18 Ridiculous Comic Book Covers Featuring Gorillas
Detective Comics #339
"Hold that gorilla, Batman! The instant he touches the ground, the bombs strapped to his body will blow up Gotham City!"
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From Beyond the Unknown #23
So apparently this gorilla possesses the intelligence necessary to speak, but is still, generally, not that smart.
2
Action Comics #238
The missing link in Kryptonian evolution
3
Jimmy Olsen #98
Superman's kind of a dick.
4
Strange Adventures #88
Why would he lie about something like that?
5
Strange Adventures #39
And everyone who had jury duty knew it was going to be a long, long, trial.
6
House of Secrets #6
Let a gorilla explain? Never!
7
House of Secrets #16
How embarrassing, this gorilla can speak and we humans put him on a game show. I guess even hyper-intelligent primates need to pay the rent somehow.
8
Superboy #142
Talk about gorilla warfare, amirite??
9
Strange Adventures #117
Real dick move there, Van Horne.
10
Strange Adventures #239
Surely this violent outburst will convince them.
11
Strange Adventures #32
Apparently the sound gorillas make is "ik! ik!"
12
Flash #127
The lamest super villain.
13
Tales of the Unexpected #2
And it seems he wrote half his message on this paper, even though there's plenty of room on the blackboard!
14
Strange Adventures #108
"What about talking apes"
"We've done that"
"Talking apes in the position of humans"
"We've done that too"
"And the humans are the size of hamsters."
"
Make it happen."
Strange Adventures #186
Gorilla witches have eye patches?
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Strange Adventures #201
Can't wait to go home and get out of this monkey suit.
17
Prize Comics #59
Ah, simpler times. A simple comic about boxing an animal for no reason.
18It's Comic-Con week! Today we celebrate those moments when someone said "I don't know, how about a Gorilla or something." Strange Adventures in particular seems to have some strange preoccupation with the relationship between humans and apes. All these Gorillas make for some pretty bizarre comic book covers, whether they're covered with bombs, marrying Jimmy Olsen, or plotting the doom of mankind.
