Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

From issue #3 of Phil Foglio's 1991 Angel and the Ape mini, it's Sam vs. Gorilla Grodd in a story that not only tied in with the rest of the Gorilla DCU but also featured the Inferior Five. Phil Foglio is a frickin' genius—you are reading Girl Genius, right? Angel and the Ape may not be his best work, but the next time you're rummaging through a quarter bin, seek it out for some fun comics reading.

(Standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Superboy has been turned into a giant ape! And he's attacking Clark Kent! How can this be?! I've never read Superboy #142, so I have no idea how writer E. Nelson Bridwell managed to take this cover by Curt Swan and George Klein and turn it into a story. Perhaps I'll never know...

(Standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Finishing off our salute to National Library Week, we have what is perhaps the greatest comic book cover ever. From 1956, Gil Kane & Bernard Sachs draw the cover for Otto Binder's story "Secret of the Man-Ape" in Strange Adventures #75. Who is this ape? Why does he need those three books? And doesn't he know that the reference librarian will help him fulfill his information needs without having to brandish a gun?

In fact, this cover is so great that it was recreated by Nick Cardy in 1973 for the cover of From Beyond the Unknown #23, wherein the story was reprinted.

(standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Tarzan rescues Boy from strange apes in The Caverns of Kor on the 1961 cover of Tarzan #129, painted by George Wilson.

(Standard disclaimer about rock- and club-wielding apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers comic

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

The Justice League battles a giant gorilla on the cover of JLA #92 (2004) by Doug Mahnke & Tom Nguyen.



(Standard disclaimer about wrathful apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Alien gorillas are invading the Earth, and only one woman can save us on the cover of Weird War Tales #123 (1983) by Joe Kubert.

(Standard disclaimer about invading alien apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

FX fights a giant gorilla in his very first issue, as seen on the cover of FX #1 (2008) by John Byrne.

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Sad Sack learns that there's a good reason for the 'Do Not Feed the Monkey' sign at the zoo on the cover of Sad Sad Sack World #25 (1970) by George Baker.

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

The Fly and Fly Girl battle a monster gorilla on the cover of The Adventures of the Fly #22 (1962) by John Rosenberger.

(Standard disclaimer about giant gorillas not really being monkeys applies).

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Kamandi fights a gorilla over Superman's costume on the cover of Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #29 (1975) by Jack Kirby and Bruce Berry.

(Standard disclaimer about gorillas in the future not really being monkeys applies).

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

The Gorilla battles mobsters on the cover of Fantastic Adventures #15 (1964) by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito.

(Standard disclaimer about mobster-hating gorillas not really being monkeys applies).

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Wonder Man fights off an Ape Attack on the cover of West Coast Avengers #33 (1988) by Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan.

(Standard disclaimer about Avenger-attacking gorillas not really being monkeys applies).

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Animaniacs #23

Aventuras em Patópolis #45

Flare Adventures #19

Hot Stuff, the Little Devil #136

King Comics #76

March of Comics #420

Supergirl #80

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #22

Walt Disney's Comics in Color #5

Werewolves on the Moon versus Vampires #1

(Covers courtesy of the GCD. As always, with apologies to and admiration of Bully, the Little Stuffed Bull)

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Lex Luthor faces off against Gorilla Grodd on the cover of Action Comics #893 (2010) by David Finch and Richard Friend.

(Standard disclaimer about evil telepathic gorillas not really being monkeys applies).

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Boo Cook draws multiple Maddrox monkeys on the monkey variant cover for X-Factor #38 (2008).

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

The monkey and the bear are really watering down the lemonade on the cover of The Monkey and the Bear #2 (1953) by Howie Post.

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

The gorillas have a secret weapon, as evidenced by the cover of Strange Adventures #88 (1958) by Gil Kane & Joe Giella.

(Standard disclaimer about giant gorillas who fight flying dinosaurs not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Congorilla jumps into action along with the rest of the Justice League on the cover of Justice League of America #41 (2010) by Mark Bagley and Bob Hunter.

(Standard disclaimer about giant gorillas who fight flying dinosaurs not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

G.I. Robot teams up with a giant gorillas to fight a pink pterodactyl on the cover of Weird War Tales #120 (1983) by Ross Andru and Klaus Janson.

(Standard disclaimer about giant gorillas who fight flying dinosaurs not really being monkeys applies.)

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Lulu plays checkers with a monkey on the cover of Marge's Little Lulu #130 (1959).



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