The Green Lama was one of the relatively few pulp heroes to make the transition into comic books at the same time. The Shadow had the most success at it, with Doc Savage a very distant second. There were also a few adventures of the Phantom Detective and Jim Hatfield, which you may have seen posted here. There was a Black Bat, too, but so unlike the pulp character that he doesn't really count.
The Lama made his debut in the April 1940 ish of Double Detective, and starred in short "novels" in thirteen more issues. He made the jump to comics in Prize Comics #7 in December 1940, and had a longer career there than in the pulps. He eventually got his own book. The stories, including this one, were supposedly written by Kendell Foster Crossen, the same guy who wrote the pulp stories, as "Richard Foster." The art on this one (better than most) is credited to Al Plastino, who later did a lot of work on Superman and the Super family.
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