Timeline of The Planet of The Apes - The Definitive Chronology by Rich Handley
Timeline of The Planet of The Apes - The Definitive Chronology by Rich Handley
By Rich Handley
For my brother,
and my father,
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Contents
Acknowledgments: The Only Good Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Abbreviation Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
THE TIMELINE
Part 1: Prehistory of the Apes (before 1972) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
APPENDICES
I: Recommended Viewing/Reading Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Planet of the Apes creators Dan Abnett, Sam Agro, Gary Chaloner, Lowell
Cunningham, Ian Edginton, Roland Mann, Charles Marshall, Tom K. Mason,
Doug Moench, Jorge Morhain, Sergio Mulko, Joe O’Brien, Ty Templeton, Sonny
Trinidad (and his children, Norman and Cherry), Mike Valerio and John Whitman
for sharing information about their unpublished Apes work—and, in some cases,
the work itself.
My appreciation goes out to James Aquila, Neil Foster, Hunter Goatley, Graham
Hill, Bill Hollweg, Chris Lawless, Alan Maxwell, Valerie Parish, Greg Plonowski,
Alex Ruiz, Glen Sheetz, Chris Shields, Michael Whitty and others who have kept
the simian spirit alive. Kudos also to Dave Ballard, Dean Preston and John Roche of
Simian Scrolls (to learn more about this informative Planet of the Apes publication,
e-mail [email protected]) and Terry Hoknes of Ape Chronicles
(planetoftheapesfanclub.com). Thanks also to Dave, Dean and James for expertly
proofing the manuscript (blame them if you find any errors), and to Brian “Doc”
O’Neill of Sci-Fi Storm (scifistorm.org) for transcribing the Blu-Ray set’s new
ANSA footage.
This book would never have been completed without the design and layout
expertise of Paul C. Giachetti. Also vital to this work’s creation was illustrator
Patricio Carbajal, whose stunning artwork graces the cover. Thanks also to Joseph
Bongiorno for his initial cover layouts; Tim Parati for his generous scanning help;
Mark Terlino for font assistance; Michael Andrews for his eagle eyes; Dario Sciola,
Malcolm Burbridge, Wayne Lawton and Tri-ring for help procuring rarities; and
Edward Gross for inspiring me to write this book.
In Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Dr. Otto A further note: I’ve opted to leave fan fiction off
Hasslein explains time as a highway of infinite lanes, of the timeline. There are some excellent fan-fics out
each stretching from the past to the future. One can there, such as Mike McColm’s “Return to Yesterday”
alter the future, Hasslein postulates, by changing and the audio adventure Values, by Dave Ballard,
lanes. (The orangutan philosopher Virgil later both of which offer possible fates for the TV series
proposes the same theory in Battle for the Planet characters. Then there’s Beware the Beast, by Ballard
of the Apes—an irony, given Hasslein’s efforts and Neil Foster, which tells the story of Gideon, an
to prevent the apes from dominating mankind in ape hunter who goes from predator to prey when a
the first place.) In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, human tribe fights back, chasing him to the crash site
Brent describes the time-warp through which his of a certain spacecraft from the second film. These
spaceship has passed as a Hasslein Curve, named for and several other fan stories are better written and
Dr. Hasslein’s theories of infinite regression, which illustrated than some of the licensed tie-ins, and
Taylor’s crew proved correct in the first film. would certainly be worthy of official publication.
Every time someone crosses the time barrier— Unfortunately, there’s just no way to be all-
the Hasslein Curve—in either direction, it’s possible inclusive with fan-based tales, and quality control
for history to become modified. If so, given the is never a given with such stories anyway. That
astounding number of time-trips in this mythos (see said, I urge readers to check out these particular
“A Brief History of Time Travel” on page 245) this pieces—Beware the Beast at Hunter’s Planet of the
renders the whole “circular vs. changing” debate Apes Archive (http://pota.goatley.com); and “Return
a far more complex question, for instead of two or to Yesterday,” Values and other fine tales at Kassidy
three histories, we now have the potential for many Rae’s Planet of the Apes: The Television Series site
the number of Ziras, Corneliuses, Zaiuses, Novas, access to Simian Scrolls, a fan magazine produced by
Urkos and Brents in the various incarnations. Ballard, John Roche and others). Kassidy and Hunter
Planet of the Apes history could very well be have archived a combined treasure trove of forgotten
neither a circular loop nor an “A or B” set of divergent Apes gems on their sites, so check them out.
highway lanes, but rather a Möbius strip embedded in And for those new to the Planet of the Apes saga,
an Escher landscape twisted up in a pretzel and tied a Viewing/Reading Order timeline is available on
itself, readjusting with each successive time-trip and Okay, the ground rules have been set and the
enabling all of the various contradictory incarnations timeline awaits. Sit back, grab a banana and chug
to occur on the same continuous, ever-changing loop. some grape juice-plus…it’s time to go ape.
c. 1 BILLIon B.C.
◆ Comets bombard Ashlar, a planet far from Earth, causing great pain to the dominant lifeform there—the
Great Nest, a species of brachiopods controlled by a primitive insectile hive-mind known as the Core. This
leaves the planet covered in massive craters that, over time, form mountainous valleys.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 3 (HE-n)
NOTE: This planet will, a billion years hence, be the site of Semos’ uprising, as revealed
in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes “re-imagining.” The name Ashlar appears in William
Broyles’ initial script.
c. 1445 B.C.
◆ Moses writes Genesis, the first book of The Holy Bible, espousing the Judeo-Christian belief that God
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
created man in his own image. According to the Bible, man was chosen by God to rule over all other species AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
on Earth, and will remain God’s favored species until the End of Days. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Real Life BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
NOTE: This and other “Real Life” entries are included to set an ironic stage for the BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
future, in which both religious and scientific dogma will ultimately turn on their ends. By
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
amusing coincidence, one of Charlton Heston’s most famous movie roles was as Moses CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
in The Ten Commandments. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
1859 GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, presenting his theory of evolution. The MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
fifth edition adds the phrase “survival of the fittest,” purporting that those species most able to adapt will MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
emerge as dominant. A radical change from contemporary thought, his ideas are met with skepticism. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Real Life SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
1871 MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
◆ Darwin publishes The Descent of Man, making explicit connections between man and ape, and claiming b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
man evolved from a lower order of animal to one capable of self-conscious thought. He sees man’s mind c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
as the accidental outcome of random variations over time, his achievements dependent on the evolution of d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
articulate language. As with The Origin of Species, this volume is criticized by the religious, who accuse f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
Darwin of robbing mankind of its special place in the universe, and of denying God’s existence. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
Real Life n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Foucault and Dugan subdue the speaking gorilla and submit him to a number of cruel experiments.
E-mail from Author Gary Chaloner
NOTE: Chaloner offers this glimpse at Urchak’s fate in the Victorian past. How history
is affected by the presence of a sentient, speaking ape 100 years before the arrival of
Cornelius and Zira is unclear, though it appears not to have had much of an effect.
◆ Upon his death, Urchak is stuffed and mounted in a glass exhibit case in the Victorian institute.
Urchak’s Folly #4: “Chapter Four—The War” (AC-c)
1922
◆ Future circus owner Armando, last name unknown, is born to parents of Hispanic origin.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Armando’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Ricardo
Montalban’s age (51) when the film (set in 1973) was produced.
1932
◆ Future scientist Lewis Dixon is born, presumably in or near Los Angeles, Calif.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Dixon’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Bradford
Dillman’s age (41) when the film (set in 1973) was produced. Since Dixon is said to have
spent his youth in Los Angeles, it’s likely (though not certain) he was born there.
1934
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Donovan “Skipper” Maddox is born.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
NOTE: “Skipper” (as he is known in Beneath the Planet of the Apes) remained unnamed
until this short film, included in the Blu-Ray release, christened him Donovan. His PUBLISHER / STUDIO
uniform patch bears the name “Maddox” onscreen, however, and a timeline packaged AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
with this collection uses that name. To reconcile the discrepancy, I assume his full name AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
to be Donovan Maddox. The ANSA film reveals him to have been 38 in 1972, establishing BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
a 1934 birth year, though actor Tod Andrews was 56 when Beneath was produced. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
EARLy To MID 1930s CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Future astronaut Bill Hudson’s boyhood swimming instructor is born. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #5: “Lagoon of Peril” (BB-n) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
NOTE: This placement is approximate, based on information in the novelization. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
MID To LATE 1930s NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
◆ Dr. Otto Victor Hasslein—future science advisor to the president of the United States—is born. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
NOTE: Hasslein’s exact age is unknown. Actor Eric Braeden was 30 years old when the MEDIUM
film (set in 1973) was produced, implying a 1943 birth year. Since the novelization reveals a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
the scientist to have a 14-year-old son in 1973, however, I have pushed his birth back to b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
the late 1930s. Hasslein is named Otto onscreen in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, but c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
Victor in the film’s novelization; to reconcile the discrepancy, I have combined the two. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
1937 m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Thomas Dodge is born. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
NOTE: The Planet of the Apes script notes Dodge to be around 30 years old in 1972, but u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
the ANSA film specifies 35, establishing a 1937 birth year. The ANSA film also provides v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
his first name. A 1974 coloring book misspells his last name as “Hodge.” x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
1938
◆ Future ANSA astronaut John Christopher Brent is born, presumably in or near New York City.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Brent’s full name appears in the film’s script, and in Marvel’s comic adaptation.
His age is cited as 26 in an early-draft script, but A Public Service Announcement
From ANSA establishes him as being 34 in 1972, setting his birth in 1938 (actor James
Franciscus was 36 when the film was produced).
