Anthony Browne's King Kong
Product Description
From the story conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.
Published in 1994 by Turner Publishing. Harcover.
This spectacular re-telling of King Kong is a first in every sense: the first time this classic black and white film has ever appeared in illustrated book form; the first time this dark and mysterious story has been conceived in full color - and its first time in the fresh, new format of a graphic novel. Anthony Browne, one of England's most celebrated illustrators, admits that King Kong, the greatest of all gorilla stories and the most potent influence on all his work, was surely the book above all that he was destined to do.
King Kong, as everyone knows, is a huge and terrifying survivor from another age, trapped with other "extinct" creatures on a remote island in some kind of time warp. But this awesome beast, worshiped by the island's natives and the equal of its prehistoric dinosaurs, is no match for the cunning of an ambitious urban showman, who sees the magnificent animal as a megastar attraction and sets out to capture him - even at the sacrifice of a beautiful, blonde actress. The pursuit and entrapment provide endless thrills, but when King Kong is utimately put on public show in New York, heartbreaking scenes ensue that lead to, perhaps, the most famous of all movie climaxes: the great ape defying the civilized world from atop the Empire State Building - a majestic but truly tragic victim of mankind's greed.
Published in 1994 by Turner Publishing. Harcover.
This spectacular re-telling of King Kong is a first in every sense: the first time this classic black and white film has ever appeared in illustrated book form; the first time this dark and mysterious story has been conceived in full color - and its first time in the fresh, new format of a graphic novel. Anthony Browne, one of England's most celebrated illustrators, admits that King Kong, the greatest of all gorilla stories and the most potent influence on all his work, was surely the book above all that he was destined to do.
King Kong, as everyone knows, is a huge and terrifying survivor from another age, trapped with other "extinct" creatures on a remote island in some kind of time warp. But this awesome beast, worshiped by the island's natives and the equal of its prehistoric dinosaurs, is no match for the cunning of an ambitious urban showman, who sees the magnificent animal as a megastar attraction and sets out to capture him - even at the sacrifice of a beautiful, blonde actress. The pursuit and entrapment provide endless thrills, but when King Kong is utimately put on public show in New York, heartbreaking scenes ensue that lead to, perhaps, the most famous of all movie climaxes: the great ape defying the civilized world from atop the Empire State Building - a majestic but truly tragic victim of mankind's greed.
