Jungle Tales

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Jungle Tales was a Golden Age comic book title published by Atlas Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics. It was an anthology title with stories about different characters in the jungle.

It ran for seven issues from September 1954 to September 1955. Thereafter, the title continued, but it was renamed Jann of the Jungle as the book shifted its focus to a new titular character.

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Jungle Tales is of particular note for "Waku, Prince of the Bantu" — a rare feature starring an African chieftain in Africa, with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. Art was by Ogden Whitney, succeeded by John Romita Sr. Yet while Waku himself was, like the Black Panther, African rather than African American, his feature was only one of four in each issue. It would take a decade for the first African-American series star, the Western character Lobo, to appear, and nearly two decades before the likes of the Black Panther, Luke Cage, and the Falcon would star in solo series.

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