Appearing in "Jungle Uprising"
Lorna the Jungle Queen #1
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Putnam (First appearance) (Death)
Other Characters:
- Bailey (Only in flashback) (Death)
- Oku
- Ukaki Tribe
- Ukaki the Great Snail (First appearance)
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Locations:
Synopsis for "Jungle Uprising"
Lorna the Jungle Queen #1
A diamond hunter named Putnam is being led to the location of a secret cache of diamonds which he seeks to claim. However drums begin to play alerting his guides and the nearby Lorna that the jungle is unhappy with the sudden intrusion. When the lead guide refuses to go any further, Putnam shoots him dead, frightening the rest of the guides into complying. Putnam muses about how one of his colleagues returned from his African expedition with a story about valuable stones but frightened about something that he encountered in the jungles. Putnam then slew his colleague, stealing his map before he could destroy it and went on an expedition of his own, unwilling to back down for anything.
Lorna then intervenes telling Putnam to turn back, but he forces his guides to take her prisoner. Lorna then sends her trusty monkey Mikki off to warn the Ukaki tribe of Putnams approach. The Ukaki are waiting and ready to battle when Putnam arrives, but he sends them scattering with his rifle. While Putnam rushes into the mouth of the cave to find the diamonds he seeks, Mikki unties Lorna. The leader of the Ukaki asks Lorna to stop Putnam before he can harm the creature they worship. As Lorna rushes into the cave the Ukaki begin playing their drums. Inside Lorna warns Putnam to flee but he has found a large sum of diamonds and refuses to leave and Lorna is forced to leave the cave. Just then the "cave" -- in reality a giant snail that the Ukaki worship as a god -- consumes Putnam.
In the aftermath, Lorna learns from the tribal leader that they worship the snail, which eats diamonds for food and explains that the last explorer who sought to take their jewels fled in fear before he could become Ukaki's next meal.
Appearing in "Tharn, the Magnificent!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Serge / Egres (Death)
Other Characters:
- Pabai
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Synopsis for "Tharn, the Magnificent!"
Lo-Zar is summoned by a native named Pabai who shows the jungle hero dead animals along the river. Testing a handful of water he finds a strange taste to it and then watches as a bird suddenly dies when it swoops down to drink some water. Lo-Zar realizes that the river has been poisoned and goes to the local village to warn the local natives not to drink the water.
Not far up river a man is pouring poison in the river in the hopes of driving natives and animals away from the area. He is spotted by Lo-Zar shortly after the man finishes dumping poison. Unaware of what the man was just doing, Lo-Zar warns him of the water and the man -- introducing himself as a hunter named Egres -- shows Lo-Zar that he has ample supplies of water to sustain himself. Lo-Zar is pulled back to the village when Pabai warns him that the poisoned waters have made the local crocodiles mad. Lo-Zar rushes off to help the locals fight off the crocs leaving the man to continue poisoning the waters. As he does so a newspaper clipping falls out of his pocket.
Unable to fight off the crocodiles, Lo-Zar orders the natives to set fire to the jungles that line the river to drive them back. As they are doing so, Lo-Zar finds the newspaper clipping and reads how it is about a communist agent named Serge who has gone missing in Moscow. As he examines the newspaper clipping ash from the fire ignites it. Lo-Zar puts it out and the way the soot had arranged on it is in the shape of a beard, making Lo-Zar realize that Egres is really Serge the communist agent.
Lo-Zar goes looking for Serge and finds him in the woods. The communist agent shoots at him, but Lo-Zar plays possum and when Serge gets close, Lo-Zar pounces on him. Their struggle sends Serge falling into the crocodile infested waters where he is eaten alive. Pambai arrives with a case of antidote for the poison he found in Serge's camp and they use it to eliminate the poison from the drinking water.
Appearing in "Survival of the Mighty"
Jungle Action #1
Featured Characters:
- Man-oo the Mighty (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Tondo (First appearance)
- Riba (First appearance)
- Wabbi (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Numa (First appearance)
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Locations:
Synopsis for "Survival of the Mighty"
Jungle Action #1
Man-oo the Mighty defends a family of gazelles from Numa the lion. After defeating Numa in combat a snake attempts to bite him and he is rescued by the gazelles.
Appearing in "The Day of Jungle Wrath!"
Jann of the Jungle #14
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Locusts
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Synopsis for "The Day of Jungle Wrath!"
Jann of the Jungle #14
Jann of the Jungle comes across a baby hippo caught in some mud and rescues it and returns the baby to its mother. With a terrible drought hitting the jungle Jann fears that the animals will eventually go mad. Sure enough her worries become reality when animals including a flock of pelicans arrive at the dry watering hole and begin to fight among themselves. Jann tries to get in the middle and stop the fight when suddenly they are attacked by a swarm of locusts.
This swarm causes the animals to panic and get trapped in the muddy watering hole. Unable to do anything about the swarm, Jann is surprised when the pelicans begin eating the locusts. Jann then just goes looking for more water for the animals when they suddenly go stampeding toward a cliff. Jann tries to stop them and fails, sending herself over the edge as well. She is surprised to find water at the bottom of the cliff.
Notes
- Tharn, the Magnificent! is a reprint from Jungle Action #2 titled "Red Poison" with the hero's name changed from "Lo-Zar Lord of the Jungle" to "Tharn, the Magnificent!" with any mentioning of communism being removed.