KORAK, SON OF TARZAN
Issue #21, February 1968

Cover: George Wilson

Inside front cover: Jungle Tales of Tarzan: The Watering Place

Story: The Alien Jungle
Position: 1
Writer: Gaylord Dubois
Artist: Russ Manning
Inker: Russ Manning
Colorist: n/a
Pages: 16
Characters: Korak, Ahkut, Ateena, Thurban

Synopsis: Exploring the jungle, Korak and Ahkut meet strange looking alien beings, who fire paralysing beams and capture them. They are taken aboard a flying saucer and abducted to another planet in different solar system. Though unable to move, Korak is able to observe the way that the aliens manipulate the controls of the ship. The paralysis wears off and the pair attack two of the aliens and escape from the ship onto the planet. Korak takes one of their weapons along, and fires it at pursuers. The boy and the ape make it into the jungle, where they come upon a female humanoid being attacked by a giant ant-like creature. Korak uses his bow to dispatch the monster, and the girl agrees to bring him to her tribe. Over the next few days, he learns to speak their language. Thurban, her father, explains that the alien beings arrived from another world and took over their planet, to use as an intergalactic zoo. While they discuss this, a swarm of giant ants travel through their village, forcing all the people hurriedly into the trees. Korak has the idea to use the ants to swarm the aliens' city. He has the men put logs across an electrified zone surrounding the city, which enables the ants, who are chasing the men, to cross into the alien city. The ants are impervious to the stun guns and drive the aliens into their ships. Korak bids Ateena a hasty adieu, and commandeers one of the crafts with his own stun gun. With great difficulty, he manages to bring the craft back to earth, where he hides it in a swamp for possible further use.

Remarks: Korak has a flying saucer! The alien beings are very similar to Manning's comic strip The Aliens, a back-up feature in Magnus: Robot Fighter.

2. Text page: Close call with a crocodile

3. Mabu, Jungle Boy: Angry Waters. 4 pages. Gaylord Dubois, writer; Dan Spiegle, artist.

Story: Lost Apeling
Position: 4
Writer: Gaylord Dubois
Artist: Russ Manning
Inker: Russ Manning
Colorist: n/a
Pages: 4
Characters: Korak, Kula, Tar-balu, N'Guli

Synopsis: Korak learns that the evil witch doctor N'Guli has stolen ape-mother Kula's albino baby, Tar-balu, so he can use the rare white fur to make magic. Korak attempts to rescue the balu but N'Guli discovers him, and his savage pet hyenas rush out and trail the boy deep into the jungle. Korak finally captures a zebra and rides it across a veldt, causing the hyenas to lose his scent. He then doubles back on the zebra while N'Guli is stalking him, and rescues Tar-balu, stealing the witch doctor's canoe in the process.

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