Fiction House One Shots: 3-D Circus #1, 3-D Sheena, Jungle Queen #1, Apache #1 (3 of 6) [Fiction House Comics Collection 21]

3-D Circus #1

Publication 1953 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1

Content Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals

Featuring::

Circus Time

Zingo the Zooper Zebra

Pell and Mell

Bobby and Cap'n Patch

Credits Script: S. M. Iger [as Jerry Iger] (signed) | Pencils: S. M. Iger [as Jerry Iger] (signed) |

 Inks: S. M. Iger [as Jerry Iger] (signed)

Zingo the Zooper Zebra

Crossbones Charlie

Credits Script: Frank Little (signed)

Note:

Comes with 3-D glasses.

3-D Sheena, Jungle Queen #1

Publication 1953 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1

Featuring:

Sheena

Sportsman's Post

   Comic Story:    Sargasso of Lost Safaris (12 pages)

   Comic Story:   Sheena

Credits Script:? [as W. Morgan Thomas] | Inks:?;? (touch-ups)

Content Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Dora; Doug

Note: Title from the index of the original. The story has been altered from the original with dialogue and word balloons removed with new art filling in the space.

   Comic Story  The Great White Lion (4 pages)

Featuring Tabu

Credits Pencils: Howard Larsen | Inks: Howard Larsen;? (touch-ups)

Content Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; Kria [Kari]; Roy

Note: The credit "by Mack" and some dialogue is removed for this printing.

Comic Story: Spoor of the Dancing Skeletons (10 pages)

Synopsis Hawkina has killed Blackbeard and seized his belongings, and now she plans to enslave people.

Featuring; Sheena

Credits Script:? [as W. Morgan Thomas] | Inks:?;? (touch-ups)

Content Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Hawkina; Blackbeard (head)

Notes Title from cover of Jumbo Comics #79. Some dialogue cut, some moved, some art edits from the original.

Featuring:  Lucky Products

Credits Letters: typeset

Notes 40 plastic planes for 98 cents.

Featuring : Enterprize Puzzle Contest

Note: Back cover.

Note:

Comes with 3-D glasses.

Apache #1

Publication 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1

Cover Savage Warriors of the Wild West!

Featuring   Apache Indians

Content Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Geronimo; Cochise; Nachez;

 Red Sleeve; Victorio; Chato

Comic Story Geronimo, Red Wolf of the Badlands (14 pages)

Featuring Geronimo

Credits Pencils: Lucas Orton (signed may be byline) | Inks: Lucas Orton

Text Story The Amazon (1 page)

Featuring    Stamps

Credits Letters: typeset

Notes One third page for stamp article and two thirds page for stamp ads

Publisher advertisement Read Them All!

Notes Fiction House issues On Sale at newsstands. Covers are miniature in size. Wambi, Jungle Boy (Fiction House, 1942 series) #10 (1950) Indians (Fiction House, 1950 series) #4 (Winter 1950) Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Fiction House, 1942 series) #10 (1950) Cowgirl Romances (Fiction House, 1950 series) #4 (1951) Long Bow (Fiction House, 1951 series) #1 (1951) Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #113 (Winter 1951) Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1942 series) #57 (February 1951) Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #145 (March 1951) Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #73 (March 1951) Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #135 (March 1951) Kaänga Comics [Ka'a'nga Comics] (Fiction House, 1949 series) #7 (Spring 1951) Firehair (Fiction House, 1951 series) #7 (Spring 1951)

Comic Story The Golden Skeletons! (6 pages)

Credits Pencils: Brigham Barnes (signed) | Inks: Brigham Barnes

Comic Story Scalp Hunt! (8 pages)

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Jumbo Comics (#001 - #167) 1938 - 1953 Complete Series [Fiction House Comics Collection 07]

1938 Series

Published in English (United States)  United States

Publication Dates:    September 1938 - March 1953

Number of Issues Published:   167 (#001 - #167)

Color:

Black and White (#1-8); Color (#9 onwards)

Dimensions:

Tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); Standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)

Paper Stock:  Newsprint

Binding:  Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format:  Was ongoing series

Publication Type:   magazine

 Pages 68         Indicia frequency Monthly

Notes

Original index for this series was created from the indexing work of Henry Steele.

