Four Color #582

Dell's Four Color #582 brings Rudyard Kipling's beloved jungle boy to vivid life, with Morris Gollub's painted cover capturing Mowgli riding atop a charging herd of water buffalo, stick raised high as the massive, horn-swept animals thunder forward in a dust-filled stampede. It's a striking image — all raw momentum and determination — perfectly suited to a story pitting the man-cub against the fearsome tiger Shere Khan. A handsome 1954 ten-cent comic that wears its literary roots proudly.