Jungle Jim

Jungle Jim is a comic strip drawn by Alex Raymond from 1934 .

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The focus of the weekly series is the big game hunter Jim Bradley, who ends up on his adventures in the deepest jungle and other exotic locations.

Publication of the comic

The adventure comic Jungle Jim started on January 7, 1934 in the American Sunday newspapers supplied by the publisher King Features on a page with the science fiction comic Flash Gordon, which was also launched on that day . The two series, conceived as sequels, were drawn by newcomer Alex Raymond.

The two series were intended to compete with the popular newspaper comics Buck Rogers and Tarzan . While Flash Gordon Buck Rogers quickly and permanently outstripped the audience, Jungle Jim could only hold his own against Tarzan for a few years . In 1944 Raymond gave the series together with Flash Gordon to his assistant Austin Briggs . In 1948 Paul Norris took over the work on Jungle Jim . In 1954 Jungle Jim was finally discontinued. In Germany , two volumes of Jungle Jim comics were published by Feest Verlag.

Movies

From 1948 to 1955 , Johnny Weissmuller played Jungle Jim in a dozen feature films and a television series.