Here's a cover gallery of my complete run of Page Publications' Jungle Action and Black Panther:
Jungle Action #1, c.late 1977
Indicia title: Jungle Action
Jungle Action featuring The Black Panther #2, c. April 1978
Indicia title: Jungle Action
Black Panther #3, c. February 1979
Indicia title: Black Panther
Black Panther #4, c.June 1980
Indicia title: Black Panther
Jungle Action featuring: The Black Panther #5, c.July 1980
Indicia title: Jungle Action
Jungle Action #2, c.September 1980
Indicia title: Jungle Action
Black Panther #6, c.January 1981
Indicia title: Black Panther
Black Panther #7, c.August 1981
Indicia title: Black Panther
Jungle Action #NN, c.January 1982
Indicia title: Jungle Action
Jungle Action featuring: The Black Panther #NN, c.1982
Indicia title: Black Panther
The first three issues are regular-sized issues and the rest are digest-sized issues, #7 being a 'tall' edition.
This has been a difficult series to get a handle on but I think I've finally sorted it out.
The problem begins with the confusion evident in the Yaffa office as to whether this is a series titled Jungle Action, Black Panther or both, as you can see by the alternating cover titles and indicia titles. For example, the indicia title on #5 is Black Panther, but is Jungle Action on the unnumbered recycled reprint. The confusion stems from the fact that the Yaffa series is initially based on material originally appearing in Marvel Comics' Jungle Action but quickly switches gears into reprinting material from the dedicated Marvel Black Panther series, and proceeds to flip flop between the two.
This has been a difficult series to get a handle on but I think I've finally sorted it out.
The problem begins with the confusion evident in the Yaffa office as to whether this is a series titled Jungle Action, Black Panther or both, as you can see by the alternating cover titles and indicia titles. For example, the indicia title on #5 is Black Panther, but is Jungle Action on the unnumbered recycled reprint. The confusion stems from the fact that the Yaffa series is initially based on material originally appearing in Marvel Comics' Jungle Action but quickly switches gears into reprinting material from the dedicated Marvel Black Panther series, and proceeds to flip flop between the two.
The other problem is the sixth issue was misnumbered as Jungle Action #2. This issue is a digest-sized reprint of Jungle Action #1. The duplicated issue number did not make sense. This coincided with the 'missing' Black Panther #4 - no such issue had appeared in collector's circles - so it seemed to me that the misnumbered #2 was intended as #4 in the series. However, now that a copy of Black Panther #4 has turned up, the misnumbered #2 takes its rightful place in the gallery slotted in between #'s 5 and 6 based on the publication date.
Given #1 and #5 were recycled within the series and #2 was recycled and retitled Jungle Beast, I suspect #3 and #4 may have been reissued as either unnumbered or retitled editions. TBA.
Note: This post was amended 5/8/2020 to include the information re: Black Panther #4.
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