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Bonus: Below, an ad I clipped from a newspaper sometime around 1974.
Bonus: below, a unique photo of McDowell as Cornelius in a rare good mood; most likely thinking of his fiancee, Zira.
Below is one of my pencil drawings of Galen from the TV series, drawn in 1974 sometime, probably while in homeroom. I was big into Apes that year!
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Ahh...my first issue of MAD - it was the apes that lured me in!
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B Smith
I've been an Apes fan since I was a kid back in the early 70s.I read a lot of their comics,and collected action figures and the treehouse that was their main headquarters.I had a 16 inch tall furry doll named Galen from the T.V. series.Apemania happened just a few years before Star Wars mania.I started to get into Star Wars,but grew out of it by the time of the third movie;Return of the Jedi.So it didn't have the same impact on me as Apes did.Budd
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ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting and visiting the blog! Good to hear from a fellow Ape-o-nut! Hope you come back often and comment.
Those were very funny! And that's a very cool sketch and pics. I've always loved the Planet of the Apes, and even enjoyed the sequel..but never really watched the rest. I want to read the original book too. I just watched 'Soylent Green' tonight and it struck me so funny that MAD has Tyler say, he's had enough of fantasy, allegory and social comment!
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