Captain's Library PLANET OF THE APES "From Out of the Sky!"

We End Our TV Planet of the Apes Stories (for now)...

...with this tale of potential rescue by a familiar face (familiar to the characters...and the artist)!

Why is it someone always dies when these ships land anywhere?

Lieutenant Maryanne Stewart dies in hybernation in the original Planet of the Apes.

Colonel Donovan"Skipper" Maddox dies when he and John Brent crash in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

Astronaut "Jonesy" dies when Virdon and Burke crash in the premiere episode of the TV series!
Oddly, all three "ape-anauts" survive traveling back in time and space to 1973 Earth in Escape from the Planet of the Apes!
Trivia: the astronauts and Galen use rifles extensively in these strips, though they only handled them once or twice on the actual show, never actually firing them!
Illustrated (and likely written) by John (V for Vendetta) Bolton (who used his wife as the model for Verina), this was the final comic strip in the final (1977) Planet of the Apes Annual.

A fitting, open-ended, send-off!

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Captain's Library PLANET OF THE APES "Journey into Terror" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Virdon and Burke are captured by gorillas searching for two humans who escaped from a compound where they, and all the other humans in the community, were used as slaves by the apes!

Those two humans encounter Galen, and, after learning the chimpanzee's human friends were captured in their place, agree to help Galen free his pals...if the trio then help them free the human community!

For the record, I didn't say it was a perfect plan for freedom...

Next Week,

Our Final PotA Tale for September..."From Out of the Sky!"

(Guess What That Means...)

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Captain's Library PLANET OF THE APES "Journey into Terror" Part 1

No, it's not an adaptation of Vol 3 of the novelizations of TV series episodes...

...though it shares the title!

It appears to be a comic story prepared for an American publisher which ended up in British hands!

We'll see that attempted rescue...TOMORROW!

With the extremely-uneven quality of the four-color separations (some pages are almost complete with 25% and 50% tints, some have only basic solid Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow color laid down), I suspect this story was being prepared for either Marvel or Gold Key (both of whom had done previous Planet of the Apes material) before work was halted mid-way, probably because whoever commissioned the story couldn't reach a licensing agreement with 20th Century Fox in time.
To recoup costs, it ended up being published as part of Brown-Watson's first Planet of the Apes Annual in 1975.
Apparently, the British, who were used to receiving completely-prepared printing film, didn't realize the coloring was incomplete until they burned the printing plates from the negatives sent by America, and by then it was too late to correct it!
The art appears to be by Alden McWilliams, who had worked for both Marvel and Gold Key, but not, AFAIK, for any British publishers, except when they reprinted American material!

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Captain's Library PLANET OF THE APES "BreakOut"

On This Date in 1974...

...the Planet of the Apes TV series debuted on CBS.

Though Marvel was publishing a Planet of the Apes magazine, and running comic adaptations of the movies and original stories based in the movie universe (though featuring new characters), they decided to not do tales based on the live-action TV series...or the animated series that ran the next year.
(Interestingly, both those TV series were adapted into prose paperback series!)
In England, where Marvel was reprinting the American-produced PotA material through its' British affiliate, another company, Brown-Watson, who published numerous annual hardcover anthologies based on movies and TV shows, did a Planet of the Apes Annual from 1975 through 1977.
It featured both illustrated prose tales and comic strips.
Starting today, and continuing through the rest of September, we'll be running several of the comic strips, beginning with this one...

Illustrated (and likely written) by John (V for Vendetta) Bolton, this story apepared in the final PotA Annual, published in 1977.

You'll note there's a lot of action in it, unlike the TV series itself, which was limited by both the "Family Viewing Hour" programming rules instituted by the networks and a limited stunt budget!
A lot of the money went for ape makeup for regulars Roddy McDowall (Galen), Mark Lenard (Urko) and numerous guest apes!
(There were several "speaking part" apes in each episode, along with ape background extras)

Next Friday, Another Chapter in the Comic Strip Saga of the Planet of the Apes TV Series!

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Captain's Library BEETLEJUICE "Never a Doll Moment"

With a sequel (finally) about to be released...

...we thought we'd present a never-reprinted comic tale from three decades ago featuring the garrulous ghoul and Lydia...which includes the creative team's take on...Barbie!

Written by Angelo DeCesare, penciled by Howie Post, and inked by Ken Selig, this tale appeared in Harvey's Beetlejuice Holiday Horror Day Special #1 (1992).

Oddly, a simple caption change would've changed his search for a birthday present into seeking a Christmas present, which would've been more seasonally-appropriate, but nobody bothered to do so!
Also note that the native "witch doctor" and his kid are orange, making them appear to be related to Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompas!
(The book was Comics Code Authority approved!)
The comic was based on the syndicated spin-off animated series which toned-down certain aspects from the film to make it "kiddie-friendly".
(Remember this was before Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Toonami and non-broadcast venues like streaming services which could've shown a series closer in tone to the film.)

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