KORAK, SON OF TARZAN
Issue #35, May 1970

Cover: George Wilson

1. Korak: The Slave of El-Ghazi
Writer: Gaylord Dubois
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Inker: Dan Spiegle
Pages: 20
Characters: Korak, Akut, Captain Naukhada, Daniel Moray, Harry Moray, Sultan Ibrahim El-Ghazi

Synopsis: While trying to free Akut from a cage-trap, Korak is shot by Arab bandits. The bullet only grazes his head, knocking him out. He is carried on board their ship to be sold as a slave. Two weeks later a giant storm wrecks the ship and only Korak, Akut and another white captive survive, by overturning the capsized lifeboat. The other man, Dr. Moray, was captured while trailing his stolen son, a young musician. They finally make land on the Somaliland coast, and paddle up a river, where by chance they arrive near the fortress of El-Ghazi, the sultan who has purchased Dr. Moray's son Harry. Korak and Akut scale the fortress wall by night, and Akut kills a sentry. Korak easily locates Harry's room because he can hear him playing the guitar. Korak has to punch out the sultan and they make their descent back down the wall by a rope. Meanwhile on the flat plain at the base of the mountain, Dr. Moray has overpowered the guard of the sultan's small airplane. Almost overtaken, the foursome escape in the airplane amid a hail of gunfire. Korak flies them to a friend in Kenya, and leaves them with Captain Naukhada's bag of gold that was stowed on the lifeboat.

Remarks: The sequence where Korak has amnesia for a short time in the cage on the ship is very similar to Tarzan and the Castaways. Dr. Moray has not only heard of Tarzan but knows that he is Lord Greystoke. Korak learned to fly from Tarzan. At the end of the tale, when Harry asks how Korak is going to get home, Korak replies," We ARE home, Harry- here or anywhere in Africa's big jungles!"

2. Text page: Two-horned Fury (non-fiction, reprint from #10)

3. Mabu: The Raiders. 4 pages. Gaylord Dubois, writer; Dan Spiegle, artist. Mabu scares off some bandits by starting an avalanch and impersonating a god with his golden mask.

4. Jungle Musicians. 1 page.