Konga #8
(September 1962)

Charlton, 1960 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Charlton Comics Group
Brand
A Charlton Publication [corner triangle]
Editing
Pat Masulli (executive editor)

The Land of Frozen Giants (Table of Contents)

Konga / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
science fiction; horror-suspense
Characters
Konga
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Cover images taken from page 18 of interior story.

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The Land of the Frozen Giants (Table of Contents: 1)

Konga / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
A-1670
Genre
science fiction; horror-suspense
Characters
Konga
Synopsis
Konga leaves his island after he gets hit by an H-Bomb dropped by Soviet warplanes. He tires of humans and heads south. After brief landfalls in New Guinea and Australia, he eventually reaches Antarctica. He comes ashore but gets frozen by the subzero temperatures. His massive body falls through the ice and enters an underground tropical world where dinosaurs still exist. He thaws out just as he's attacked by 2 Tyrannosaurus, a Triceratops, and a Pteranodon. Defeating all 4 dinosaurs, Konga returns to the surface and leaves the South Pole behind as he heads north to a tropical island.
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

The dinosaurs are much bigger than their prehistoric predecessors because they have evolved in that underground lost world. For instance the Pteranodon has a wingspan six times that of a regular Pteranodon.

The Meldown Man (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Synopsis
A man is found alive in the ruins of the Meldown castle. He claims to be centuries old and was kept alive by a spell. He's then offered the gold kept in the estate since he's the only heir. It all turns out to be a hoax.

Why He Survived! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
A-1671
Genre
historical
Synopsis
About how man evolved.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Gill credit per Robin Snyder, as published in "The Lonely One".

The Witch Doctor's Cure (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Gill ?
Pencils
Bill Molno
Inks
Bill Molno
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
A-1784
Genre
detective-mystery
Synopsis
A mysterious witchdoctor appears and uses his magic to save a boy and a western doctor from a poisonous snake bite.

Indexer Notes

Molno inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Vince Alascia.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Land of Frozen Giants
    Konga
  2. 1. The Land of the Frozen Giants
    Konga
  3. 2. The Meldown Man
  4. 3. Why He Survived!
  5. 4. The Witch Doctor's Cure
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Paul Lefebvre
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Mike White
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