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Jungle Action #19

Name: Jungle Action #19
Brand: Marvel
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Jan 1976 · Marvel · 0.25 USD

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“The Panther vs. the Klan! Blood and Sacrifices!”

★ 1st appearance — Jessica Lynne★ 1st appearance — Kevin Trublood★ 1st appearance — Lloyd Lynne

About this Issue

Jungle Action #19 is the opening chapter of 'Panther vs. the Klan,' the second and final story arc of Don McGregor's groundbreaking Black Panther run — the first time a mainstream superhero comic directly confronted the Ku Klux Klan as a contemporary antagonist force. By transplanting T'Challa from Wakanda to the American South to investigate a death connected to Monica Lynne's family, McGregor forced comics to reckon with systemic American racism in a way virtually unprecedented for the medium. The issue carries additional historical weight as the debut installment of a story that Marvel's own editorial found controversial enough to create internal friction, meaning the arc existed in spite of institutional resistance rather than because of it. Grant Morrison later singled out this issue specifically — alongside McGregor's broader run — as a formative creative influence, a signal of how far the work's ambition registered with the next generation of storytellers.

writer Don McGregor · artist Billy Graham · inker Bob McLeod · colorist P. Goldberg · letterer D. Wohl · cover Gil Kane, Dan Adkins

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History

After completing the thirteen-issue 'Panther's Rage' epic through issue #18, writer Don McGregor and penciler Billy Graham pivoted immediately into new thematic territory, sending T'Challa stateside to Georgia rather than back to Wakanda. McGregor had come to the title as Marvel's in-house proofreader after objecting to its dated, all-white jungle-adventure reprints, and he brought the same socially conscious sensibility to 'Panther vs. the Klan' that he had applied to 'Panther's Rage.' The subject matter of the Ku Klux Klan was considered controversial within Marvel's offices at the time, creating friction for the creative team even as they pushed forward. The cover was penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Dan Adkins — notably not by the interior art team — while the story itself was inked by Bob McLeod, with Marv Wolfman serving as editor and Petra Goldberg (Scotese) handling colors.

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Cover-dated January 1976 (released October 1975); story titled 'Blood and Sacrifices!' — Part 1 of the 'Panther vs. the Klan' arc, which ran through Jungle Action #19–24.
First appearances in this issue: Kevin Trublood, Sheriff Roderick Tate, Lloyd Lynne, Jessica Lynne, and Angela Lynne (the last appearing only in flashback, already dead — her murder is the mystery driving the arc).
Also introduces the Dragon's Circle and its leader Jedidiah Thorp, a hate group operating alongside or in conjunction with a modern incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia.
Interior story written by Don McGregor, penciled by Billy Graham (one of the very few African-American artists working on a mainstream superhero title at the time), inked by Bob McLeod.
Cover penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Dan Adkins; the cover identifies the antagonists as 'The Clan' rather than spelling out the Klan's full name.
The arc was never completed: Jungle Action was cancelled with issue #24 due to low sales and deadline problems, leaving McGregor's story unresolved mid-plot; the storyline was later partially continued — but not by McGregor — in Black Panther #14–15 and Marvel Premiere #51–53.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The Black Panther (2010), Essential Black Panther Vol. 1 (2012), the Black Panther Epic Collection: Panther's Rage, and most comprehensively in Black Panther: The Early Marvel Years Omnibus (2022), which collects the entirety of Jungle Action #6–24.
Grant Morrison cited this specific issue as a key influence on their own comics writing, referencing McGregor's lyrical narrative style in their book Super Gods.