1939
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Maryann Stewart is born.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
NOTE: Stewart’s first name and age (33 in 1972) remained unknown until this short film,
included in the Blu-Ray release. In early drafts of the Planet of the Apes script, Stewart
was a male astronaut named Blake.
◆ Future scientist Lewis Dixon spends his youth playing in an abandoned oil tanker off the coast of Los
Angeles, in which, some 30 years later, he’ll eventually hide two talking apes.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
1941
◆ George Taylor graduates from West Point and becomes an ace World War II fighter pilot.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
1942
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Alan J. Virdon is born.
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t)
NOTE: Since Virdon’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Ron Harper’s age
(38) when the TV series was produced, given a date of 1980 for the time-warp. Virdon’s
middle initial appears in an unused episode script, entitled “A Fallen God.”
◆ As a child, Virdon grows up in Jackson County, spending his youth working on farms.
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
NOTE: Which particular Jackson County is unspecified, but since there is such a county in
Texas, where Virdon will later own a farm, that’s a likely candidate. This would indicate
Virdon hails from one of the county’s three main cities (Edna, Ganado or La Ward), or
from one of its smaller communities (such as Lolita or Vanderbilt).
c. 1940s
◆ As a child, future astronaut John Christopher Brent loses his parents. His grandmother thus brings him up
in her home near New York City’s Queensboro Plaza subway station.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Brent’s parents’ deaths, and his being raised by his grandmother, are mentioned
in an early-draft script of the second film, entitled Planet of the Apes Revisited.
◆ As a boy, Otto Hasslein reads stories about computers taking over the world and making mankind useless.
Taking the threat seriously, he focuses his academic attention on science—and, later, on computers.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the novelization, and may have been an homage to
Eric Braeden’s lead role in Collossus: The Forbin Project.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
1948 AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ Future governor Arnold Jason Breck is born. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
NOTE: It’s unclear as to which U.S. state Breck governs. The Conquest CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
novelization implies California, and both Marvel’s timeline and Revolution on CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
the Planet of the Apes concur. Script treatments for Conquest and Battle for DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
the Planet of the Apes, however, place both films on the East Coast, setting the FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
stage for Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Dayton Ward’s timeline, published GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles, concurs with the eastern placement. The HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
novelization cites Breck’s age as 33 in 1991, but that would not jibe with his HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
having helped create the Alpha-Omega Bomb in the 1960s. As such, I have MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
instead based Breck’s age on actor Don Murray’s age (43) when the film was MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
made. The novelization names him Jason, but Revolution #1 calls him Arnold; PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
I have, therefore, combined them to reconcile the discrepancy (an early-draft SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
script names him Harvey Breck III, but the character is very different in that TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
script, so I am discarding that alternative). UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
MEDIUM
◆ Arthur Vernon Kolp, future governor of New York City’s mutant population, is born.
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
NOTE: Since Kolp’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Severn Dardon’s d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
age (43) when the film (set in 1991) was produced. An early-draft script names him e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
Arthur, but Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4 calls him Vernon. To reconcile this f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
discrepancy, I have combined the two. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
1949 p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
◆ Alan J. Virdon, age seven, learns to ride a horse. Eventually, the youth becomes a champion rider, able to t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
calm wild horses in seconds. u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t) x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
NOTE: This assumes a birth year of 1942.
◆ As a young child, Jeff Allen often wishes he could cut down trees and yell “Timber!”
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #9: “Trail to the Unknown” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
c. 1950 to 1953
Future astronaut George Taylor serves as an ace fighter pilot during the Korean War.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
1951
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Peter J. Burke is born, presumably in or near Jersey City, N.J.
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t)
NOTE: Since Burke’s age is unrevealed, I have based this figure on actor James
Naughton’s age (29) when the TV series was produced, given a date of 1980 for the
time-warp. Since Burke is said to have spent his youth in Jersey City, it’s likely (though
not certain) he was born there. In early-draft scripts, Burke is named Ed Rowak and Stan
Kovak. His middle initial is revealed in “The Interrogation.”
◆ Frankie Peters, a bully in Derek Zane’s neighborhood, delights in torturing and shooting squirrels.
Planet of the Apes #10: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—The City” (MC-c)
1954
◆ Tommy Billings, a future orderly for the U.S. Navy, is born.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
1959
◆ Dr. Otto Victor Hasslein and his wife celebrate the birth of their first baby. Unfortunately, the child is born
with Down Syndrome.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
◆ Lisa, a chimpanzee and future wife to Caesar, the First Lawgiver of Ape City, is born.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Lisa’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actress Natalie Trundy’s
age (32) when the film (set in 1991) was produced.
◆ Burke is one of three children, with two sisters. His family also has a dog, though young Pete decides he
would prefer two dogs and one sister.
Planet of the Apes: “Hostage” (CB-u)
NOTE: This episode was never filmed, but the script is available online at Hunter’s Planet
of the Apes Archive.
1962
◆ The U.S. government establishes the American National Space Administration (ANSA), dubbed the
greatest conglomerate of scientific vision and knowledge in history, and chaired by Dr. Otto Hasslein. The
first candidate of the organization’s elite astronaut corps is veteran pilot Col. George Taylor.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
1962 to 1972
◆ ANSA launches the first manned spacecraft into Earth orbit, then lands men on the moon and Mars.
Exploration of neighboring planets follows, with photon propulsion and near-light-speed travel enabling
Hasslein’s team to target distant galaxies and nebulae. Thus, is born Project Liberty—an attempt to send a
manned spaceflight to the Centaurus constellation, four light-years distant.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
NOTE: Although NASA exists in the Apes mythos, it is apparently ANSA that achieves
these milestones. Adventure Comics’ issue #15 sets the first Mars mission in 1991.
BEFORE 1966
◆ Astronaut George Taylor enjoys a number of romances with women, none of which last long—as he
describes it, “lots of love-making, but no love.”
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Taylor eventually marries and starts a family, though the marriage is a bitter one.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
NOTE: The name of Taylor’s wife has yet to be revealed.
◆ Though she loves him, Taylor’s wife sees him as a “magnificent bastard”—a tough man who doesn’t suffer
“wusses” or “wimps.”
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Paternal Instinct” (MR-c)
◆ Eventually, Taylor’s wife begins drinking heavily to deal with their marital issues.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
1966
◆ Jo Taylor, elder daughter of ANSA astronaut George Taylor, is born.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
◆ The Down Syndrome child of Dr. Otto Hasslein ceases progressing mentally at age seven. Hasslein and his
wife raise the boy with love, hoping science will one day find a cure, but it never does.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
◆ Armando purchases a female chimpanzee named Heloise, intending someday to open a circus.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Determined to work in the entertainment industry, Armando drops his last name, legally registering himself
under the stage-name “Señor Armando.”
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
◆ Future ANSA astronaut Thomas Dodge, while working as an organic chemistry professor at the University PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
of Maryland, Annapolis, dreams of discovering intelligent life on another world. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ At age 25, ANSA astronaut trainee John Landon graduates at the top of his class. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Landon distinguishes himself as a navigator on ANSA’s Juno Mars mission. Lt. Maryann Stewart, an ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
astronaut and biological researcher, also serves on the Juno team, as well as in ANSA’s Apollo program. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
c. LATE 1960s MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ Future astronaut Peter J. Burke pitches a no-hitter game of baseball while still in high school. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Planet of the Apes episode #14: “Up Above the World So High” (CB-t) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
NOTE: This placement is based on a birth year of 1951, placing his high school years in
the late 1960s. MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
◆ Dr. Otto Victor Hasslein theorizes the existence of a space-time tangent as a means of interstellar travel b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
involving time, dimensional matrices and infinite regression. Due to the relativistic nature of time, the c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
scientist postulates that mankind should be able to travel great distances in space at super-fast speeds, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
with time passing much more slowly than normal aboard ship. Determined to prove his theory, he drives f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
congressional funding into the development of an experimental spacedrive. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Hasslein’s Notes” (MR-c) n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
◆ Hasslein’s theories depict the space-time continuum as a series of eight interlocking Möbius strips, made up r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
of “curved time” and “alternative time-tracks.” t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished) u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed so as x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
not to conflict with the cartoon—was never released due to the Marvel series' cancellation. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
The above details were provided by author Doug Moench.
◆ To protect the United States from all possible enemies, the U.S. military designs the Alpha-Omega Bomb,
a cobalt-encased atomic missile (or “doomsday bomb”) able to decimate the planet. The weapon’s name
comes from The Bible’s Revelations 22:13: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the
Beginning and the End.” Only those with top security clearance—such as ANSA astronaut George Taylor—
know of the project’s existence.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: This event is undated. However, since Taylor knows of the project, it must have
originated before the Liberty 1’s 1972 launch.
◆ The Alpha-Omega Bomb, code-named “Project Churchdoor,” is deemed top-secret, overseen by future
governor Arnold Jason Breck, a cruel young man aspiring to great power.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
NOTE: Given actor Don Murray’s age (43) when the film (set in 1991) was produced,
that would make Breck around 20 years old when Project Churchdoor was created.
◆ Having conceived and commissioned Project Churchdoor, Breck oversees the black budget to fund it.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Part Five: Weapon of Choice” (MR-c)
◆ To make sure the missile never falls into the wrong hands, Breck develops the Inferno Protocol, a mass-
destruction plan for use only as a last resort.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Part Three: Intelligent Design” (MR-c)
◆ At least two Alpha-Omega devices are produced: a prototype and a larger, next-generation model.
