Lorna the Jungle Girl #26
Return of the Outcast!
Assisting in a safari with Greg Knight, Lorna and the group get lost. With supplies running low, guards are put on the supplies so that they can be rationed out. Believing the rest of the group is doomed, Mort Hoskins attempts to take more water while the rest of the camp sleeps, but Lorna -- who is on guard duty -- catches him in his attempt and subdues him. Caught red handed, Greg is forced to decree Mort an outcast according to tribal law and sends him out in the jungle to fend for himself for the greater good of the group. With the situation looking grim, Lorna cannot sit idle any longer and convinces Greg to let her go out searching for water. Mort is not far away, already plotting revenge against Lorna by targeting her pet monkey Mikki.
Mort snares Mikki with a rope and tries to take the ape hostage. When Lorna stands down but Mikki snares Mort in the rope long enough for Lorna to land a punch. As Mort begins to feel sorry for himself, a boa constrictor snares him. Lorna saves his life pulling the snake off him. Before Mort can shoot the boa, Lorna stops him as she notices the snake going toward a watering hole. Lorna realizes this is a way that Mort can save face and has him go back to the camp and bring Greg and the others to the water. Lorna pretends that her search for water was fruitless. Mort is hailed as a hero and invited back into the group.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Greg Knight
Mikki
Doom Walked the Jungle
Lorna finds herself caught in a pit trap that is set out by a pair of poachers that are trying to capture a pet lion. Trapped in the pit with a gorilla, Lorna mends its damaged foot and it helps Lorna get free. She goes to ask around a nearby village and learns what the poachers are after and swings after them.
Along the way she finds a number of animals in the jungle caught up in rope traps forcing Lorna to stop and free them. Meanwhile, the poachers have captured the albino lion's mate. With the female lion at risk of being shot if she interferes, Lorna cannot do anything as the white lion approaches the trap. Suddenly the ape that Lorna saved, confronts one of the poachers distracting him enough for Lorna to strike. She cuts the lioness loose and then knocks the hunters into that trap. With the poachers captured and Lorna turns them over to the authorities.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Mikki
The Last Hunt!
Greg Knight is on a lion hunt with Terry, an elderly hunter that is on his last hunt before retirement. When Terry fails to shoot a lion before it can pounce on his clients, they threaten to report him, putting Terry at risk of losing his job and his pension. However Terry redeems himself later when their jeep is knocked over by by charging rhinos and Terry steps up and defends his clients, shooting the rhinos before they can trample them to death.
Recurring Characters
Greg Knight
It Stalks by Night!
Greg Knight has brought Lorna into a city far from the jungle to try and convince her that this is where they belong. They are unaware that Lorna is being targeted by Karl a man who has been trying to eliminate her in the jungle. When Karl tries to drop a sign on her, Lorna avoids the trap, she swings up after him and catches Karl and his goons before he leaves. However Karl has a surprise waiting for her, and unleashes a captured Night Beast -- a creature that is half lion and half ape -- before it can attack her, Greg comes to her rescue forcing it to flee. Karl meanwhile has gotten a gun and uses it to secure his escape.
When the authorities arrive, Lorna tells them about the Night Beast being on the loose and vows to go after it and capture it. With the authorities tracking the beast with spot lights, Lorna changes into her costume and follows after it. The creature meanwhile captures Karl to get revenge against it for capturing him. Lorna chases the beast up a radio tower. When the beast tosses Karl off the tower, Lorna saves his life and the police shine their spot lights on the radio tower causing the nocturnal Night Beast to go into a dormant state allowing the authorities to recapture it.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Greg Knight
