- Jungle Tales
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date = September 1954 to September 1955
issues = 7
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sort="Jungle Tales" was an American
comic book title published byAtlas Comics , the 1950s predecessor toMarvel Comics . It was ananthology title of stories stories set in anAfrican jungle .Publication history
Jungle Tales ran seven issues, cover-dated September 1954 to September 1955. The numbering then continued under a new title, "
Jann of the Jungle ", starring the titularjungle girl character.Marvel's first series star of color
One regular feature in "Jungle Tales", "Waku, Prince of the Bantu", starred an African chieftain in
Africa , with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. The series' art was byOgden Whitney , succeeded byJohn Romita Sr. Waku, who predated mainstream comics' first black superhero, Marvel's
Black Panther , by nearly a dozen years, headlined one of four regular features in each issue. It would take a decade for the first African-American series star, the Western character Lobo, to appear, and nearly two decades before the likes of the Black Panther,Luke Cage , and the Falcon would star in solo series.ee also
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Jungle Action "
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