Planet of the Apes

Issues 23, 60, 77, 114, 116, 118 (1975 - 1977)

Marvel

Writers: Roy Thomas, Doug Moench Pencils: Neal Adams, Ricco Rival, John Buscema

I bought these books in a job lot from a work colleague in 1998 for 50 quid. The books had been stored flat, the spines bend and the pages aged. They are all British magazine format. Marvel decided to create books just for the UK market and chopped out stories and printed them in a wider, larger format in black and white. At the end of this run they added the 'Dracula Lives' to the book as well. In the back of each issue is other Marvel work, such as Black Panther, Man Thing and Ka-Zar.


With this in mind there isn't much to say about plot as most issues are not in sequence. The transformation from colour to black and white may have affected the art. I have nothing to compare with. Maybe I should grab some of the origional source books for comparison?

These are all nicely drawn but not collectable or noteworthy unless you are a huge Planet of the Apes fan. Even then I guess the origional books would be better.