Nyoka’s father, Dr. John Meredith, came to Africa with his daughter to escape the shame brought upon their family by his criminal twin Bradley. Dr. Meredith uses his medical skills to help the native Masamba tribe and ends up displacing the local witch doctor, Shamba. However, Shamba later teams up with Bradley and Slick Latimer, who arrived looking for a local diamond mine, to kill Dr. Meredith. Bradley then replaces his brother and takes over his life. Nyoka discovers their plan, and teams up with Jack Stanton and Curly Rogers to stop her villainous uncle and his allies. Her fiancé was Larry Grayson. Unlike normal jungle girls who wear animal skins and speak broken English, Nyoka was civilized and dressed in safari gear. However, in most of her stories she was knocked out and tied up at least once, and in the end has to come to the rescue of her inept fiancé, Larry. Nyoka was a licensed character from Republic Studios. In 1939, Republic made the serial Jungle Girl based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. However, the serial bore no resemblance to Nyoka (and no character with the name appears in the novel). Republic made a sequel, Perils of Nyoka (1941), which was based on the previous serial but, with Burroughs not credited at all.
Description Nyoka’s father, Dr. John Meredith, came to Africa with his daughter to escape the shame brought upon their family by his criminal twin Bradley. Dr. Meredith uses his medical skills to help the native Masamba tribe and ends up displacing the local witch doctor, Shamba. However, Shamba later teams up with Bradley and Slick Latimer, who arrived looking for a local diamond mine, to kill Dr. Meredith. Bradley then replaces his brother and takes over his life. Nyoka discovers their plan, and teams up with Jack Stanton and Curly Rogers to stop her villainous uncle and his allies. Her fiancé was Larry Grayson. Unlike normal jungle girls who wear animal skins and speak broken English, Nyoka was civilized and dressed in safari gear. However, in most of her stories she was knocked out and tied up at least once, and in the end has to come to the rescue of her inept fiancé, Larry. Nyoka was a licensed character from Republic Studios. In 1939, Republic made the serial Jungle Girl based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. However, the serial bore no resemblance to Nyoka (and no character with the name appears in the novel). Republic made a sequel, Perils of Nyoka (1941), which was based on the previous serial but, with Burroughs not credited at all.
