The Jungle Book one-shot "Marvel Illustrated: The Jungle Book" (2007). Bill Willingham's comic book series, "Fables", features "The Jungle Book"s Mowgli, Bagheera, and Shere Khan. Many films have been based on one or another of Kipling's stories, including "Elephant Boy" (1937), the (Mowgli) published as "Adventures of Mowgli" in the US, an animation released between 1967 and 1971, and combined into a single 96-minute feature film in 1973; Chuck Jones's made for-TV cartoons "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1975), "The White Seal" (1975), and "Mowgli's Brothers" (1976). Many films, too, have been made of the book as a whole, such as Zoltán Korda's 1942 film, Disney's 1967
The Mystery of the Black Jungle their every move, a foe that threatens all of British India. Tremal-Naik encounters the young woman, whose name is Ada, again in a temple in the jungle, and he's caught by fever, as his never-trembling heart is caught by love for her, right at the time when she seems to be facing her doom. Ada is there captured by "thugs", worshipers of the goddess Kali. There have been several big screen adaptations of the novel including "The Mystery of The Black Jungle" filmed in 1953 starring Lex Barker. The sequel, "The Black Devils of Kali" came out the subsequent year.