Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #37
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"One Night in the Big City" delivers a delightfully absurd take on the King Kong mythos, reimagining the classic tale with a crew of oil prospectors, a stowaway anthropologist, and a castaway who find themselves face-to-face with a towering, city-crushing ape. Written by Dick DeBartolo and brought to life with sharp, exaggerated flair by artists Harry North, this Mad Super Special #37 is a riotous satire that leans into the over-the-top spectacle of its source material. The cover, a chaotic masterpiece by Sergio Aragonés, perfectly captures the issue’s irreverent spirit.
In a hilariously over-the-top satire of *King Kong*, a bumbling oil exploration team stumbles upon a colossal ape while searching for black gold—only to be joined by a hapless anthropologist and a castaway with a surprisingly strong grasp of survival tactics. The absurdity ramps up as the crew’s mission spirals into a full-blown jungle farce, all rendered in Mad’s signature deadpan, typeset lettering style.
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↩ Reprints Mad #182 (1976), Mad #189 (1977), Mad #190 (1977), Mad #191 (1977), Mad #192 (1977), Mad #193 (1977), Mad #194 (1977), Mad #195 (1977), Mad #196 (1978)
Reprinted in Mad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] (2010), Mad #17 (2021)
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