KONG
Earth-61173

Real Name: Peter Parker

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-61173) human mutate (fringe character)

Occupation: Adventurer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Kingpin, Kraven

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (Fall, 1996)

Powers/Abilities: Kong has superhuman agility and he is capable of shooting slippery bananas to fumble foes.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'10")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 167 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (presumably hazel)
Hair: Brown

History:
(Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (fb) - BTS) - Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive monkey, bestowing upon him superhuman agility and the skill to shoot slippery bananas.

(Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)) - Parker used his new abilities to become the heroic Kong, battling foes such as Kraven and Kingpin.

Comments: Created by Rudy Ledbetter.

    Earth-61173's Kong was the product of Marvel's Spider-Man Magazine's "What If?" section featured in later issues of the series in which the magazine asked a specific "What If..." question to its young readers and they would mail in drawings in response to the question. In the 19th issue of the magazine, readers were asked to draw images of "What If Peter Parker Had Been Bitten by a Radioactive Monkey, Instead of a Spider?" In this particular case, Kong was created by the then-13-year-old Rudy Ledbetter of Memphis, Tennessee.

    After Spider-Man Magazine I#10, the issues of the magazine were no longer numbered and were only differentiated by the season and year the issue was published (i.e. "Fall, 1996," for example), as the magazine had moved from monthly publication to seasonal. According to the indicias of the Adventures of Spider-Man and Adventures of the X-Men trade paperbacks released a few years ago (which also reprinted some of the exclusive comic strips seen in Spider-Man Magazine), the issue that featured Earth-61173's Kong would have been #19.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-61173's Kong should be distinguished from:

• Ape-Man (Peter Parker) of Earth-81149 - climbing & crawling monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• Chimp Man (Peter Parker) of Earth-99532 - banana weapon-wielding, monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• Golden Monkey (Peter Parker) of Earth-19216 - super-leaping monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• Gorilla (Peter Parker) of Earth-47235 - primate-themed X-Men ally--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
• Kong, Chris - attempted to replace Nick Fury, duped him into working in a false facility under SHIELD surveillance--Marvel Knights: Double Shots#2
• Kong, Xang - drug dealer, old ally of Jack Kooning, helped guide him to the Mandarin--Iron Man IV#27
• Kong Lomerate (Monk Keys) - intelligent ape, ran Swamp City, a Monopoly-type town, apparently perished under his collapsed Tower of Terror--Howard the Duck I#7
• Kong X - creations of SILENT, defeated by Nextwave Squad--Nextwave I#11
• Konga - Kaiwannese warrior, Thing & Iron Fist foe--Marvel Two-in-One I#25
  
• Konga - toy lizard enlarged & animated by Captain Universe (Eddie Price) to oppose Gart & Rath--Web of Spider-Man I Annual#6
  
• Machete Monkey (Peter Parker) of Earth-63251 - sharp-tailed monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• Marsupial Man (Peter Parker) of Earth-31338 - vine-shooting adventurer--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
• Monkey-Man (Peter Parker) of Earth-70475 - super-swinging monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
• Monkey o'Doom (Peter Parker) of Earth-51320 - super-screaming monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• Swing (Peter Parker) of Earth-26957 - super-strong monkey-themed hero--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)
  
• or any other "Monkey o'Doom" characters or Peter Parker counterparts

Appearances:
Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (Fall, 1996) - "What If?: Kong" - Rudy Ledbetter (writer, art), Amy Weingartner (editor)

First posted: 11/14/2024
Last updated: 11/14/2024

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