Book Description

Young Nyoka was brought to the jungle by her father, who through using his medicalknowledge to help the local natives, was given control of the tribe's diamond mine. Nyoka'sdad was subsequently killed by crooks and Nyoka, using her skills must recover a sacredamulet. All of that plus more was just in her first comic book appearance. Nyoka would go onto battle poachers, thieves, weird mutants, and a variety of other protagonists threatening herand her jungles.NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL was based on the movie serials JUNGLE GIRL (1941) and PERILS OFNYOKA (1942). Her first comic book appearance was in Fawcett's JUNGLE GIRL #1, published inNovember of 1942 and was based on the first serial. In May of 1944, Nyoka became one of thefeatures in MASTER COMICS, starting with issue #50 and appeared in that title through issue#132. She also began appearing in her self-titled series, NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL debuting withissue #2, picking up the numbering from JUNGLE GIRL #1,cover dated Winter of 1945. Nyokawould eventually have her exploits published by Fawcett Comics for the next eight years.This book was compiled with the best images currently available. That stated, these comics areover seventy years old. The best efforts have been made to make the pages as enjoyable aspossible but not every panel is perfect and some allowances for the age of the books need tobe considered when judging the overall contents. The stories here were created in a lessenlightened time and there are some images that may offend modern readers.