CREATOR

Name: Walter Lehning Verlag (German comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in Germany in 1946 by Walter Lehning. Stopped in 1968.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Lehning in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation started producing pulp fiction novels and added comic books in 1953.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1959. Stopped in 1963 after 187 issues, but has been continued to this day in two more series by another publisher from 2008 and 2009.

This strip format series' main character is the millionaire Gary Swanson, who, after having accidentally crashed his airplane in the jungle, decides to remain and help friendly tribes and wild animals. His base is a small hut, which he shares with the powerful gorilla Kerak and the slightly mischievous monkeys Pip and Pop.

The series is subtitled Sohn des Dschungels (meaning Son of the Jungle in English).

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Tibor

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 1959
#39 - 1960
#83 - 1961

#117 - 1961
#151 - 1962
#187 - 1963

 

 

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