Classic MKV! Which means it's great of course! "Giant Sized Man-Thing"....not gonna touch that with a ten foot pole...wait that came out wrong! (the depth and breadth of your comic book collection never ceased to amaze me!!!)
"I was going to use this opportunity to whip out my giant sized Man Thing"! Hilarious. It's on a par with "I can't wait to see David Tennant's Purple Man". 🤣
Great video, nice to see the Marvel POTA stuff getting some love. Although I have a few of the original mags, I first saw these strips reprinted in Planet Of The Apes Weekly, a comic produced by Marvel UK in the mid 70'S. The adaption of Beneath' was the first time I was introduced to Alfredo Alcala's superb artwork, long before I'd seen his Conan stuff. But my favourite strip was one you hinted at in your video, the one set on two giant 'city-ships' (one occupied by gorillas, the other by chimps if I recall) with a character called The Slinker (later revealed to be a human)who instigates a war between the two vessels in order to bring both to their knees & release the humans (who are revealed to be manning the ships oars...). Moench writes the Slinker's thoughts in captions rather than (as was the standard then) in bubble thought balloons, which I found to be extremely atmospheric at the time. Interestingly it was a technique Frank Miller later used in Batman Year One to great acclaim. Terrific stuff.
Never saw or heard of the BOOM collections! Thanks for the tip. I will seek them out! P.S. My most surreal experience was being stuck in an elevator during a fire alarm/hotel evacuation in Chicago with Linda Harrison, NOVA from the film series. What a wonderful and sweet lady. All class. But a great look back on a classic mag worth checking out!
Just found Steve Donoghue a few weeks back and now from him have found you and Epic Comic Thurs-er Wednesdays. Great contact. I had those POTA apes a few years back and to pay vet bills I sold them. Don’t regret it but I miss them. TY for sharing
When Marvel's weekly UK "Planet of the Apes" comic caught up with the strips in the US magazine, they took "Killraven" and redrew and rewrote it as "Apeslayer"... I'm holding out for those to be collected (probably never going to happen).
Great. Love the POTA magazines. I have most of them but my #1 has gone adrift. Ploog was spectacular. These reprint books are just too expensive. I've got PB reprints of the BW version of Terror. And the first two Apes movies. Good enough I guess.
You had me cracking up there 😂. These look amazing! Thanks for showing us these, as it’s evidently the only time I’ll get to see them! Those Boom books look awesome, but holy cow, they are indeed expensive! Awesome vid… makes me want to go watch the movies again.
Boulle's creation really has taken on a life of its own. I remember reading the novel and being a little let down. What the film did (in my hoooomble opinyon) was to take its brilliant satire and re-invent it as an awesome SF/adventure staring Moses, I mean, Heston. (I think even Rod Serling had a hand in reinterpreting for the screen). Before "Luke, I AM your father," the ending of Planet, with the statue of Liberty, was THE greatest shocker ending ever. Again, in my hooomble opinyon. I wonder if B.'s estate is seeing any residuals.
My strongest memory of Mike Ploog's work was the parody of the TV show, Kung Fu, that he illustrated for the first edition of Crazy Magazine in 1973. His depiction of the title character in "Kung Fooey" didn't look all that much like star David Carradine (Angelo Torres' caricature in Mad Magazine was much better). But Ploog's artwork was distinct and very impressive.
For me, the most important thing about the Black and White series was the articles. They are gold. Before I sold off my collection of them, I Xeroxed off all the articles and put them in a folder somewhere. Great video and please put that "Man-thing" away, you might poke someone's eye out... 😏
The POTA mag !!...a slice of heaven from my childhood: bought every issue as soon as they came out...still have them all !! Glad this popped up so I could reminisce...good stuff, nice thoughts, kid ! Oh, n tell Rog to wrap it up, already
I never got into Planet Of the Apes, but I do remember seeing the magazine on the stands. I wish I'd grabbed that one for the Serling interview! He's one of my literary heroes and would die the next year (1975.) He would have been 100 in another year, I think.
To further echo the scarcity issue, this is the first time I have ever heard of or seen these comics. But as a kid I did have a couple packs of Planet of the Apes trading cards. They were great photos of scenes from the first film. But it would be years before I would actually see the films as a vhs rental...
