Marvel didn't get around to color comic book adaptations of the wildly popular
Planet Of The Apes films until two years after the last movie,
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, had come and gone from theaters. Hell, even the television series had already run its course. But someone decided to reprint - in color - the movie adaptation that Marvel had done the year before in the black & white
POTA comics mags... and the color version ran almost a year (11 issues), adapting the first two
POTA flicks.
Just something ethereal and magical about that title typeface.
ReplyDeleteGreat series. Still need a few of those to complete my collection. Finally picked up issue 1 a couple of years ago for a great price.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that these even existed. Wow! It's a shame that these didn't continue, because as a kid, I would have been all over them. I dig the artwork and the color (these are great scans by the way). So, some form of Apemania did exist after the TV series -- and that is very cool.
ReplyDeleteMarvel also did some great comic stories in the b&w POTA magazine.
ReplyDeleteThe Mike Ploog one stands out as a firm favourite.
I have a few of those somewhere in my collection. Very cool covers.
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