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Ten more PLANET Of The APES covers from Mighty MARVEL's mid-'70s British weekly to enthrall you this time around, folks. Not many of these images strike a chord with me, so I'm uncertain whether I was still buying the comic at this time, though I suspect I must've been. Do any of these covers ring a bell in the belfry of your mind? Then let's read your reminiscences in the comments section, Ape fans.
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Remember most of these. Glad to see someone else thought they were not the best.
Don't let CJ hear you, Phil - he thinks they were wonderful. Although they did the job, I suppose.
Actually, Kid - I agree a lot of these covers aren't that great but #20 is terrific in my opinion. They did start to use more of the painted covers later on though. It's odd that three of the above covers - 11, 16 and 18 - originally appeared as painted versions on the front of the U.S. magazine but they were redrawn for the UK weekly. I always took my issues of POTA to school with me and - disaster !! - I left #13 on the school bus but the next day my friend, David Meredith, handed me my lost comic which he'd found on the bus and kept for me !
We were still living with Steranko, Kirby, Colan, Curt Swan, Neal Adams, etc. so these covers were sort of eh.... Not so great. And after seeing the painted Ape covers I wish they had used more of them.
That's what you call a friend, CJ. You still pally with him?
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I suspect that lower page rates were paid on those covers, Phil, which is why (except for reprints) top tier artists weren't used so often.
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