The Three Lives of

Guardian of the Jungle

CONTENT Table of Contents/Editors’ Note/Legal Statement...... i The Snakes of N’Goku (By Richard Case) ...... 1 Fury (By Richard Case) ...... 7 Temple of the Cobra Men (By Richard Case) ...... 13 Modern Basics: The Magic of Fantomah (OGL d20 rules by Steve Miller) . . . 19 The Boy in the Jungle (By Richard Case) ...... 23 The Safari of Deceit (By W.B. Hovious) ...... 29 The Drowned City (By W.B. Hovious) ...... 35 Excerpt from The Chronicles of Fantomah ...... 41

EDITORS L.L. Hundal & Steve Miller

Editors’ Note When Fantomah debuted in Fiction House’s Jungle Comics #2 (1940) she was one-part “jungle girl,” one-part nature spirit, and one-part superhero. With the stories in this book, the series creators abandoned the grotesque transformationSample that gave file the Fantomah her superhero flavor and put a heavy emphasis on the jungle girl aspect of the series. One goal seems to have been to humanize her, as she is first given a pet panther and then given a “ward” ala Tarzan’s Boy. She still has magical powers, but they are limited in comparison to those she displayed in the early stories, and they seem more reliant on outside divine forces than any personal power that Fantomah may possess. We view the change to the character as embodying the second life of Fantomah. This is the shortest of the three phases the character would go through and all but one of the tales from this period is collected in this book. The one we omitted did not age well at all; more than 70 years have passed since these comics first saw print and some just don’t work for modern readers. We hope you enjoy Fantomah’s jungle girl phase, as well as the all-new fiction and RPG material that helps set the stage for her final (and most drastic) transformation in our next book.

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The Three Lives of Fantomah: Guardian of the Jungle was published by NUELOW Games. Copyright ©2014 Steve Miller. All Rights Reserved. This is a work of fiction. Questions and comments may be sent to [email protected]. The Three Lives of Fantomah – 1

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