King Kong Trading Cards (Donruss, 1965)

The least silly card!

We have talked about vintage jokey monster trading cards before (here and here are two examples), and I have said before that they were often dumb, but innocent.  In 1965, Donruss published a KING KONG series, which is now quite rare, and there were eleven cards from KING KONG vs GODZILLA, which was a cool move by Donruss.  However, they marred these with obtuse, immature "jokes" about deodorant and mouthwash...which, I would imagine, were lame by 1965.  

Here are scans of all eleven, including a rare wrapper from this series.  The backs of the cards were puzzle pieces, which in this case don't amount to anything, so I didn't scan it.

"...because I am head-butting you."  That makes perfect sense...?

This is a well-used image in the monster trading-card world.

Congratulations! This makes no sense at all.

Note that this image is a paste-up, and includes the original, 1933 Kong with Godzilla, who is suddenly shrimpy.  It probably came straight from Toho like this, because there is another official still that is made like this (see below).