Jungle Tales ran seven issues,
cover-dated September 1954 to September 1955. It was renamed and continued as
Jann of the Jungle from #8-17 (Nov. 1955 – June 1957), starring the
titular jungle girl.
Marvel's first series star of color One regular feature in
Jungle Tales, "Waku, Prince of the Bantu", starred an African chieftain in
Africa, with no regularly featured
Caucasian characters. Marvel Comics' first Black feature star, he was created by writer
Don Rico and artist
Ogden Whitney, succeeded by artist
John Romita Sr. Waku, who predated mainstream comics' first Black superhero, Marvel's
Black Panther, by nearly a dozen years, headlined one of four regular features in each issue. It would take a decade for the first African-American series star, the
Western character
Lobo, to appear, and nearly two decades before the likes of the Black Panther,
Luke Cage, and the
Falcon would star in solo series. The other features were "Jann of the Jungle", created by writer Rico and penciler
Art Peddy; "Cliff Mason" a.k.a. "Cliff Mason, White Hunter", created by
Paul S. Newman and penciler
Sid Greene; and "The Unknown Jungle", featuring stories of African animals and nature in conflict. ==Collected editions==