Zudo the Jungle Boy - Dark Worlds Quarterly

Zudo was another short-lived jungle boy, in the tradition of Bomba, who had adventures with his pet lion, Lao. The strip was drawn by Ken Battlefield and published by Ned Pines. Battlefield was unconventional in that he did not use straight lines for his panels but curved ones. Unfortunately, these comics feature typical 1940s racism towards Africans. They did get a little retribution in issue #2 when the Africans spear two white marauders. (Remember this was before the Comics Code.) These were wartime comics and all the different strips in Mystery Comics featured heroes defeating America’s enemies (often portrayed as subhuman caricatures). The plots feature the usual fare: white princesses, conniving juju priests, alligator-to-elephant fights, and of course, evil poachers.