| King Kong | |
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Real Name |
Kong |
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First Appearance |
King Kong (novel, 1932) |
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Original Publisher |
Grosset & Dunlap |
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Created by |
Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper |
Origin[]
King Kong was a giant gorilla-like ape that was worshipped by the natives of Skull Island. When filmmaker Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and crewmate Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Mountain Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by the natives and given as a sacrifice to King 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 King Kong killed a tyrannosaurus 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". King 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 Denhan told him that "it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty that killed the Beast".
Public Domain Appearances[]
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- King Kong (1932)
Public Domain Film Appearances[]
- King Kong Appears in Edo (1938) (lost film)
Notes[]
- The copyright for the novel was never renewed, thus placing the original story in the public domain.