Thursday, April 29, 2010

"The Origin of Wild Boy, Prince of the Jungle" (Ziff-Davis;1950)















The Grand Comics Database has no information on the story credits for this exciting Dec.1950 issue of Wild Boy #1 from Ziff-Davis, but thanks to his son, David, we do know that the great Norman Saunders painted the cover for this otherwise well-drawn issue (which is included today, along with the interesting frontispiece featuring fun jungle facts).

The Catacombs is grateful to Don "Zu-Gogo" Falkos for providing the scans for this story. Note: The copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belong to the original publisher and/or the creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment purposes.

Hurry on back tomorrow when the Catacombs will be participating in a special one-day-only crossover with Pappy's Golden Age Comics Stories (see Links) called "Apes of Ape-ril". See you on Friday.

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Unca Jeffy said...

Sweeeeeeeeeet! Blog crossovers! I can't wait!

nyrdyv said...

Can't we just call this Tarzan lite or something like that. Sure, ER Burroughs never pushed the stories as far as the comics from the latter-half of the century did, but we have to give him a lot of credit for creating the whole "jungle man turned native" genre.

Cheers!

Steven G. Willis
XOWComics.com