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)
Giant Gorillas seems like such a...DC sort of thing to do.
ReplyDeleteNo :/ ...the Fantastic Four is/was published by Marvel :/ not DC :)
DeleteHA! Your blog is great! Great post, too!
ReplyDeleteFOOM 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).
ReplyDeleteObviously, 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...)