Posted on: October 14, 2018

Jungle Jim ran as a Sunday-only comic strip from 1934 to 1954. It was King Features Syndicate’s response to the Tarzan comic strip and began as the topper to King Features’ answer to Buck Rogers. above: the first Jungle Jim strip (hat tip Jim Keefe). Unlike Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim never got a daily strip. […]

Prince Valiant is home and, as has become traditional, he and Aleta meet in a modest but passionate bit of underwater ballet which reminds me of the famous/notorious swimming sequence in the first Johnny Weismuller pre-code Tarzan both because it is joyous and sensuous and also because Maureen O’Sullivan had a body double. Aleta always keeps […]