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Comics Gone Ape!
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by Michael Eury
Sales Rank: 1064892
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List Price: $16.95
$15.25
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on 11-2-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
Published by: TwoMorrows Publishing April 18, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1893905624
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1893905627
Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
From Booklist
DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz, who was largely responsible for the early-1960s revival of the superhero genre, steadfastly believed that a gorilla on the cover guaranteed greater sales. He must not have been the only one who thought so, for as Eury proves, there have been enough monkeyshines on and within comic-book covers over the decades to fill a book. In the 1930s, comics followed Hollywood's lead and portrayed the exploits of Tarzan and dozens of imitation jungle kings. The 1960s were overrun with Kong-inspired giant apes, from Konga to Superman's simian foe, Titano, whose eyes emitted Kryptonite rays. Heroes and villains whose minds were transferred into apes' bodies get a chapter from Eury, as does a 1970s spinoff of the Planet of the Apes movies. Eury's impressively broad examination of the subject encompasses everything from cheesy 1950s horror comics to alternative-comics artist Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey. With campily delightful artwork on every page, interviews with comics creators about their monkey-oriented work, and Eury's wry commentary, the book deserves an ape-preciative audience. Flagg, Gordon
Product Description
They may be only one notch below humans on the evolutionary ladder, but gorillas and monkeys have for decades climbed to the top of the comic-book world as monsters, super-villains, sentient masterminds, soldiers, aliens, buffoons, and super-heroes. COMICS GONE APE! is the definitive missing link to everything you need to know about these popular primates, including Gorilla Grodd, Beppo the Super-Monkey, BrainiApe, King Kong, Titano the Super-Ape, Cy-Gor, Konga, Magilla Gorilla, Detective Chimp, Blip, Gleek, the Gibbon, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, Mojo Jojo, Angel and the Ape, and a barrel of others. Comics Gone Ape! is loaded with comics artwork, a chest-thumping gallery of comics covers featuring apes, and behind-the-scenes looks at Planet of the Apes, Arthur Adams’ Monkeyman and O’Brien, and Joe Kubert’s Tarzan. With its all-new Avengers-as-gorillas cover by Arthur Adams, you won’t be able to keep your filthy paws off this book!
Reader Reviews
Be still my heart! I love this book! If you love comics and monkeys and comics about monkeys, this is the book you've been waiting for. In a perfect world it would be in color, have twice as many pages, and include an index and bibliography (in which case it would deserve TEN stars, but also cost about $100)... but I'm not complaining; as far as I can tell this is the only book about monkey comics in existence. It is quite comprehensive, covering pretty much every monkey comic you can think of, packed with lots of great pictures, and I'm very happy to have it.
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