One time i was signing books next to this guy peter bagge, who had young cute teenage girls lining up for him. Its the best of jules verne and the most fantastical of edgar rice burroughs, pumped up on steroids served with a heavy side of corny pulp. Fantomah is often billed as the first superpowered female comics hero, making her debut in jungle comics in february 1940, more than a year before wonder woman left paradise island. Rima the jungle girl 1st issue volume 1, number 1 comic.
These are some of the best stores to scratch your comic book itch year round. Janas peaceful life is interrupted when a plane carrying a group of. Dc comics also pitched in in 197475 with a shortlived series. Feb 09, 2019 posted by dan greenfield on feb 9, 2019 3 comments. Reprinted volumes compile adventures of early women in comics. With his infant daughter, he settles in the african jungle, where his. He has also produced work for marvel comics, including new avengers, mighty avengers, and hulk, and dynamite entertainments jungle girl. If you use the add to want list tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Comic book auction featuring many titles in varying grades.
Your opinion, whats the best comic book story of the 2010. The jungle is populated by dinosaurs, prehistoric beasts, and cavemen. Jungle girl, or the perils of nyoka 1 page featuring. Tonights heritage auction sunday night auction has a few that wont break the bank. Tho there were a couple of early ones like camilla, the real proliferation didnt come continued below. Boulder, colorado somerville, massachusetts clearwater, florida chicago, illinois norfolk, virginia denton, texas mesa, arizona goodyear, arizona. Values of rima, the jungle girl free comic book values. Jun 23, 2020 jana the jungle girl lives in a strange land a land filled with dinosaurs, prehistoric men, and much, much more.
Jun 12, 2012 this omnibus volume collects the first two jungle girl comic miniseries or seasons, as theyre labeled in the book. Today there are a wealth of golden and silver age comic book characters who have fallen into public domain. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive. Whether youre into marvel or dc, discover information about your favorite characters original lore, nemesis, and alterego. We all thought the seduction of the innocent was just an american thing. Dec 19, 2016 the prototype of the modern jungle girl first appeared in the novel green mansions. Main jungle girlif you meant one of those, just click and go. Several late 40s issues were notable for featuring the art of bernard krigstein, best known for his work at ec comics. Comic books are a great way for kids to get interested and excited about reading and helps to develop. Local illustrators honored during black history month.
May 31, 2020 are you looking to grow your jungle girl comic book collection, but dont want to spend a fortune. Free file downloads, online comic viewer, plus a helpful, knowledgeable community. Fana the jungle girl incarna comics, 1989 fantomah, mystery woman of the jungle fiction houses jungle comics, 1940s gwenna from the webcomic kazas mate gwenna, where both kaza and her are a parody of kazar and shanna from marvel comics and are usually shown as nude. A jungle girl art book displaying a wide variety of renderings. The devil ladies are a gang of henchwomen to a male arch villain who are up against rulah, the white jungle heroine, in a 1940s comic book in rulah, jungle goddess the devil ladies in jungle goddess no 19 fox feature syndicate october 1948. She ceased publishing due to pressure it is said from the catholic church. Lorna the jungle girl, initially called lorna the jungle queen, is a comic book jungle girl protagonist created by writer don rico and artist werner roth. But not right away, and not in all parts of the industry at once. King dmc of run dmc takes on baltimore comic con this. Major story arcs while frank cho was working on the series, he marked his series seasons. Also, out of all the different versions of sheena shanna belonging to various comic book companies, my favorite was dynamite comic s version of the character. Learn about comics that are geared specifically for kids with this list of the top 18 childrens comics. It contained a graphic retelling of the republic pictures serial perils of nyoka. Rima the jungle girl 1st issue volume 1, number 1 comic january 1, 1974.
Comics can be thoughtprovoking, boundarybreaking, emotionally complex, and all the things that books without pictures can be. After serving stateside in the army air forces during world war ii, feldstein took a job with comic book publisher william m. On comics and graphic novels, a gamefaqs message board topic titled i made yet another video with my jungle girl comics. Comic book jungle girls began in the late 1930s with sheena and, directly or indirectly, spread from there. We have 76 books to download or read online the latest is nyoka the jungle girl 03. Kickass heroines are everywhere but few are as scantily clad or pulpy as jungle girl. Summary jana the jungle girl lives in a dangerous land that time has somehow forgotten.
