KINK KONK

KING KONG (1976)
dir: John Guillermin

The previous two days have been the MAD, Cracked, and Bananas spoofs which you can find here and here. Now here are all the rest.

KINK KONK
Crazy #19, August 1976
w: Len Herman
a: Ernie Colon

It appears to be a combination parodying both the 1933 and 1976 versions, done before the release of the latter, using caricatures of Peter Graves and Ernest Borgnine in the splash panel, which were probably taken from Mort Drucker caricatures (incidentally, Ernie Colon did a Drucker imitation for National Lampoon's MAD parody. Sometimes a photo instead of a drawing for Kong is used.

“It was beauty that killed the beast” was the final line in the original.

KINK KONK GOES ON TELEVISION
Crazy # 26, June 1977
w: Len Herman
a: Alan Kupperberg

Kong's agent is Mel Brooks.

KONG
Sick #112, October 1976
w: Jim Simon
a: Jerry Grandenetti

More Kongsploitation in anticipation of the movie before its actual release. Producer Dino DeLaurentiis and the studios hyped this as the next Jaws. He's reported to have said “When the Jaws die, nobody cry. When my Kong die, everybody cry,”. His next American production, Orca, about a killer whale, is said to be an answer to Jaws as well).

Looks like these next four pages were done minutes before going to press

And now a parody faithful to the original.

KING DUNG
Parody #2, June 1977
a: Kent Gamble

Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) and his assistant Bagley (Rene Auberjonois) are heading an expedition on an oil tanker for Petrox Oil. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a paleontologist, has stowed away on the ship to explore the native land, and they suspect his story might be a cover and that he is a spy for a rival oil company.

On the expedition, the crew finds Dwan (Jessica Lange), an actress who survived a yacht explosion. They land on the island which everyone thinks is uninhabited except Jack, who's right. The natives are performing a sacrificial ritual and offer to trade their women for Dwan, which they refuse.

When they get back to the ship, the natives find it and kidnap Dwan when nobody's around, drug her, and offer her to their god Kong, who is a fifty foot ape. The ape seems to be smitten with her.

The crew goes to find her, and also to find oil, which is not ready for drilling. Rather than go back home empty-handed, they decide to capture Kong and bring him back.

They set up a trap for Kong.

Wilson uses Kong to put on a show with Jack and Dwan to promote Petrox Oil. The night of the premiere in New York City, Jack quits at the last minute. Kong is angered by reporters getting close to Dwan and breaks free of the shackles that have been restraining him.

Kong goes on a rampage throughout the city. Jack and Dwan try to flee him, first on a subway, then in a bar, where Kong finds her and climbs up the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Jack knew he'd do do that because they look like mountains that were on Skull Island. There's a cameo by New York mayor Abe Beame who isn't actually in the movie.

The military shoots Kong down from the Twin Towers despite Jack's request that they not do that, causing him to fall of the towers and down to the Earth.

Tomorrow is the final fourth day, going back and looking at parodies of the original 1933 version.