White Princess of the Jungle #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe issue contains multiple stories as indicated on the cover: "King of the Gorillas," "Coils of the Tree Snake," and "The Mountains of Madness." In one storyline, Tarinda and her companions encounter the serpent god Vishnac, who demands a blood sacrifice from warriors of the Tauruti tribe after his son is discovered dead. Meanwhile, a separate narrative follows Professor Borgman and others dealing with a blue gorilla specimen and the threat posed by natives who consider it a sacred weapon of the Rambao, a tribe that worships the "Blue Gorilla" as a deity and kills outsiders who disturb their territory.
Tarinda, the White Princess of the Jungle, springs into action when her ward Koru is kidnapped by a tribe that worships a monstrous serpent god called Vishnac—a creature Koru unknowingly angered during a hunt. Racing against time to infiltrate the savage village and rescue the boy before he's offered as a sacrifice, Tarinda must face not only the frenzied worshippers but the colossal god-snake itself. With cunning and courage, she battles her way toward freedom—but Vishnac's power proves unlike anything she's encountered before.
When a false priestess manipulates the warriors of Koomalo with drugged incense and a supernatural hoax, Tarinda must uncover the secret behind the "Mountains of Madness" before more villages fall under her spell. Racing against time and facing the priestess's desperate fury, the White Princess discovers that the terrifying wailing voice commanding death and destruction is far more cunning—and less divine—than anyone feared.
When three scientists—Professor Victor Borgman, his daughter Ann, and Mike Norday—bring back a specimen of the legendary Blue Gorilla from Africa, they attract the deadly attention of the Rambao cannibals, who worship the creature as a god. Racing back into the jungle to capture more of these intelligent creatures alive, the trio finds themselves hunted, attacked on the river, and facing ritualistic combat and torture at the cannibals' hands. With time running out and danger closing in, salvation arrives from an unexpected source—but the real challenge of the Blue Gorilla's mysterious homeland still lies ahead.
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Reprinted in Wambi #8 (1958), Jungle Girls #16 (1993), White Princess of the Jungle #5 (2017), White Princess of the Jungle #5
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