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What's New? Updated 2-JUL-2009 16:55

2009-07-02

The Holy Grail Arriveth!

My personal Apes magazine Holy Grail is the Summer 1972 issue of Cinefantastique, which had an overview of the Apes movies and interviews with gobs of people associated with the films. I've never seen the issue...until now! Thanks to Rory Monteith, scans of the article have been added to the Magazine Articles page.

2009-06-30

Thanks to Rory Monteith, scans of an article about Taylor's ship from Planet of the Apes from Sci-Fi & Fantasy magazine have been added to the Magazine Articles page.

Also thanks to Rory, an article from the April 1968 issue of American Cinematographer about the filming of Apes is now available.

Thanks to Jeff at Skin Tricks, a 1974 article from Read magazine is now available.

2009-06-16

Thanks to the efforts of Rich Handley, PDF files for the Planet of the Apes: Ultimate Marvel Edition are being made available. This project combines every panel from the Marvel U.S. comics, U.K. comics, and the Adventures comics. For more information, visit the Ultimate Marvel Edition page.

Evolution's Nightmare is now available.

2009-05-09

Thanks to Tim Parati and Terry Hoknes, scans of the Brazilian/Portuguese covers for the Marvel comics are now available. Click here or on the International Comics page.

2009-04-27

Thanks to Tim Parati, scans of a really cool official program for Planet of the Apes from Japan are now avaiable. Click here or on the Programs page.

2009-04-22

Thanks to Brian Penakis, scans of an article from the August 2001 issue of The Face magazine are available for download. The article provides an overview of the history of Planet of the Apes movies, up through the year 2000. You can download it here or on the Magazines page.

2009-04-11

Thanks to Joe Escobar, the covers to the three Return to the Planet of the Apes novelizations have been added to the Book Covers page.

2009-04-05

Thanks to the Jeff (RedSpy), three new ads have been added to the Merchandise Ads page.

2009-03-30

Thanks to the efforts of Rich Handley, PDF files for the Planet of the Apes: Ultimate Marvel Edition are being made available. This project combines every panel from the Marvel U.S. comics, U.K. comics, and the Adventures comics. For more information, visit the Ultimate Marvel Edition page.

Parts 5–8 Apeslayer Saga is now available.

2009-03-19

Thanks to John Roche, a PDF of an article about Conquest from the August 1972 issue of Screen Stories has been added to the Magazine Articles page.
Thanks to Dave Ballard and James Aquila, another English translation of the Hungarian Monkey Planet comic is available as a PDF download.

2009-02-03

Scans of an article from Makeup Artist Magazine Issue 32, a 2001 issue showcasing candid photos from Planet taken by Don Cash, Jr. The scans have been added to the Magazine articles page. Thanks to Jeff at Skin Tricks for the scans (and to Dave B. for cleaning them up).

2009-01-31

Scans of an article from World of Horror Issue 5, a UK magazine from 1975, have been added to the Magazine articles page.

I also added new-to-the-site vintage merchandise ads to the bottom of the Merchandise Ads page.

Finally, I added new-to-the-site black & white stills from Planet and Escape, contributed by James Aquila. I've never seen some of these stills before now. You can find them on the Lobby Cards & Stills page, or you can click here.

2009-01-29

Joanne Van Ewyk has contributed scans of an article from Famous Monsters of Filmland Issue 52. This is the first article FM ran about the Apes movies. Thanks, Joanne!

2009-01-26

Tim Parati has contributed scans of "Lee's Guide to Planet of the Apes", a look at Apes merchandise that was published in Lee's Action Figure News and Toy, Issue 105, June 2001. Thanks, Tim!
Jeff at Skin Tricks has contributed scans of fantastic article about John Chambers that was published in Make-Up Artist issue 5, Feb./Mar. 1997. Thanks, Jeff!

2009-01-15

Jeff (RedSpy) has contributed PDFs of articles from The Monster Times issue 12 (June 1972) and The Monster Times issue 24 (July 1973). The articles discuss Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Battle, respectively. Thanks, Jeff!

Jeff also contributed a magazine photo of Forrest Ackerman kissing "Zira", which I've added to the bottom of the Magazine Articles page.

Tim Parati has contributed scans of five great Japanese black-and-white stills (four from Escape, one from Conquest). Thanks, Tim!

RIP, Ricardo Montalban!

2009-01-09

Jeff (RedSpy) has contributed a PDF of an article from Famous Monsters of Filmland issue 135 (July 1977). The article profiles actor Jay Robinson, who played Bandor in the TV series episode "Tomorrow's Tide." Thanks, Jeff!

2009-01-03

Jeff (RedSpy) has contributed a PDF of a couple of pages from Famous Monsters of Filmland issue 120 (October 1975) that include a review of a commercial Cornelius mask, as well as an ape drawing sent in by a reader. Thanks, Jeff!

2009-01-02

Still more from Jeff: more merchandise ads, and a quiz from Famous Monsters of Filmland.

Thanks for all the great contributions, Jeff!

