Escape from Skull Island issue 1 (2026)
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Escape from Skull Island #1 is a comic book from Titan Comics and Legendary Comics. It was published on January 28, 2026.[1]
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Trapped on Skull Island, a desperate band of survivors struggles against the land’s relentless horrors while an ancient threat rises from below. But as chaos unfolds, flashbacks reveal Kong’s turbulent youth: his battles, losses, and the primal instincts that shaped him into the island’s sovereign.
Now, as hordes of monstrous beasts close in on the stranded humans, the most dangerous enemy of all regains strength to once more challenge Kong’s throne.[1]
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Plot
Skull Island, April 1940: Kong, bound in chains inside a temple, roars furiously at the Nazis who have restrained him. The colonel in charge of the expedition asks Jo, an American doctor, why the ape is so furious when they have taken such pains not to injure him. She responds that he likely is agitated by the crane they have constructed to lower troops into the subterranean tunnels on the island; judging from the temple's pictograms, he is meant to prevent the creatures there from menacing the surface. After the lieutenant he dispatches disappears with a scream, the colonel demands an explanation from Jo, reminding her that the rest of her crew are their captives. She theorizes that the pressures so deep beneath the Earth are too extreme for an unprotected human to survive, much like the ocean. The Nazis leave her with Kong overnight. She laments to him that while she wishes the Nazis hadn't arrived to ruin her discovery of the island, at least they're dying underground one-by-one. She tells him her name, and he appears to understand her.
The next morning, Jo herself is put into a diving suit and lowered into the pit. As Kong begins to pull at his chains, she realizes that her theory was wrong: it's inverted gravity, rather than pressure, that poses lethal danger. As the colonel ignores her pleas and orders his men to continue lowering her, a serpentine creature suddenly flies out of the pit. Kong rips his chains out of the temple and swings one of them at the creature while it charges at him. Staggered, it spits out Jo. Before it can attack her again, Kong shoulder-checks it. They wrestle, nearly falling into the pit, but Kong saves himself by clinging to a stray branch, then dashes into the jungle. Furious, the colonel draws his pistol on Jo.
Kong stops in front of a tar pit from which a large hand extends an even larger sword. Before he can grab the glowing object, the serpent reaches him, having grown a second head. Jo, meanwhile, knocks the colonel out with the diving helmet when he advances on her, taking his pistol. Kong bashes the serpent's heads together, then rips it in half. Covered in its blood, he roars in victory. Jo congratulates him, then asks herself how she'll escape the island
Decades later, Mike echoes her sentiment as he and Charlie run from a massive insect. One of Irene's mercenaries fires on it, but the bullet glances off. Annie and Kaia come to their rescue, with Kaia pulling Mike onto a flower-antlered deer and Annie doing the same with Charlie and Dog. They all reconvene at camp. Cap and Sam have been gone for three days, in search of Druid and his men, and have yet to radio back a report. Guy wonders if Druid has already left Skull Island to auction off Hollow Earth to the highest bidder, but Charlie relays Cap's suspicions that Druid already has a client and is thus still close by. Annie is unconcerned with their predicament, but Irene reminds her that the island has become even deadlier since Yuggoth's emergence. Kaia adds that not only are the monsters that Yuggoth influenced still running wild, but it is likely assembling more forces in Hollow Earth in preparation for its next incursion. At the same time, Yuggoth is doing just that, ascending a mountain with Spineprowlers, Death Jackals, a Trapdoor Crab, Vertacines, and Hellhawks in tow. She wonders how long the rest of the her tribe will be safe on the far island.
Cap and Sam watch from afar as Druid's men continue construction of a bridge to connect the main Skull Island landmass with the far island. They spot Druid calling someone on the Leviathan, but before they can radio back to Irene, Cap feels the muzzle of a gun on the back of his head.
Kong, wandering through the jungle, again witnesses a hand extend the glowing sword out of the tar pit, and growls in confusion.
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Cover B by Christopher Jones -
Cover C by Sunghan Yune
Trivia
- Jo describes Skull Island as a "lost world", a likely allusion to the 1912 novel The Lost World, whose 1925 film adaptation is considered a precursor to the original King Kong film.
- The Hellhawk flying furthest behind Yuggoth is traced fanart, and the Vertacines are derived from a fanmade model.[2][3]
References
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