1 pp.
“Only Another Memory”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai orders his hunters to start the march home. Kaino overhears Josiah Whitfield make a bargain with Hamasai. In two years, Mabu can decide if he wants to attend school at the trading post. Heck, in the reader’s lifetime, this three-day visit took two and a half years. At this pace, we won’t know his decision until the Twenty-Third century!

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Search”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Out of the swamps of Pal-ul-don, the giant golden eagle Aguila brings a note. Boy has been captured by Terribs!
 You don’t mess with Tarzan’s family. With a little help from his friends in Lutor, the Stork People, and even the mysterious Golden Men, Tarzan takes the fight to the Terribs.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Facing danger along the trail, Natongo and Zulena cross the wilderness and enter the desert bordering Aba-zulu.
 Bored, Dan-el and Tavane slip out the back gate for a little adventure. When they meet Natongo and Zulena at the desert’s edge, it’s “a miracle.”. It seems like Tavane and Zulena already know each other.

1 pp.
“At the Mid-day Pause”
Writer: Uncredited
 Mabu realizes that he did not leave his best friend behind at the trading post. While Mabu buddies with Kaino ... and you wouldn't think it possible, but ... the story slows the pace.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Pygmy Problem”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 An angry Boy runs away to live with the pygmies, and is captured by ivory hunters!
 Tarzan may be sharpening his knife on the cover, but he’s mellowing. Boy is threatened, and no one dies. Instead, the apes dance the Dum-Dum around the ivory hunters -- all night! The hunters stagger away in the morning ... never to return.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 The Brothers are headed for M’Tembo, to recruit war elephants for the liberation of Zulena’s besieged mountain city of Tungelu. When M’Kobi, Zulena’s treacherous cousin, attacks while the Brothers sleep with their wives, Hatima the mule deals him a fatal, swift kick.

1 pp.
“Lesson for a Cub”
Writer: Uncredited
 Mabu and Kaino watch a lioness teach her cubs to hunt a Wildebeest. The spectable lightens Mabu’s sadness from leaving the trading post..

9 pp.
“Tarzan -- Voice of Conscience”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Ignoring Tarzan’s warning to leave bird’s nests alone, Dombie falls off Boy’s shoulders and sprains his ankle far from home. The boy’s luck gets worse when they camp in the path of migrating crocodiles. Tarzan and Muviro arrive to save them, calmly walking on the backs and heads of the preoccupied crocs.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Tavane foresees danger when the Brothers leave their wives at M’Tembo, and make the mountain crossing to Aba-zulu alone.
 Outlaws are waiting in the mountains. But Dan-el and Natongo easily outwit and surprise them. With a couple of pokes from their spears, they send the ambushers jumping into a lake ... and laugh about it.

1 pp.
“Help for Kaino”
Writer: Uncredited
 Kaino is chided by his father, for talking about his mother’s anger. Now it’s Mabu’s turn to cheer up Kaino, by watching two giraffes fight. The pace has slowed to the point where the details of every hour is another story! The trip home is going to make the journey up to now look like a sprint. This is Tarzan -- not Tolkien!

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Secret Playground”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Taking a flier in an abandoned glider, Boy and Dombie land in the elephant’s secret playground.
 If the movies can have an elephant’s graveyard... then why not an elephant’s playground? Unfortunately, visitors aren’t welcome here any more than they are in the elephant’s mating grounds. In this story, Boy’s giant eagle’s name is changed back to Aiglon. Were there two editors arguing over this book? Or none?

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 A group of exiled Witch Men attack Dan-el and Natongo on the trail to Aba-zulu. After some unintentional help from a bull buffalo, Dan-el returns to his kingdom with a prisoner.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 A year’s subscription now costs $1.20, with a bonus red and blue wallet and membership in the Dell Comics Club.

1 pp.
“A Night for Stories”
Writer: Uncredited
 Hamasai’s hunters sit around a campfire, telling stories to the boys about comical encounters with elephants.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Cattle Raiders”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 This one gets weird.
 When his riding ostrich dies in front of fifty Kondis marching to steal Chief Buto’s cattle, Boy has to think fast and dresses in ostrich plumes, then starts dancing around. The Kondis think he’s is a good luck omen and foolishly follow him into a trap.
 There’s a lot of foolishness in this issue.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el’s army of spearmen joins Molithi’s war elephants from M’Tembo, and march to the mountain-city of the Tungelu. The blue-veiled Tauoregs are routed and the siege of the Tungelu raised. Through marriages and alliances, the adventurer Brothers have become empire builders.

