PLANET OF THE APES COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

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Released at the same time as DRACULA LIVES, PLANET Of The

APES lasted for 123 issues before merging with The MIGHTY WORLD

of MARVEL for 16 issues, whereupon its masthead disappeared from the

cover.  I read somewhere that the U.K. edition was so popular, the U.S.

mag was kept going just to supply its British counterpart with material.

(If anyone knows for sure, please let me know.)

Anyway, here, mainly to keep regular commenter CJ happy, are the

first 10 covers from the 1974 weekly periodical.  The TV show wasn't

broadcast in Scotland at the time, so we weren't immediately aware that

the mag was intended to tie in with a television programme.  Not that it

made any difference to me, as I was buying every U.K. Marvel comic

going back then anyway.  I even got a letter printed in #8.

And if Nifty NICK CAPUTO is paying attention, perhaps he'd do

us all a favour and identify the cover artists.  Good lad, Nick - ta.

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