DC FINEST SCIENCE FICTION The Gorilla World

Things got a little bit hairy in the DC Universe during the 1950s and 60s! Experience Gorilla World, an alternate reality where great apes reign supreme in the pages of Action Comics, Strange Adventures, and Mystery in Space, collecting up these sci-fi sagas for the first time! Captain Comet and Tommy Tomorrow are here with future-world adventures, plus the Space Cabbie and Interplanetary Insurance Company! Brilliant, fun, and wild work from editor Julius Schwartz and all star talent: writers John Broom, Gardner Fox, Otto Binder and Edmond Hamilton, and artists including Infantino, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Mort Drucker, Sy Barry, Jim Mooney, Virgil Finlay et al. Includes all the classic covers. For many long-time comics fans, myself included, these are simply brilliant comics. Superheroes were out at the end of the 1940s. But science fiction was going from being a niche world of pulp magazines collected by nerdy fans, to being far more widely accepted as a legitimate literary genre. The field exploded with specialty hardcover publishers, paperbacks, and in 1953, the Science Fiction Book Club brought even more classics and new work to an ever wider audience. DC Comics was testing new genres like all the publishers, and in their stable was Schwartz, who started out as a fan publisher in the 1930s, rubbing shoulders with the great names, doing the first sci-fi conventions. So it was perfect--DC gave him two titles, Mystery in Space and Strange Adventures. And Schwartz and his crews proceeded to make them fan favorites, both then and now. He even brought in a superhero of sorts, Captain Comet, with superb artwork by Murphy Anderson. - Bud