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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle 18 |
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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle 18 Universal |
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CGC |
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1257377010
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Owner Comments
Sheena Queen of the Jungle #18 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on page 98.
On page 98, Wagner is describing the characteristics of Wonder Woman like heroines and uses several examples of jungle book heroines. He uses story examples from Sheen Queen of the Jungle #18 “As often as not these stories will show the rescue of some American girl in topee [sic] and tight fitting jodphurs [sic] (but slightly more slender and girlish than Sheena), who is exploring the jungle. Sheena no 18 begins with a tale characteristic of this kind. Wicked natives capture and tie up the ‘civilised’ [sic] girl and prepare her for the guillotine. Sheena, however, performs a last minute rescue, scattering the Africans with her thrashing limbs, and tossing men about like dice. In the second story Sheena spears a rouge elephant in the eye, knives an alligator, and having quelled a Negro insurrection reports to the local commissioner (who is, of course, white) ‘You won’t have any more trouble with traders in that district, I promise you!’ In the last story, Bob, a white man and a friend of Sheena, is captured by a wicked Negro Queen, called Nairu. Sheena rescues him and goes for Nairu who (wise woman) runs for it – in vain, of course, ‘for the Jungle Queen’s bronze arms locked around her…’ The last picture shows the ‘poor benighted eathen bowing to the ground before the erect and rigid heroine, and submissively chorusing, “Sheena is the true Jungle Queen. Long Live Sheena!’
These story references all come from Sheena Queen of the Jungle #18. The specific stories are “The Skull Wearer of Wando Grotto”, “The Ivory Smugglers”, and “Secret of the Snake Queen”. I have included a scan of the page with Nairu surrendering to Sheena the true Jungle Queen.
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