Simian Reading Room: Before you see KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES...

...now in theatres...

......why not go back and read the original tale which inspired two different film series, a standalone film, and two TV series (live-action and animated)?

Note: none of the movie/TV series or the stand-alone film are continuity-linked to each other, but are considered part of an Apes multiverse much like the Marvel, DC, or Star Trek multiverses!

But the original five-film series and the current four-film series (including Kingdom) are internally-linked within their respective canons.)

Here it is in a graphic novel that most Americans have never seen...

Part 1

Part 2

Conclusion

Enjoy!

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Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

The novel (Monkey Planet) that the movie (and the graphic novel) were based upon!

There was never a prose novelization of the movie itself, though there have been several comic book/graphic novel versions!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Four "Part 1"

We Return to the Atari Universe, where in 2005, we started travelling into other dimensions...

..including some where humans definitely aren't welcome!

To Be Continued...

Next Wednesday!

As of this tale in the 1982 fourth cartridge insert comic by writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, Penciler Ross Andru and inker Dick Giordano, it's clear that the pioneering crew of Scanner One finished their initial assignment, returned home, provided vital intel to Atari and helped organize and train a second wave of explorers!
Besides this digest-sized mini-comic, the story was also published as a bonus comic-sized insert in DC's DC Comics Presents #53 and New Teen Titans #27 (both 1983).

That version had some differences...

...starting with a retitling from "Phoenix" to "Code Name: Liberator"...

...and a new subtitle"Liberator Mission: Freedom or Death!"

Plus, every reference in the captions, dialogue and signage is altered from "Phoenix" to "Liberator"!

In addition, the alien Malaglon are altered from brutish, fanged extraterrestrials to...

...frogs, albeit armed and armored frogs!

I'm uncertain if the Comics Code Authority pushed the alteration of the aliens for the mass-market comics version...

...though it is so much more satisfying to see them getting blown up as hideous monsters than cute frogs.

But, that's just me...

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Art of Atari

Reading Room SPACE WAR "Comeback"

What's cooler than re-presenting an over six decade-old never-reprinted Steve Ditko story?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I love what I do!

And, as they say, if you love what you do, it ain't work!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this story from Charlton's Space War #10 (1961) has some weird "echoes" of the origin of Captain Atom II in Charlton's Space Adventures #33 (1960)...by the same creatives!

(We showed it HERE!)

Could this story have been created before "Introducing Captain Atom" and held in inventory until a slot opened up?
We'll never know...

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Unexplored Worlds

Steve Ditko Archives, Vol 2

Monday Madness MIGHTY MARVEL COMICS STRENGTH AND FITNESS BOOK "Posture and Balance Exercises from The Silver Surfer"

 The full title is Stan Lee Presents the Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness Book...

...but that was too long for the post header!

The book is actually pretty clever and its' use of specific characters for particular easy-to-do exercises is nicely done!

Written by Ann Picardo and illustrated by Joe Giella, this never-reprinted 1976 trade paperback from Fireside/Pocket Books was part of their extensive line of Marvel titles that included the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Siver Surfer: the Ultimate Cosmic Experience graphic novel, the four-volume Origins reprints series, and assorted individual character reprints as well as How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way and oddball titles like Marvel Fun Book and Mighty Marvel SuperHeroes' Cookbook!

It's Cinco De Mayo!!!

 Let's show how Mexican-American writer/artist Gus Arriola told about the holiday in his newspaper strip, Gordo...

...by the way, this is from the original art for the Sunday page on May 5, 1946!

A couple of years earlier, Cinco de Mayo fell on a weekday, and Gus made the holiday part of a week-long run of daily strips...

...which were reprinted in United Feature's Tip Top Comics #100 (1946).

Running from November 1941 to March 1985, Gordo was the first nationally-syndicated newspaper strip to title-feature a Mexican character!
While the characters initially followed many Hispanic ethnic stereotypes of the era (never going over the line into offensiveness), Arriola downplayed and eventually eliminated them over time.
By the 1960s, the strip was earning praise from both the Mexican government and the California State Legislature for its promotion of tolerance and understanding between ethnicities.
Charles (Peanuts) Schulz described it as "probably the most beautifully drawn strip in the history of the business."
You can read more about Arriola and his creation HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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Accidental Ambassador Gordo

Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

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