1960s/1970s Mexican King Kong Comics
In 1965 a Mexican comic company called Ediciones Mexico published a series based on King Kong. The series was published with fully painted color covers but with sepia and white interior artwork. A new issue was published every Wednesday and the series would run at least 185 issues. The series was originally called The Gorilla (El Gorilla) before being renamed a few issues later to The Gorilla of the Forest (El Gorilla del la Selva). A few issues later in 1966, it was renamed again to King Kong. At this point the series was now being published by a company called Editorial Orizaba. They continued as the publisher until 1972 when a company called Joma would take over.
The next King Kong comic from Latin America was King Kong in the Microcosmos. The publisher of the series was Editorial America and it was published around 1978, and lasted roughly 35 issues. This comic was about a group of aliens who lives in the Microcosmos and they are facing a war in their planet. Searching for a warrior to help them in this war, they found a gorilla who was chased by a group of hunters and take him and some of the hunters to their planet in order to win the war. They reduced Kong and the other earthlings and once they were in their planet they reversed the effect and Kong became a huge gorilla who helped them.
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