Keep your paws off the Flash, you damn dirty ape!!!
Sorry, just channeling Heston after I caught a glimpse at today's DC calendar entry...Gorilla Grodd!
Grodd first started monkeying around with the Scarlet Speedster in The Flash #106 (May, 1959), by John Broome and Carmine Infantino. It's no surprise that he came out of the editorial office of their boss Julius Schwartz. Schwartz truly believed that putting a gorilla on the cover, or even the interior of a comic, would make that issue a best seller. And, darn if sales didn't prove him right. Apes were the Deadpool cameo of their day.
Grodd hailed from a race of highly intelligent super gorillas, that lived in a hidden futuristic city called- er, Gorilla City (a bit on the nose, but they really were advanced beyond human technology. Trust me). Grodd was the perfect synthesis of savagery and science. Plus, he could put a psychic hurting on you with his telepathic (Force of Mind) attack. He battled the Flash many times as he tried to wrest control of Gorilla City from its peaceful monarch, Solivar.
Grodd's reign of terror spread through titles like the Secret Society of Super-Villains, and the Challenge of the Super Friends and Justice League Unlimited cartoons. He even came close in the 70s to getting his own ongoing comic- Grodd of Gorilla City (what did you think they would call it?). And, Sam Simeon of Angel and the Ape calls him grandpa (well I'll be a monkey's uncle).
On the 15th, we will pause to remember a real hero. And, I do mean Real...
Sorry, just channeling Heston after I caught a glimpse at today's DC calendar entry...Gorilla Grodd!
Grodd first started monkeying around with the Scarlet Speedster in The Flash #106 (May, 1959), by John Broome and Carmine Infantino. It's no surprise that he came out of the editorial office of their boss Julius Schwartz. Schwartz truly believed that putting a gorilla on the cover, or even the interior of a comic, would make that issue a best seller. And, darn if sales didn't prove him right. Apes were the Deadpool cameo of their day.
Grodd hailed from a race of highly intelligent super gorillas, that lived in a hidden futuristic city called- er, Gorilla City (a bit on the nose, but they really were advanced beyond human technology. Trust me). Grodd was the perfect synthesis of savagery and science. Plus, he could put a psychic hurting on you with his telepathic (Force of Mind) attack. He battled the Flash many times as he tried to wrest control of Gorilla City from its peaceful monarch, Solivar.
Grodd's reign of terror spread through titles like the Secret Society of Super-Villains, and the Challenge of the Super Friends and Justice League Unlimited cartoons. He even came close in the 70s to getting his own ongoing comic- Grodd of Gorilla City (what did you think they would call it?). And, Sam Simeon of Angel and the Ape calls him grandpa (well I'll be a monkey's uncle).
On the 15th, we will pause to remember a real hero. And, I do mean Real...
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