Jungle Comics #152 Page 5 KAANGA

18" x 12.25" image area. Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Jungle Comics #152 Page 5 KAANGA Original Art (Fiction House, 1952). Maurice Whitman.

The big bad white men abuse their native slave hunting guides in pursuit of killing the elephant Old Thunder just because. Kaanga has to get involved. Notice the skull pipe in the close-up of Uncle Tom! From the story "The Rogue of Kopje Kull".

Whitman's masterful and painterly composition distinguishes this last page of a 9-page story starring Kaanga, a counterpart to Tarzan. Whitman is among the most expressive artists ever to grace a Fiction House book.