Jungle Action #24

Name: Jungle Action #24
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Nov 1976 · Marvel · 0.30 USD

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“Wind Eagle in Flight”

★ 1st appearance — Windeagle

About this Issue

Jungle Action #24 is simultaneously the finale of Don McGregor's groundbreaking run and one of mainstream comics' earliest — and most abruptly curtailed — attempts to dramatize white-supremacist domestic terrorism as a direct threat to a Black superhero. As the concluding chapter of the 'Panther vs. the Klan' arc, the issue left T'Challa's investigation of the KKK-linked Dragon Circle dangling mid-story — a cliffhanger that would not be picked up for another three years, and then by a different writer — making it a pointed illustration of how corporate publishing pressures could silence politically courageous storytelling. The series as a whole pioneered the multi-issue, novelistic story arc in superhero comics, and McGregor's willingness to set that arc in the American South, confronting racial violence head-on, gave the Black Panther a moral and cultural weight unprecedented for the character.

writer Don McGregor · artist Rich Buckler · artist, inker Keith Pollard · colorist Al Wenzel · letterer Denise Wohl · letterer Shelly Leferman · cover Gil Kane, Dan Adkins

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History

Writer Don McGregor, already responsible for the celebrated 'Panther's Rage' arc in the same title, began 'Panther vs. the Klan' with issue #19 (January 1976); the subject matter was considered controversial within Marvel's offices, creating friction for the creative team throughout its run. Issue #24 was scripted by McGregor with interior pencil layouts by Rich Buckler and full pencils and inks by Keith Pollard, while the cover was drawn by Gil Kane with inks by Dan Adkins; Archie Goodwin served as editor. The series was cancelled before McGregor could conclude his story — work had reportedly begun on a planned issue #25 — partly because Marvel wanted to hand the Black Panther to Jack Kirby, who was returning to the company from DC, and whose self-titled Black Panther series launched just three months after this final issue, ignoring the unresolved Klan plotline entirely.

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Final issue of Jungle Action (vol. 2), cover-dated November 1976; the series ran from September 1973 through this issue, for a total of nineteen original Black Panther stories across issues #6–24.
First appearance of Windeagle (Hector Ruiz), a Dragon Circle enforcer equipped with Wakandan-derived anti-gravity flight technology modeled on the Falcon's costume — created by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, and Keith Pollard.
First appearance of Ambrose Ellis, a KKK-affiliated character connected to the Dragon Circle's crooked land scheme that underpins the arc's mystery.
Story title: 'Wind Eagle in Flight.' Interior script by Don McGregor; pencil breakdowns on pages 1–13 by Rich Buckler, with Keith Pollard providing finishes on those pages and full pencils and inks on pages 14–17; cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Dan Adkins; edited by Archie Goodwin.
The issue ends on an unresolved cliffhanger — T'Challa investigating Angela Lynne's murder and the Dragon Circle's Klan connections — which was not continued until Black Panther #14–15 (1979) and finally concluded in Marvel Premiere #51–53 (December 1979–April 1980), written by Ed Hannigan rather than McGregor.
Jack Kirby's Black Panther #1 (cover-dated January 1977) launched only three months after this issue's cancellation; Kirby's run did not address the Klan storyline.
The issue has been collected in Marvel Masterworks: The Black Panther (2010), Essential Black Panther (2012), Black Panther Epic Collection: Panther's Rage (2016), and Black Panther: The Early Years Omnibus (2022).
In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked McGregor's entire Jungle Action Black Panther run third on its 'Top 10 1970s Marvels' list, underscoring the creative legacy to which this final issue belongs.