2008-12-31

More from Jeff: more merchandise ads; two brief TV series mentions in Famous Monsters #113 and Famous Monsters #118; an NRA parody poster from Mad; and a brief Conquest blurb in The Monster Times (1972-04-12). (The latter four were all added to the Magazine Articles page.) Thanks, Jeff!

2008-12-29

2009 Calendar By popular demand, James Aquila has created a 2009 Planet of the Apes calendar using stills mostly taken from the various movies.

The calendar was designed to be printed on U.S. legal-size paper (8.5 inches by 14 inches).

Click on the image or click here to download the calendar as a PDF file.

Thanks, James, Kassidy, and Dave!

Jeff (RedSpy) has contributed a PDF of an interview with Mark Lenard (Urko) that appeared in the January 1981 issue of Starlog magazine. Thanks, Jeff!
Jeff (RedSpy) has contributed this advertisement for the life-size Cornelius pinup taken from a '70s sci-fi magazine. Thanks, Jeff!
Mike Rogers has contributed a scan of a page from the 1975 Sears Catalog advertising the Mego products. Thanks, Mike!

2008-12-28

Famous Monsters #95 Jeff (RedSpy) also contributed a PDF version of an article about Conquest of the Planet of the Apes that appeared in issue 95 of Famous Monsters of Filmland. The article has been added to the Magazine Articles page. Thanks, Jeff!

Note: this was initially added on 27-DEC-2008, but a new, higher-resolution (200 DPI) version is now available.
More ads from Mego Museum have been added to the Merchandise Ads page.

2008-12-27

Merchandise ads Thanks to Jeff (RedSpy), I've started a new page devoted to Planet of the Apes merchandise ads. Jeff's contributions are black and white ads from various '70s sci-fi magazines. Thanks, Jeff!

2008-12-21

Collectibles Tim Parati has contributed very nice photographs of much of his Planet of the Apes collections. These same photographs were used in the bonus features on the new Blu-ray Planet of the Apes box set.

You can find the photos on the Collectibles page. Thanks, Tim!!

Thanks to Jeff (RedSpy), I've added a brief article from the February 1975 issue of Playthings magazine (a toy magazine) about the Power Records releases to the Power Records page. Thanks, Jeff!

2008-12-17

2009 Calendar James Aquila, Kassidy Rae, and Dave Ballard collaborated to produce this 2009 Planet of the Apes calendar to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the TV show!

The calendar was designed to be printed on U.S. legal-size paper (8.5 inches by 14 inches).

Click on the image or click here to download the calendar as a PDF file.

Thanks, James, Kassidy, and Dave!

2008-11-08

Sorry for the lack of updates! I've been busy (and also haven't really had a lot to add recently). One new item that I've added to the Books page is the cover to Rich Handley's upcoming book Timeline of the Apes. You can view the front cover or download a PDF version of the entire cover (front and back).

To purchase Rich's book, visit his website at www.hassleinbooks.com/.

James Aquila produced program booklets for each of the Apes movies. Download the PDFs from the Apes Programs page. Thanks, James!

Thanks to Tim Parati, scans of the Apes Timeline from the Blu-ray set are now available. Click on the images below for (very) large versions of the images.

Part 1
Part 2

06/13/08

Thanks to James Aquila, high-resolution images of the door panels promoting Planet of the Apes have been added to the Posters page.

Also, thanks to Dave Ballard, a more accurate version of the retouched cover of issue 26 of the Marvel Apes magazine has been added to the Retouched Marvel Covers page (or you can click here to view the image featuring Viking Apes.

Thanks to Saulo Adami, scans of the front and rear covers of his new book have been added to the Miscellaneous page. To purchase a copy of the book, you can contact Luiz Saulo Adami.

05/29/08

05/11/08

Thanks to Mark Talbot Butler (and Dave Ballard), a slew of scans of stills from the 5 Apes have been added to the Lobby Cards & Stills page (or click here to view them).

Also, scans from Mark's autographs collection have been added to the Ape-ographs page.

Thanks to Jeff (RedSpy), an Apes article from The Definitive Science Fiction Television Encyclopedia is now available as a PDF download from the Magazine Articles page.
Thanks to Steve Clark, two new Apes posters have been added to the Posters page.
A new Apes discussion forum can be found here.

04/20/08

Thanks to Brendan McCaul, a scan of Wall's Apefruit stickers has been added to the new Collectibles page.

03/24/08

Thanks to James, the pressbook for the "Go Ape!" campaign is now available for your viewing and downloading pleasure! It has been added to the Pressbooks page.

03/01/08

Thanks to James, a PDF of an article about the Apes TV series from the December 7, 1974, issue of TV Guide has been added to the Magazines page.

01/31/08

  • The February 2008 issue of Previews magazine features two full-page ads (the same image) and a solicitation listing for the first two retro Planet of the Apes figures. They've been added to the Advertisements page.

    Retro Mego ad Retro Mego listing

01/28/08

01/10/08

Thanks to Brendan, a Mark Lenard autograph has been added to the Ape-ographs Archive.

01/04/08

  • The Famous Monsters #149 and December 1980 Questar PDFs have been updated to include the covers for those magazines.
  • A link to another site offering plans for a paper model of the Icarus has been added to the Links page. Thanks, Jeff!

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