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JUNGLE JIM

1934. Comic strip artist Alex Raymond, creator of Flash Gordon, and writer Don Moore, created Jungle Jim, which began in the Sunday color pages on January 7, 1934. Operating out of Africa, India, Tibet, and the Middle East, Jim tangles with pirates, slavers, and other criminals. In 1937 a three hour and fifty-two minute serial was released, starring Grant Withers as the jungle adventurer. Jungle Jim began his comic book career in Ace Comics reprints of the strips in 1937, and then his own comic book beginning in 1949. Big Jim jumped into radio from 1938 until 1954. But it was in 1948 that Jim was portrayed by ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller. The series, sometimes bizarre, comprises sixteen movies and lasted until 1955. That same year, Weissmuller took the series to TV.

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