Nyoka the Jungle Girl #33

Fawcett's photo-cover format gives Nyoka the Jungle Girl #33 (July 1949) a vivid, almost cinematic energy — Nyoka herself, in her red shorts and white shirt, stands at the center with a male companion at her side, both facing a group of colorfully costumed, spear-bearing figures emerging from the jungle shadows behind them. With a full 52 pages and the promise of "The Weird Legend of Laguna," this issue looks to plunge readers straight into mystery and adventure among what the story titles as a lost white tribe.