Was a huge POTA fan back in the 70's read the UK ape comics but I can't recall where I saw Mike Ploogs ape art, it was B/W had a human called Jason and I think there was a story about Pirate apes on huge ships attacking each other, or did I dream it? Great vid.
In Australia all of the Ploog stories were reprinted by Newton Comics, which I still have. You’ve inspired a revisit. Now where did I leave those Mego dolls? 🤔
Ha ha, I got a bit excited when I thought it was Wednesday. I have a work deadline on Thursdays, so for a second I thought I had extra time. And then I was shattered to know I still need to get this done today ;)
Since you showed your copy of Superman the Silver age volume 1, I bought one too. And since I got that I decided, hey! Why not buy Batman the Silver age Volume 1 also and I jumped on that. But, I saw that the Silver age started in August of 1950 and I wanted the entire year. Yup, you guessed it. I bought the last volume of the Golden Age Batman too. You cost me a lot of money this last month and I'm happy as a clam, not really knowing how happy a clam can be.
Well, that Batman arrived and I found I was wrong and it was 1955. Now I have to figure out which one was 1950 and buy those two volumes. It’s all your fault my wallet is now so much skinnier. Thanks
"Whip out my giant sized Man Thing." LOL. So good.
Looks like I dodged a muck-encrusted bullet … (you know the legend: whoever knows fear of crappy comics BURNS at the Man-Thing’s touch!)
"Giant Sized Man-Thing" never gets old. Great review, by the way!
Classic MKV! Which means it's great of course! "Giant Sized Man-Thing"....not gonna touch that with a ten foot pole...wait that came out wrong! (the depth and breadth of your comic book collection never ceased to amaze me!!!)
Jonathan Frakes as president? That would be weird, electing an entertainer as president.
"I was going to use this opportunity to whip out my giant sized Man Thing"! Hilarious.
It's on a par with "I can't wait to see David Tennant's Purple Man". 🤣
This was wonderful to see. I had just about a full run back when I was a young kid, all bought new off the rack …sure wish I still had them.😕
Great video, nice to see the Marvel POTA stuff getting some love. Although I have a few of the original mags, I first saw these strips reprinted in Planet Of The Apes Weekly, a comic produced by Marvel UK in the mid 70'S. The adaption of Beneath' was the first time I was introduced to Alfredo Alcala's superb artwork, long before I'd seen his Conan stuff. But my favourite strip was one you hinted at in your video, the one set on two giant 'city-ships' (one occupied by gorillas, the other by chimps if I recall) with a character called The Slinker (later revealed to be a human)who instigates a war between the two vessels in order to bring both to their knees & release the humans (who are revealed to be manning the ships oars...). Moench writes the Slinker's thoughts in captions rather than (as was the standard then) in bubble thought balloons, which I found to be extremely atmospheric at the time. Interestingly it was a technique Frank Miller later used in Batman Year One to great acclaim. Terrific stuff.
Never saw or heard of the BOOM collections! Thanks for the tip. I will seek them out!
P.S. My most surreal experience was being stuck in an elevator during a fire alarm/hotel evacuation in Chicago with Linda Harrison, NOVA from the film series. What a wonderful and sweet lady. All class.
But a great look back on a classic mag worth checking out!
Just found Steve Donoghue a few weeks back and now from him have found you and Epic Comic Thurs-er Wednesdays. Great contact. I had those POTA apes a few years back and to pay vet bills I sold them. Don’t regret it but I miss them. TY for sharing
These must indeed be difficult to find. I have never even seen one as far as I can remember.
When Marvel's weekly UK "Planet of the Apes" comic caught up with the strips in the US magazine, they took "Killraven" and redrew and rewrote it as "Apeslayer"... I'm holding out for those to be collected (probably never going to happen).
Thank you for this Long Awaited video. Better late than never.
Cool hat and video. Glad Roger still here as well as you. Was in Japan now back. Love your content. That Giant Sized Man-Thing made me laugh. 😂
Great. Love the POTA magazines. I have most of them but my #1 has gone adrift. Ploog was spectacular. These reprint books are just too expensive. I've got PB reprints of the BW version of Terror. And the first two Apes movies. Good enough I guess.
