“Jungle Vengeance!” — Bill Everett Cover • Al Williamson Interior Art • Final Issue of the Run
A late-period Atlas jungle book that hits all the right notes: Everett on the cover, Williamson on interiors, and that pulp adventure tone Marvel would abandon just a year later. The last issue of the title before Atlas’ 1957 distribution collapse — a true “end of an era” book with pre-Marvel DNA all over it.
📚 Contents
Cover — Bill Everett (pencils & inks)
Jann stalks armed poachers through swamp grass — stark blacks, yellow masthead, peak Everett drama.
“Cry Danger!” — 5 pages
Art: Al Williamson / Inks: Ralph Mayo
Jann helps a shaken hunter regain his nerve after a gorilla attack.
“Fields of Gold” — 1.5-page text story
Jungle pulp filler about greed, heat, and betrayal.
“Jungle Vengeance!” — 5 pages
Williamson/Mayo again
A crook with hypnotic control over animals hunts down a police officer — Jann turns his own trick against him.
“Midnight Marauder!” — 4 pages
Art & story by Don Heck
Cliff Mason exposes a fake tiger scare designed to drive natives off oil-rich land.
“Menace of the Swamps!” — 4 pages
Art: Syd Shores
Crocodiles, a carnivorous plant, and pulp horror atmosphere straight out of Marvel’s future 1970s mags.
“Fangs of the Black Orchid!” — 5 pages
Williamson/Mayo
A giant killer orchid, cobras, and a bad-tempered photographer — later reprinted in Savage Tales #6 (1974).
Plus: Mickey Mantle ad, American Seeds, Charles Atlas, 16mm “show movies at home” ad — peak 1950s back-page Americana.
📝 Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes
VG- (3.5) — Moderate spine wear with stress lines and tiny splits at ends. Lower-right corner chip, light creasing across cover field, and general edge wear. Pages are supple, cream to off-white with mild toning at extreme margins. Staples firm, centerfold attached. No writing, stains, or restoration. Presents better than grade suggests — strong color pop on Everett’s cover.
“Jungle Vengeance!” — Bill Everett Cover • Al Williamson Interior Art • Final Issue of the Run
A late-period Atlas jungle book that hits all the right notes: Everett on the cover, Williamson on interiors, and that pulp adventure tone Marvel would abandon just a year later. The last issue of the title before Atlas’ 1957 distribution collapse — a true “end of an era” book with pre-Marvel DNA all over it.
📚 Contents
Cover — Bill Everett (pencils & inks)
Jann stalks armed poachers through swamp grass — stark blacks, yellow masthead, peak Everett drama.
“Cry Danger!” — 5 pages
Art: Al Williamson / Inks: Ralph Mayo
Jann helps a shaken hunter regain his nerve after a gorilla attack.
“Fields of Gold” — 1.5-page text story
Jungle pulp filler about greed, heat, and betrayal.
“Jungle Vengeance!” — 5 pages
Williamson/Mayo again
A crook with hypnotic control over animals hunts down a police officer — Jann turns his own trick against him.
“Midnight Marauder!” — 4 pages
Art & story by Don Heck
Cliff Mason exposes a fake tiger scare designed to drive natives off oil-rich land.
“Menace of the Swamps!” — 4 pages
Art: Syd Shores
Crocodiles, a carnivorous plant, and pulp horror atmosphere straight out of Marvel’s future 1970s mags.
“Fangs of the Black Orchid!” — 5 pages
Williamson/Mayo
A giant killer orchid, cobras, and a bad-tempered photographer — later reprinted in Savage Tales #6 (1974).
Plus: Mickey Mantle ad, American Seeds, Charles Atlas, 16mm “show movies at home” ad — peak 1950s back-page Americana.
📝 Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes
VG- (3.5) — Moderate spine wear with stress lines and tiny splits at ends. Lower-right corner chip, light creasing across cover field, and general edge wear. Pages are supple, cream to off-white with mild toning at extreme margins. Staples firm, centerfold attached. No writing, stains, or restoration. Presents better than grade suggests — strong color pop on Everett’s cover.
