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Comics Gone Ape!

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Be still my heart! I love this book! If you love comics and monkeys and comics about monkeys, this is the book you've been waiting for. In a perfect world it would be in color, have twice as many pages, and include an index and bibliography (in which case it would deserve TEN stars, but also cost about $100)... but I'm not complaining; as far as I can tell this is the only book about monkey comics in existence. It is quite comprehensive, covering pretty much every monkey comic you can think of, packed with lots of great pictures, and I'm very happy to have it.

The idea of a full book about primates in comics seems silly at first, but upon reading... okay, it's still silly, but it's as entertaining and often hilarious as hell, especially if you're a fanboy with an affinity for the great comics of the Silver and Bronze eras.

Eury does an almost perfect job with this. The book looks at the apes in the comics in chapters grouped by theme: Tarzan/jungle men, Kong/giant apes, humorous chimps, human apes etc. Each chapter contains a 3-4 page overview of the theme, a cover gallery (great), short write-ups on specific examples of theme (eg Konga, Titano, Detective Chimp) and interviews with artists/writers who worked on these characters (including Infantino, Arthur Adams, Tony Millionaire).

Eury maintains the right tone throughout - light but not mocking. This book is tremendous fun.