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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:A lobby card for the first film.]] |
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4 | ''Jungle Jim'' is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began in 1934 as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle Jim. There were also radio, film, and television adaptations. |
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6 | Artist Alex Raymond and writer Don Moore created the original strip as a topper to run above Raymond's ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' and to compete with the Franchise/{{Tarzan}} comic strip. ''Jungle Jim'' and ''Flash Gordon'' were launched simultaneously on January 7, 1934. Aside from Jim Bradley, characters included the large, strong native Kolu, and Lille [=DeVrille=], a FemmeFatale introduced two years into the strip's run. |
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8 | The comic's early years generally featured stories revolving around pirates, slave traders and other common jungle invaders. As UsefulNotes/WorldWarII approached, ''Jungle Jim'', like many other American comics, developed a wartime theme, in which Jim fought the Japanese, and it moved from its position as a topper strip to its own independent Sunday page. The strip ended in 1954. |
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10 | There was also a radio series, ''The Adventures of Jungle Jim'', that premiered in 1935. A 12-part film serial was made in 1937 with Grant Withers as Jungle Jim. |
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12 | However, probably the most famous incarnation of ''Jungle Jim'' to modern audiences is the series of 16 ''Jungle Jim'' films made by Creator/ColumbiaPictures between 1948 and 1955, starring Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller (a former big-screen Franchise/{{Tarzan}}) as Jim. Weissmuller also starred as Jim in the single-season TV series that ran in 1955-56. He had a comicbook revival in 2015 as part of the King/[[Creator/DynamiteComics Dynamite]] series of miniseries. Fittingly, his miniseries sees him relocated to [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Arboria]] by earlier events in the series. |
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14 | !!''Jungle Jim'' contains examples of: |
15 | * CanonWelding: The 2015 series changed the setting from Earth to the forest moon Arboria from ''Franchise/FlashGordon''. |
16 | * EvilPoacher: Another common type of foe. |
17 | * FemmeFatale: Lille [=DeVrille=] |
18 | * GreatWhiteHunter: Jim Bradley, one of the classic examples. |
19 | * JungleOpera: Again, one of the classic examples. |
20 | * PhysicalGod: In the Dynamite run. |
21 | * RuthlessModernPirates: These were common foes in the early days of the strip. |
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