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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
SON OF MIGHTY JOE KONG
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)
dir: Ernest B. Schroedsack
SON OF KONG (1933)
dir: Ernedt B. Schroedsack
SON OF MIGHTY JOE KONG
MAD #94, April 1965
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
I did a group of posts parodying the 1976 and 1933 versions of King Kong. There were countless others, King Kong basically became a generic character like Tarzan or the Lone Ranger. MAD occasionally parodied the type of old movies you'd catch on late night TV, before streaming or cable when TV was more casual and you used to find things by coming across them flipping through channels. Also when commercial TV showed movies more than 20 years old, and the move from b/w to color made 20 years seem like an eternity.
When MAD parodied old movies, they'd update them using today's stars. (Today meaning the date of the magazine, not 2022). Here they took the guesswork out of who's being caricatured by labeling everyone. The poster lampoons the names Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, and Bruce Cabot.
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