Konga.... NOT .... King Kong

...is the subject of this blog post!

Konga had a few series of comic book series from Charlton Comics.

The first series ran for 23 issues from circa 1961 to November 1965.

The was also a 'one-shot' Return of Konga in 1962.

There were 2 issues of Konga's Revenge in 1963-1964.

There was another 'one-shot' of Konga's Revenge in 1968.

Konga was printed due to Charlton's belief that artist Steve Ditko could do the same magic touch to the 1961 Konga Movie from American International that he did to the Gorgo film  earlier ! 

In the Konga film it is a scientist that has managed to grow plants to a huge size that decides to experiment on a chimpanzee. The poor chimp is turned into a giant killer monster!   As shown on the cover in issue #1 to the top left, he is as big as King Kong!  

The comic book series lasted a lot longer than the movie that generated it, although Steve Ditko, who had by then co-created the Amazing Spider-Man, was not the artist for all the issues. 

Konga was created due to Steve Ditko having a good run on Gorgo, which was based in 1961 from the Gorgo movie that was very similar to another monster predecessor, Godzilla !!   Comic books have always seemed to be derivative, just like sucessful TV shows will spawn many imitiators...

For those interested in Konga Comics run we have several unslabbed  comics listed in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store.

Michael