According to Peter Hansen as quoted by Ken Quattro at http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2010/04/return-to-wonderful-wags-...

the early issues of this comic were direct reprints of the U.K. (and Australian) publication Wags, to which Eisner and Iger had supplied material and bought the printing plates. This is the reason for the unusual (by American standards) size of the early issues.

During the 1920's and 1930's Fiction House produced pulp magazines under imprints such as Real Adventures Publishing Co and Glen-Kel. Late in 1930's Fiction House's owner, Thurman T. Scott, decided to move the company into comic books. The comic market was on the way up and sales of pulp magazines were declining.

In association with Eisner & Iger who were 'packagers', producing comic books on demand issue, #1 of Jumbo Comics was published in September 1938. This would prove, to be at least in the short term, a shrewd business move by Thurman Scott.

In the first issue and making her American debut was 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle' a character that Will Eisner and S.M. 'Jerry' Iger had previously created for a British magazine titled Wags. The leggy and scantily clad Sheena would became a mainstay of the company's stable. She also would set the tone of many of the subsequent titles which would feature 'Good Girl Art'.

With Jumbo's popularity Fiction House would then publish such titles as: Jungle Comics, Wings Comics, Firehair and Eisner's The Spirit. It would now be a major comic book producer for the next 15 years.

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Authors:

Script

Bob Kane, S. M. Iger, Donald DeConn, Will Eisner, Audrey Blum, 

Dick Briefer,Tom Alexander, Lee Harris

Pencils, 

Bob Kane, S. M. Iger, Donald DeConn, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Mort Meskin, 

Bernard Baily, Rafael Astarita, Nina Albright, 

Lee Harris, Robert Webb,  Alex Blum, Dick Briefer,

Inks

Bob Kane, S. M. Iger, Donald DeConn, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Mort Meskin, 

Bernard Baily, Rafael Astarita, Nina Albright

Lee Harris, Ann Brewster, Dick Briefer

Colors

?

Letters

Jack Kirby 

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House. She was the first female comic book character with her own title, with her 1937 (in Great Britain; 1938 in the United States) premiere preceding Wonder Woman #1 (cover-dated Dec. 1941). Sheena inspired a wealth of similar comic book jungle queens. She was predated in literature by Rima, the Jungle Girl, introduced in the 1904 William Henry Hudson novel Green Mansions.

An orphan who grew up in the jungle, learning how to survive and thrive there, she possesses the ability to communicate with wild animals and is proficient in fighting with knives, spears, bows, and makeshift weapons. Her adventures mostly involve encounters with slave traders, white hunters, native Africans, and wild animals.

Fiction House

Sheena debuted in Joshua B. Power's British magazine Wags #1 in January 1937.She was created by S. M. "Jerry" Iger who ran his own small studio, "Universal Phoenix Features" (UFP), and who commissioned Mort Meskin to produce prototype drawings of Sheena. UFP was one of a handful of studios that produced comics on demand for publishers and syndicates, and whose client Editors Press Service distributed the feature to Wags. Saying he could no longer afford to pay Will Eisner as a freelancer, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, which continued the work of UFP, but Iger bought out Eisner when (according to Iger) Eisner went to produce propaganda for the US Army but other sources say Eisner left so he could create The Spirit. To help hide the fact their studio consisted only of themselves, the duo signed their Sheena strip with the pseudonym "W. Morgan Thomas". Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel She.

Sheena first appeared stateside in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #1, and subsequently in every issue (Sept. 1938 – April 1953), as well as in her groundbreaking 18-issue spin-off, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Spring 1942 – Winter 1952), the first comic book to title-star a female character.Sheena also appeared in Fiction House's Ka'a'nga #16 (Summer 1952) and the one-shot 3-D Sheena, Jungle Queen (1953)—the latter reprinted by Eclipse Comics as Sheena 3-D (January 1985) and by Blackthorne Publishing as Sheena 3-D Special (May 1985). Blackthorne also published Jerry Iger's Classic Sheena (April 1985).

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