571 – Gorilla Earth

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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485 – Get Your Hands Off Me

In Strange Adventures #12 (July 1951), a story by Jack E. Miller called “Sideways in Time” features the world’s first time traveler who, intending to go back to 1620, is accidentally sent “sideways” into an alternate timeline. In this timeline, gorillas are the dominant species and humans are the mute animals. This is 12 years […]

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87 – The First Gorilla City

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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