DC Special #16

Spring 1975 DC Comics
Cover: What more do you need? It's "Super-heroes Battle Super-Gorillas!" It says so twice on the cover!

Cover Artist: Various.

Super-heroes Battle Super-Gorillas

Batman in "Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!"
Writer: Gardner Fox.
Artist: Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella.

Wonder Woman in "Wonder Woman-- Gorilla!"
Writer: Robert Kanigher.
Artist: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito.

The Flash in "The Reign of the Super-Gorilla!"
Writer: John Boome.
Artist: Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella.

Superman in "Titano the Super-Ape!"
Writer: Otto Binder.
Artist: Wayne Boring.

This could very well be the greatest gorilla comic ever published! Batman holds a gorilla over his head to save Gotham City, Wonder Woman gets turned into a gorilla by Alien Apes (sadly, only for four panels), Flash gets exiled to a log cabin as Gorilla Grodd runs for governor, and Superman and Lois Lane do their version of King Kong with Titano, the giant gorilla. If that wasn't enough, there is a small article, "Gorillas in Fact and Fiction," making this comic informative as well as entertaining.

Also, there is a blurb in the comic saying, "Would you like to see a regular magazine devoted to DC's Super-Gorillas? If so, write to tell us." Would I? Heck, yeah! Too bad the letter-writers of 1975 let us down.



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