In 1933, RKO produced a six-part illustrated comicstrip that ran in newspapers across the country to promote KING KONG. This is the second installment. The captions are reproduced here as they originally ran.
What queer world is this? A fifty foot ape carrying off a white girl! And now the crew of the Adventurer hurrying to rescue Ann finds minster reptiles from prehistoric ages - monsters believed non-existent for millions of years! Bullets making no dent on the dinosaur's horned hide, they try gas bombs!
Another prehistoric reptile — the Brontosaurus, astounds Denham, Driscoll and members of the crew fighting their way through jungle - and swamps to rescue Ann. The monster overturns their raft, catches men betweeen its teeth and shakes them as a terrier shakes rats. Camera prcious gas bombs and lives are lost.
What chance has pjgmy against the huge, fantastic beasts of this nightmare "Skull' Island.'' An injured Triceratops on one bank. Great, hungry crawling things beneath. On the other bank "King Kong," shaking the trees until the men fall to a hideous death in a precipice, Driscoll and Denham, escaping to opposie cliffs, watch the tragedy helplessly
Unable to move from his narrow ledge on the cliff, Driscoll stabs furiously, at the great paw of "King Kong," who has discovered him. But his knife makes no more impression than the scratch of a pip on a man's hand. A scream from Ann draws "King Kong's" attention to a new enemy.
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