artists and fans. The film is also sometimes praised for its innovative ending, in which, unusually for such films, the monsters survive and prevail. All but one of the human characters with speaking roles are male, the exception being an uncredited woman reporter. Novel and comic book adaptations A novelisation of the film was released in paperback at the time of its original release, written by Carson Bingham (real name: Bruce Cassiday) and published by Monarch Books. From 1961 to 1965, Charlton Comics published 23 issues of the comic book Gorgo. It included work by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. The series was renamed Fantastic Giants with issue #24, which turned out to be the last issue of the series. Gorgo also appeared in a three-issue miniseries that started off as Gorgo's Revenge, before it was renamed The Return of Gorgo with issue #2. The series ran from 1962 to 1964. In 1990, Steve Ditko illustrated a back-up story in Web of Spider-Man Annual #6 titled "Child Star". In this story, Captain Universe creates huge versions of toys based on Gorgo and Konga to battle giant monsters that are attacking New York City. For copyright reasons, Gorgo's name was altered to "Gorga".This sequence was Ditko paying homage to his earlier work with these two characters in their 1960s Charlton Comics comic book series. In 1991, A-Plus Comics reprinted issues #1 and 3 in the one-shot comic Attack of the Mutant Monsters. Owing to copyright issues, Gorgo's name was changed to Kegor. Some of these issues were reprinted (in black and white) in a trade paperback in 2011 called Angry Apes n' Leapin Lizards. In March 2013, IDW Publishing reprinted all the issues that artist Steve Ditko worked on (Gorgo #1–3, 11 and 13–16 and The Return of Gorgo #2–3) as a deluxe hardcover collection called Ditko's Monsters: Gorgo!. In April 2019, IDW published a book called Ditko's Monsters: Gorgo vs. Konga which collected issues #1 and 13 of the series. In September 2021, Fantaco published all the issues Joe Sinnott and Vince Colletta worked on (issues #5-10 and 12) in a collection called Gorgo Attacks!. Home video Blu-ray A America - VCI, also includes Ninth Wonder of the World: The Making of Gorgo, a documentary by Daniel Griffith Shout! Factory's (Collectable Tin) of Mystery Science Theater 3000 25th Anniversary Edition contains the film, as well as an extended cut of Ninth