Jumbo Comics, #18

Published: August 1940

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Jumbo Comics #18

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Issue Contents:
Satan's Safari
1 page jungle
Characters
  • Sheena
Credits
Watch Your Newsstand for Wings
Story 1 1 page war
Storyline

House ad for the new Fiction House comic: Wings (no illustrations or cover reproduction)

Story Notes

This is the inside-front cover

Satan's Safari (1)
Story 2 10 pages jungle

"In the tiny coastal village of Karba, just..."

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • GS: Kirk and Sybil Dunton
  • V: Karen, Pasha Kamur (D), Mahmoud (I)
Credits
Story Notes

Title taken from cover.

The Moon Shot: Part 2 (1)
Story 3 4 pages humor

"Peter Pupp and 'Tiny,' on their way to the Moon..."

Characters
  • Peter Pupp
  • Tiny
  • The Weather Man
  • Merkin
Credits
Story Notes

Reprinted from JUMBO COMICS #2 - the first four pages only. Hames says it's not Bob Kane. Did he not originate the strip? The story in Jumbo Comics #2 is both credited to and signed on each page by Bob Kane.

Story 4 8 pages spy

"Juroby, in Chesterland, an east African colony..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Bouchy (a foreign spy
  • death)
  • Omu
Story 5 8 pages science fiction

"Ready, Stuart? We can't keep a famous archaelogist..."

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Dr. Hayward
  • Laura Rodgers [The High Priestess]
  • Professor Hardwell
  • Rameses
Credits
Story 6 1 page humor; children

"Do you know that if you're bad and..."

Characters
  • Bobby
Credits
Story 7 1 page humor

"Vote for Joe T Durp for..."

Characters
  • Uncle Otto
  • Joe T. Durp
Credits
The Underground Desperadoes
Story 8 8 pages superhero

"General Morgan Larkin, U.S.A., confers with..."

Characters
  • Lightning [Fred Larkin]
  • General Morgan Larkin
  • Giblin
  • Grime
  • Ann Giblin
  • Ricco
  • Mr. Lefage
Credits
  • Pencils:
  • Inks:
Story Notes

Title taken from the cover.

The Witch of Allah

Featuring Ken Hammond

Story 9 2 pages jungle

"Loaded with chains..."

Characters
  • Ken Hammond
  • Nikki-Tikki' Pubala
Story 10 8 pages western-frontier

"A drowsy southwestern town awakens to find itself..."

Characters
  • Wiley Wilton
  • Eddie
  • The Crimson Rider
  • Bud-Eye Sondiss
  • Al
Credits
Story 11 7 pages detective-mystery

"In a lonely street in Chinatown..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • Ah Sung
  • Smiley
  • Roque
  • John Damian
  • Wini Damian
Credits
Story 12 8 pages adventure; historical

"While his ship lies anchored in a cove..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Hutch
  • Tom the cabin boy
  • Maria de Cordoba
  • Caleb
  • Pinez
Story Notes

Diverse hands at work on occasional panels.

The Bull's-Eye on the Cover Means...
Story 13 1 page
Storyline

House ad for the other 3 Fiction House titles: Jungle, Fight and Planet, with cover reproductions.

Story Notes

This is the inside-back cover