Another Superman villain is introduced in Superman #127 (Dec 1958): Titano! Yes, we clearly needed a “super-ape”. Chimp goes into a rocket / spaceship, is exposed to two meteors (uranium and kryptonite) and comes back grown to enormous size and sporting kryptonite vision. A “certain spin” sends Titano across the time barrier into the past […]
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In Action Comics #248 (Nov 1958), Congo Bill, an adventure character that had run for 17 years as a backup strip in Action Comics is transformed by a magic ring into Congorilla – the body of Congo Bill inside the body of a powerful ape. This is another sign that the market’s interest in superheroes […]
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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. Scientists from the Gorilla World pluck a couple from our Earth into theirs and then keep them in cages, […]
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Speaking of monkeys, Captain Comet has his second encounter with a “super-ape” in Strange Adventures #39 (October 1953). This super-ape has advanced intelligence and telepathy and is Captain Comet’s first re-occurring villain in his roster. Origin-wise, this seems to be almost identical to the Silver Age Flash’s villain Grodd and the race of super apes […]
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