![]() ![]() This is perfect for jungle girl collectors, Golden Age fans, or new collectors looking to dip their toes in the Golden Age pool. This minor key is still a solid and affordable Golden Age comic. ![]() A similar 8.0 copy last sold in April of 2016 for $191, and since this auction is currently sitting at over $200, this book is going up in value. According to GPA, several CGC universal blue labels have been in auction, with the lowest grade at a 4.5, and the highest at a 9.6. Tiger Girl, the blonde in a two-piece tiger bikini, is grappling with a snake, is an immediate eye-catcher. This beautiful CGC universal blue label 8.0 with white pages comic features a striking Joe Doolin cover. The copy of Fight Comics #49 currently up for auction on ComicConnect. Tiger Girl was just one of many jungle girls, but in my opinion, she's one of the better ones. Tiger Girl made her first appearance in Fight Comics #32, The dynamic and brave heroine, known as Princess Vishnu from India, draws her strength from a tiger ring. Issues 5-7 then told stories slightly reminiscent of the Tarzan style, before the book was cancelled.įollowing the cancellation of the comic, this version of Rima made appearances in three episodes of Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning cartoon series The All-New Superfriends Hour between 19 (" Fire", " River of Doom" and " Return of Atlantis").Īn alternative version of Rima appears under DC Comics' 2010 First Wave banner, as one of the non-superpowered characters populating the title.While jungle girls have appeared in comics before Fight Comics #49, this was the first - and the start - of jungle girl covers for Fight Comics. Whilst the comic largely mirrored the novel as far as issue 4, this time Rima was only slightly injured by the flames and recovered. In 1974, the character was published by DC Comics in 7 issues of Rima the Jungle Girl. Although the ending was left ambiguous as to Rima's fate, with an eye open to a potential sequel, it was neither a commercial nor critical success, with Hepburn seen as an inappropriate choice to play Rima. The story was made into a 1959 film starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins. Abel joined forces with a rival indian tribe and wiped out the indians who had killed her, before leaving the forest for good. When Abel returned to the indian village, he learned that they had burned down Nuflo's cabin, then trapped Rima up a tree and set fire to it. Abel agreed to lead her and her grandfather back to her people's mountain. During the years there, he kept the location of her real home from her and that her entire people were long dead. Some years after Rima was born, Nuflo took Rima into the forest to live. Nuflo turned out to have once been a bandit who had repented, then subsequently rescued Rima's mother. Although a nearby snake did not harm her, it bit him and he fell down a ravine, later waking in a cabin where Rima lived with her grandfather, Nuflo. In there, he met Rima who appeared to have the friendship of the animals of the forest. Whilst the indians warned against searching for her, he ventured deeper into the forest. Whilst walking in a forest, he heard bird-like singing, and was told that it was made by the daughter of the Didi. He escaped to the jungles of South America where he met a group of indians with whom he made peace and became treated as one of them. The novel tells of Abel Guevez de Argensola, a native of Venezuela, being forced to flee the country for political reasons. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest. ![]()
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