KING KUNG

KING KONG (1976)
dir: John Guillermin

KING KUNG
Cracked # 140, March 1977
a: Nireves (John Severin)

Yesterday I posted the MAD and Bananas versions (click on “older post” at bottom), today here are all the Cracked articles. I repeat some of the text from yesterday too only because half the people here won't click to yesterday's post.

The inside front and back covers of the magazine were usually a poster.

Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) is a paleontologist stowed away on a tanker for Petrox Oil to explore the island their destined towards. The captain, Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) suspects he may be a spy for a royal company. Here Prescott is asked to come abroad. He's not drawn with long hair and a beard either. Robert Shaw as Quint from Jaws is drawn as a member of the crew , perhaps instead of Rene Auberjonois, and George Kennedy as The Blue Knight makes a cameo patroling the docks.

As the shipsails towards their destination, they discover Dwan (Jessica Lange), the lone survivor of a yacht explosion. She changed her name to stand out as an actress. Later they go to the island to find oil and come upon natives involved in some kind of ceremony praying to a god named Kong. They take Dwan to sacrifice her to Kong. In the movie, they offer her for a trade, the crew refuses, and the natives kidnap her from the ship in the middle of the night. (see below).

The crew rescues Dwan from the sacrifice and Kong wrestles a snake.

In a scene not shown, the island turns out to be barren of oil, so Wilson decides to bring Kong back to the States for a show and they capture him. During the show, Kong frees himself from the shackles when he sees Dwan being handled by reporters, and chases after her as she flees with Jack Prescott.

Jack and Dwan run onto a subway which Kong finds as they continually try to run from him. He heads towards the Twin Towers and Jack tells the military where he is but asks they not kill him but only capture him.

The military disobey's Jack's request, and shoots Kong down off the World Trade Center, where he plummets down into the city.

I forgot to write down the issue this was in.

In addition to their putting King Kong on their covers with their parodies of Barney Miller, Marathon Man, and M*A*S*H, they cashed in with additional articles about him in those issues.

THE MEN BEHIND KONG
Cracked #139, January 1977
a: Bill Ward

I guess they didn't know he'd be climbing the World Trade Center yet, since he's climbing the Empire State Building like the original 1933 movie.

KING KONG'S BOYHOOD
Cracked #141, May 1977
a: Bill Ward

This was the poster for #142

YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE BIGGEST THING AROUND IF... Cracked #142, July 1977
a: Howard Nostrand

Lastly, there was this interview in #143.

CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE MONSTER KING
Cracked #143, August 1977
a: Bill Ward

There was also If King Kong Made Guest Appearances on TV which I've been posting excerpts from when showing parodies of those shows.

Tomorrow we'll show the parodies from Crazy, Sick, and Parody.