As a lifelong Republic serial trivia buff, I feel compelled to point out an error in the Toonopedia entry on Nyoka. The character's name (Nyoka Meredith) was not created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, nor was any of her backstory (doctor father, etc.), as the article seems to state. Burroughs' "Jungle Girl" who first appeared in a short story in Blue Book and then in a full-length novel, was Fou-Tan, princess of the Cambodian lost city Pnom Dhek (the complete novel can be seen at:http://www.erbzine.com/craft/jg.html). The only thing that the book and the Republic serial had in common was the title; Republic created Nyoka in hopes of capturing a little of the success that MGM's TARZAN films were enjoying and tied her serial to Tarzan's creator by paying for the rights to the "Jungle Girl" novel, which they then didn't use a single word of. No wonder Burroughs wanted his name off the credits of the second serial.
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-10-04 at 04:28:19 AM
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I didn't think Burroughs had much input to the character, despite his credit. I'll have to check the article to see how much I attributed to him, because it's many years since I read The Jungle Girl -- probably over 40, tho it's possible I was in my 20s when I picked up the Ace paperback. So even the name of the character wasn't his? What did he call her?
Quack, Don
Quack, Don
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Posted by: Der Captain
Posted on: 2008-10-06 at 12:30:36 PM
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Burroughs' "Jungle Girl" who first appeared in a short story in Blue Book and then in a full-length novel, was Fou-Tan, princess of the Cambodian lost city Pnom Dhek (the complete novel can be seen at[link::www.erbzine.com]).
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-10-07 at 06:55:17 AM
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Thanks, Cap. Boy, that's pretty far afield. I'll get modifications to the article made shortly, probably today.
Quack, Don
Quack, Don
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Posted by: J.A.Patterson
Posted on: 2008-10-10 at 12:06:34 PM
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There is even more to Nyoka: In 1954, when Charlton gave her the lead spot in Zoo Funnies, they did something amusing to the covers: The covers depicted Nyoka as a BLONDE: www.comics.org/covers.lasso?seriesID=11456
This continued to persist when Zoo Funnies is renamed Nyoka the Jungle Girl: www.comics.org/covers.lasso?seriesID=1091
About AC Comics' 1987-89 series 'The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl': Each of the five issues of the run had a new comic story of the character. Worthy of note is the story in issue #4, which is a fumetti story about a teen-age Nyoka!
AC reprinted Nyoka in many of their reprint titles: Amazon Warriors #1, Golden Age Greats Volume 14, in many issues of 'Jungle Girls', & Retro Comics #4!
She even met the Femforce in a story in 1990's AC Annual #1. She was part of the 'Wild Side' Femforce pseudo-spin-off published in Jungle Girls #14 to #16. She even guest-starred in three Femforce issues (#64, #70, & #87)!
AC even revived 'The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl' in 2005, as an all-reprint book continuing the numbering from where the 1980s series left off. It lasted only two issues (#6 & #7)!
J.A.P.
This continued to persist when Zoo Funnies is renamed Nyoka the Jungle Girl: www.comics.org/covers.lasso?seriesID=1091
About AC Comics' 1987-89 series 'The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl': Each of the five issues of the run had a new comic story of the character. Worthy of note is the story in issue #4, which is a fumetti story about a teen-age Nyoka!
AC reprinted Nyoka in many of their reprint titles: Amazon Warriors #1, Golden Age Greats Volume 14, in many issues of 'Jungle Girls', & Retro Comics #4!
She even met the Femforce in a story in 1990's AC Annual #1. She was part of the 'Wild Side' Femforce pseudo-spin-off published in Jungle Girls #14 to #16. She even guest-starred in three Femforce issues (#64, #70, & #87)!
AC even revived 'The Further Adventures of Nyoka the Jungle Girl' in 2005, as an all-reprint book continuing the numbering from where the 1980s series left off. It lasted only two issues (#6 & #7)!
J.A.P.
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-10-11 at 08:42:15 AM
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Some of that is probably worth noting too. I'll see if I can work a revamp of the Nyoka article into my schedule today or tomorrow.
But wurely, women have changed their hair color before.
Quack, Don
But wurely, women have changed their hair color before.
Quack, Don
