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Post by Doc Quantum on Dec 3, 2013 6:33:59 GMT -6
 Could... could there be more of these out there somewhere? And did he ever end up conquering the world... of fine literature? |
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Post by mh on Dec 3, 2013 10:24:51 GMT -6
holy smoke!!!!!!!!! i got to try & find that on EBAY! he couldn't just get a library card? and he's a 600 lb. gorilla -- did he really need a gun? there's probably a scene in there where he's wearing reading glasses & typing away on an old smith corona. he writes 'the old man & the sea' then he goes to jail for stealing the books and hemingway happens to find the manuscript
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Post by Doc Quantum on Dec 3, 2013 13:26:17 GMT -6
I don't know if there's a scene like that, but here's the next best thing:  |
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Post by mh on Dec 3, 2013 13:44:34 GMT -6
lol, that's great!! the artist even made him resemble olsen a little. i'm realizing there has been a fine tradition of gorillas in comics yall liek sgt. gorilla?
www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=5379
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 3, 2013 15:19:39 GMT -6
Remember the JLApe event the Justice Leage had?
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Post by mh on Dec 3, 2013 16:46:30 GMT -6
i got hold of this one somehow as a kid. g-d, talk about something that screwed up my brain forever & ever. i read it 'till it turned to dust. i saw a blog that said "this thing is the BIBLE of Super-Heroes Battling Super-Gorillas!"
gone-and-forgotten.blogspot.com/2007/10/classic-gone-and-forgotten-super-heroes.html
 
he may be overstating, but not by much. the part where batman had to hold the gorilla over his head so the bomb would quit ticking -- my little heart could barely take it! and of couse ikt's gets no better than the flash vs grodd. and superman vs titano -- how much gorilla excitement can one boy stand? i don't remember much about the wonder woman one. looks liek she's gettin' turned into a gorilla sex slave
  next, if yer poor hearts can take it, i will report on this one -- now that's some good ernie chua, i'll tell you
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Post by Doc Quantum on Dec 3, 2013 17:08:00 GMT -6
And, of course, there was the Ultra-Humanite's '80s incarnation, where they put his mighty brain into a mutant white ape:  |
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Post by Doc Quantum on Dec 3, 2013 17:11:47 GMT -6
he may be overstating, but not by much. the part where batman had to hold the gorilla over his head so the bomb would quit ticking -- my little heart could barely take it! Detective Comics No. 339 May 1964 Cover: Robin running towards Batman, holding up Karmak the gorilla //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella Story: “Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb” (16 pages) Editor: Julius Schwartz Writer: Gardner Fox Penciller: Carmine Infantino Inker: Joe Giella Feature Characters: Batman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #35; next appears in Elongated Man story in this issue), Robin (last chronological appearance in TEEN TITANS #4; next appears in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #149) Intro: Walter Hewitt (only appearance) Villain: Karmak (a gorilla; first and only appearance) Comment: Shortly after this story, Batman briefly appears in the Elongated Man story in this issue, then Batman and Robin challenge Superman to a game of secret identities in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #149. Then Robin helps the Teen Titans battle the Separated Man in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #60, in which adventure Batman also briefly appears. Synopsis: A gorilla gains human intelligence, comes into conflict with Batman, and straps a bomb to his body which will destroy Gotham City unless Batman can keep him off the ground long enough to deactivate it.
Karmak (a gorilla; first and only appearance) -- first and ONLY APPEARANCE? If I'd been Julie Schwartz, I would've brought Karmak back to battle Batman and Robin at LEAST twice a year! |
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Post by mh on Dec 3, 2013 17:37:28 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Dec 4, 2013 19:53:50 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Dec 5, 2013 11:37:50 GMT -6
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Post by williscorto on Feb 5, 2014 1:59:00 GMT -6
I don't understand the obsession with apes. At all.
No image of King Solivar or whatever his name is, the nice ape dude from Gorilla City?
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Post by Killian on Feb 5, 2014 13:37:59 GMT -6
Something to do with the impact of King Kong, simian space ventures, and Jane Goodall. From the 1930s-70s there was the sexual revolution and enthusiasm toward global culture. I think afrocentric music and jungle connotations can be accounted as well. Also, simians are a symbol of man's wild side, and didn't the 20th century want to make most people crazy?
I'm all for gorillas and shiz.
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Post by williscorto on Feb 7, 2014 1:57:17 GMT -6
I get dinosaurs and giant robots. I even get zombies. God help me I even get vampires.
But gorillas? Why not rhinos?
Maybe you're right Killian and its just a big long King Kong hangover. Which in turn I think was generated by the colonial/imperialist Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, with the idea of Africa containing a dark heart of the unknown.
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Post by Killian on Feb 7, 2014 3:23:29 GMT -6
Yeah, I was originally gonna say that gorillas are a safe stand in for black people. King Kong groping Fay Wray and peaking over a giant phallus comes to mind. Then there's the statue of liberty scene in that one movie about loss of planetary dominance.
It's kind of like Tolkien's casual racism with orcs being variably described as slant eyed, black skinned, scimitar wielding, rap battling big-nosed jewel hoarding dwarves to death, etc.
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