To further his hideous experiments, he mesmerizes Konga and sends it to London to kill all of his enemies who have more credit in the scientific community than he already has.

[4] As Cohen had long admired King Kong (1933), he thought of a giant ape film shot in colour.

Cohen recalled that the special effects for the film, that was one of the first giant monster movies shot in colour (Eastmancolor), took 18 months to complete.

[5] A combination of miniature sets, an actor in a gorilla suit, and use of studio mattes also made the technical aspects of the production look better than its meagre budget would otherwise have allowed.

In an interview, he revealed: "How I came to get the part of Konga: my agent told me there was an American producer looking for a six-foot actor.

"[7][8] The film was distributed in the United States by American International Pictures (AIP) as a double feature with Master of the World (1961).

Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US$500,000 film, with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres.

[9] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The picture has undeniable exuberance, but defects in the acting and direction, slow development and ludicrously inadequate dialogue reduce the obviously intended thrills to ridicule.

[11] In a later review, Time Out wrote that Konga was considered: "Inept, silly, and ludicrously enjoyable monster movie, with Gough as the mad boffin who injects a chimp with a growth serum, only to see it turn into an uncredited actor in a gorilla suit.

[19] In 1990, Steve Ditko illustrated a back-up story in Web of Spider-Man Annual #6 called "Child Star".

[20] In this story, Captain Universe creates huge versions of toys based on Gorgo and Konga to battle giant monsters that are attacking the neighborhood.

Some of these issues were reprinted (in black and white) in a trade paperback in 2011 called Angry Apes n' Leapin Lizards.

[23] In April 2019, IDW published a book called Ditko's Monsters: Gorgo vs. Konga which collected issues #5 and 6 of the series.