1970), in which the Black Panther guest-starred. 1976), except for issue #23, a reprint of Daredevil #69 (Oct. the Klan", ran as mostly 17-page stories in Jungle Action #19–24 (Jan.–Nov. Running in two years' issues of Jungle Action (#s 6 through 18), 'Panther's Rage' is a 200-page novel that journeys to the heart of the African nation of Wakanda, a nation ravaged by a revolution against its king, T'Challa, the Black Panther. 'Panther's Rage' is the first comic that was created from start to finish as a complete novel. Here were real character arcs in Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four over time. Two decades later, writer Christopher Priest's 1998 series The Black Panther utilized Erik Killmonger, Venomm, and other characters introduced in this arc.Ĭritic Jason Sacks has called the arc "Marvel's first graphic novel", saying: The length of the story arc coupled with the series' bimonthly schedule made it difficult for readers to keep characters and subplots fresh in their memories, but Jungle Action nonetheless maintained passable if modest sales and was popular with the desirable college-student demographic. Starting with Jungle Action #14, they were expanded to 18- to 19-page stories there was additionally a 17-page epilogue. The first, "Panther's Rage", ran through the first 13 issues, initially as 13- to 15-page stories. One now-common innovation McGregor pioneered was that of the self-contained, multi-issue story arc. The critically well-received series ran in Jungle Action #6–24 (Sept. Comics historian Les Daniels observed that "the scripts by Don McGregor emphasized the character's innate dignity". A new series began running the following issue, written by McGregor, with art by pencilers Rich Buckler, Gil Kane, and Billy Graham, and which gave inkers Klaus Janson and Bob McLeod some of their first professional exposure. Thus an actual African protagonist, the superhero the Black Panther, took over the starring feature with issue #5, a reprint of the Panther-centric story in the superhero-team comic The Avengers #62 (March 1969). Marvel responded by assigning McGregor to write original material for Jungle Action, with the only creative restriction being that the stories must be set in Africa. ĭon McGregor, who was then proofreading all of Marvel's publications, noted to the editorial staff that the series' preponderance of white protagonists in African settings was culturally outdated to the point of being incongruous. There was little market for these types of stories at the time, and the new Jungle Action was one of a wave of low-cost series that Marvel pushed out in the 1970s in a bid to capture shelf space from competing comics publishers. The company's second series of this name premiered with an issue cover-dated October 1972 and containing reprints of the same-name Atlas Comics title, with stories of white jungle adventurers. Marvel Comics Publication history Jungle Action The second title, Lorna, the Jungle Queen, renamed Lorna, the Jungle Girl with issue #6, ran 26 issues (July 1953 – August 1957). It was renamed and continued as Jann of the Jungle from #8–17 (Nov. 1955) introduced Marvel's first African hero – Waku, Prince of the Bantu, who predated the Black Panther by nearly a dozen years. Two brethren titles were published by Atlas. The four series' stories were called by one critic "painful to a modern eye, racist, ridiculous and old-fashioned", Those stories were drawn by Joe Maneely, John Forte, Al Hartley, and Paul Hodge, respectively. Leopard Girl – a scientist's assistant named Gwen who was never given a last name – wore a skintight full-body leotard. The giant sentient snake Serpo was an antagonist common to most, lending some tangential geographic continuity. Each starred the blond-haired, Tarzanesque Lo-Zar, Lord of the Jungle (renamed "Tharn the Magnificent" in 1970s reprints, presumably to avoid confusion with Marvel's modern-day Ka-Zar) Jungle Boy, the teenaged son of a renowned hunter Leopard Girl, created by writer Don Rico and artist Al Hartley and Man-Oo the Mighty, the jungle-protector gorilla hero of narrated nature dramas. The first series – published during a time of few superheroes, when comics featured an enormous assortment of genres – was a multi-character omnibus that ran six issues (Oct. Joe Maneely, John Forte, Al Hartley, Paul Hodge Lo-Zar, Jungle Boy, Leopard Girl, Man-Oo, Serpo
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