Welcome to the Jungle!

Sheena is by far the quinessential Jungle Girl, her sucess led to a whole genre. Although Tarzan's Jane predates Sheena and there are a few historical predecessors, none grew to the icon status of Sheena. Her popularity spawned numerous clones and variations. Most of the classic Jungle girls were published during the notorious pre-code Golden age era. In this era the two most important publishers were Fiction House and Fox. This page is dedicated primarily to thier characters.
There are two primary roles that the Jungle Girls played in these comics, both were equally as common.
The first of these was pioneered by Jane, the damsel in distress always bieng captured and tied up. The victim Jungle Girl is a very common theme and these Jungle Girls were invariably pared with a some Jungle hero(otherwise the series would have lasted one issue).
The second role commonly played was that of the heroine. Sheena is a good example of this as she was usually the hero rescuing her hapless mate. Not to say that Sheena did not get tied up a lot(she did) but that she would usually be the one to escape and save the day.
Many of the Jungle Girls would interchange this role depending if it was a solo adventure or there was a man around. As pointed out to me by another fan, Shanna is a good example of this. Very independant and strong except when Ka-zar was around, then she immediately fell into the role of victim.

Jungle girl genre comics were notorious for a lot of suggestive material, skimpy suits, bondage, violence and racism. They played a large role in causing the comic code. You can not pick up a copy of Jungle or Jumbo comics without finding something objectionable on every other page. God bless Fiction House. To find out more about the comic code visit my Comic Code Page. For more information on the type of material in comics that led to the code, please visit my Seduction of the Innocent Page .

Below are a number of scans of the varous Jungle Girls, click on the buttons to see other pictures. This is an early draft of the site to be and I need a lot of help and information, if you are able to provide any, please do so. Also, you will note that Tarzan's Jane does not appear as I have no informatin on her or scans and there have been so many variations on her appearance and background that I don't feel I could do it justice.

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Other Pics!

Here are some other covers of Jungle related material from various publishers. For Fiction House covers, go to my Fiction House Page.

Cover Exciting Comics 56

Cover Jungle Jo

Cover Betty Page Jungle Comic

Cover Jungle Tales by Dave Stevens (Sheena cover)

Cover Jungle Thrills 16

Cover Thrilling Comics 63

Cover Thrilling Comics 66

Cover Terrifying Tales 15

Cover Zago Jungle Prince

Cover Zoot Comics 9

Cover Zoot Comics 13

Cover to Jungle Stories Pulp

I have set up a new Jungle Girls Discussion Group. If you have anything to add or are interested in the topic why don't you join. Take a look around and perhaps contribute.

If you have not been to my Sheena page, check that out here or my Seduction of the Innocent page here. My tribute to the comic publisher Fiction House is also worth a quick visit here.

Your last option from here is to go to my home page.

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