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Number 1344: Jann’s jungle fever!

Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Sáu, 5 tháng 4, 2013

We’re in the final day of our Jungle Jive theme week. Monday we had Atlas Comics’ Lorna, today we have Atlas’ Jann.

One thing you can say about Atlas, when they did jungle girls they used some of their top artists. Werner Roth did Lorna, and Jay Scott Pike, who later went into the pin-up art field a la Gil Elvgren, did Jann. In this particular story, from Jungle Tales #2 (1954), Jann faces a jungle fever, and even runs into a dinosaur! They gave us a lot for six pages.

A bonus tale I'm including today is from the same issue, a horror/jungle hybrid tale, featuring Waku of the Bantu. Waku goes against the golden age jungle comic pattern by being an African, not some caucasian interloper. It's credited by the Atlas Tales website to Fred Kida. It has that really obnoxious coloring job on the Africans, which is a sort of purple-gray. I don’t know what the problem was, but that sort of ashen color continued on into the sixties. I remember an African-American reader calling Marvel to task for the coloring in the letter column of an issue of Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos.













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Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 3, 2011


Number 908


Pretty girl Pike


Jay Scott Pike specialized in pretty girls. I've seen a lot of his work in Atlas Comics, mostly love comics. After he left comics he went into pin-up illustration. You look at Jann, in this story from Jann Of The Jungle #8, 1955, or Marcia, from Girl Confessions #20, 1952, and going into pin-ups in his post-comics career seemed a natural for Pike.

I had a posting about Pike, with an example of his pin-up art, in Pappy's #334. There's another Jann story by Pike in Pappy's #639.












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Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Hai, 30 tháng 11, 2009


Number 639


Jann and her man can!


This is the second of five jungle girl stories I'll be posting this week.

Jann of the Jungle, yet another jungle princess, was published in Jungle Action, then the title was changed to Jann of the Jungle after the titular (smirk, smirk) heroine. Atlas' other jungle girl, Lorna, was fortunate to be drawn by Werner Roth, and Jann by Jay Scott Pike, both great girl artists. Both series were written by Don Rico, apparently the resident jungle girl scripter.

"The Jackal's Lair" is a fun little story from Jann of the Jungle #10, 1956, about Jann, her man, and a jungle monster. This comic also dispels a myth I've believed for years about Code-approved comics, that female breasts were supposed to be de-emphasized.

Pike left comics to do illustration and did some topnotch pin-up work. Here's a posting I did about Pike in Pappy's #334.

Grab the nearest vine and swing on over to Chuck Wells' Comic Book Catacombs Blog for another Jann story!






TOMORROW: The thrilla that is Camilla!

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Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 7, 2008



Number 334



Love and hate



Jay Scott Pike was one of the top bullpen artists for Stan Lee at Atlas in the 1950s. He left comics after they crashed, and went on to become a calendar girl artist, like Gil Elvgren. Frankly, it was news to me. I was surprised to hear that and to see examples of his art because I hadn’t seen his pinups before.



I like his drawings for the Atlas love and horror comics, and I have two stories. The first is from My Own Romance #37, and the second a reprint from Vault Of Evil #16, 1974, originally published 20 years earlier in Mystery Tales #21.

Two blondes…one still in love with a guy from her past, one wants her husband dead. Women, can't live with them, can't live...etc.











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