Online Posting from Ty Templeton
NOTE: Templeton offered this tidbit on the POTA Yahoo Group regarding the bomb
in Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, which was smaller than that seen on film. A
third A-O Bomb may also have been created; while conceiving Revolution, Templeton
planted seeds for a future storyline following up on the idea that Earth had no moon in
the first film. The author says he conceived the destruction as occurring a century or so
after Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, and that his notes included the detonation of a
doomsday bomb on a lunar colony. In the novelization of Beneath the Planet of the Apes,
Taylor says only one was built, but he might not have been aware of the others.
1967 or 1968
◆ On his farm in Houston, Texas, Alan J. Virdon watches veterinarians work so he can learn birthing and
other medical techniques, such as helping a cow in labor whose calf has turned around in the womb.
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
1968
◆ Mendez (first name unknown), future founder of the mutant House of Mendez, is born.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Mendez’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Paul Stevens’
age (52) when the film (set in 2020) was produced.
c. 1960s oR 1970s
◆ A criminally insane child, age seven, kills his entire family—and nearly himself—in a fire. In later years, PUBLISHER / STUDIO
he will be known only as Scab. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c) AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: The incident is undated, but I assume he was in his 20s or 30s in 1990. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
LATE 1960s To EARLy 1970s CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ As Chris Virdon grows up, his father teaches him all he knows about farming—particularly the importance ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
of planting the best seeds to ensure the health of the following year’s crop. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
c. 1970 MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ Bruce “Mac” MacDonald, brother of Malcolm MacDonald and future advisor to Caesar, is born. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
NOTE: Bruce’s first name appears in Marvel’s adaptation, while Revolution on the Planet
of the Apes #4 names Malcolm. Bruce is said to have supervised Ape Management’s MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
archives before the war of 1992, but actor Austin Stoker was 30 years old when the film
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
(set in 2020) was made, which would make Bruce an infant. Clearly, then, the character c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
must be at least 20 years older than the actor, despite his youthful appearance. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
1971 k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
◆ The ANSA space shuttle Liberty 1—the culmination of Hasslein's work on Project Liberty—is prepared for p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
its historic launch. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
NOTE: Taylor’s ship had been known as Icarus—a name coined by fan Larry Evans u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
in 1972, and later legitimized by toy model companies, as well as in Revolution on the v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
Planet of the Apes—before this short film, included in the Blu-Ray release, established
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
the name Liberty 1. The shuttle is named Air Force One in a test set of Topps collectible
cards, and Immigrant One in an early-draft Planet of the Apes script.
◆ A program is created to test both the spacedrive and Hasslein’s space-time tangent theory. This program is
dubbed the Interstellar Exploration Program (IEP).
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
◆ The U.S. president chooses Col. George Taylor to head the Liberty 1 mission.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
◆ Taylor, a bitter man with a history of running away from those who love him, accepts the mission,
abandoning his family in the process.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
◆ Asked why he would leave behind the world he knows to explore the vastness of deep space, Taylor—tired
of man's cruelty to his fellow humans—replies, “For the promise of a better world.”
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
◆ Lt. John Landon is nominated to join the Liberty 1 crew as navigator. Eager for fame and immortality (and
unable to turn it down without looking bad), ANSA's "golden boy" accepts the posting. Lt. Thomas Dodge,
age 35, signs up as well, relishing the opportunity to learn something new. A fourth astronaut, Lt. Maryann
Stewart, age 33, also joins the team.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Landon’s first name is revealed in Marvel’s adaptation. Dodge’s rank appears in
the Escape from the Planet of the Apes novelization; his first name, as well as Stewart's
rank and first name, come from A Public Service Announcement From ANSA.
◆ In accepting the mission, Landon leaves behind a wife who admires his sacrifice, and an infant son, Mike.
Dodge serves as head science officer, while Stewart is a biological researcher. Two first alternates round out
the crew: John Christopher Brent, age 34, and Col. Donovan "Skipper" Maddox, 38.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x)
NOTE: "Skipper" (as he is known in Beneath the Planet of the Apes) remained unnamed
until this short film, included in the Blu-Ray release, christened him Donovan. His uniform
patch bears the name "Maddox" onscreen, however, and a timeline packaged with this
collection uses that name. I thus assume his full name to be Donovan Maddox.
◆ Derek Zane, an inventor and dreamer, becomes fascinated with George Taylor, the Liberty 1 mission and
Dr. Otto Hasslein’s theories concerning time, dimensional matrices and infinite regression.
Planet of the Apes #9: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—The Trip” (MC-c)
◆ Hasslein visits the L.A. Zoo as part of an advisory board reviewing grant applications. His wife and two of
their children accompany him. Staff veterinarian Stephanie Branton finds him pleasant but cold.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
BEFORE 1972
◆ George Taylor befriends Dr. Lewis Dixon, an animal psychologist at UCLA.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
1972 - 1973
BETWEEn 1971 AnD 1973
◆ The family of Major Gen. Raymond Hamilton (an officer of the U.S. Strategic Air Command) suffers the
thefts of three ten-speed bicycles over a two-year period.
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NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
FEBRuARy 1972
◆ The Liberty 1 launches from Cape Kennedy, bound for the Centaurus constellation. Upon arrival, its crew
intend to build a human colony, with Stewart serving as the metaphorical “Eve” to their “Adams.” Due to
the distance involved and the mission’s nature, the trip is designed to be one-way, with four suspended-
animation capsules carrying them asleep for the majority of the voyage.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
NOTE: The February setting is from Marvel’s chronology (a timeline packaged with AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection indicates January). A Public Service AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Announcement From ANSA, a short film from that same box set, notes the ship’s BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
Centaurus destination. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
◆ With the Liberty 1 crew traveling in suspended animation, the ship contains only limited supplies—not CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
enough, even, to sustain the four astronauts for a year. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ George Taylor’s wife and daughter Jo watch the launch on television. Jo is sad to see him go, her mother HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
succumbing to alcoholism to deal with the abandonment. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c) NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
NOTE: The whereabouts of daughter Tammy (seen in Revolution on the Planet of the SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Apes #4) is unknown. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Taylor also leaves behind a pet puppy that often licked his hand but never barked. MEDIUM
Planet of the Apes (MC-c) a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
NOTE: This information comes from Marvel’s comic adaptation of the film. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
◆ Following Liberty 1's launch, Otto Hasslein sits alone at his desk one evening, affected by the sadness of e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
the astronauts' sacrifice and the thrill of discovery. An amateur poet, he jots the following words on an k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
envelope, which become a motto and a prayer for the Liberty Project's explorers: "To the distant reaches, m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
climb / Far beyond space / Far beyond time." ANSA records, on a reel of 16-millimeter film, a public n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
service announcement outlining the Liberty Project and honoring the crew of the Liberty 1. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
◆ Liberty 1 passes through a fold in space—what will later be called a “Hasslein Curve” in honor of Dr. Otto v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
Hasslein—and is propelled to the year 3978, where it crashes off the coast of Long Island. Hasslein’s theory x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
is proven true, but no one in his era knows it. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
NOTE: Why ANSA would do this is a mystery, given that Liberty 1’s journey was intended
to be one-way—a time warp was fully expected, as would be loss of contact. Sending
another ship would just mean losing another crew.
◆ Zane’s invention, the Time Displacement Module, is based on Dr. Otto Hasslein’s theories involving
dimensional matrices, infinite regression, curved time and alternative time-tracks.
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed,
presumably, so as not to conflict with the cartoon series—was never released due to
Marvel’s decision to stop publishing Planet of the Apes comics as of issue #29, in
response to increased licensing fees. The above details come from a story outline and
dialog breakdown provided by author Doug Moench.
November 1972
◆ ANSA launches a second ship to find Liberty 1. Its crew includes commander Donovan “Skipper” Maddox
and ship’s medic John Christopher Brent. This ship slips through the same Hasslein Curve and is thrown
forward in time as well. Maddox leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The November setting is established on the timeline in Marvel’s issue 11. Brent’s
status as ship’s medic comes from Marvel’s comic adaptation.
◆ To avoid public curiosity, the U.S. government issues a press release claiming Taylor’s and Brent’s ships
both disintegrated in orbit.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The Liberty 1 is officially listed as destroyed, its crew honored with a full state funeral.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: Timeline (MR-c)
NOTE: Presumably, the same is true for Brent and Maddox, who were also lost.
1972 - 1973
Planet of the Apes (UB-v)
NOTE: This video game is not easily added to a timeline—after all, since game sessions
are different every time, which specific session “happened?” What’s more, it’s unclear
how the USNSA relates to either NASA or ANSA. Thus, I am only including the game’s
premise, not the specifics of gameplay.
1972 To 1990s
◆ George Taylor’s wife tells their daughter Tammy that her father was a tough man, a “magnificent bastard”
who hated “wusses” and “wimps.” Tammy grows up both hating and emulating the man, vowing never to
show those qualities and determined to be just like the father she never knew.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Paternal Instinct” (MR-c)
◆ Jo Taylor, on the other hand, follows in her father’s footsteps to become an astronaut.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
BEFoRE 1973 AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
◆ Stay-DriEST deodorant hits the market. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: This is revealed in the film’s novelization. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Dr. Radak Hartley, chairman of Harvard’s zoology department, wins a Nobel Prize. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ The U.S. president authorizes the assassination of a Soviet marshall he deems an evil and dangerous man. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NOTE: This is revealed in the film’s novelization. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
1973 UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
◆ Hudson enters the program a few days before the others and is named mission commander. The trio form a
close bond. Allen’s identity as a dark-skinned man makes him sensitive to racial inequality, but their color
difference (the others are Caucasian) is never an issue among them.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ A chimpanzee named Heloise, an animal acrobat in Armando’s Old-Time Circus, goes into labor. Dr.
