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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Jo-Jo the Congo King was the title character of the 1940s-1950s Fox Feature Syndicate comic-book ''[[Jo-Jo Congo King]]'', and one of many “jungle hero” characters trying to capitalise on the success of Tarzan. He debuted in [[Jo-Jo Congo King (comic story)|a story simply entitled ''Jo-Jo Congo King'']] in Issue #7A of ''Jo-Jo'' comic book, whose numbering carried on from three prior Fox issues of “''Jo-Jo Comics''” with no relationship to the jungle character, who was named Jo-Jo to facilitate the transition by keeping the name of the book the same on paper. | Jo-Jo the Congo King was the title character of the 1940s-1950s Fox Feature Syndicate comic-book ''[[Jo-Jo Congo King]]'', and one of many “jungle hero” characters trying to capitalise on the success of Tarzan. He debuted in [[Jo-Jo Congo King (comic story)|a story simply entitled ''Jo-Jo Congo King'']] in Issue [[Jo-Jo_Congo_King_7A|#7A]] of ''Jo-Jo'' comic book, whose numbering carried on from three prior Fox issues of “''Jo-Jo Comics''” with no relationship to the jungle character, who was named Jo-Jo to facilitate the transition by keeping the name of the book the same on paper. | ||
The other half of his moniker seems to have been cribbed from [[w:c:pdsh:Congo King (Green)|a nigh-identical Tarzan clone known ''simply'' as “the Congo King”]] who appeared in three issues of Green Publishing's ''Atomic Comics'' in 1946, and who is also in the public domain. | The other half of his moniker seems to have been cribbed from [[w:c:pdsh:Congo King (Green)|a nigh-identical Tarzan clone known ''simply'' as “the Congo King”]] who appeared in three issues of Green Publishing's ''Atomic Comics'' in 1946, and who is also in the public domain. | ||