Two series featuring the cryptid King Kong. Both feature the giant gorilla (Gigantopithecus?) as a heroic figure.
The first series, from the 1960s, introduces a recurrent theme when the preternatural is translated into children's culture and follows the now familar motif of a boy and his monster.
The second, a more recent series, also allies Kong with humans and, like the Godzilla cartoon from the 1980s, grants the monstrous hero superpowers.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
King Kong Cartoons
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Blog Editor, The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
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6:30 PM
Labels:
Boy and His Monster,
Children's Culture,
Cryptid,
Monster as Hero,
TV
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