It’s not surprising that gorillas would be around at the advent of the comics medium. When comic books were first really being developed, films like King Kong and Mighty Joe Young were smashes at the box office. Additionally, many Golden Age artists were not shy about hiding such influences as Burne Hogarth‘s Tarzan comic strip (not to mention the hugely popular Johnny Weissmueller series of Tarzan films of the 1930s) and pulp magazines, whose imperialist themes often featured jungle explorers encountering great apes.
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I'm surprised, but "Kong: Skull Island" is actually getting rave reviews.
I knew it would from the trailer alone. I will see a nice matinee with a movie hot dog on Sunday.
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