Number 705

Killa Gorillers

Gorillas sell comic books. That was noticed many years ago by DC. If you think about it, DC had a lot of gorillas on the covers of their comics.* I'm not sure if anyone ever knew why gorillas sold comic books. Maybe they suspected, but didn't really want to know if there were bizarre fetishists out there with a thing for hairy apes.

Not me, of course...heh heh. But I do like gorilla stories and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a primordial call back to the forests, a race memory of thumping my chest and swinging from branch to branch.

These aren't from DC, but here are four simian stories from other publishers. "Killer's Arms" is from Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #22, 1954, "Violence," drawn by Sol Brodsky (?)** and Jack Abel is from Atlas' Mystery Tales #23, 1954, and "Phantom In the Flames," drawn by Rudi Palais, is from Harvey's Witches Tales #2, 1951.

Lastly, and justifiably leastly, we have a 3-page humor filler from Zoo Comics #9, done by an unidentified artist.

*They even took a "great white hunter," Congo Bill, and turned him it into Congorilla.

**The Atlas Tales information website isn't quite sure on this one.