{"id":723,"date":"2019-03-13T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=723"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T06:40:41","slug":"87-the-first-gorilla-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/87-the-first-gorilla-city\/","title":{"rendered":"87 &#8211; The First Gorilla City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-city.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Zatara story in Action Comics #19, October 1939\" class=\"wp-image-724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-city.png 836w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-city-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-city-768x919.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Zatara story in Action Comics #19, October 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Action Comics #19 (October 1939), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zatara\">Zatara<\/a> visits a city full of gorillas with human slaves, a full generation before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planet_of_the_Apes\">Planet of the Apes<\/a>. Crazily enough, this is not the fabled African <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gorilla_City\">Gorilla City<\/a> that bothers the Flash decades later but a different city of gorillas in Mexico (?!?) made by a mad scientist who transplanted human brains into gorillas years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found it horrifying that Zatara leads the humans to escape their bondage and kill their captors. I mean, you actually see blood and the decapitated head of a gorilla. Maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Guardineer\">Fred<\/a> had a bad zoo experience as a child!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-battle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-battle.png 736w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zatara-gorilla-battle-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Love the human slave rockin&#8217; that Z shield though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,57,14,32,106,102,103,105,58],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-action-comics","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-fred-guardineer","tag-gorilla-city","tag-grodd","tag-planet-of-the-apes","tag-zatara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}