Jumbo Comics #129

Published by Fiction House in November 1949, this issue of Jumbo Comics spotlights Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, in a story titled "Slaves of King Simba's Kraal." Jack Kamen's cover pencils deliver a vivid jungle scene: Sheena, clad in her leopard-print outfit and brandishing a vine, swings into action above a snarling big cat lunging at a struggling man below, while chained captives can be glimpsed in the background. It's a dynamic, energetic composition that captures exactly why Sheena stood out as one of comics' most compelling adventure heroines of the era, all for a dime and 52 pages of Fiction House thrills.