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| Publisher | Atlas Comics |
| Publication date | September 1954 to September 1955 |
| Number of issues | 7 |
Jungle Tales was an American comic book title published by Atlas Comics, the 1950s predecessor to Marvel Comics. It was an anthology title of stories set in an African jungle.
Jungle Tales ran seven issues, cover-dated September 1954 to September 1955. The numbering then continued under a new title, Jann of the Jungle, starring the titular jungle girl character.
One regular feature in Jungle Tales, "Waku, Prince of the Bantu", starred an African chieftain in Africa, with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. The series' art was by Ogden Whitney, succeeded by John Romita Sr.
Waku, who predated mainstream comics' first black superhero, Marvel's Black Panther, by nearly a dozen years, headlined one of four regular features in each issue. It would take a decade for the first African-American series star, the Western character Lobo, to appear, and nearly two decades before the likes of the Black Panther, Luke Cage, and the Falcon would star in solo series.