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into the room and there's 20 six-foot tall blokes! I thought, "Oh, dear, it's a lineup!" Anyway, the producer Herman Cohen came in carrying a big cardboard box. He said, "The actor I need must be exactly six foot, so if you're six foot, one or five foot, eleven, thank you for coming but you won't do". So everybody left except three, two other guys and myself. The producer then opened a cardboard box and took out the gorilla headpiece. He said, "Now I'd like all three of you to try this on because the guy who gets the part will have to wear this six to eight hours a day, so see how you feel with it". So, we each put the gorilla head on. The other two had blue eyes and I’ve got brown eyes. And we all knew a gorilla has brown eyes. So that was how I got the part!"
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Decker's assistant and lover Margaret sees him ask Sandra to become both his new assistant and his lover, then sexually assaults Sandra when she refuses. Margaret attempts to get even by hypnotizing Konga into obeying her, then giving him an enormous amount of the strange serum, which turns him into
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Paul Stockman (uncredited) was the actor inside the ape suit. In an interview, he revealed: "How I came to get the part of Konga: my agent told me there was an American producer looking for a six-foot actor. Would I go to Mac's Rehearsal Rooms, Leicester Square, London? So I toddled along; I walked
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Seeing Decker still attacking Sandra in the greenhouse, the super-sized Konga grabs Decker in one of his enormous hands, while Sandra's arm is seized by one of Decker's carnivorous plants (her ultimate fate is not shown). His rampage comes to a stop when he is attacked by heavily armed soldiers.
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was considered: "Inept, silly, and ludicrously enjoyable monster movie, with Gough as the mad boffin who injects a chimp with a growth serum, only to see it turn into an uncredited actor in a gorilla suit. Thereafter the ape grabs a Michael Gough doll and heads for Big Ben. Deeply political".
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and Konga to battle giant monsters that are attacking the neighborhood. For copyright reasons, Konga's name was altered to "Kongo". This sequence was Ditko paying homage to his earlier work with these two characters in their 1960s
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wrote: "The picture has undeniable exuberance, but defects in the acting and direction, slow development and ludicrously inadequate dialogue reduce the obviously intended thrills to ridicule. Further more the climax, compared to
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During a field trip to the woods with a group of his students he makes an inappropriate advance to Sandra. He is later confronted by her boyfriend Bob and, although seeming to concede to Bob, sends Konga to strangle him.
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British botanist Dr. Charles Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby
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to kill all of his enemies who have more credit in the scientific community than he already has. Among his targets are Dean Foster and Professor Tagore.
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an enormous monster, at which point she becomes Konga's first victim. He keeps growing, and bursts through the roof of the house.
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Starting in March 2023, PS Artbooks began reprinting the entire series in a series of hardcover and trade paperback editions.
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with issue #2. The series ran from 1962 to 1964 and was followed by a one-shot reprint of issue #3 in 1968.
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After he throws Decker to his death, Konga falls. Upon his demise, Konga changes back to a baby chimpanzee.
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Some of these issues were reprinted (in black and white) in a trade paperback in 2011 called
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Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
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of the film was released in paperback at the time of its original release (
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by Dean Owen (real name: Dudley Dean McGaughey) (Monarch Books 1960)).
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with issue #24, which turned out to be the last issue of the series.
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Konga also appeared in a three-issue miniseries that started off as
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Attack of the Monster Movie Makers: Interviews With 20 Genre Giants
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Following the success of Herman Cohen's previous British made film
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Konga battles "the Creature from Uuang-Ni", from issue #23 of the
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Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
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It was the basis for a comic book series published by
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In 1990, Steve Ditko illustrated a back-up story in
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"Herman Cohen Interview". 816:creates huge versions of toys based on 812:#6 called "Child Star". In this story, 3056: 1490:from the original on December 2, 2015. 922: 778:published 23 issues of the comic book 151:Anglo Amalgamated (Eastern hemisphere) 3094:American International Pictures films 2267: 1586: 1497: 1324:, May 2005. Retrieved: April 8, 2015. 973:from the original on 20 February 2020 839:reprinted all the issues that artist 509: 3104:British science fiction horror films 1312:"Upcoming Ditko - New PI collection" 1168: 1102:from the original on 3 December 2017 2112:King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch 410:Paul Stockman as Konga (uncredited) 13: 3159:1960s science fiction horror films 1851:The King Kong That Appeared in Edo 14: 3190: 1429: 999:from the original on 6 March 2021 857:Ditko's Monsters: Gorgo vs. Konga 280:(prior to Ditko's co-creation of 16:1961 British film by John Lemont 2930:The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves 2247: 2246: 1180:. Oddball Comics. 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Reynold Brown
John Lemont
Herman Cohen
Aben Kandel
Nathan Cohen
Stuart Levy
Michael Gough
Margo Johns
Jess Conrad
Claire Gordon
Desmond Dickinson
Gerard Schurmann
Anglo Amalgamated
American International Pictures
monster film
John Lemont
Michael Gough
Margo Johns
Austin Trevor
Herman Cohen
Aben Kandel
Charlton Comics
Steve Ditko
Spider-Man
chimpanzee
gorilla
London
Michael Gough
Margo Johns

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