Comics Gone Ape!: The Missing Link to Primates in Comics by Michael EuryMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Comics Gone Ape is a collection of articles and interviews about apes and other primates in comics.
The cover of this book is iconic and I've admired it from afar for years. When TwoMorrows had a sale in order to help them weather the pandemic, I decided to take the plunge.
Michael Eury conducted interviews from everyone from Arthur Adams to Anne Timmons for this. There are lists of primate characters as well as articles. I had no idea Carmine Infantino listed Detective Chimp as his favorite strip. King Kong and Tarzan get a lot of pages devoted to them and there is a Planet of the Apes article.
Some of these properties could be award winning if DC and Marvel focused on something besides their usual vanilla content. Mark Russell on Angel and the Ape sounds like money in the bank to me. I had no idea how often gorillas were featured on covers during the silver age.
If you like apes and monkeys in comics at all, you'll go bananas for Comics Gone Ape! Three out of five crap-flingers.
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