1 pp.
“Of a Dream and the Zulus”
Writer: Uncredited
 Up early, Mabu and Hamasai bathe in a stream. Hamasai begins educating Mabu in how to behave around Zulus, whom they will soon visit. Any guesses if they’ll even get close to the Zulu village by the end of 1957?

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Lost Elephant”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Raiding a Waziri cornfield, an elephant swallows pepper planted by Boy and Dombie and, in a panic, runs straight into a bog.  To rescue him from the bog and waiting predators, Tarzan recruits Tantor and his tribe to pull their stranded cousin to freedom.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Bored with the Tungelu victory celebration, Natongo shows Dan-el the cavern passageway to the other side of the mountain.
 After only a few steps out of the passage, the Brothers are captured and marched day and night. Once again they affect a daring escape by jumping into a river gorge.

8 pp.
“Boy Meets the Golden Men”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Thrills on water continue as Boy and Dombie sail a catamaran into a confrontation with the cannibal Terribs.
 The Asiatic Golden Men save the boys and take them to their hidden city, from which they can never leave! After the Boys quickly escape, Tarzan calmly asks what stunt they’ve been up to now, because... “I’ve long ago given up guessing.”.

10 pp.
“One of the Tribe”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 After five years of captivity, Nugu the baboon escapes to return to his home and tribe. Reintegration is difficult, and acceptance only comes after Nugu saves the leader from a leopard ... in a comically clumsy scene where he hits the ground with his rear on the leopard’s head.
 

16 pp.
“Tarzan and the Treasure of Kings“
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 King Jadon of Jalur commands Prince Rotan to find the fabled Treasure of the Kings in the Canyon of Night. Since all of his brothers died in this test of fitness, Rotan wants to run away. Instead, Tarzan helps Rotan survive the canyon’s dangers, and discover a giant blue gem.

8  pp.
“Boy and the Cassava Thief”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Waziri warriors consider it a false alarm when Boy and Dombie trap a baby gorilla who’s been raiding their Cassava crop. It’s a case of the Boy who cried wolf when the adults won’t come when Boy is later threatened by the gorilla’s father. Fortunately, the parent just wants his child untied.

6 pp.
“Jane in the Good Luck Gift”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Nimbo plans to marry Isha, but one of the goats he intends to pay her father proves troublesome.
 Jane’s gets her first solo feature ... with art by Manning! Following the wedding, the father-of-the-bride gifts the troublesome goat, which has destroyed the rear of his house, back to Nimbo.

8 pp.
“Tarzan in the Day the Sun Died”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Using the timing of an eclipse, Tarzan frightens the Taori into giving up headhunting.

SPECIAL NOTE:
Like all Jungle Annuals, there are numerous additional features, like Dombie’s Dilemma: How can Dombie carry three melons across a bridge that will only support the weight of two? He juggles the melons while he crosses! Drum rim shot, please.

1 pp.
“Elephant Trap”
Writer: Uncredited
 In the trail, Hamasai sees a vine that never grows on the ground. Tapping the vine triggers the elephant trap, and a spear shoots out of the jungle.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in the Valley of Shadows”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boers, South African pioneers, are trapped in the Valley of Shadows, surrounded by poisonous poppies.
 By swimming the river and keeping his nose close to the surface. Tarzan finds a way in and our of this valley of no return. When the Boers turn to thank him, Tarzan and Boy have disappeared ... returned to their hunting.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el and Natongo rescue King N’Chaka of the Umbele, who has been staked out for the crocodiles by the Witch Doctor, Umbele. Except for the Mabu feature, witch doctors are always evil in the Tarzan comics.
 Escaping from the spears of the Brothers, the evil Umbele falls prey to one of his own traps.

1 pp.
“More About Zulus”
Writer: Uncredited
 During a break in their march, Hamasai tells the boys the legend of Tchaka. The yellow-skinned Bushmen were at war with the dark-skinned Hottentots and the tribes from the North who wanted both of their lands. Peace came when Tchaka formed the nation of Zulus out of all the tribes.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Vanishing Race”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Tarzan and Boy are searching for a lost and endangered tribe of true pygmy bushmen.
 To draw enemies away from an injured bushman, Tarzan taunts the spearmen into targeting him, “Ho! You are old women -- throwing sticks! Throw some more! Ha! Ha! Throw them all! Then I will make you dodge!”

