. He was featured in a spoof story in issue #106 of "Mad House" from Archie Comics in 1977. He was featured in issue #41 of the Elvifrance comic series "Green Series" ("Serie Verte") in an issue titled "The Secret of King Kong". He was also featured in issue #6 of the Italian comic series "Erotic Comic Selections", and appeared in issue #215 and #607 of the "New Tintin (Nouveau Tintin)" comic in 1979 and 1987 respectively. A comic strip adaptation of the original film appeared in issue #887 of the French magazine "Pif gadget" in 1986. In Japan, a pair of Manga adaptations of the 1976 remake were published. The first in the October and November 1976 issues of the boys magazine "Monthly Shonen Magazine", while the second was published in the December 1976 issue of "Separate Volume TV Land" by Daiji Ippune. In 1996, both the 1933 film and "King Kong vs Godzilla" were briefly featured in the hardcover manga about Eiji Tsuburaya's life called "Eiji Tsuburaya: The Film Director Who Made Ultraman" (円谷英二 : ウルトラマンをつくった映画監督). This book was published by Shogakukan. Avatar Press featured King Kong as a metaphor for Willis O'Brien in "Cinema Purgatorio" #4. In 1948 (from February to July), Edmond-François Calvo illustrated a King Kong comic strip in France that ran 13 issues. However, this King Kong was just a regular-sized gorilla. In 1954, King Kong makes a brief cameo in the story "The Monster Maker" from "Baffling Mysteries" #15. Outside of these cameos and one-shot appearances, King Kong has been spoofed and has influenced other giant apes in comics for many years.