With frances gifford, tom neal, trevor bardette, gerald mohr. April 15 jungle girl returns in frank chos epic third act. The character became rima the jungle girl when she was published by dc comics as a comic book adaptation in 1974 the 1st issue being the comic book my neighbor brought to me. I think people were concerned about these things for some good reason. Jan 25, 20 prior to 1937, the jungle girls may have existed in the pulps and movies, but not in the comic book world. Jungle girl s real name is jana, a young woman who has been living on an island in the jungle for most if not all of her life. Superstars of comics and popular arts headline impressive.
The best site for downloading free public domain golden age comic books. Any kid whos ever devoured a title like anyas ghostor invisible emmieor a wrinkle in time. His first assignment was painting leopard spots on the bra and loincloth of sheena the jungle girl. I enjoyed it a great deal, but potential readers should be warned that this series pushes style over substance. When we last saw jana the jungle girl, she had escaped from an underwater city and fired a torpedo into the eye of a gigantic underworldly creature of some kind. Sheena howard introduction yoe books idw february 12 2019. Enter to win a signed copy of kelsey millers debut book, big girl. There are a couple ways to accomplish this, but if you are looking for title specific searches, this is what you would do. An orphan stranded in africa following the death of her explorer father, sheena is raised by a witch doctor and learns the ways of the jungle, using her skills to fight evil.
Find the value of the dynamite entertainment comic jungle girl volume 1. The concept of a beautiful female adventurer romping through the jungle has been a staple of comics and films since the late 1930s. See how your favorites stack up with links to fan sites, lists of favorites, and comparisons of enemies. There is no indication they actually call themselves devil ladies, this is simply the title used for the story based on them being evil women in. Yoe books swings in been awhile since weve had a funky yoe books idw volume to show off to you, but its been worth the wait.
Riding a war tank, she fights against the tyranny of a megacorporation that dominates the remaining potable water supply of the planet. Jungle girls a lusty look at the lurid genre of women in loin cloths battling poachers, beasts and other denizens of the bush is out feb. Start your jungle girl collection today from heritage. This was the first picture in the jungle jim series that consisted of sixteen films spanning a. See more ideas about jungle, girl, comic book plus. I made yet another video with my jungle girl comics. Imagine an archetypal comic hero, and you will likely picture some combination of spandex, a cape, external underpants, and a nifty set of superpowers. Jungle girls pantera bionda by godzilla7 on deviantart. If you want to start a comicbookjunglegirl page, just click the edit button.
The artwork is gorgeous and the characters fun, but there doesnt seem to be much of an overarching plot. When a group of intruders finds themselves in need, jana races to save them. Landing a role in a comic book movie is a big deal in hollywood today. Actors who played more than one comic book character in their careers. However, this version of rima the jungle girl was firmly shoved into being more of a typical queen of the jungle comic book future, even though this archetype was getting markedly less popular than in previous decades. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. The comic book landscape is as diverse as any other medium when it comes to subject matter, narrative, and artistry often times the easiest way. Sheena 7 after her parents died while on safari, an orphaned blonde girl was raised by an african tribe and became known as sheena, queen of the jungle. Sassy, brassy, and beautiful, here are the jungle girls of the fourcolor golden age including. Cho, born duk hyun cho, is a koreanamerican illustrator and writer and is well known for different series of comic books, including popular marvel comic books as well as jungle girl and the hit series liberty meadows. Handpainted on coldcast porcelain, the jungle girl statue stands approximately 12 in height with a 6 base. Find the value of the dc comic rima jungle girl volume 1. Some comic books dont just have science in them, but actually go so far as to teach science concepts. Before sheena, there had never been a comic book heroine like her.
