Posted: 08 February 2018 at 5:59am | IP Logged | 1
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The movie PLANET OF THE APES was released fifty years ago today. Still the best out of all of them!
I had thought about doing a movie topic, but I've posted about POTA so many times, including in the "What are you watching?" thread. I believe there have been specific topics, too.
Let me briefly post about POTA comics, then. Marvel's Curtis Magazines imprint did some POTA comics, 29 issues in total.
And then us Brits got a POTA comic which ran for 123 issues (1974 to 1977). Of course, it wasn't pure. undiluted apes: the likes of Ka-Zar, Dracula, Man-Thing and Black Panther were reprinted in the weekly title. I have no idea if Marvel UK's POTA comic eventually did original material, but I know they reprinted Curtis Magazines' stories.
Marvel UK has rarely done original material (Captain Britain was one such story!). As our POTA comic ran for 123 issues, and featured the apes sharing the comic with the likes of Ka-Zar and Black Panther, I presume they "cut up" the original US strips and made them last 123 issues. But perhaps others know better.
Seems POTA strips featured characters other than apes and humans. I really would like to find the entire UK POTA run one day. Here's a sample (US and UK):
Seems the poor apes were often "pushed aside" for the likes of TOMB OF DRACULA, though:
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