Lewis Dixon, an animal psychologist at the Los Angeles Zoological Gardens, helps Heloise give birth to a
daughter, Salome. The chimp’s owner, Señor Armando, is very grateful.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Dr. Stephanie "Stevie" Branton, an animal psychologist, is assigned to assist Dr. Lewis Dixon at UCLA.
The two fall in love, and Dixon considers marriage after only three weeks.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: The novelization establishes their romance, the fact that they work for UCLA,
and that they'd only known each other for three weeks at the time of the film.
◆ Western Control, a branch of the U.S. Navy, spots the capsule on radar. Cmdr. W.D. Deyerle of the Destroyer
Spearhead oversees a rescue operation. Unable to make voice contact, Deyerle gives up hope that anyone
aboard could still be alive.
The Ape News (HM-p)
◆ At Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb., Major Gen. Raymond Hamilton of Strategic Air Command
is alerted to the craft’s appearance. NORAD’s Air Defense locates a bogey approaching re-entry over
the North Pole, estimated to come down in San Diego. Worried it might be a Soviet missile, he sounds
Emergency War Orders (EWO) and tells March Air Force Base in Riverside to launch B-52s.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
◆ Deyerle, suspecting the craft may be a U.S. satellite stolen by Russian or Chinese soldiers, activates the
Coastal Protection Team and orders Spearhead to mount a rescue. Splashdown occurs at 11:50 a.m.
The Ape News (HM-p)
1972 - 1973
NOTE: In the novelization, Winthrop is named Adm. George “Snapper” Jardin. In
Marvel’s adaptation, Hartley is named Ralston.
◆ Liberty 1 is identified. Gen. Len Brody, White House chief of staff, alerts the president to the return of
Taylor’s ship. To prevent security leaks, the president orders Brody to keep the story from the press.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the novelization. The president’s name is unknown.
◆ Soldiers retrieve Liberty 1. Three space-suited figures emerge and are escorted to the beach, where they
remove their helmets to reveal themselves to be chimps. Hamilton orders the apes moved to a Marine Corps
Air Station in El Palomar, arranging for the L.A. Zoological Gardens to take them in secret.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ At the El Palomar station, the apes are examined by Lt. Cmdr. Gordon Ashmead, USNR.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film's novelization. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ Hamilton and Winthrop visit the apes, who wear clothing and use plates and cutlery. Winthrop orders a AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
police escort to the zoo infirmary, where animal keeper Jim "Arthur" Haskins tends to a sick gorilla. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
NOTE: In the novelization, Arthur's name is Jim Haskins. To reconcile the discrepancy, I CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
assume "Arthur" to be a nickname. The book names the gorilla Bobo. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ The chimps are Dr. Cornelius, an archeologist; his pregnant wife, Dr. Zira, a veterinarian and animal FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
psychologist; and Dr. Milo, a genius of many sciences. Realizing they’ve been thrown back in time by GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Earth’s destruction, Milo urges them to keep silent (present apes can’t talk) and not to reveal that an ape HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
war will destroy the planet. Lewis Dixon and Stephanie Branton submit Zira to psychological testing, but MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
she grows impatient and speaks. Her agitation affects Bobo, who strangles Milo to death. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
◆ Milo's corpse is dissected, with particular attention paid to the temporal lobes and speech centers. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This occurs in the film's novelization. MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
◆ Amazed, Dixon begins a journal detailing the chimps’ statements about the future. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c) d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
◆ Hasslein convenes a Presidential Commission of Inquiry at the L.A. Federal Building, with the press in k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
attendance. Dr. Radak Hartley, chairman of Harvard’s zoology department, heads the commission, along m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
with Col. Winthrop; Congressman Jason Boyd of the House Science and Astronautics Committee; Cardinal n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
MacPherson, a Jesuit Catholic official; and Senator Yancey of the Armed Forces Committee. The apes r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
charm the press, but Hasslein worries about their claims that humans will one day become dumb brutes. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
When Yancey asks if they know Taylor, Cornelius feigns ignorance. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
NOTE: The Ape News identifies two commission members as Gen. Faulkner and Senator y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
Blaine, and also calls Winthrop a senator rather than a soldier.
NOTE: Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black creator and author of Adventure’s The
Forbidden Zone, proposed this four-issue miniseries to creative director Tom K. Mason
as well. However, Cunningham says, the idea was rejected for being similar to the Planet
of the Apes film remake then being considered, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
◆ As word of the apes’ arrival spreads, many voice their opinions as to their origins. Anthropologist Margaret
Smee, convinced they are from another planet and may be smarter than humans, presents a scholarly
statement on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Dr. Sprocket, a pediatrician and folk philosopher, is impressed
at the quality of their feet—a sign they won’t become fascists. And author, social critic and revolutionary
Jerry Ruby calls the apes “right on,” saying they’ll always be welcome in Woodstock.
The Ape News (HM-p)
◆ Hasslein appears on a television news broadcast, Big News, to discuss time travel. Reporter Bill Bonds tells
him the "apeonauts," as they've been dubbed, have become quite popular.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Bill Bonds is an actual TV news anchor and reporter, who worked in Los Angeles
at the time the film was produced. In the novelization, his character is named Walter.
◆ To make amends for their earlier treatment, the Navy's Admiral Taylor arranges for a wealthy retired
admiral friend to transfer the chimps, via a chauffered Mercedes, to better accomodations.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the novelization. It's unknown if the admiral is related
to George Taylor.
◆ Housed at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Zira and Cornelius are happy for a time. Reporters attend a party at
the hotel, hoping to hear them speak. Attending journalists include Jeanna Robbins of Fur and Feather, Bill
Cummings of Men's Hunting and Outdoors and Joe Simpson of Ebony.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ At the request of the mayor and the city council, the apes are given a tour of the city. Zira and Cornelius
receive keys to the city and a gold-plated banana inscribed with “See California and Go Bananas!”
The Ape News (HM-p)
◆ The commission re-convenes, this time joined by Dr. Raymond Wilson, a naturalist specializing in great
apes. Wilson is skeptical, questioning anything that does not jibe with his understanding of modern-day
simians. Cornelius tells the commission their two species must learn to get along, and Hasslein agrees.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
1972 - 1973
in New Mexico, where Hasslein questions them alongside CIA agents Henry Amalfi and Larry Bates.
Cornelius says a plague will eventually wipe out most dogs and cats, so man will take apes as pets and later
as servants, but that the apes will become alert to the concept of slavery and rebel. Drugged with sodium
pentathol, Zira admits to knowing Taylor, and to practicing comparative anatomy on humans, who will be
hunted for sport and dissected for science in her time.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Amalfi and Bates are named in the novelization, working for the NSA rather than
the CIA. The film credits list them simply as E-1 and E-2. Camp XI’s location is revealed
in The Ape News, a promotional newspaper distributed to moviegoers during the film’s
release. The novelization calls it Camp Pendleton.
◆ The FBY, CID and WPA investigate the apes, as do several congressional and senatorial committees. The
public is outraged, saying the couple are friendly visitors deserving of respect and hospitality. Citizens’
groups battle over who should look out for them; the American Civilian Liberties Union (ACLU) claims
jurisdiction since they landed in the United States, while the ASPCA claims priority since they aren’t
human. Several minority groups enter the debate as well, claiming the apes represent an obvious minority.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
The Ape News (HM-p) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ The commission votes to abort Zira’s baby and render the apes sterile. Cornelius attacks and inadvertently AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
kills an orderly, Corp. Tommy Billings, for calling the fetus a monkey. The couple sneaks past a security BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
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guard named Charlie, stopping when Zira goes into labor. Cornelius finds Branton, and Dixon delivers the BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
child, whom Zira names Milo. Señor Armando offers to hide them for a month and release them in the CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Florida Everglades, but when Hasslein orders Capt. Osgood to search all city zoos, the circus owner is no CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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longer able to keep them safe. He gives Zira a medal of Saint Francis of Assisi, and she switches babies ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
with Heloise before leaving. Dixon and Branton drive them to the Point Doom oil field so they can hide in FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
a derelict tanker at McKinley & Sons Naval Scrapyard until Dixon can smuggle them back to the circus. In GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
case they’re caught, Dixon gives them a gun to kill themselves. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NOTE: McKinley is named in the Power Records and Marvel comic adaptations, Osgood NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
is named in Marvel’s version and Billings is named in the novelization. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ A homeless drunk named Zeke encounters the apes, but Cornelius lets him go, unwilling to hurt another TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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innocent man. Arrested for disorderly conduct, Zeke rambles about talking apes. The police eventually
contact Hasslein, who interrogates the wino, then heads for the shipyard. MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
NOTE: This scene occurs in the film’s novelization. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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◆ Hasslein writes a letter to the president, blaming himself for their predicament. His theory, he writes, f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
has a fatal flaw: The “Hasslein Curve” is really a recursive loop, folding back infinitely upon itself, k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
from the future into the past and back. He suspects Earth’s future destruction to be the catalyst, and m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
that Liberty 1’s return flight paradoxically enabled the apeonauts’ original time journey. Man’s biggest p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
threat, Hasslein notes, comes not from the apes but from his own ignorance, and so he must take steps r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
to ensure humans prevail. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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death. Zira throws the baby chimp into the water, then dies next to her husband’s broken body.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3 establishes Milo as dying at age two
days. Meissner is named in the film’s novelization.
