages war

"Doomed to die! Trapped in a treacherous mountain..."

Characters
  • Tom Devlin
  • Dick Swenson
  • Harry Carson
Credits
Story 6 7 pages detective-mystery

"Dead men tell no tales, they say..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • The Creep
  • Hack Marko
  • Judge Moore
  • Jamison
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Story 7 1 page humor; children

"Looney Looey is looking for me! I better..."

Story Notes

The "villain" Looney Looey is a caricature of S.M. Iger.

Old Glory
Story 8 2 pages war

"The long straggling line of soldiers..."

Characters
  • Logan
  • Shafer
Credits
Story Notes

The house name 'George Tracy' was used at time for stories by Ruth Roche.

Story 9 6 pages historical

"Beware, Hawk! Treachery which wears many disguises is..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Caleb
  • John Blood
  • Jeremy
Story Notes

Note the difference in inking on Hawk and Dayton.

Story 10 10 pages detective-mystery

"Everyone in Montville scoffed at the ghost that..."

Characters
  • John Byron
  • Seth Byron
  • Anne Byron
  • Mark Haskell
  • Russ Cowley
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