There's a bit of confusion here. Wild Boy #1, a Ziff-Davis comic book, is given as Wild Boy #10; issue #2 is given as #11; and issue #3 is given as issue #12. Issue #4 has the correct issue number; the correct issue number is given for the rest of the book's run, ending with issue #15. This means that the coverissue numbers of two separate issues for #1, #2, and #3 are repeated for #10, #11, and #13. Also, beginning with issue #8, the books title was changed to Wild Boy of the Congo; and with issue #9, the publisher changed to St. John Publishing.
So who was Wild Boy? Well, he's the Prince of the Jungle and he has no other name. Naturally, a comic book Prince of the Jungle has to be white and (optional) have long blonde hair. Wild Boy is a bit of a misnomer because he is a man, not a boy. His best friend is Keeto, a native who wears a red shirt and breechcloths. Keeto has a girlfriend, Lura. Wild Boy is friends with the good gorillas and various apes. He works to keep peace among the jungle tribes. He has a panther named Timba and a falcon names Kaw. He's pretty strong, can swing through trees, and all-in-all is your typical jungle lord, although perhaps a little on the blah side. I have no idea what Wild Boy's backstory is, or even if he has one.
In this issue, Wild Boy must go against the evil witch doctor Zabba and fight a maddened gorilla. In the second story, Wild Boy is with a film crew when they are captured by a tribe of hostile pygmies and a renegade trader named Zarkow. In the final story, Jogo, the nephew of the chirf of the Kowi's returns and begins working a diamond mine that brings misery to the tribe.
On addition, there's a story featuring jungle guide Joe Barton, who is hired to lead Mr. Parmalee, his daughter Nan, and her fiance Cecil Hathaway into gorilla country. But Hathaway is a pure-dee sumbitch and proves it on the safari. It's up to Joe Barton to put him in his place.
Some good artwork by Paul Hodge and a striking cover by Norman Saunders.
Enjoy.
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Usually this means a mailing permit for some suspended title was shunted over, but that chaos of numbering seems bad even when such games were played...
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