The most quintessential version of the Jungle Girl trope was popularized by another comic book character created a few years before Nyoka: SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. That led to the publication of NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL comic books published by Fawcett between 19 and revived several times by other comics companies in later decades. It inspired a 1941 movie serial about Nyoka, the Jungle Girl. Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs helped popularize the name for this trope by publishing the novel JUNGLE GIRL: THE LAND OF HIDDEN MEN in 1932. Neither of them quite fits the image most people now think of as “Jungle Girls.” That iconic image-beautiful young women who live in jungle areas and wear scanty costumes made from animal skins-came a bit later. Another is Rima, “the Bird Girl” of South America, in William Henry Hudson’s 1904 novel GREEN MANSIONS. An early prototype is the mysterious queenly character who ruled over an African tribe in H. This new issue also includes classic MAM stories and artwork featuring blood-sucking, female jungle vampires, amorous Amazons and more - all brought to life with artwork by great illustrators like Mort Künstler, Vic Prezio, James Bama, and Clarence Doore.Īs you probably know, “Jungle Girl” characters existed long before the men’s adventure magazine genre took shape in the early 1950s. It features vintage stories and artwork about fictional “Jungle Girl” characters and special in-depth sections about two real women who earned Jungle Girl titles: “Jungle Jane” Dolinger, the only woman who was both an adventure-travel writer for men’s magazines and a pinup photo model and actress Marion Michael, who gained fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the star of the film LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS and its sequel. This week, we released MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY issue #4.It’s now available on Amazon worldwide, or direct from me via the bookstore linked to this blog or my eBay listings. MAQ #3, our “Vigilante Justice” issue, reprints long lost “Books Bonus” versions Don Pendleton’s first two novels starring Mack Bolan, The Executioner, and other stories about tough but moral men who fight against mobsters and other bad guys. MAQ #2 focuses on James Bond-style Cold War spy stories and artwork. We picked Western stories and artwork as the theme of MAQ #1. It also includes articles about books and other media related to the MAM genre. The MAQ is a full-color, 150-page magazine that reprints and discusses stories and artwork from vintage men’s adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It has been one year since Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press and I launched the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY. Tweet Share reddit reddit Share Email The “cover wrap” (back and front cover) for the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #4.
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