◆ Hasslein Air Force Base, located at Area 51 in Groom Lake, Nevada, is named in the scientist’s honor.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ Lewis Dixon arranges for the ape couple and their child to be buried together. A scientist who proposes
they instead be stuffed and exhibited in a museum barely escapes being killed by his own students. Nearby
police, touched by the chimps' plight, stand by and do nothing to protect the man.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization. Apparently, the U.S.
government opts not to dissect them, which seems a rather unusual oversight given their
special nature, and the known fate of mankind.
c. June 1973
◆ Armando’s Old-Time Circus closes up shop in California and heads for Florida. As his staff breaks down
the tents, Señor Armando caresses young Milo—still wearing the Saint Francis medal—and tells him he’s
very intelligent, like his parents. In response, the infant repeatedly utters his first word, “mama.”
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Armando renames Milo “Caesar” to hide his identity as the apeonauts’ son.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: Presumably, he also changes the baby’s gender on all records—after all, Heloise
delivered a female child.
1972 - 1973
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
NOTE: This placement is conjectural, based on the usual age of a college student.
◆ During his junior year, Burke makes a particularly unpopular play during a game against Ohio State.
Planet of the Apes episode #2: “The Gladiators” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ In his senior year, during the final quarter of a game between Michigan and Michigan State, with a score of
14-14, Burke experiences a moment of panic when the punter kicks the ball his way and he notices the other
team’s linemen running toward him.
Planet of the Apes episode #12: “The Cure” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ During this period, Dr. Walter Mather, F.A.C.S., of the Hanson Clinic, develops a reputation as one
of the greatest surgeons of his era. Pete Burke is familiar with the man’s work.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (AW-n) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
◆ Dr. Mather writes a medical reference book titled Principles of Surgery, containing detailed explanations of BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
human anatomy, as well as a variety of advanced surgical techniques. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
1973 To 1981 GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ Space exploration grows. Unmanned probes soar to the stars and back, thanks to Hasslein’s discovery of MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
faster-than-light travel, and manned flights over vast distances become common. Earth’s governments grow MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
ever more totalitarian, however, to handle increasing economic, political and energy pressures. All data NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
regarding the lost spaceships, and the future revealed by Zira and Cornelius, is locked away under heavy SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
security clearance, and the “talking chimpanzee” story is publicly denounced as a hoax. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: This partially explains why the astronauts from both the television series and MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
cartoons have no knowledge of the ape-controlled future only a few years later… but
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
not entirely. A lot of people saw the apes, both on TV and at public events, surrounded c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
by government officials and other notable persons—for the masses to then accept the d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
apeonauts as a hoax seems rather far-fetched. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
1973 To 1991 m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
◆ For a time, Señor Armando’s circus operates under the name Armando’s Marvelous Menagerie Circus. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Little Caesar” (MR-c) s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
NOTE: This tale was published as a sneak preview in issue #1 of Mr. Comics’ Big Max, u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
under the title “Armando’s Marvelous Menagerie Circus.” v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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◆ Since only Armando knows Caesar’s true identity, the chimp must act unintelligent around humans.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Having gestated during time travel, Caesar perceives the past, present and future simultaneously. Thus, as a
young ape, he knows he will one day become a revolutionary, and dreams of events he will never witness,
such as Taylor’s detonation of the Alpha-Omega Bomb. Disturbed, Caesar wonders how hatred could so
fully consume a person.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ Armando’s animals, in tune with Caesar’s mind, bend easily to his will. If Caesar dreams of them doing
tricks, they do so days later, without training. Unsure if he’s seeing the future or dreaming it into reality,
Caesar finds his abilities frightening, but Armando says it’s a gift from God—and since it helps him earn a
tidy living, all the better.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Little Caesar” (MR-c)
NOTE: This might not be as far-fetched as it seems. Fox’s Preliminary Production
Notes for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes describe Caesar as “a chimpanzee with
supernatural powers,” and the film hints at such abilities when Caesar communicates
non-verbally with other apes. It’s possible Zira may have possessed such powers as well,
as she somehow communicates to Heloise her intention to switch babies in Escape from
the Planet of the Apes.
◆ At night, young Caesar frequently awakens screaming from his visions. Armando assures the young chimp
they’re only nightmares, but Caesar realizes his foster-father does not entirely believe that himself.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
◆ Among the circus apes is an orangutan named Mandemus, who acquires the power of speech from being in
Caesar’s proximity. History will later record other apes (Aldo and Lisa) as the first primitive apes to speak,
overlooking Mandemus’ achievement.
Empire on the Planet of the Apes (MR-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Ty Templeton, author of Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, posted this tidbit
on the POTA Yahoo Group as a hint at his plans for a proposed follow-up to that comic-
book miniseries.
1974 - 1990
girlfriend Michelle, however, decides he’s lost touch with reality and ends their relationship. Zane flies to
Houston, Texas, to meet with Dr. Krigstein, a top-level NASA administrator. He explains his fascination
with Hasslein’s theories, and his belief that Taylor’s crew entered a time warp. Krigstein scoffs at the idea,
however, so Zane tests the machine himself and is propelled to the year 3975.
Planet of the Apes #9: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—The Trip” (MC-c)
NOTE: Since Marvel’s comic adaptation sets the first film in 3975 instead of 3978, it’s
safe to assume the 3975 placement of this story is meant to imply Zane arrives in the same
year as Taylor’s crew. I’ve kept the 3975 setting, however, as his arriving too soon makes
his tale that much more tragic. Why Zane would contact NASA, though, instead of ANSA
(for whom Taylor worked) is unclear. Dialog in an unpublished Marvel comic entitled
“Journey to the Planet of the Apes” sets this tale in early 1974.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
◆ Abe (last name unknown), future teacher and advisor to Caesar, is born. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: Since Abe’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Noah Keen’s age BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
(46) when the film (set in 2020) was produced. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
BEFoRE 1976 CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Scientist Dr. Stanton puts forth his controversial “time-thrust” theory that humans can propel themselves FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
into the future if they travel fast enough. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: How Stanton’s theory relates to similar (and already proven) notions theorized MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
by Dr. Otto Hasslein is unclear. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ While learning to fly, astronaut Bill Hudson learns that “heroes can’t imagine their own death, and that’s why SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
they are heroes.” He disagrees, however, believing the concept applies to all people, not just to heroes. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #9: “Trail to the Unknown” (BB-n)
MEDIUM
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
◆ During his NASA training, Hudson learns to will himself asleep whenever and wherever necessary. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (BB-n) e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
◆ Hudson spends time on a debating team, but fails to perform well. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #5: “Lagoon of Peril” (BB-n) p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ NASA astronaut Jeff Allen learns about old-time freight trains from magazines belonging to his cousin
Benny, who has a passion for trains and maintains an elaborate electric-train layout.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #8: “Screaming Wings” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
1974 - 1990
◆ Allen watches an old black-and-white Quatermass film on television, starring Brian Donlevy, and is struck
by how much scarier a partially human monster can be than one that is pure creature.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #9: “Trail to the Unknown” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ A NASA spaceship makes a forced landing in a small Arab country. A sheik scavenges its computer and
sells it to China for 100 million dollars. Accessing its files, the Chinese government learns that the civilian-
run program had conducted military reconnaissance in the Far East. This embarrasses the U.S. government,
and NASA vows never again to let that happen. Thereafter, all spacecraft computers are equipped with
key-operated explosives to keep them from falling into unfriendly or mercenary hands.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #5: “Lagoon of Peril” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Laser technology progresses to the point that handheld lasers become standard equipment aboard NASA
spacecraft such as the Venturer.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #7: “River of Flames” (NB-a)
◆ NASA astronaut Judy Franklin flies a P-40 World War II fighter plane in an air show.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #8: “Screaming Wings” (NB-a)
1976
◆ Production begins on Ever-Seal butane lighters.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Unearthly Prophecy” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
August 6, 1976
◆ Three NASA astronauts—Cmdr. Bill Hudson, Jeff Allen and Judy Franklin—launch from Earth on an
interstellar mission aboard the spacecraft Venturer.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
NOTE: The novelization reveals Hudson’s rank but sets the launch in 1979.
◆ The Venturer crew fails to return from its mission and is presumed dead. To honor the astronauts, NASA
1974 - 1990
erects stone busts in New York City in their likenesses.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Unearthly Prophecy” (NB-a)
NOTE: It’s unknown if busts were erected for Taylor’s, Brent’s and Virdon’s crews.
EARLy 1977
◆ Investigating the 1974 disappearance of inventor Derek Zane—who, convinced the Liberty 1 crew was
lost in time, built a time machine to rescue them from the future—NASA’s Dr. Krigstein finds scientific
papers Zane left behind in his apartment. Among these are plans for a Temporal Displacement Module
(time machine), based on Hasslein’s theories of dimensional matrices, infinite regression, curved time
and alternative time-tracks. Krigstein deems the equations revolutionary, and NASA spends nine months
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
building its own model, Chronos I, to mount a rescue. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed so BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
as not to conflict with the cartoon—was never released due to Marvel’s decision to stop BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
publishing Apes comics as of issue #29, in response to increased licensing fees. Details of BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
the story come from an outline and dialog breakdown provided by author Doug Moench. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
The year changes from 1976 to 1977 in the transition from story breakdown to script; I
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
have adhered to the latter date. Despite the events of the third film, NASA seems unaware ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
of the future ape-controlled society. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
LATE 1977 HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ NASA calls a top-priority meeting for staff and press and announces the construction of Chronos I. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Krigstein tells attendees that NASA will soon complete the device, and plans to send a team of astronauts PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
to rescue Zane from the year 3977. Two “tempunauts,” Mara Winston and Jackson Brock, are chosen for SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
the mission. Brock, however—who volunteered only so he can profit from knowledge of the future—cares UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
little for Zane’s safety.
