571 – Gorilla Earth

A panel from Strange Adventures #45, April 1954
A panel from Strange Adventures #45, April 1954

In “Gorilla World!”, another intelligent ape story from Strange Adventures #45 (April 1954), Otto Binder and Carmine Infantino introduce us to a parallel world where gorillas evolved into the dominant, intelligent species and man did not.

Another panel from Strange Adventures #45, April 1954
Another panel from Strange Adventures #45, April 1954

Scientists from the Gorilla World pluck a couple from our Earth into theirs and then keep them in cages, which they willingly accept for the prestige and easy life. Ouch, gorillas invented flying cars before humans!