87 – The First Gorilla City

2019-03-13
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In Action Comics #19 (October 1939), Zatara visits a city full of gorillas with human slaves, a full generation before Planet of the Apes. Crazily enough, this is not the fabled African Gorilla City that bothers the Flash decades later but a different city of gorillas in Mexico (?!?) made by a mad scientist who […]

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48 – Zatara

2019-01-17
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Zatara was the second major DC character introduced in Action Comics #1 (May 1938).  Unlike Superman, Zatara is more of a copy of an existing character: Mandrake the Magician.  He even gains a similar mustache in the next issue. He had the ability to cast spells by saying words backwards, though sometimes he is able […]

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