KORAK, SON OF TARZAN
Issue #15, December 1966

Cover: George Wilson
Inside front cover: The Battlers...Baboons

Story: Spotted Magic
Position: 1
Writer: Gaylord Dubois
Artist: Warren Tufts
Inker: Warren Tufts
Pages: 23
Characters: Korak, Chief Buto, N'Kulu, Kongoni, Mopo, Jad-Bal-Ja

Synopsis: While visiting the village of Chief Buto, Korak overhears the witch doctor N'kulu plotting to poison the chief and promptly tells Buto. Buto has N'kulu exiled from the tribe, but presently the two warriors sent to escort him to the borders cry out and are found slain by the claws of leopards. Korak deduces that N'kulu must secretly be a Leopard Man. The Chief and the son of Tarzan decide to trail him for a confrontation. Soon they meet with eight or more Leopard Men in the jungle. Korak and Buto manage to down a number of the men but finally they are cornered and outnumbered. Just then Jad-Bal-Ja the golden lion, who has heard Korak having a battle in the jungle, appears on the scene, scattering the remaining Leopard Men into the forest. Korak trails N'kulu into a cave, where the witchdoctor traps him with two wild leopards. Korak takes refuge from them in their empty cage, but N'kulu begins shooting poisoned arrows at him from a doorway in the rear of the cave. Inadvertently, he shoots one of his own leopards who happen into the line of fire, and Korak uses the body to shield himself from both the other cat and from N'kulu's bow. Meanwhile, Buto and Jad-Bal-Ja have managed to remove the large stone from the entrance, and as Korak escapes into the open, Jad picks up the scent of N'kulu, who has escaped the cave from a rear exit. Unable to cross a crocodile infested river, N'kulu has to ascend a steep mountain to escape from his pursuers. After unsuccessfully starting an avalanch to try to kill Buto and Korak, N'kulu shoots Korak with a poison arrow but it merely lodges in the seat of his loincloth. At the top of the cliff N'kulu comes up against a tribe of wild baboons. His arrow shots infuriate them and they drive him headlong off a high cliff to his death.

Remarks: Appropriately, Korak is wearing a leopard skin loincloth for this adventure. He calls the Leopard Men "Sheeta-Mangani," but the accurate ape words would probably be Sheeta-Gomangani.

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3. Text page: Wrestling Giants (Nuba hillmen of Sudan)

4. Jon of the Kalahari: Fiery Passage. 4 pages. Gaylord Dubois, writer; Jesse Marsh, artist. (Final installment of Jon.)

5. Fruit of the Giant Herb (Bananas) 1 page.

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