MEDIUM
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished) a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
noVEMBER 29, 1977 d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
◆ The day before the launch of Chronos I, a newspaper headline reads “Time Trip Set for Tomorrow— f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
Tempunauts in Good Spirits, Say NASA.” m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished) n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ Derek Zane finally returns to his own era, along with Mara and a chimp fugitive named Faron, whom he
befriended in the future. However, Zane feels like a misfit in this world he once knew. Missing Lady Andrea
(his future wife), Zane builds another time machine so he can return to 40th-century Avedon.
Planet of the Apes: “Beyond the Planet of the Apes” [multiple issues] (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Doug Moench’s story breakdown for “Journey to the Planet of the Apes”
concludes with notes to artist Val Mayerik and editor John David Warner, detailing
future plans to craft a “movie sequel” spanning eight to ten issues involving an ape
culture similar to that from Pierre Boulle’s novel The Monkey Planet. Other multi-issue
“sequels” would have followed, each starring Zane and friends as the main cast. The
first of these would have been “Beyond the Planet of the Apes.” Moench’s notes do not
indicate the mechanism for traveling back in time, but he describes this story arc as “John
Chimper of Mars,” a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars novels.
Zane’s return to 3977, Moench says, would have occurred around issue #60 or so, had
the series run that long.
Late 1970s
◆ U.S. scientists begin experimenting with solar-powered batteries.
El Planeta de Los Simios #4: “Ultrasonic” (ET-c)
NOTE: This Spanish-language comic was released only in Argentina.
◆ San Francisco outfits its Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway trains with nuclear energy. Subway
stations are illuminated with lights powered by solar energy batteries drawing electricity from large solar
shields. Other innovations include a “meal in a pill,” eaten three times daily in lieu of food—for full vitamin
content with no caloric intake; painless organ replacement in a day, developed by CA3; disposable clothing,
meant to be worn and then washed down the drain; and Cefaloradion’s electronic neurological monitor
(ENM), a device hooked to the head to provide emotional stability to the distressed.
Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Trap” (CB-t)
NOTE: Some product details appear onscreen on subway-station posters; others are
noted in the episode’s script.
◆ NASA produces an experimental spacecraft, 30 feet wide by 8 feet high. A ruthless Nazi-esque
criminal named Trang steals the ship and travels with his followers to the year 3085, hoping to
subjugate the planet.
Planet of the Apes—4 Exciting New Stories #3: “Battle of Two Worlds” (PR-r)
NOTE: The following entries are undated, but must occur before the astronauts’ mission
to Alpha Centauri.
◆ Alan Virdon and Pete Burke are assigned a mission for ANSA. After preflight indoctrination, the duo enjoy
a relaxing couple of days at Hanson Point, on the shore of California. Virdon’s wife Sally is there, while
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Burke is accompanied by a redhead named Jan Adams. Burke carves her initials in a beach cave—the only
woman ever to inspire such tribute from the ladies’ man.
Planet of the Apes episode #8: “The Deception” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization. The script erroneously places the
astonauts’ vacation at Pebble Beach.
◆ Pete Burke meets Verina, a fellow ANSA astronaut-in-training. Though she is younger than he, the two
become friends.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #3: “From Out of the Sky” (BW-c)
of which would not be part of an astronaut’s standard training. It’s unknown when they
learned to do the following tasks, or the order in which this training occurred, but clearly
it all must have been before their mission to Alpha Centauri.
◆ Burke trains in the Japanese art of kendo and learns to fight with knives.
Planeta de Los Simios #7: “The Circus” (ET-c)
◆ Both men are trained how to destroy a building with a controlled explosion.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #2: “Pit of Doom” (BW-c)
◆ Virdon learns how to erect a fulcrum-and-pulley system capable of lifting heavy objects.
Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Trap” (CB-t)
◆ Virdon and Burke are trained in such advanced agricultural methods as windmill power, irrigation, soil-
tilling and constructing sturdy fences.
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
◆ Virdon and Burke are trained as expert fishermen—including, apparently, how to kill a shark with a knife.
They also learn how to weave nets and construct elaborate rafts by hand, using logs and rope.
Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Tomorrow’s Tide” (CB-t)
◆ Burke is trained in advanced human anatomy, including how to perform blood transfusions.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t)
◆ Burke and Virdon learn how to recognize the symptoms and causes of malaria, and how to cure the disease
using quinine from a cinchona tree.
Planet of the Apes episode #12: “The Cure” (CB-t)
◆ Both men are trained to recognize biological weaponry used in germ warfare, and how to protect themselves
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in the event of such an outbreak.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #2: “Pit of Doom” (BW-c)
◆ They learn to construct gas masks from scratch, using wet cloth and ground charcoal, as well as how to
create a tourniquet to stop bleeding.
Planet of the Apes episode #13: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
◆ The duo also learn how to recognize the effects of wine laced with opium.
El Planeta de Los Simios #6: “The Zombies” (ET-c)
◆ Virdon learns how to build a goniometric radiometer—a device used to measure the far-field irradiance
pattern of a divergent source such as a light-emitting diode (LED), laser diode (LD) or fiber tip—and how
to use the instrument to track radio broadcasts.
El Planeta de Los Simios #3: “The Beach of Time” (ET-c)
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◆ The Blue Star, a missile-equipped USAF spaceship, encounters an electrical storm near Alpha Centauri.
Propelled in time to the year 3085, the vessel is presumed lost.
El Planeta de Los Simios #5: “The Star Gods” (ET-c)
NOTE: This Spanish-language comic was released only in Argentina. The Blue Star is
said to have been lost two months before the launch of Virdon’s and Burke’s mission.
◆ Two months later, Virdon, Burke and a third officer nicknamed Jonesy begin a long-range reconnaissance
mission to circumnavigate the Belt of Orion and its moons, aboard an ANSA spacecraft called Probe Six.
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t)
NOTE: The ship’s name and mission are revealed in the Planet of the Apes Initial Concept
Pages. It’s unclear when Probe Six launched, but since it reached Alpha Centauri by
1980, it likely left Earth some time in the 1970s.
◆ When Burke vanishes, his friend and fellow astronaut, Verina, is still in the Space Academy.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #3: “From Out of the Sky” (BW-c)
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Rae’s Planet of the Apes: The Television Series Website.
circa 2150 and 2200. The event is undated, but presumably occurs in the late 20th century,
before the nuclear war.
Late 1981
◆ Caesar, age 8½, begins bareback-riding acrobatics with Señor Armando’s circus. Across the country,
meanwhile, political repression forces small circuses to play to increasingly dwindling audiences. This
enables Caesar to avoid dangerous publicity, away from the prying eyes of city governments.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: Marvel’s chronology places this event in 1980, which does not jibe with the films,
given his birth in early 1973. Therefore, I have moved it to late 1981.
1981 to 1992
◆ At the circus, Caesar leads a chimp acrobat group known as the Soaring Simians. Other performers include
Pierre the Mute Mountain and an elephant named Sheba, with Armando as emcee and snake-charmer. Paula
Dean, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), accuses Armando of mistreating
his animals. He assures her his methods are humane, but when she threatens to call the press, he pulls up
stakes and heads for Mexico to protect Caesar. Meanwhile, the chimp’s dreams foretell a future of bombs,
war, scar-faced masked men and gorilla hunting parties—and everything can talk (horses, cats, dogs, even
Pierre). Armando assures him not every dream will come true, but the deaf-mute Pierre—suddenly able to
speak—responds that it will.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Little Caesar” (MR-c)
NOTE: This tale was published as a sneak preview in issue #1 of Mr. Comics’ Big Max,
under the title “Armando’s Marvelous Menagerie Circus.” Paula Dean is named for
Apes screenwriter Paul Dehn.
◆ As more visions come to pass, Caesar realizes he’s dreaming the future into being. One particular vision
haunts him, in which his grandchildren fight in a global war with humans, destroying the moon in “an orgy
of violence and madness.” He sees his sons and daughter, far off in his future, one of whom he knows will
die by violence. Armando calls the dreams a gift from God, not to be questioned, but still Caesar wonders:
If he stops dreaming about the future, will that prevent the sky from catching fire?
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
NOTE: Caesar foresees the death of his first son, Cornelius, as a child. Marvel’s timeline
in Planet of the Apes #11 claims Caesar had no offspring after Cornelius, but the
Adventure comics feature a grandson, Alexander. Since Cornelius can’t be the father,
this implies a sibling. Revolution on the Planet of the Apes backs this up, revealing a
daughter and at least one more son in addition to Cornelius.
FEBRuARy 1983
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◆ A plague devastates Earth, ravaging the planet in months. Thousands of dogs and cats die, and thousands
more are destroyed to prevent further infection. Huge dog bonfires are held, and mankind is left without
its favorite pets. The Pet Memorial, a statue of a dog and a cat, is erected not far from the Mall of the Four
Muses to commemorate the loss of man’s best friends. Humans and most other animals are unaffected by
the plague—for a time.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Cornelius says the plague lasted weeks, but Armando indicates (in Conquest of
the Planet of the Apes) that it spread for months. Armando’s account seems more likely
since it occurred in his lifetime, while Cornelius’ knowledge comes from ancient records.
