Yikes! This adventure presents us with quite a different visage from Congo Bill's handsome mug! We can tell from his baggy eyes, five-o'clock shadow, crazily-waxed mustache and bad grammar that he's up to NO GOOD!
Seems Mr. Logan has been swapping whiskey for ivory, and the - wait, just what are those natives wearing on their heads...clown wigs?
At any rate, it seems Bill's stay in Syria was short-lived, and the joyous thump-thump-thump of the jungle drums announce his return to the dark continent!
No bad deed goes unnoticed by our boy Bill, and he confronts the miscreant!!
The law says - ka-POW!
Of course, like all jungle scientists and/or bootleggers, Logan has a tagalong daughter. You can tell she's the daughter of a villain by her stringy hair!
Janet's her name, and clearing her father's good name is her game! That is, until her father proves his guilt by escaping from the hoosegow
Louie lures Congo Bill into the jungle, where he has set up a spike-bottomed pit to trap and kill our hero. And...what's this? It seems actually to have worked?
As you kids would say, : (
That might be the end of the story with one of these modern fly-by-night jungle heroes with ambiguous sexual orientation, like Dave Salmoni, but this is CONGO BILL. Of COURSE he was two steps ahead of Louie the whole time. He returns, seemingly from the dead - for as you know, criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot - and...well, let's let Bill finish up the story, shall we?
"The witch doctor that alerted me to Louie's escape was in on the crooked ivory trade from the get-go, so I tricked him into the death pit and plotted my revenge on Louie. I confronted him on the deck of the riverboat and, errrr, accidentally knocked him into the river where he was eaten by crocodiles. Totally accidental, I swear! Now I think I'll keep his tagalong daughter Janet around for one more adventure, do something with her hair, after which she'll never be heard from again! And don't forget our Congo Creed, kids - THE WAYS OF JUSTICE ARE OFTEN STRANGE!"
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