''White Princess of the Jungle'' is a

jungle girl A jungle girl (so-called, but usually adult woman) is an archetype or stock character, often used in popular fiction, of a female adventurer, superhero or even a damsel in distress living in a jungle or rainforest setting. An alternate depiction i ...

anthology

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published quarterly by

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in the early 1950s. Issue 1 presents the origin of the White Princess of the Jungle, Taanda. The comic has been cited as an example of paternalistic

white savior The term white savior is a critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of color in economically under-develo ...

narratives, describing a story in which "'fierce fighters' who were 'such simple children' begged the forgiveness of white Princess Taanda for having been hoodwinked by an unscrupulous white man who paraded as their god and had them doing vile things."

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The Comic Book Database
''White Princess of the Jungle'' gallery featuring all five covers Golden Age adventure heroes Avon Periodicals titles Jungle girls 1951 comics debuts 1952 comics endings American comics Adventure comics Fictional American people American comics characters Comics about women {{comics-stub

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