Sometimes these are jungle warriors, like the heroines: Taanda the White Princess has a boy sidekick in the Mowgli-esque Koru Tangi co-stars alongside the Tarzan-like Kala and Princess Pantha gets both varieties in the beefy Rango and his adopted son Hiku. The protagonists often have male sidekicks. (“Thus die the evil prowlers of the jungle!”) “Tangi in the Buried City” from Terrors of the Jungle. Judy of the Jungle makes it her practice to save not only people from predators, but also herbivores, killing a lion so that a deer may live. Sheena has a pet chimpanzee named Chim other jungle girls are able to communicate with animals, calling for the aid of elephants, lions, and other formidable allies when necessary. For instance, the protagonists have slightly different relationships with the animal characters around them. The supporting casts likewise tend to overlap, although they do show a degree of variety. Most of the book’s heroines are-for all intents and purposes-the same character, albeit with an assortment of hairstyles and costumes. The stories are hardly sophisticated, but they retain a distinct kitschy charm even a half-century down the line. Elsewhere, Tangi has stumbled across an ancient Egyptian city improbably buried in sub-Saharan Africa, while Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharaohs, is locked in a power struggle with an evil queen. Join Sheena as she thwarts a monkey-suited villain masquerading as a supernatural being watch Rulah, Jungle Goddess, save the native population from an erupting volcano and see Cave Girl prevent a crew of skull-masked submariners from raiding a village for gold and ivory. Jungle Girls reprints fourteen Golden Age stories, each showcasing a different heroine. Jumbo Comics’ “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle,” a strip drawn by the team of Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Matt Baker and David Heames. It is this body of work that is celebrated by the new hardback collection Jungle Girls, edited by Mitch Maglio and Craig Yoe. Publishers that would previously have contented themselves with imitating Tarzan began creating rivals to Sheena, and before long newsstands were playing host to the likes of Fiction House’s Camilla, Avon’s Taanda, and Nedor’s Judy of the Jungle.
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Her shapely figure squeezed into an improbable leopard skin swimsuit, Sheena’s sex appeal helped to make her a hit and something of a trendsetter. Likewise, Wonder Woman-widely considered the first female superhero-arrived on the scene four years after the comic studio of Will Eisner and Jerry Iger created Sheena, Queen of the Jungle in 1937. More than that, they were among the first: the comic-strip incarnation of Tarzan predates the exploits of Superman and Batman. Jungle-based stories in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan novels were a core subgenre of adventure comics during the Golden Age. There was a time when a muscle-bound hero of the comics may well have come not with a primary-coloured suit, but an animal skin not a backdrop of city skyscrapers, but a collection of vines and not a teenage sidekick, but a faithful chimpanzee. But for past generations, this would not necessarily have been the case.
Imagine an archetypal comic hero, and you will likely picture some combination of spandex, a cape, external underpants, and a nifty set of superpowers. Jungle Girls Various (writers/artists), Mitch Maglio and Craig Yoe (editors), Dr.
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