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Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Matt Baker, Robert Webb, Bill Gibson and Various
53 pages (April 1945); 10.0MB download
Shoulders of Giants; ISBN: SHGI-00029
DESCRIPTION
Publisher Thurman T. Scott, whose Fiction House group included the pulp imprints Glen-Kel and Real Adventures Publishing Co., expanded into comic books in the late 1930s when that emerging medium began to seem a viable adjunct to the fading pulps. Receptive to a sales call by Eisner & Iger, one of the prominent "packagers" of that time who produced complete comic books on demand for publishers looking to enter the field, Scott released Jumbo Comics #1 (Sept. 1938).
Fiction House star Sheena appeared in that initial issue. Will Eisner and S.M. "Jerry" Iger had created the leggy, leopard-wearing jungle goddess for the British magazine Wags, under the joint pseudonym "W. Morgan Thomas". But their much-imitated "female Tarzan" only became famous when writer "William Thomas" and artist Mort Meskin took over her exploits in Jumbo #1.
Fiction House's other features in that initial foray included the period adventure "Hawks of the Seas" (continuing a story from Quality Comics' Feature Funnies #12, after Eisner-Iger and Quality had had a falling out), and several now-obscure strips ("Peter Pupp"; "ZX-5 Spies in Action"; "Spencer Steel"; "Inspector Dayton") that nonetheless include future industry legend Jack Kirby's first comic-book work following his debut in Wild Boy Magazine:[1] the science fiction feature The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the modern-West crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), and Part One of the swashbuckling serialization of Alexandre Dumas, pere's The Count of Monte Cristo (as "Jack Curtiss"), each four pages long.
In this issue: SHEENA, JUNGLE QUEEN in: "Drums of the Voodoo Gods", also, ZX-5: SPIES IN ACTION, THE HAWK, GHOST GALLERY and more! SHEENA's man, BOB gets kidnapped, and she has to fight the natives to rescue him. Also, SKY GIRL uses her lingerie to stop the Japs! This and more!