The year of the plague (1983) is established on the memorial, though the novelization and
Marvel’s Conquest adaptation claim 1982; the February setting is revealed in a timeline PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection Blu-Ray set. That
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
chronology establishes two parallel histories for the Apes mythos, dating the original AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
timeline’s plague at 2050 and the revised version in 1983. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ The plague kills off most wolves as well. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Ape Nation #1: “Plans” (AC-c) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Some cats survive the plague. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ Some dogs survive as well. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ Humans and all simian species, even the smallest, are thought immune to the virus. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Some suspect the plague to have been brought back to Earth by an unmanned space probe.
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indicates the public story to be a space-borne virus. Fans have also speculated that the u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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1983 to 1986
◆ Humanity faces the first repercussions of the plague. Anxious to replace their lost pets, humans turn to small
primates, birds, lizards and other creatures. The primates, the most useful and easiest to train, gradually
become the most common household animal.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ Marmosets and Tarsier monkeys are among the first primates taken as pets.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (MC-c)
NOTE: This information comes from Marvel’s comic adaptation of the film.
◆ Eventually, human pet owners turn to apes. Though not as intelligent as man, apes are said to be 20 times’
smarter than cats and dogs, and learn quickly from living in human homes.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: A timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection
indicates that by July 1983, apes become the predominantly popular choice for pets. That
governments would still allow this, however, knowing mankind’s fate, is unfathomable.
◆ Humans gradually take larger simians as pets. During this generation of primates, the plague’s genetic
effects first manifest: Their stature increases, as does intelligence in the larger orders.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: This was Marvel’s attempt to reconcile the future apes’ increased height with that
of real-life simians. What it doesn’t explain is why no one in 1973—a decade before such
effects would surface—seemed to find it odd that the apeonauts were so tall.
◆ The primitive apes begin to comprehend the languages of their human masters, and quickly evolve from
simply performing tricks to rendering services.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Thus, rather than pets, humans quickly realize the apes’ value as servants and laborers.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
NOTE: In Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Cornelius claims it will take two centuries
for primitive apes to evolve into servants, but it occurs in just eight years. Some cite this
as evidence of an altered timeline, though Cornelius may have read inaccurate scrolls.
NOVEMBER 1984
◆ Increasing international hostilities cause an upset in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, resulting in a
complete regime change. Tensions between superpower countries mount, and worldwide production of
devastating nuclear weapons increases rapidly.
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: Timeline (FX-x)
◆ Using negative reinforcement, severe punishments and such fear-inducing tactics as fire to scare the
simian servants into submission, Ape Management’s trainers condition the apes to respond to single-word
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commands such as “Do.”
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The Ape Management complex is headquartered in a facility spanning ten city blocks.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
NOTE: The location of Ape Management is a source of some debate. The Conquest
novelization implies it's in California, and Marvel's timeline and Revolution on the Planet
of the Apes concur with this placement, Revolution specifically setting it in San Diego.
Script treatments for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the
Apes, however, place both films on the East Coast, setting the stage for Beneath the Planet
of the Apes' New York setting for the mutant population and the Alpha-Omega Bomb.
◆ The facility is located two blocks east of 11th Avenue. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ Ape Management becomes a thriving institution, teaching servant apes to clean houses, carry packages, BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
shine shoes, shop, bus tables, run errands and perform other chores humans once did for themselves. To BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
reward them for their services, humans “pay” obedient apes with raisins and other treats. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Chimps, orangutans and bonobos are primarily trained as domestic servants, while gorillas are mainly used FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
as laborers. Treated far worse than other simians, the gorillas grow to fear and resent humanity. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Empire on the Planet of the Apes (MR-c, unpublished) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: Details of this proposed sequel to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes were MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
provided by authors Ty Templeton and Joe O’Brien. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ A book about brainwashing techniques is published, title and author unknown. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
Planet of the Apes episode #10: “The Interrogation” (CB-t) UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Alma (first name unknown), future mutant and assistant to Governor Arthur Vernon Kolp, is born. MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
NOTE: Since Alma’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actress France Nuyen’s c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
age (34) when the film (set in 2020) was produced. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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brainwashing, published in 1986. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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Coast, setting the stage for Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ New York setting for the
mutant population and the Alpha-Omega Bomb. Trundy is named after actress Natalie
Trundy, who appeared in four of the original Planet of the Apes films.
◆ The U.S. government grows increasingly more authoritarian over a short period of time. A reverse
migration from the suburbs into the cities results in large towns devolving into feudal ports surrounded
by farmlands known as provinces. With this increase in governmental structure, a slave class develops—
namely, the apes.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ Due to rising levels of pollution, the air in California becomes increasingly unbreathable.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
◆ To bring the pollution level in the provinces under control and clean California’s air, the U.S. government
builds a massive air-purification plant in the Rocky Mountains.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ The government also constructs a series of huge air-scrubbing plants along a mountain chain a hundred
miles east of San Diego.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
1987
◆ Carson McCormick is hired by Ape Management Publications (AMP) to write instructional pamphlets
for human owners, explaining how to handle apes within the home. The more he witnesses at his job,
however, the more McCormick grows uncomfortable with ape enslavement, knowing it will one day
backfire on humanity.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
◆ Jake, a future human citizen of Ape City during Caesar’s reign, is born.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Jake’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Michael Stearns’
age (33) when the film (set in 2020) was produced.
◆ To ensure that ape supply can meet human demand, the U.S. government begins administering fertility
drugs to the simian population.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
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NOTE: These drugs may have had other effects as well, such as stimulating speech
centers and minds. It’s also possible they were created from the deceased apeonauts’
DNA, collected before they were buried.
◆ Eventually, the integration of apes into human society grows so complete that gas stations and other public
areas begin providing separate rest rooms for simians.
The Forbidden Zone #1: “Part One—Forbidden Knowledge” (AC-c)
◆ Señor Armando tells Caesar about the circumstances surrounding his birth and his parents’ deaths. As he
grows older, Caesar’s dreams grow clearer and more vivid, revealing faces and places he doesn’t know, and
he wonders if they are memories passed down by his parents. Seeing how different he is than other apes,
Caesar sometimes wishes he couldn’t speak, but Armando says he’s special—not just because he can speak,
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
but because he can think and reason, and see things in a way other apes cannot. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: The exact date is not provided, just that it occurred when Caesar was “older.” BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ As the world’s political climate spirals out of control, a group of U.S. scientists, realizing war is imminent, BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
builds secret repository vaults throughout the country, uploading the sum total of human knowledge into CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
large computers, along with a holographic recording to educate future generations. One such repository is DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
hidden in the basement of the Oakland Science Institute, a government think-tank in California. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Planet of the Apes episode #5: “The Legacy” (CB-t) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ The U.S. government launches a spaceship containing four astronauts: Taylor, Thomas, LaFever and HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Bengsten. Lost in a time warp, the ship is propelled forward to the 3070s. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t) NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
NOTE: Little is known about this mission other than a few references in episode #1 of the SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TV series. The astronauts’ names are noted in an early-draft script of the first episode, TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
written by Rod Serling; the names Thomas and LaFever are holdovers from Serling’s UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
early-draft script from the first Planet of the Apes film, in which George Taylor and John
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Landon are known, respectively, as John Thomas and Paul LaFever. It’s unrecorded if a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
this Taylor is related to George Taylor and his daughters, Jo and Tammy. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
NOTE: Ten episodes of the TV series were re-edited to create five telefilms, which ABC n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
affiliates aired with newly filmed framing footage starring Roddy McDowall as Galen. All p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
that is known about these astronauts is that Galen tells them of his adventures with Alan r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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although the space program is said to be falling out of favor, several more space missions
occur after this period.
◆ During this period, a strong anti-ape sentiment begins to build, as many humans feel threatened by the ever-
growing simian population.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “For Human Rights” (MR-c)
BEFORE 1988
◆ The U.S. government faces a string of catastrophes, including a war in Venezuela and a nuclear meltdown
in Utah. California endures increased unemployment, a massive earthquake, environmental setbacks and a
poor economy.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “For Human Rights” (MR-c)
1988
◆ Grace Alexander, a future medical officer aboard the USAF Oberon, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Alexander’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actress Anne
Ramsay’s age (41) when the film (set in 2029) was produced.
◆ Jo Taylor, daughter of missing ANSA astronaut George Taylor, follows in her father’s footsteps by joining
the U.S. space program.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
NOTE: The events of this story are undated. I have placed the departure of Jo Taylor’s
mission in 1990, setting her entry in the space program—two years prior—in 1988.
However, since her departure year is not set in stone, this date is open to debate.
◆ Governor Arthur Bishop Trundy capitalizes on anti-ape sentiments by running for the U.S. presidency
on a “manifest human superiority” platform, touting the slogan “For Human Rights.” At a political rally,
Trundy mocks the incumbent president’s pro-science stance, warning that some apes are learning Sign
Language and will soon demand a right to vote. Radical activist Chris Leung attends the rally, intending to
assassinate him for focusing on the ape crisis to the exclusion of all other issues. Sensing his intentions, a
gorilla servant named Toby knocks the gun from his hand. Guards shoot Toby, mistaking the ape’s actions
as a threat, and Leung escapes, leaving Trundy’s security chief, Segarini, wondering if the gorilla gave its
life to save a human.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “For Human Rights” (MR-c)
◆ Arnold Jason Breck, a power-hungry, self-important fascist, succeeds Trundy as governor. Threatened
1974 - 1990
by the rising ape population, Breck makes this issue a priority for his administration. Breck sees apes
as a reflection of man’s darker, more primal side, his hatred fueled by a desire to extinguish humanity’s
primitive past.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The film’s novelization gives Breck the first name Jason, but Revolution #1 calls
him Arnold; I have thus combined the two to reconcile the discrepancy.
