It's a "no-brainer" sometimes to say "comic books are fanciful" but I'll say it anyway. . . . anything is possible in comic books, and Nyoka stories are no exception to this rule. In issue #8 the petite jungle girl meets "Jee-Raf Jed" the American born, owner of a Giraffe ranch deep in the jungles of darkest Africa. ...

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While in a restaurant, a selfish barder drugs Mowgli's water while he is eatting and passes out. Includes a passout and a carry scene. Source: Wikipedia 20:00-23:00

What a great issue Nyoka #7 was. Already appearing on this website are pics from the first exciting story in this very stimulating issue, and now here are pics from the second story. As I've said many times, what made her great was the writer's concept of using serial type stories, with multiple chapters, and at the e...

Nyoka got her own title in 1945 and issue #7 came out in '47. True to form she faced peril after peril in every issue. Sometimes I fantasize what a great thing it would have been if the writers of Wonder Woman, Sheena, Bulletgirl and a host of others had had the same concept as the writer of Nyoka did . . . namely Per...

In the March, 1946 issue of Nyoka peril comes at the famous jungle girl from all directions -- from an elephant stampede, to being offered as human sacrifice to an angry volcano god, to falling down and spraining an ankle. The basic plot is a fantasy tale involving a search for a "peace" plant which when imbibed makes...

Linda Turner (movie star) is the Black Cat in the 40's, and was a hit with all the GI's who collected her books for companionship during the lonely nights spent in the many foxholes across Europe. She would go on to get her own title after the war ended, but appeared in Speed from #17 to #44 while the war was still o...

Storm and jean unconscius on cover

If I live 50 more years and continue posting to this wonderful site the whole time, I do not believe I'll ever post as many DID pics from a single issue of a comic book as appears on this page. Nyoka the Jungle Girl #1 is a six chapter long serial virtually stacked with DID scenes. I only finally got to read #1 when I...

As I've said many times before, the perils Sheena experiences from story to story seem quite redundant . . . falling off a cliff, falling into water, fighting wild animals. There are a few original knockouts, but for the most part it is usually the same ol' same ol'. Still, she is always great to look at, and pics o...

Published in the Summer of 1949, Sheena comes up against some phony tour guides who lure rich tourists to Africa, take them on a safari, and while far from civilization, they rob and kill their victims. One of them flirts with Sheena when they first meet, but she does not like it one bit, and lets him know. When she ...

Bulletgirl was one of a small handful of pioneers introducing DID art to a generation of young men gone to war in faraway places like North Africa, Italy and Guam. Fawcett Publications did not fully realize the strong appeal of this kind of art, even though public pressure against it was still waiting to come years lat...

Apparantly the Willoughbys and the Kents of Eastern Kentucky had a serious feud in the distant past, and the Kents killed a lot of Willoughbys before it all ended. Many decades later, a descendent of the Willoughbys has vowed vengeance on the Kents, and to assist him, he kidnaps an electrical engineer who has invented...

Titania given a sleeper hold then carried over the shoulder.Love those pink panties!

The Woman in Red is arguably the first masked comic book crime fighting heroine, having her start in March of 1940 in Thrilling Comics published by Standard/Nedor. She also made two appearances in America's Best Comic #'s 1 and 2 - - - why she was not continued in that title is not clear, but it was not a good decisio...

Her name is Taanda, and she is the red-headed ruler of the Tauruti tribe in darkest Africa; the year is 1951. Some white poachers are stealing animals already in traps set by the Tauruti tribesmen. Taanda discovers their felonious deeds and gives them a chance to give the stolen animals back. The baddies choose to fi...

More famous for illustrating Phantom Lady, it is still true that whenever Matt Baker does the art -- whoever it may be -- you know it will be the best ever. . . . and that is certainly the case in this Tiger Girl story. I have always had a special fondness for Tiger Girl anyway, but I suspect Matt's art is the basic r...

Zegra had a very short run, 4 issues in all, and all of them bearing her name in the title. There never was a #1 and these pics, taken from #5 were published in October 1948. This particular story features three small children in it, and my theory is that this was Fox Publication's way of trying to prove that comic b...

Fox Publications is well known for producing Phantom Lady and Rulah, but the golden age era had other lesser known greats, many of them short-lived, too short lived, if you ask me. Zegra is one of them. I think she looked great, but oddly, unlike Rulah, and Sheena, she had a very short run . . . and equally puzzling,...

Matt Baker is the absolute King of Good Girl Art, hands down. He did the cover for this issue of Phantom Lady, and its quality speaks for itself. However the pics from which this story was taken are graphic art renderings of another artist, Jack Kamen, who was quite good in his own way and worked on a number of great ...