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Entirely Gratuitous  Gorillas
King Kong and Tarzan gorilla covers are all well and good, but the best gorilla covers are when the apes show up in ridiculous places for no coherent reason except that gorilla covers sell. Okay, Gorilla Grodd is a staple villain in The Flash, but there is absolutely no logical reason for Brainiac 5 to be evolving into a gorilla on the cover of Adventure #330. I love the Tomahawk comic, with the Daniel-Boone guys taking a break from fighting the Revolutionary War to truss up a pesky giant gorilla. But the all-time best gorilla cover has to be Joe Kubert's Sgt. Gorilla. Wow.
Tales to Drive You Bats #5, Sep 1962
Star Spangled War Stories #126 - May, 1966
   Jigsaw#1, Sept 1966
Adventure Comics #438, Apr 1975
Tales to Drive 
You Bats #5 : VG $10		 Star Spangled War
Stories #126:  FN- $30		 StarSpangled War Stories #111 VGF $25 Jigsaw #1 :  VG $9  Adventure #438  VF $21 Forbidden Worlds #85  VG-  $15 
Adventure Comics #219, Dec 1955 Aventure #330, Mar 1965 Jimmy Olsen #98, Dec 1966 Adventure #274, Jul 1960 Flash #172, Aug 1967 Flash #45, 1991
Adventure #219 : VG-  $50 Aventure 330 :  FN-  $45 Jimmy Olsen #98 :
VG+  $10		 Adventure #274 : 
VG  $30		 Flash #172 : VG+ $15 Flash #45 : VF+  $5
 Action Comics #424, 1973 - Gorilla Grodd Superman #138, 1960
Jerry Lewis #86, 1965
The Fly #22, 1962
Marvel Premiere #34 - The Mark of Kane - 1991
Tomahawk #86, Jun 1963
Action Comics #424 : FN  $6 Superman #138 : VG- $48 Jerry Lewis #86 : VF  $30 The Fly #22 : VF  $30 Marvel Premiere #34 : VF  $5 Tomahawk #86 : FN $20
 Wonder Woman #170, 1967   Airboy #25, 1987



Wonder Woman #170
FN  $15		 Abbot & Costello #2
FVF  $140		 Airboy #25 : VF  $5 Brave and Bold #49 
VGF $20


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