Planet of the Apes (comics)

Planet of the Apes comics are tie-ins to the Planet of the Apes media franchise. They have been released by several publishers over the years and include tie-ins and spin-offs.

Publishers

Japanese comics (manga)

There are two manga adaptations of the first film, both entitled Saru no Wakusei (lit. "Planet of Monkeys"). The first was written and drawn by Jôji Enami and published in the manga magazine Bessatsu Bôken'Ô in April 1968. The second was drawn by Minoru Kuroda and published in the manga Tengoku Zôkan in June 1971. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (最後の猿の惑星 - Saigo no Saru no Wakusei, "Battle on the Planet of Monkeys", in Japanese) was also adapted into a manga by Mitsuru Sugaya, and published in a 1973 special issue of the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion.[1]

Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics produced an adaptation of Beneath the Planet of the Apes the second film in 1970. That was the first Western comics publication in the Planet of the Apes franchise.[2]

Marvel Comics

List

The following is a default list of all Planet of the Apes comic book titles.

Ongoing series

Limited series

One-shots

Compilations

Some of the comics have been collected together as trade paperbacks:

In addition, Adventure Comics released trade-paperback compilations of Marvel's adaptations of the first three films, as well as a collection of its own first four monthly issues, entitled Monkey Planet.

Planet of the Apes (written by Ian Edginton, for Dark Horse):
Human Wars (penciles by Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; inks by Juan Vlasco, Norman Lee, Christopher Ivy, 2001)
The Ongoing Saga Volume 1: Old Gods (pencils by Adrian Sibar, Paco Medina; inks by Norman Lee, Juan Vlasco, 2001–2002, Titan Books ISBN 1-84023-429-6)
The Ongoing Saga Volume 2: Blood Lines (co-written by Dan Abnett; pencils by Sanford Greene, Pop Mhan, Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; inks by Norman Lee, Pop Mhan, Juan Vlasco, 2001–2002)

External links

Rich Handley's Planet of the Apes Comics Index
Reviews of the various Planet of the Apes comic book series at Comic Book Resources
Reviews of the various Planet of the Apes comic book series at Comics Fondle

References

まんだらけ中野店 4F マニア館ヴィンテージ入荷情報猿の惑星たち！！ - まんだらけトピックス Mandarake.co.jp, retrieved 20 January 2017^
GCD :: Series :: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Comics.org, retrieved 20 January 2017^
Planet of the Apes at the Grand Comics Database^

Boom! Studios

Classic continuity

Boom!'s Planet of the Apes series of comics is the longest-running adaptation of the series, publishing more comics than Marvel (29 issues) and Malibu (50 issues).[11] Beginning April 2011, Boom! Studios launched a new series written by novelist Daryl Gregory, illustrated by Carlos Magno and edited by Ian Brill, with covers by Karl Richardson and Chad Hardin that took place 500 years before the original 1968 Planet of the Apes movie in the continuity of the first five films. It ran for a total of 16 issues, ending in August 2012.[12] The storyline was continued in Planet of the Apes Annual #1[13] (August, 2012), then furthered in Planet of the Apes Special #1[14] (April 2013), then furthered again in Planet of the Apes Spectacular #1[15] (July 2013) and finally wrapped up in Planet of the Apes Giant #1[16] (September, 2013). His entire run was collected in Planet of the Apes Omnibus (2018).

In late 2011, Boom! also began publishing the four-issue mini-series Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes. This mini-series is set 20 years before the events of the original film, and features different characters, like Dr. Zaius, than the concurrent ongoing series. This was followed up in early 2012 by another mini-series, Exile on the Planet of the Apes, set two years later. Beginning in September 2012, Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm took over as Boom!'s regular monthly series. Set eight years prior to the original Planet of the Apes, this series was written by Corinna Sara Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, authors of both the Betrayal and Exile miniseries, and mixed several characters from those series with characters from the original movie. This entire run was collected in Planet of the Apes: Before the Fall Omnibus (2019).

Boom! and IDW Publishing published a crossover between Planet of the Apes and Star Trek: The Original Series, titled Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive. The first issue was published in December 2014. In 2016, Boom! started a miniseries crossover between Planet of the Apes and Tarzan, titled Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes. In February 2017, Boom! and DC Comics published a 6 issue crossover called Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern. It was set soon after the events of the first film. This was also the setting for a crossover with King Kong in Kong on the Planet of the Apes.

In August 2018, Boom! published a one-shot comic titled Planet of the Apes: Visionaries, which is a comic book based on the Rod Serling script for the original 1968 Planet of the Apes movie.[17][18]

A self-titled six-issue mini-series by David Walker looked at the early years of Ursus, starting in January 2018. The one-shots The Time of Man and The Simian Age drew together stories from different continuities in the same year.

Reboot continuity

Just before the release of the feature film Rise of the Planet of the Apes Boom! serialized 6 installments of five-page webcomics that served as a prelude to the movie. The stories featured Alpha and Bright Eyes, Caesar's parents, and detailed their capture in the wild and the time they spent in the Gen-Sys Laboratories. At San Diego Comic-Con in 2014, Boom! published a one-shot stand-alone print comic book, called Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Contagion bridging Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.[19] In December 2014, Boom! started the six-issue series Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, set in the movie continuity of the second reboot film.[20] A four-issue 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes series served as a prequel to the movie of the same name. All these reboot continuity comics were collected in Planet of the Apes: After the Fall Omnibus (2019).

Planet of the Apes (comics)

Publishers

Japanese comics (manga)

Gold Key Comics

Marvel Comics

List

Ongoing series

Limited series

One-shots

Compilations

See also

External links

References

Power Records

Chad Valley

Brown Watson Books

Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.

Hungarian comic

Malibu Publishing/Adventure Comics

Filipino parody

Dark Horse Comics

Mr. Comics

Boom! Studios

Classic continuity

Reboot continuity

Classic continuity

Reboot continuity