The Comics Book Jungle (Golden-Age Greats)

Beyond its entertainment value, this volume is meant to provide an illustrated listing of comic book characters in the jungle genre. The focus is on those characters published during the 1940's and 50's as that era was the heyday of jungle heroes. Only characters who had their own titles and those who had their own strips will be included, though 'sidekicks' will be mentioned if not always pictured. Features in other genre who has an occasional or one time run in with a jungle character will not be included. Supplemental text on the two most famous comic book jungle characters, Tarzan and Sheena, is featured in addition to a general listing of all jungle characters. Categories covered will be 1) Jungle Lords 2) Jungle Queens 3) Jungle Boys 4) Great White Hunters and 5) Jungle Denizens. Also included are mentions of similar genres such as tropical island dwellers and North African inhabitants.