Have I ever mentioned that the
second issue of the
Fantastic Four that I ever purchased for myself featured them fighting
a giant golden gorilla?
See,
Gorr's spaceship crashed in
Central Park, and, well, he had a bad reaction to earth's atmosphere because comics:
And then he did the whole
King Kong bit...which I'm sure had
absolutely nothing to do with a brand new King Kong film coming to theaters soon...
So, yeah, it was
George Perez drawing the FF fighting a giant (golden) gorilla:
Well,
Sue's force field cut off whatever made him big and fighty...
...and he revealed wy he had come to Earth and sought out
Reed Richards and company:
Yeah, I was hooked.
See, the
High Evolutionary "created" Gorr, and sent him to Earth, so he could bring back help to fight off
Galactus.
And not only was Gorr super-evolved and intelligent and talkative...
He was
hella strong.
And he had
clothes:
...and Perez drew a
great talking golden gorilla...
Man, that's already better than
anything they've ever given us in a Fantastic Four movie...
Anyway, after the
Counter-Earth/Galactus dust-up, Gorr stayed with the High Evolutionary. He had a glorified cameo in a
Marvel Two-In-One story in 1980. And then he was kidnapped by the
Stranger during a
Quasar storyline in 1990, because
Mark Gruenwald...and
he hasn't been seen since.
Marvel...you've got
a super-strong intelligent golden gorilla (who can sometimes grow to giant-size) in your menagerie of characters--and you haven't used him in
25 years!! What the hell?!?
I expect the
All-New, All Different Gorr #1 soon, guys.
From Fantastic Four #171-172 (1976)
4 comments:
Giant Gorillas seems like such a...DC sort of thing to do.
HA! Your blog is great! Great post, too!
FOOM Magazine said at the time that Roy Thomas was planning to keep Gorr in the book as a regular supporting character; basically he would have been the FF's butler (which sounds like he would have been Jarvis, except that he could throw down when needed).
Obviously, that didn't happen. I don't know why not, but it may have been related to Thomas leaving FF abruptly. (He left in the middle of the Frightful Four / Brute storyline immediately after this, which went on for another 70 or 80 issues as a cadre of interim writers kept adding onto the plot rather than wrapping it up... seems like one of them could have fit Gorr in somewhere...)
No :/ ...the Fantastic Four is/was published by Marvel :/ not DC :)
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