When Nyoka The Jungle Girl Came To Charlton, With Zoo Funnies #10

Nyoka the Jungle Girl first appeared within the 1941 cinema serial Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford, then picked up in comedian ebook tales.

Published Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:59:10 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last up to date Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:31:24 -0500

Nyoka the Jungle Girl first appeared within the 1941 cinema serial Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford, then picked up in comedian ebook tales. Based on the brief story The Land of Hidden Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs, later expanded into the misplaced world novel Jungle Girl, Nyoka had little or no in frequent with the unique, nevertheless it made for a superb title. Fawcett Comics printed Jungle Girl comics, from 1942, on and off, till 1953 when Fawcett ceased publication after the National Comics Publications vs Fawcett Publications lawsuit over the rights to Captain Marvel, over Superman.

Nyoka was purchased by Charlton Comics, who continued the collection as Nyoka, Jungle Girl #14 in 1955 but in addition appeared of their anthology collection Zoo Funnies, with Zoo Funnies #8 in 1955. Years later, AC Comics bought the rights to Nyoka from Charlton in 1987 and appeared in AC Comics’ The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl, and has appeared in different AC Comics’ titles since. But a duplicate of one among her first appearances for Charlton Comics, Zoo Funnies #10, is up for public sale immediately from Heritage Auctions, with bids at the moment totalling $52.

Zoo Funnies was initially an early comics anthology that includes humour and funny-animal tales from Charlton, printed beneath the imprint Children Comics Publishing within the forties, the n revived for a second quantity within the fifties with extra of an adventurous streak, which Nyoka fitted proper into.