Konga #5

Dates

Cover date

March 1962

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Stories

• The H Bomb · 20 pages

  Bob and Sandra return to Konga's island and give him another injection of the shrinking serum which works for a brief time. They leave the island only to be marooned on another island during a storm. They find out that the island is going to be used for an H-Bomb test by the U.S military. Just as Konga returns to his full size he helps them operate a mirror to signal the island is inhabited. A U.S plane arrives and rescues Bob and Sandra but Konga is left behind as the H-Bomb blows up the island.

• Dig For A Dragon · 2 pages

  As he nears the end of his life, an American man talks about an expedition he was a part of that went to China in 1908. During that expedition, he and his colleagues dug into the Earth and encountered a huge 300 foot long dragon. By stirring the dragon, it helped kick off the Xinhai Revolution three years later.

• Strange Animals · 2 pages

  Facts about marsupials.

• Lore of the Jungle · 1 pages

  Science facts about gorillas.

Reprinted in

Ditko Monsters: Konga! (2013), Ditko's Monsters (2019), PS Artbooks Softee: Konga (2023)