Topps wasn't the only trading card company who produced cards during the 1960's Monster Craze. Founded in 1954, in Irving, Texas, Donruss introduced a series of King Kong cards from the original 1933 RKO film in 1965. The cards were a standard 2.5" X 3.5" and were printed in black and white with each reverse a piece of a puzzle that when completed revealed the image of James Bama's box art cover for the Aurora King Kong model kit.
The cards came in a wax pack and included a stick of bubble gum that sold for 5 cents. Typical of most monster card series from this era, the card front was a scene from the movie with a speech balloon (aka dialogue bubble) that contained a typeset gag line and a few that were marked as "Write Your Own". The King Kong cards were no different from the others as the jokes were juvenile and would not stand up to a "LOL!" acronym in common use today.
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| One of the cards was a photo of the Aurora monster model. |
I'm jealous of these. I love classic Kong!
ReplyDeleteI don't recall seeing this for sale in my neighborhood. Maybe didn't have distribution as good as Topps...
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