Sheena, Queen of the Jungle deserves the crown as Jungle Queen. Beating Wonder Woman by a month, she was the first comic to feature a female protagonist and inspiration for so many queens who came after her. She started in Jumbo Comics, being the flagship character of that comic, received her own comic and even a short-lived Pulp magazine. She is the only one to receive television and film adaptations. (What no Blanda serials?) She is in all respects the true female Tarzan.
Sheena got her first cover at Jumbo Comics with issue #13 (March 1940) and appeared on seventy more after that. The man who drew most of those covers was Dan Zolnerowich who signed his work as Zolne Rowich. (He later changed it to Dan Zolne.) Before him artists such as Will Eisner, John Celardo and Nick Cardy drew the jungle queen, but it was Zolnerowich who did the lion’s share (see what I did there?) of the early covers. Other artists took over after issue #51, men like Art Saaf and Joseph Doolin, but Zolnerowich had set the template for all who followed. Dan Zolne helped establish the classic jungle triangle cover, though he sometimes only used two figures instead of three.
