Nyoka the Jungle Girl #36

Nyoka meets Egbert the Explorer, a seasoned jungle veteran with a surprising past—he once ran a thriving business back in the States before trading it all in for life in the wilds. When Nyoka asks what could possibly make someone abandon success for the unpredictable jungle, Egbert reveals the quirky reason behind his career change.

Nyoka awakens on the mysterious Isle of Nowhere to find herself surrounded by starving jungle beasts—and unaware that a naval testing facility has selected the very same island for an atom bomb test. When a treacherous castaway who left her to die appears asking for help, Nyoka must decide whether to trust him as they race against time to escape before the bomb drops. The countdown to disaster has begun in this thrilling continuation of The Jungle Circus!

Trader Tom has a humorous run-in with a customer named Blakely who keeps rejecting the boots Tom insists on selling—until Tom's real motivation for pushing that particular pair is hilariously revealed. This lighthearted 1949 tale captures the kind of tongue-in-cheek jungle shop humor that made Nyoka the Jungle Girl such a fun read.

Nyoka and her companion Craggly find themselves stranded on an island with a slow-burning government bomb counting down to detonation—and their only hope lies in signaling a passing military aircraft before time runs out. Using improvised methods to create smoke signals and catch the plane's attention, Nyoka must execute a desperate and daring rescue while the bomb's fuse ticks away. It's a thrilling race against the clock as she attempts the seemingly impossible task of boarding a moving aircraft to escape certain death.

When Ballyhoo Barney discovers a struggling circus needs a publicity stunt, he hatches a scheme to hire the world's ugliest man—only to learn the hard way that the guy he has in mind has recently gotten a makeover. Now Barney's stuck with a promise to the sheriff and a circus full of posters advertising an attraction he can't deliver, forcing him to find a creative solution to save Bungling's show.