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 pulp era 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 hunter – a “great white 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 that one thinks of at the mention of “lost worlds”, which filled the pages of pulp magazines, and later, movie serials. He was everything one could ask for in a pulp protagonist – handsome, brave, resourceful.
Following a number of successful B-motion pictures for Columbia, Johnny Weissmuller continued the role in a 1955-56 Screen Gems television series consisting of 26 episodes. Jungle Jim also appeared in comic books by Standard (1949-1951), Dell (1953-1959) and Charlton (1969-1970).
This volume contains forty fifteen-minute episodes from 1937 and 1938, including the conclusion of “The Tiger’s Claw” (#81-96) and the beginning of “The Afghan Hills” (#97-120), for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
#81 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, May 15, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#82 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, May 22, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#83 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, May 29, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#84 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, June 5, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#85 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, June 12, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#86 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, June 19, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#87 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, June 26, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#88 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, July 3, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#89 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, July 10, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#90 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, July 17, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#91 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, July 24, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#92 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, July 31, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#93 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, August 7, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#94 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, August 14, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#95 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, August 21, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#96 The Tiger's Claw
Saturday, August 28, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#97 The Afghan Hills
Sunday, September 5, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#98 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, September 11, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#99 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, September 18, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#100 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, September 25, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#101 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, October 2, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#102 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, October 9, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#103 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, October 16, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#104 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, October 23, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#105 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, October 30, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#106 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, November 6, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#107 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, November 13, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#108 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, November 20, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#109 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, November 27, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#110 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, December 4, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#111 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, December 11, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#112 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, December 18, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#113 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, December 25, 1937 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#114 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, January 1, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#115 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, January 8, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#116 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, January 15, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#117 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, January 22, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#118 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, January 29, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#119 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, February 5, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#120 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, February 12, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
