Jungle Comics #31
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Gallows Bird," Maurice Whitman's stark, expressive art brings to life the brutal lessons of power as Emir Shekar forces his stepson to witness the slaughter of slaves. When Kaänga liberates the captives and takes Prince Kajumba with him, the two forge a new path, building a stockade for the freed and standing firm against Shekar’s war elephants. The cover by Maurice Whitman captures the tension of this clash between tyranny and defiance.
In "null," Kaänga, a man shaped by the harsh realities of the jungle, takes on the task of guiding Prince Kajumba after freeing him from the brutal rule of his stepfather, Emir Shekar. As the emir's war elephants march toward a stockade built by the freed slaves, Kaänga must defend the new community and prove that strength can be rooted in justice, not cruelty.
In "The Gallows Bird," three years after a fatal air transport crash, the ghost of pilot Jim Carmody leads his co-pilot Andy and his fiancée Dolly on a haunting journey to the Black Pit, twelve miles north of Grenau, where the truth of the crash and the stolen drugs may finally come to light.
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↩ Reprints Fight Comics #84 (1952), Jungle Comics #156 (1952), Wambi, Jungle Boy #18 (1952), Jumbo Comics #166 (1953)
Reprinted in Jungle Comics #32 (1942), Gabby Hayes Western #63
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