Tabu

Tabu is a Golden Age jungle adventurer published by Fiction House in Jungle Comics, created by the eccentric early comics visionary Fletcher Hanks. Operating in the pulpy, wild-animal-filled settings typical of Fiction House's jungle features, Tabu appeared alongside contemporaries like Kaänga and Camilla.

Few characters can claim roots as deep in the Golden Age as Tabu, who first swung into the pages of Jungle Comics #11 in 1940, conjured to life by the wildly imaginative Fletcher Hanks — one of comics' most singular and strange early visionaries. A Fiction House creation through and through, Tabu shares those pulpy, adventure-drenched pages with iconic jungle figures like Kaänga, Camilla, and the extraordinary Fantomah, placing this character squarely in one of the Golden Age's most atmospheric and distinctive corners of the medium. The fact that Tabu's presence stretches across catalog appearances as recent as 2021 — including a turn in Die!namite Lives! — speaks to a durability that most characters from that era never achieve. For collectors with a taste for the raw, exotic energy of early comics and a love of Fiction House's lush jungle world, Tabu is a genuine piece of living history worth seeking out.