Scott Shaw’s sensational Comic Book Gorillarama bills itself as "The Temple of Four-Colour Simian Worship!" The biographies of simian stars, notable first appearances, and other features/histories alone constitute enough ape love to justify Shaw’s pronouncement. Then there are the galleries.
With nearly 500(!) simian covers, Comic Book Gorillarama offers the largest such collection that this ape fan has ever seen.
The famous:
Strange Adventures #8 by J. Winslow Mortimer (May, 1951)
The obscure:
Web of Evil #9 (December, 1953)
The very old:
Mischievous Monks of Crocodile Isle by F.r. Morgan (1908) The first appearance of a simian in a comic
And the odd:
Dorothy Lamour, Jungle Princess #3 (August, 1950)
As if this wasn’t enough, Shaw demonstrates his extraordinary ape geekitude with the impressive Ape Art Show, featuring a wide array of incredible artists including Jeff Jones, Frank Cho, Don Marquez, Mike Mignola, Carmine Infantino, Arthur Adams, and Frank Frazetta.
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Don Marquez
Enough of me. Swing on over to Shaw’s paean to the comic book simian, the incredible Comic Book Gorillarama.