As noted above, Richard Cooper, through the Merian C. Cooper Estate, retained publishing rights for the content that Judge Real had ruled on December 6, 1976, belonged to Richard Cooper. In 1990, they licensed a six-issue comic book adaptation of the novelization of the 1933 film to Monster Comics, and commissioned an illustrated novel in 1994 called "Anthony Browne's King Kong". In 2013, they became involved with a musical stage play based on the story, called "King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World" which premiered in June 2013 in Australia and then on Broadway in November 2018. The production is involved with Global Creatures, the company behind the "Walking with Dinosaurs" arena show. In 1996, artist/writer Joe DeVito partnered the Merian C. Cooper estate to write and/or illustrate various publications based on Merian C. Cooper's King Kong property through his company, DeVito ArtWorks, LLC. Through this partnership, DeVito created the prequel/sequel story "Skull Island" on which DeVito based a pair of original novels relating the origin of King Kong: "Kong: King of Skull Island," and "King Kong of Skull Island." In addition, the Cooper/DeVito collaboration resulted in an origin-themed comic book miniseries with Boom! Studios, an expanded rewrite of the original Lovelace novelization, "Merian C. Cooper's King Kong," (the original novelization's publishing rights are still in the public domain), and various crossovers with other franchises such as Doc Savage, Tarzan and "Planet of the Apes". In 2016, DeVito ArtWorks, through its licensing program, licensed its King Kong property to RocketFizz for use in the marketing of a soft drink called "King Kong Cola." and have plans for a live action TV show to be co-produced between MarVista Entertainment and IM Global. In April 2016, Joe DeVito sued Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., producers of the film "", for using elements of his Skull Island universe, which he claimed that he created and that the producers had used without his permission.