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 The story jumps back to the night when the Brothers were captured. Tavane and Zulena read the signs and follow. Alone, the women dare the journey on the white mules, Alissa and Hatima. The previously faint-hearted Tavane now leaps off a cliff into a river gorge without hesitation.

1 pp.
“The Cave”
Writer: Uncredited
 The boys discover an old bushman cave, filled with wall-paintings.

9 pp.
“Tarzan in the Trail of the Kite”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Jane is pitching softball to a chimpanzee, when Boy and Dombie ask for help flying their super-sized kite.
 The boys and Mimi, the baseball hat-wearing chimp, hold on when a gust of wind carries them away ... and deposits them in a land where other chimps are taskmasters over farmers.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 As the Brothers and their wives watch a battle between jungle men and war canoes, a capsized canoe floats their way. Everyone, even the mules, hops aboard. Paddling straight into rapids ... they end up swimming and laughing. No wonder this was a fan favorite. The main characters always had fun!

SPECIAL NOTE:
 The evaluation of primitive communication in the Mabu feature isn’t as interesting as the ads.  One soda ad presents Fifties lingo lessons. To describe a drummer playing a dance song; “The boy’s no bum on the drum! Gives a neat beat for the feet!” Otherwise, you’d be considered square: “Screams! You lit the bulb! Strictly from hunger ... a boy in the box!”

1 pp.
“The Ghost Horn”
Writer: Uncredited
 When the hunting party is confronted by an angry bull elephant, they are saved by a mysterious horn blast. Legend tells that the extinct bushmen chased off elephants with horn blasts. Mabu, who left an offering at the bushman’s cave, thinks a ghost horn saved them as reward.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Young Feather Merchant”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Young Prince Miboko of the Masai uses his flute to capture a rare Trogon bird. But the Trogon is sacred to the Nuramis, who capture the Prince along with Boy and Dombie. To escape during a panic, Miboko uses his flute to imitate the sound of swarming locusts.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Traveling along the river gorge, Dan-el and Natongo save two young boys from a man-eating lion. Once again, the Brothers make new friends. They and their wives are invited to a feast and dance in their honor.

SPECIAL NOTE:
 1 year subscriptions are now $1.50, with a bonus of a Magic Bean Bowl and a Jack and the Bean Stalk Story book.

1 pp.
“The Elephant’s Game”
Writer: Uncredited
 The boys watch two elephant fight by butting heads. When the elephants stop to examine each other’s head for injury, their fight is revealed as a sham battle ... a game that elephants play.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Giant Guardian”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 While Tarzan hunts a man-eating lion, he instructs Boy and Dombie to wait with Tantor Abalu, an elephant he once saved. Of course, the boys disobey and follow a honey bird into danger from the man-eating lion and a leopard. Tarzan is disappointed, but once again lets the boy’s fright be their punishment.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 On the road back to Aba-zulu, the Brothers see King Molithi of M’Tembo, marching into an ambush.
 Tavane continues to show her hardened mettle. When Dan-el is knocked unconscious and about to be speared, Tavane is the one who saves him with a well-thrown spear.

SPECIAL NOTE:
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1 pp.
“The Crowning Thrill”
Writer: Uncredited
 The hunting party nears the Zulu village at sunset. In the evening light, their huts look like golden beehives.

9 pp.
“Tarzan and the Young Hunters”
Writer: Uncredited
Pencils: Jesse Marsh
Inks: Jesse Marsh
 Boy wishes for something that would shoot farther than any arrow, and receives a camera for his birthday. He and Dombie promptly get into trouble with lions and a leopard. Dombie hides in a warthog’s hole, and things get crowded when the warthog returns home.

6 pp.
“Brothers of the Spear”
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Pencils: Russ Manning
Inks: Russ Manning
 Dan-el, Natongo, and King Molithi, the newest Brother of the Spear, return to discover trouble in Tungelu. Utengo, another of Zulena’s traitorous cousins, has seized the Tungelu throne. But even with very few men, the Brothers defeat his guards and restore order.