ing Kong was a giant gorilla-like ape that was worshipped as a god by the natives of Skull Island. When filmmaker Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and sailor Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Mountain Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by the island's natives and given as a sacrifice to their god, Kong.

Kong carried Ann into the forest, and Denham and Jack chased after him to save her. They fought a Stegosaurus and a Brontosaurus, and Kong killed a Tyrannosaurus rex that tried to eat Ann. Jack helped Ann escape from Kong's lair, and Denham later knocked Kong out with a gas bomb.

He then took the ape to Broadway, chaining him up and displaying him as "King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World". Kong was enraged by the flashbulbs of cameras, and escaped from his chains. He kidnapped Ann again and climbed up the Empire State Building, where four airplanes began shooting at him.

Kong knocked down one of the airplanes, but jumped off to grab one of the planes, leading to him falling off of the building into the street to his death, while Jack took an elevator to reunite with Ann. Denham pushed through the crowd at the bottom of the building by Kong's carcass. When a policeman remarked that the airplanes had killed him, Denham told him that "it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast".

* ''King Kong'' (1932)

*''King Kong'' (1933) (re-release trailer)
*''King Kong Appears in Edo'' (1938) (lost film)

* Archie's Madhouse #29 (1963): King Kong is shown as having a windup doll sold alongside other classic monsters including the Sea Creature, the Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, the Invisible Man, the Mad Doctor, Crazy Mole Man, Outer Space Alien, and more.

King Kong 1933 Promotional Image.png|Promotional image for the titular 1933 film

*The copyright for the 1932 novel was never renewed, thus placing the original story in the public domain, and the re-release trailer also does not have a copyright notice.
*The 1933 film will be in the public domain in 2029.

* King Kong at Wikipedia
* [https://comicvine.gamespot.com/king-kong/4005-17510 King Kong] at Comic Vine
* [https://wikizilla.org/wiki/King_Kong_(RKO) King Kong] at Wikizilla
* King Kong at King Kong Wiki
* [https://www.comics.org/character/name/king%20kong/sort/alpha King Kong] at the Grand Comics Database
* [https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/king-kong/first-edition/sortby/1/page-1/#:~:text=Delos%20Wheeler%20Lovelace%20(1932)%20',King%20Kong%20creator%20Marcel%20Delgado King Kong] at AbeBooks

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