Manic Monday--The Most Misleading Title In Comic Book History

What's this?

Man, this is going to be the greatest comic book ever, right? I don't know who Garrison is...but this comic has to star a whole bunch of gorillas, right?

I hate you, lying comic book.

It's not really Dell's fault. Garrison's Gorillas was an ABC television series that lasted all of one season in 1967-1968...and back in the day, Dell would rush out a comic adaptation of just about any TV series ever.

No, it's the show's fault, for not properly naming themselves Garrison's Guerrillas...the studio/network probably thought that the average American household wasn't ready for such sophisticated foreign words in the series title. That's no excuse, though, for deceiving monkey-obsessed comics fans (even inadvertently).

I've never seen it, but the plot description makes it clear the short-lived show was a pretty obvious rip-off of the Dirty Dozen, with crocks promised pardons for fighting Nazis. Interestingly enough, the show's Wikipedia page tells us that the show "managed to gather a cult following in China in the 1980s." Go figure.