Creating a comic book is a much more complicated process than people expect. Cho and murray take the action underground and underwater as more clues regarding jana, the undisputed queen of the jungle, finds out more about her mysterious past, and the mysterious island she calls home. In fact, some credit sheena as the first heroine to star in her own comic book, as she predates wonder womans debut by several years. The first female comic book character to have her own title, sheena, queen of the jungle was created by will eisner and jerry iger, and debuted in 1937, predating wonder woman by four years. Gaines, who switched his focus to mad after a congressional investigation of horror comics killed that genre. Rima the jungle girl dc comics green mansions character.
Jungle girl comics were created by writerartist frank cho, james murray, and adriano batista. To explain, the jungle girl character is public domain where several different comic book publishers have a version of her. Im a fan of science fiction and even science fiction comic books, like iron man and fantastic four, but its the rare comic book which a. What is your rima, the jungle girl comic book worth. These films rake in huge bucks at the box office, and the stars in them have padded their bank accounts and become household names. John meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother bradley meredith. Hudson in 1904eleven years after the mancub mowgli poppedup in the jungle books and eight years before tarzan the ape man started swinging from treetotree. Come take a peek at what we have to offer this week. This omnibus begins in a jungle full of dinosaurs before moving to an aquatic adventure with mermaids and sea monsters. But jana knows very well how to take care of herself in a land of dinosaurs and dangerous cavemen. Apr 10, 2019 jungle girls various writersartists, mitch maglio and craig yoe editors, dr. The beautiful naturalist tara fremont is the granddaughter of the 1940s heroine rio rita and an original member of the allfemale superhero team, femforce. Jungle girl delivers action, excitement, twists, thrills, and the finest illustrations of dinosaurs and the female form found in comics today.
With this title, ac would celebrate the great jungle girls of popular culture throughout the years, and into the present. When liane, a lost girl worshiped by an african tribe, is returned to her native hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tugofwar over her grandfathers inheritance. Weisbecker has much heavier inking and more black, and other faces. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits.
Featuring new jungle girl duo the vixens developed by al rio. An extremely limited edition jungle girl statue based on the work of comics sensation frank cho and sculpted by the evertalented jason smith, featuring jana in all her primal glory. His comics are very funny stories about young punk rocktype kids, a very sympathetic. Its a 7part comic book series where rima takes on more of a warrior goddess vibe in her pursuit to protect jungle animals a modernday vegan superhero. Hudsons jungle girl was a darkhaired beauty called rima who dwelt in the uncharted forests of. Rima the jungle girl was a superheroine and a parttime member of the superfriends. We dont have an article named comicbookjunglegirl, exactly. Created by creative duo of will eisner the one they named the eisner awards after and jerry iger, sheena was the one of the first and certainly the most successful of a whole herd of comic book jungle girl characters roaming the treetops in leopard print bikinis that included judy of the jungle, cave girl, the unfortunately named white. The mission of comic book plus is to present completely free of charge, and to. Aug 22, 2017 incarna comics is raising funds for jungle babe. Fawcett got out of the comic book business that year, and sold its remaining titles and unpublished art to charlton comics. Jungle jim is a black and white 1948 adventure film directed by william berke and written by carroll young, was based on alex raymonds jungle jim comic strip and distributed by columbia pictures. Irish of the jungle 1990s comic book based on irish mccalla, tvs sheena.
Frank cho is perhaps one of the most accomplished comic book writers of all time. For example, mar vel comics has both the current shanna the shedevil. The old school conan comics from 70s 80s 90s marvel, the dark horse conan comics, or the very recent conan comics from current marvel. Jungle girl season 3 the third comic book mini series is just as good as the first, if not better. Born jana skyborn, she is the protector, and also inhabitant, of an island stocked full of dangerous beast and dinosaurs. Jungle girl is a comic book character created by dynamite comics. Tygra, princess pantha, rulah, fantomah, judy of the jungle, camilla, jungal, cave girl, and of course, sheena, queen of the jungle. Aug 29, 2008 jungle girl by frank cho and doug murray is fun and sexy and just good b movie fun. Mar 09, 20 this is real obscure italian jungle girl comic book pantera bionda blonde panther she was published in italy from 1948 to 1951. Find out about the steps the major comic book publishers go through in creating a comic book and how you can too.
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