1968 Manga magazine covering Planet of the Apes

Contributed by Lori

Here's something you don't see everyday: a Japanese Manga magazine from 1968 promoting the original Planet of the Apes film! Thanks to Harry Barnes, here's some info about the magazine:

This is a magazine called Weekly Shonen.This is issue 6 of 1968. I have this, issue 32 in 1972 featuring Conquest, and Issue 29 in 1971 with Escape. They are pretty thick comic books with tons of Japanese comic strip stories in them. Here is a wikipedia entry about them:

Wikipedia: Weekly Shonen Magazine

Afraid to say they are impossible for me to scan. But here are pics of the Beneath and Conquest issues. The one for Escape doesn't have an Apes image on the cover.


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Thanks, Lori and Harry!

Weekly Shonen, issue 6, 1968

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The binding showing a date of 1968
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An interesting ad page, with astronauts and primates
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