Jungle Jim! The very name conjures up images of exotic locales, wild beasts and hostile natives. Jungle Jim braved these with the aid of his faithful Hindu companion, Kolu, as he traveled the wilds of southeastern Asia in search of adventure.
Jungle Jim is best remembered as the star of sixteen Columbia B-movies starring Johnny Weissmuller, fresh off his twelve-year stint as Tarzan, beginning in 1948. But Jungle Jim’s history goes back more than a decade.
Produced by Jay Clark and often written by Gene Stafford, The Adventures of Jungle Jim was on the air weekly from 1935 to 1954. A combination of jungle danger and colonial politics, the show brought listeners tales of slave traders, pirates, foreign spies, wild beasts, poachers, hostile tribes, and, during World War II, the Japanese, as Jim often served as an Allied operative. Armed with his trusty .45 automatic, the adventurer searched for lost treasure and investigated such mysteries as ghosts and unknown islands. Throughout it all, Jungle Jim maintained a cool head.
Beginning with Tarzan, the twentieth century was full of jungle characters. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones, in that he wasn’t a barely-literate loincloth-clad tree-dwelling wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a professional hunter in the mold of heroes of earlier popular fiction such as H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain and Lord John Roxton from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World.
Jungle Jim was the archetypal Great White Hunter who usually explores the kind of “lost worlds” which filled the pages of adventure magazines, and later, movie serials. He was everything one could ask for in a pulp protagonist – handsome, brave, resourceful.
This volume contains 40 fifteen-minute episodes from 1936 and 1937, including the conclusion of The Purple Triangle (#41-53) and the beginning of The Tiger’s Claw (#54-80), for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
Saturday, August 8, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#42 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, August 15, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#43 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, August 22, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#44 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, August 29, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#45 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, September 5, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#46 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, September 12, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#47 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, September 19, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#48 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, September 26, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#49 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, October 3, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#50 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, October 10, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#51 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, October 17, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#52 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, October 24, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#53 The Purple Triangle
Saturday, October 31, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#54 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, November 7, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#55 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, November 14, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#56 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, November 21, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#57 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, November 28, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#58 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, December 5, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#59 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, December 12, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#60 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, December 19, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#61 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, December 26, 1936 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#62 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, January 2, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#63 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, January 9, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#64 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, January 16, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#65 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, January 23, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#66 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, January 30, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#67 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, February 6, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#68 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, February 13, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#69 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, February 20, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#70 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, February 27, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#71 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, March 6, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#72 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, March 13, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#73 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, March 20, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#74 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, March 27, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#75 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, April 3, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#76 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, April 10, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#77 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, April 17, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#78 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, April 24, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#79 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, May 1, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#80 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, May 8, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
