The Roaring 20s

Goitrude

After the armistice, Goitrude’s war days were over and she became part of a tailor’s family.

Those were happy, peaceful days! 

When the family bought a farm, Goitrude was sold. During the roaring twenties, a mobster bought her and installed bullet-proof glass. That didn’t end well and Goitrude found herself being repaired again and sitting on a used car lot, until…

Congo Bill

After the war, William Glenmorgan earned the name “Congo Bill” by becoming an explorer and moving to the “vast, trackless jungle between India and China.”

A world-wide insurance company hired him to find a missing boy.

After all, he is a human being! He must go to school like other little boys.

Little did Congo Bill know that Janu had been taking classes through a correspondence course.

Johnny Thunder

In 1922, when Johnny Thunder was five, Agolea, a neighboring country of Badhnisisa, attacked…

Through a series of coincidences, Johnny escaped and ultimately found himself returned to his family in the United States.

Morlaidhans

In the 1920s, a yellow-skinned race of aliens called the Kartarthans arrived on Earth in the Amazon jungle. The city they built, Morlaidh, was conceived as a penal colony for the planet’s political “undesirables.”

Felix Faust

In the mid-1920s, Felix Faust returned from the mystical realm he had been flung into.

In 1929, the stock market crashed, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression.


Action Comics, vol. 1 #191
April 1954 (Feb. 26, 1994)
$0.10

“Janu the Jungle Boy”
6 pages

Writer: Jack E. Miller
Artist: Edwin J. Smalle, Jr.
Editor: Mort Weisinger

All-American Comics, #49
April 1943 (Feb. 12, 1943)
$0.10

(“Goitrude”)
13 pages

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Irwin Hasen
Inker: Jon Chester Kozlak
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Flash Comics #1
Jan. 1940 (Nov. 10, 1939)
$0.10

(“The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder”)
10 pages

Writer: John B. Wentworth
Artist: Stan Aschmeier
Editor: Maxwell Charles Gaines


Secret Origins, #27
June 1988 (Feb. 16, 1988)
$1.50

“A Symphony of Shadows”
38 pages

Plotters: Ehrich Weiss, Roy Thomas
Scripter: Robert Loren Fleming
Pencillers: Tom Artis, Grant Miehm
Inkers: P. Craig Russell, Fred Federicks
Editor: Mark Waid

Sword of the Atom, #2
Oct. 1983 (July 28, 1983)
$0.60

“A Choice of Dooms”
23 pages

Writer: Jan S. Strnad
Artist: Gil Kane
Editor: Dick Giordano