''The Jungle Twins'' is a 1972-1975 American

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series published by

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about two jungle men. The series was one of several new titles Gold Key created when it lost the rights to the

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characters by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Publication history

The series was created by writer

Gaylord Du Bois Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (sometimes written DuBois) (August 24, 1899 – October 20, 1993) was an American writer of comic book stories and comic strips, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. Du Bois wrote ''Tarzan'' for Del ...

and artist

Paul Norris Paul Leroy Norris (April 26, 1914 – November 5, 2007) was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics superhero Aquaman, and for a 35-year run as artist of the newspaper comic strip '' Brick Bradford''. Biography ...

. The comic lasted 17 issues, from 1972 to 1975. In 1982, "Whitman Comics" reprinted issue #1 as #18.

Fictional character biographies

The Jungle Twins are

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Tono and Kono. Of European birth, they were raised by an African chief, and traveled through

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, having adventures. It was later revealed they were of royal descent, their parents being the rulers of Glockenberg, a fictional

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References

External links

''The Jungle Twins''
at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Archived
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