Jack Spears, Sr.

Biography
Jack Spears, Sr. was a big-game hunter who spent a large measure of his time in Africa in the 1950s. He had a son named Jack Spears, Jr., who engaged in his own adventures as Jungle Boy.

Jack Spears was friends with Chief Kasuba of the Kadubi Tribe in Kadubi Province. One day, Chief Kasuba came to Jack in great distress, for someone had been impersonating him and killing off villagers in his name for having sold their land to a white foreigner. Jungle Boy, having witnessed this impostor claiming to have worked for a white master, feared that he might have been speaking of his own father.

Jack warned his son not to go traipsing about in the jungle with his monkey friends, but he knew the headstrong boy would ultimately disobey him. Jack and Kasuba tracked Jack, Jr. to an underground cavern where they found the impostor conspiring with a Chicago-born criminal named Borelli, who had been purchasing gold from the impostor. Jungle Boy interrupted their dealings and Borelli was prepared to shoot him. Jack arrived just in time to shoot Borelli first, thus saving his son. The impostor fell and split his head upon the skulls of his victims, which he had deposited in an underground river bed. After everything settled down, Jack assured Kasuba that he could return to his rightful place as chief of the Kadubi.