Friday, September 24, 2010

PLANET OF THE APES #21 (Marvel Comics)

Stumbled across this fantastic, fiery painting by the great Earl Norem for issue #21 of Marvel's Planet Of The Apes black and white magazine (June, 1976), and thought I should share it here, so everyone could enjoy it. Clearly based on Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, it also nicely evokes the pulp magazine covers of the 30s and 40s, with its well-endowed female victim and her tattered clothing.

I haven't written - or posted - enough here about the Apes franchise, which is certainly some sort of oversight, especially since it was by far the highest-profile sci-fi property of the 70s... until Star Wars came along. I loved the movies, the TV series, the cartoon, the Mego figures... and even the Marvel Comics.

That reminds me... I really need to upgrade my Apes discs to Blu-Ray. I have the original DVDs, and they're not even anamorphic....

7 comments:

  1. Earl was my favorite Apes magazine artist, and I treasure every issue.

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  2. I was an ApeHead through and through, but I didn't know about the comics at the time. Loved it all.

    (has anyone ever collected the comics into omnibus tpbs?)

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  3. As a boy in the '70s, I agree with you Christopher, the PLANET OF THE APES franchise was my favorite in the pre-STAR WARS era.

    The CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES reboot film being shot now RISE OF THE APES comes out in 2012, I wonder if it will do well?
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318514/


    SG

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  4. I purchased the DVDs of the six movies(including the Tim Burton's), the 1974-75 tv series and the RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES 1975-76 animated tv series. I guess now that Blu-ray is that good, I will have to consider those too.
    SG

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  5. p.s. - there are many PotA comic scans (different companies) here;

    http://pota.goatley.com/

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  6. you need to watch the uncut version of Conquest on the Blu-ray. A great cut.

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  7. Man, I love PotA and all of the Ape obscurities from the early 70's (from comics to toys). I certainly hope that this new movie does a better job than the Tim Burton version.

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