Jumbo Comics #13

Jumbo Comics #13 (March 1940) delivers a thrilling jungle showdown right on its cover, where Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, crouches knife in hand among the twisted roots of a massive tree, flanked by a snarling great ape on one side and a male companion wielding a club above her on the other — all rendered with striking dramatic tension by cover artist Will Eisner. For a dime, readers got a full 64 pages of color adventure, with Sheena's featured story "The Thundering Herds" joined by an impressive lineup that includes The Hawk, Stuart Taylor, Wilton of the West, Spencer Steel, and ZX-5. Fiction House was delivering genuine variety in 1940, and this issue is a fine showcase of that energetic, anything-goes pulp spirit.