You had me cracking up there 😂. These look amazing! Thanks for showing us these, as it’s evidently the only time I’ll get to see them! Those Boom books look awesome, but holy cow, they are indeed expensive! Awesome vid… makes me want to go watch the movies again.
Boulle's creation really has taken on a life of its own. I remember reading the novel and being a little let down. What the film did (in my hoooomble opinyon) was to take its brilliant satire and re-invent it as an awesome SF/adventure staring Moses, I mean, Heston. (I think even Rod Serling had a hand in reinterpreting for the screen). Before "Luke, I AM your father," the ending of Planet, with the statue of Liberty, was THE greatest shocker ending ever. Again, in my hooomble opinyon. I wonder if B.'s estate is seeing any residuals.
Hello my friend! Hello!!
My strongest memory of Mike Ploog's work was the parody of the TV show, Kung Fu, that he illustrated for the first edition of Crazy Magazine in 1973.
His depiction of the title character in "Kung Fooey" didn't look all that much like star David Carradine (Angelo Torres' caricature in Mad Magazine was much better). But Ploog's artwork was distinct and very impressive.
For me, the most important thing about the Black and White series was the articles. They are gold. Before I sold off my collection of them, I Xeroxed off all the articles and put them in a folder somewhere. Great video and please put that "Man-thing" away, you might poke someone's eye out... 😏
The POTA mag !!...a slice of heaven from my childhood: bought every issue as soon as they came out...still have them all !!
Glad this popped up so I could reminisce...good stuff, nice thoughts, kid !
Oh, n tell Rog to wrap it up, already
You trusted Roger? Haven't you learned anything by now?
(You're killing me.)
I never got into Planet Of the Apes, but I do remember seeing the magazine on the stands. I wish I'd grabbed that one for the Serling interview! He's one of my literary heroes and would die the next year (1975.) He would have been 100 in another year, I think.
Great video!! Looks like I gotta get the actual magazines cause I definitely don't want those stories chopped up by Marvel. Thanks for the video!
I might have to rewatch some of these movies this month, since i'll already be reading/watching a bunch of ape media.
To further echo the scarcity issue, this is the first time I have ever heard of or seen these comics. But as a kid I did have a couple packs of Planet of the Apes trading cards. They were great photos of scenes from the first film. But it would be years before I would actually see the films as a vhs rental...
I had only one: # 12 in 1975 with Cornelius in an astronaut helmet watching the Earth blow up through the spaceship porthole.
Was a huge POTA fan back in the 70's read the UK ape comics but I can't recall where I saw Mike Ploogs ape art, it was B/W had a human called Jason and I think there was a story about Pirate apes on huge ships attacking each other, or did I dream it? Great vid.
You didn’t dream it.
In Australia all of the Ploog stories were reprinted by Newton Comics, which I still have. You’ve inspired a revisit. Now where did I leave those Mego dolls? 🤔
Ha ha, I got a bit excited when I thought it was Wednesday. I have a work deadline on Thursdays, so for a second I thought I had extra time. And then I was shattered to know I still need to get this done today ;)
Still no omnibus, Marvel? DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!
Since you showed your copy of Superman the Silver age volume 1, I bought one too. And since I got that I decided, hey! Why not buy Batman
the Silver age Volume 1 also and I jumped on that. But, I saw that the Silver age started in August of 1950 and I wanted the entire year. Yup, you guessed it. I bought the last volume of the Golden Age Batman too. You cost me a lot of money this last month and I'm happy as a clam, not really knowing how happy a clam can be.
Well, that Batman arrived and I found I was wrong and it was 1955. Now I have to figure out which one was 1950 and buy those two volumes. It’s all your fault my wallet is now so much skinnier. Thanks
I was wondering if the black and whites would be better coloured, and it turns out, not really. Hope the new movie is good.
ploog is a beast
pota and star trek were dominant before Star Wars came out
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I wonder why you blame Roger for the time machine trouble when Dr. Cornelius is also back there, and his time travel shenanigans are well documented.
Speaking of Doug Moench, you should cover Shang Chi: Master of Kung-fu sometime, particularly his work with Paul Gulacy.
I should.
You have reached your peak with this video