Jungle Comics #117
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Fangs of the Hooded Scorpion!", Simba, the mighty jungle lord, faces a crisis when white prospectors dam the river, drying up the life-sustaining water holes. With his cubs taken hostage and a mysterious radioactivity in the mud pointing to danger, Simba must track them to the prospectors' steamboat—leading to a dramatic confrontation that could change the fate of the jungle. Written by Ed Hunt and illustrated by Bill Walsh, this 1949 adventure from Fiction House delivers raw tension and primal stakes, with the Iger Shop's cover capturing the menace of the titular scorpion.
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When white prospectors build a dam, the water holes in Simba's jungle dry up and his subjects demand that he restore the water. Meanwhile, his cubs are captured by the prospectors' whose Geiger counter has detected radioactivity from mud on the cubs. Simba trails his missing cubs to the prospectors' steamboat and, in his attack, he causes the steamboat to crash into the dam, restoring the water holes.
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