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Issue: #66
Last valuation update: 2025-12-19
Africa found itself a helmeted loinclothed champion of mammals when Scribe Bob Haney and artist Mike Sekowsky presented B'wana Beast. After his plane crash landed on Mount Kilimanjaro, Mike Maxwell drank mysterious cavern water that granted him great strength. He also befriended the Gorilla Djuba, who gave Maxwell a helmet that enabled him to communicate and control animals and actually fuse them...
First appearances: B'wana Beast, Kilo Kenboya, Djuba, Hamid Ali, Rupert Kenboya, Mondoko
Creators: Bob Haney, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Giella, George Kashdan
Characters: B'wana Beast, Kilo Kenboya, Djuba, Hamid Ali, Rupert Kenboya, Mondoko