Korak GK5
Russ Manning's artwork is outstanding. In addition to providing his usual fan service by being a walking shirtless scene, Korak becomes a dude in distress twice in one of the stories. In the first story, Korak and the ape Pahkut are ambushed by a pair of dwarves whom they rescued from the river. The dwarves jump onto the backs of the necks of their startled rescuers and slap their unwilling hosts’ faces repeatedly with their poisoned rings until the jungle boy and the ape submit. The youth and his friend are forced to carry their enslavers to the dwarf village, where they are released. Later in the first story, while attempting to rescue a paralyzed Pahkut from being sacrificed to a flesh-eating tree, Korak is discovered by the dwarves. The insufficiently stealthy jungle boy is shot in the back by a paralyzing dart. He lies there beside Pahkut, still conscious, also to be sacrificed to the tree. In both stories, Korak comes across as a handsome boy scout in a leopard-skin loincloth. He has a good heart that propels him into action, often impetuously. Fortunately, he has strength, agility, and intelligence to back it up. In the first story, he rescues two ungrateful dwarves and then his ape friend Pahkut and the village that the dwarves have enslaved. In the second story, he slays an elephant which one village has been using in their war against another village.