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| caption = Thun'da #3 (1952). Art by [[Bob Powell]].
| publisher = [[Magazine Enterprises]]
| debut = ''Thun'da'' #1 (1952)
| creators = [[Frank Frazetta]]
| alter_ego = Roger Drum
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'''Thun'da''' is a fictional character created by artist and conceptualist [[Frank Frazetta]]<ref name=dm>[http://www.toonopedia.com/thunda.htm Thun'da] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]</ref> for [[comic-book]] publisher [[Magazine Enterprises]]. The character debuted in ''Thun'da'' #1 (1952), with writer [[Gardner Fox]] scripting. After only a few issues the title was discontinued in 1953.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/thunda.htm|title=Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Thun'da}}</ref>
The character, played by [[Buster Crabbe]], was the main character in the 1952 [[Columbia Pictures]] serial ''[[King of the Congo]]''.
==Fictional history==▼
Thun'Da was originally Roger Drum, an Air Force officer who was shot down while flying over a lost valley deep in the heart of Africa. After crashing in the heart of the valley, he escaped from his aircraft and was captured by hostile ape-men, but managed to escape. While wandering through the valley, he pushed himself to exercise daily and became a paragon of physical perfection. It was while he was wandering that he was spotted by Pha, the queen of the people who lived in the valley. After fighting and destroying the hostile ape-men, Thun'da rushed to their temple and rang the sacred gong, thereby summoning "the mother of all serpents," whom he killed with the last three shots from his revolver. By doing this, he won the respect of Pha's people, and they worshipped him as if he was a god. Later, after an earthquake ravaged the lost valley, Thunda was able to get Pha to safety along with their pet sabretooth tiger, but her people were killed and the lost valley was sealed from them forever.▼
The character first appeared in 1952 in the comic series ''Thun'da'' #1.<ref name=gcd>{{gcdb|type=character|search=Thun'da|title=Thun'da}}</ref>
Editor [[Ray Krank]] asked Frank Frazetta to remove the prehistoric story elements, but he refused and left the title instead and began looking for work outside of comic book illustration.<ref>{{cite web |first=Brian |last=Cronin |url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/12/10/comic-book-legends-revealed-290/ |title=Comic Book Legends Revealed #290 |work=Comic Book Legends Revealed |publisher=[[Comic Book Resources]] |date=December 10, 2010 |accessdate=December 12, 2010 }}
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==Fictional character biography==
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==Collected editions==
The comic series was reprinted in 1987 by [[Fantagraphics Books]] as ''Frank Frazetta's Thun'da Tales'', and, in August 2010, [[Dark Horse Comics]] released a hardcover collection ''Thun'da, King of the Congo Archive'' ({{ISBN|1595824707}}).<ref name=gcd />
==Other media==
The screen rights
▲The screen rights to the character were bought by Columbia Pictures, who brought Thun'Da to the screen in the serial [[King of the Congo]] (1952), featuring [[Buster Crabbe]] as Roger Drum, who in the course of the serial becomes Thunda (apostrophe removed). In the serial, Roger Drum was assigned to take a valuable microfilm to a new location, but was shot down en route, and crashed in the secluded lost valley. The spies named in the microfilm try to obtain it, and Thunda must try and get it back. ''King of the Congo'' was both the last [[Tarzan]]-style serial and last serial to star Buster Crabbe.<ref>{{cite book
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==References==
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==External links==
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{{Gardner Fox}}
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