American Comics Update: IW/Super Extravaganza: It’s A Jungle Out There!
*IW/Super: We continue with our series of updates from that most esoteric publisher IW/Super. IW Publications was a short-lived comic book publisher in the late 1950s and early 1960s, named for the company’s owner Israel Waldman. Comics were published under both the IW and Super imprints and were notable for publishing unauthorised Golden Age reprints of other company’s properties. Usually these companies were out of business, but not always. Basically, it seemed to be whatever they could get their hands on that determined the esoteric nature of their output. Thus you get super-heroes, war, romance, western, funny animals, crime, horror, science fiction and just about every genre within their pages. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Over the next few months, we’ll be presenting a series of issues from this publisher; this week, a bunch of Jungle Adventures and a Jungle Comic, reprinting jungle stories from a variety of publishers.
IN THIS UPDATE:
JUNGLE ADVENTURES
#12 FN- £15 Reprints Zoot #14A (Fox 1948). New cover by Ross Andru
(NB: IW did not reprint first story page from Fox when it appeared on inside front cover)
#15 VG+ £10 Reprints Jungle Comics #152 (Fiction House 1952). New cover by Jack Abel.
#17 VF+ £25 (PICTURED) Reprints Jo-Jo Comics #22 (Fox 1948). New cover by Jack Abel.
(NB: IW did not reprint first story page from Fox when it appeared on inside front cover)
#18 GD+ £6.25 Reprints White Princes of the Jungle #1 (Avon 1951). New cover by Jack Abel.
JUNGLE COMICS #9 FN/VF £25 (PICTURED) Reprints Jungle Comics #151 (1952) Classic cover by L B Cole from Terrors of the Jungle #8 1954.