Besides the surname, some other details about the character were changed slightly. One year later, the serial Perils of Nyoka debuted, starring Kay Aldridge as Nyoka Gordon. The 1941 serial Jungle Girl though having little to do with the novel, was popular enough to inspire a sequel. Nyoka has since appeared in other AC Comics' titles. Nyoka appeared in AC Comics The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl there were five issues printed between 19, consisting mostly of reprints and movie stills. AC Comics purchased the rights from Charlton in 1987, though their rights to do so were somewhat dubious. Once Charlton Comics ceased publication, Nyoka's rights were sold again. She has no superpowers but is a good fighter, tracker, and shot. She grows up loving Africa and stays there as a young woman, fighting for justice. Her final Charlton appearance was issue #22 (November 1957). Jungle Girls 11 Another great all-Golden Age issue Sheena Queen of the Jungle does an encore, as the Fiction House babe stars in Eight Men Fled, a beautiful Robert H. Meredith, is brought to Africa and raised there. Her first Charlton appearance was in Nyoka, Jungle Girl #14 (November 1955). Nyoka was one of the intellectual properties sold to Charlton by Fawcett in the 1950s after the National Comics Publications v. Issue #1 appeared in 1942 the character appeared irregularly until 1953, when Fawcett ceased publication Jungle Girls » Jungle Girls 10 released by AC Comics on January 1, 1992. Aside from living in a jungle region, she bore no relation to the later Nyoka character, a white woman living in Africa.įawcett Comics used the film version of Nyoka as the basis for Jungle Girl comics. Leading off this premiere issue is the top contemporary jungle babe, Tara. With this title, AC would celebrate the great jungle girls of popular culture throughout the years, and into the present. The novel was set in Cambodia, and the main character was an Asian princess called Fou-tan. The concept of a beautiful female adventurer romping through the jungle has been a staple of comics and films since the late 1930’s. The short story was later expanded into the novel Jungle Girl, published in 1932. The short story that led to the creation of Nyoka was "The Land of Hidden Men" by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the May 1931 issue of Blue Book.
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