Konga is a Lord, not a King

Young's Merchandising Company was an Australian comics publisher whose material largely consisted of reprints of American titles like Felix or Mandrake. One of their original characters was Konga the Jungle Lord whose adventures were shown as a backup feature in the title of a completely different jungle lord, the oddly named Yarmak. Konga was another one of those standard white guys that somehow became a lord of the jungle simply by being the only white guy hanging around the jungle at the time while the locals were finding something new to worship that week, which seriously takes away from any kind of sensibility they would have, at least from the point of view by white comics writers. Aside from the Yarmak comic, Konga did get a single issue with his name on it which might have been a collected edition of the Yarmak stories. One story had Konga being called by the resident British commissioner to rescue a messenger deep in the heart of cannibal country, and he only trusts another white person to complete this mission. Konga swings through a typical tribal feud, swims through a river filled with sea monsters, picks a fight with some pesky pygmies, and finally finds the messenger. The honored servant of England of course dies with a stiff upper lip while Konga takes the desperately needed message back to his blue-blooded boss while avoiding a traitorous agent who refers to Konga as a savage just because he wears animal-skinned briefs. Konga is just another card in the deck of bootleg Tarzans who only really found his place under the banner of another bootleg Tarzan.

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