Konga (1961 Charlton) comic books 1964

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Montes, Ernie Bache, and Bill Molno. The monster-sized ape from the 1961 B-movie becomes the star of this popular Charlton monster comic. The Unians manage to infiltrate Earth society, starting with small villages in remote Africa. But before they can continue their plan for Earth conquest, they encounter the giant ape Konga, and he is not fooled by appearances. City of Evil; The Case of Space Ship 77; The Benefactors. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Montes, Ernie Bache, and Bill Molno. The monster-sized ape from the 1961 B-movie becomes the star of this popular Charlton monster comic. Konga becomes a Weeping Gorilla when humanity attacks and rejects him, so he goes to a remote island. There he meets a blind hermit who is free from hate, but menaced by strange and gigantic creatures. World of Fear; Leosians; Die in Peace. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Don Perlin, Ernie Bache, and Bill Montes. The monster-sized ape from the 1961 B-movie becomes the star of this popular Charlton monster comic. Konga prevents the Boulder Dam from collapsing and causing untold chaos. But the cause of the weird storms that threatened it turns out to be invaders from Mars, and only Konga and his human ally can stop them. Konga is used to explain the size differences in various creatures, including humans, in a story with early art by future Marvel legend Don Perlin. The Scourge of Mars; Space Ship Stupos; The Size of Things. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Dick Giordano. "The Most Ruthless Man in the World...", script by Joe Gill, pencils by Bill Montes, inks by Ernie Bache; Yvor Coron, the dictator of an unnamed Balkan country threatens and blackmails his neighbors, even attacking them with nuclear weapons; No one can stand up to him; One day while shooting up fishing villages for sport, Coron finds Konga dozing blissfully on his island in the Indian Ocean; Coron, envious of Konga's physical strength and inner peace drops a bomb on Konga's head out of sheer meanness. "The Case of the Martian Grammar" text article. "Get a Marsian Kit Today," script by Joe Gill, art by Bill Molno; At his wife's request, Lenny buys a "Marsian" flower (with a vaguely human face and pronounced overbite) from a sideshow barker; Lenny's dog disappears soon after annoying the plant with his incessant barking. "The Dominate Species," art by Bill Molno; Because of his small size and lack of natural weapons, it would seem that man would be doomed to extinction; However man's superior intelligence makes him the master of the great predators that once hunted him. "The Victor," art by Bill Molno; Small, rat-like mammals consume the eggs of the mighty and terrible dinosaurs, rendering them extinct; The relatively weak warm-blooded creatures thus become the masters of their planet. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Ernie Bache, and Bill Montes. The monster-sized ape from the 1961 B-movie becomes the star of this popular Charlton monster comic. After surviving a nuclear blast, Konga dreams of his past as a mere monkey. Dreams of his relationship with human kind cause him to become a Weeping Gorilla, resembling the later Alan Moore character from Promethea. A Monsters Dream; The Flying Fish People; The Land of the Nevermore; Your Sun; Natures Bomb. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.