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FICTION HOUSE JUNGLE COMICS

Fiction House is an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. Its comics division was best known for its pinup-style good girl art, as epitomized by the company's most popular character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

 

Kaanga first appeared in Jungle Comics #1 (January, 1940), one of the early comic books published by Fiction House, which was long established in the pulp magazine market. It was part of an effort to duplicate the publisher's pulp line in the new medium; and that line had included Jungle Stories, which starred a Tarzan clone named Ki-Gor, since 1937. Kaanga was the cover feature of the new title, and remained so as long as it lasted. The writer who created him (at least, to the extent the word "created" applies in this case) is unknown. The artist was Alex Blum, who also worked for Fox Feature Syndicate, where he co-created their Samson, and who drew quite a few issues of Classics Illustrated. But several others also worked on the character over the years.

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