◆ A road four blocks to the west of Ape Management’s main facility is renamed in Breck’s honor.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ An underground archives section is added to Ape Management’s main facility beneath the corner of Breck
and Ackerman, two blocks west of 11th Ave and built to withstand the blast of a 10-megaton atomic bomb.
Among the records are sealed tapes of Cornelius and Zira, revealing mankind’s fate. This area is supervised
1974 - 1990
◆ The United States faces a military threat to national security. Trundy sends members of the National Guard
to handle it, deploying two-thirds of the Guard overseas, thus leaving the country vulnerable.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Part Two: Lines of Communication” (MR-c)
NOTE: This deployment is likely a comment on the Iraq War and President George W.
Bush. Whether either is part of Planet of the Apes history, however, remains unknown.
c. 1988 to 1990
◆ For two years, astronaut Jo Taylor—daughter of the late George Taylor—works her way up the chain of
command, seeking answers regarding the sealed records of her father’s disappearance. At long last, she
meets someone with the necessary computer codes and learns of his (and Earth’s) fated demise in 3979.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
NOTE: These events are undated, but must occur between Jo’s entrance into the space
program, circa 1988, and her mission departure in or around 1990.
1989
◆ Outnumbered by ape workers three to one, humans officially become a U.S. minority.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ The last of a series of air-scrubbing plants is constructed in California, along a mountain chain 100 miles
east of San Diego, at a cost of billions of dollars. In conjunction with stringent laws, the plants begin to
make the air in this part of the state breathable again.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
1974 - 1990
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
BEFoRE 1990
◆ The U.S. government creates the Vindicator Project, a top-secret operation intended to prevent Earth
from becoming the ape-controlled society described by Zira and Cornelius. A specialized flying vehicle,
energized by a power crystal, is designed to carry covert operatives into the future and back.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c)
NOTE: If preventing such a future was so important, one wonders why the U.S.
government sanctioned using apes as pets, and then servants, in the first place—it had PUBLISHER / STUDIO
been forewarned, after all. Presumably, the Vindicators’ ship uses technology similar to AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Derek Zane’s Temporal Displacement Module. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
1990 BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
◆ Determined to avenge the death of her father (Col. George Taylor), and to alter the future that killed him, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
astronaut Jo Taylor volunteers for the Vindicator Project. A crew of specialists is selected to join her, four DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
of whom—Scab, Devon, Moriah and π [pi]—are convicted killers offered amnesty for undertaking the ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
mission. The sixth team member, MX, is a fellow volunteer. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
NOTE: These events are undated. I have placed the ship’s year of departure in 1990 (the MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
year the story was published), allowing Jo ample time to grow to adulthood. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ MX, who lives only to fight, thinks he is perpetually involved in World War II. Jo Taylor is unimpressed SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
with any of her teammates. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
MEDIUM
◆ The Vindicator Project launches, propelling the team forward in time to the year 2140. Their mission: to kill a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
as many apes as possible, thereby giving humans a fighting chance to regain dominancy. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c) d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
◆ Congress passes the Media Act, making it a crime to broadcast unauthorized footage. Meanwhile, the FCC p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
is rolled into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, making television a lot less interesting. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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NOTE: Apparently, Homeland Security is established a decade earlier in the Planet of u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
the Apes universe. v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
#11 places the film in April 1991, setting the martial law declaration in October 1990.
BEFORE 1991
◆ Heeding the apeonauts’ warning regarding Earth’s future destruction, mankind launches a colony ship
carrying 40 females and 10 males into space in suspended animation, intending to preserve the species on
another planet. The ship enters a Hasslein Curve, however, and is propelled to approximately 5000 A.D.
Sky Gods #1 (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Roland Mann, author of Adventure’s Blood of the Apes, proposed this four-issue
miniseries (alternately titled “Second Coming”) to creative director Tom K. Mason as
well. Although Mason greenlit the proposal, it was ultimately scrapped before going to
contract, when Malibu opted to scale back its Planet of the Apes titles. The proposal
does not indicate when the story occurs, though it most likely takes place before Caesar’s
rebellion in 1991.
◆ A scientist studying how memory is stored and passed down through generations creates a clone of Cornelius
(from genetic material collected during his visit to 1973) and names him Janus. The clone retains Cornelius’
memories and tells him of Earth’s future destruction. The scientist seeks a way to stop George Taylor from
detonating the Alpha-Omega Bomb, but realizes the forces leading to that destruction are already in motion
and out of his control. He, therefore, focuses not on altering the future, but rather on creating a plan to
ensure the planet survives the bomb’s detonation. To that end, he develops an energy device as a defense
against the missile, enabling the weapon’s destructive power to be shunted into space.
Redemption of the Planet of the Apes (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black creator and author of Adventure’s The
Forbidden Zone, proposed this four-issue miniseries to creative director Tom K. Mason
as well. However, Cunningham says, the idea was rejected for being similar to the Planet
of the Apes film remake then being considered, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This
comic would have continued in the era of the first two films. It should be noted that
Cornelius could not have known about the Alpha-Omega Bomb, or Taylor’s part in
detonating it—just that the world melted.
◆ Blogging becomes a common practice for radical activisits opposing the oppressive government.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
1974 - 1990
NOTE: Given the decade-early development of the Internet, it’s natural that blogging
would begin earlier as well.
◆ A book is published offering futuristic depictions of what New York City might be like in 2503. The book
also contains photos of gorillas in cages.
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t)
NOTE: The TV series shows New York in fine condition 500 years after being leveled in
a nuclear war. I, therefore, assume the book was published pre-war, featuring artistic
interpretations of a possible future. Some fans cite the book as evidence the later films
altered the timeline, or that the TV show exists in an alternate timeline.
◆ Dr. Karl Reich of the Presidential Science Council, a wheelchair-bound man who keeps a pet monkey on
his shoulder, presents controversial theories regarding the potential intelligence of apes. Reich makes many
enemies for espousing such beliefs and is deemed paranoid for claiming the child of Cornelius and Zira may
have survived.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Part Four: Truth and Consequences” (MR-c)
◆ To prevent mass panic, Nora Rhodes, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of media, publicly discredits Reich.
This greatly weakens his position as a prominent scientific figure, for which he never forgives her.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ Astronaut August Anne Burrows suffers a series of emotional scars caused by a bad marriage, the deaths of
her parents and growing up in a male-dominated society.
Planet of the Apes #14: “Countdown Zero—Part One” (AC-c)
◆ Karen Carroll, a young reporter for a New York-based tabloid publication, People News Monthly, covers a
controversial incident in Colorado Springs but is humiliated when her article is retracted.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “People News” (MR-c)
NOTE: This tale was previewed online at http://www.mrcomics.ca/freestory.html, but is
no longer available at that site. The preview was entitled “People in the News,” but
the print issue’s contents page lists it as “People News.” Carroll’s first name does not
appear in the published comic, but can be found in the script.
◆ Governor Arnold Jason Breck and his wife have a son. She lets the baby pick his own name by pointing to
a baby-naming book. Charmed, Breck uses the same practice when naming ape servants.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ President Trundy deploys more than half of the National Guard to a crisis overseas, leaving the country
without the manpower required to deal with potential domestic threats. To supplement homeland forces,
Defense Secretary Culley Sparks implements a pilot program to turn gorillas into combat soldiers.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Part Four: Truth and Consequences” (MR-c)
◆ Sparks enacts his plan at Area 51’s Hasslein Air Force Base in Groom Lake, Nevada. There, a scientist
named Dr. Constantine genetically experiments on apes, attaching electrodes to their heads to enhance
intelligence so they can learn to fly jet planes and perform other advanced tasks.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ The government also develops the Authenticator, a computerized scanner chair designed to determine the
validity of a person’s responses to interrogation.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The device’s invention is undated, but must occur before its use on Armando.
◆ A children’s book is published entitled A Day at the Zoo, involving a family’s trip to the local zoo. Among
the book’s photos are shots of free humans gazing at caged apes.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Terror on Ice Mountain” (NB-a)
1974 - 1990
◆ Author Charles Winraad publishes a reference book entitled Archaic Genealogy.
Planet of the Apes #20: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Society of the Psychedrome” (MC-c)
◆ The U.S. government builds a network of trans-national transport tubes, designed to facilitate the movement
of people and supplies from one coast to the other.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ The U.S. Army constructs a biological weapons storage bunker in California, containing a number of deadly
plagues used in germ warfare.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #2: “Pit of Doom” (BW-c)
NOTE: It’s unknown if the plague materials were at all responsible for the eventual PUBLISHER / STUDIO
degeneration of mankind. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ Handheld, heat-powered radios come into use. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
El Planeta de Los Simios #3: “The Beach of Time” (ET-c) BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
◆ Also developed are solar-powered portable transceivers. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
El Planeta de Los Simios #4: “Ultrasonic” (ET-c) DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ A bubble-shaped city is built in the United States, its dome strong enough to withstand an atomic bomb. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed, MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
presumably, so as not to conflict with the cartoon series—was never released due to MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Marvel’s decision to stop publishing Planet of the Apes comics as of issue #29, in NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
response to increased licensing fees. The above details come from a story outline and PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
dialog breakdown provided by author Doug Moench. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Auditors at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., discover a narrated reel of 16-millimeter film
labeled “Project Liberty,” recorded by ANSA in 1972 to provide a “public service announcement” regarding MEDIUM
the history of its Liberty Project. The Library of Congress, confirming its importance to the U.S. Space a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Program, preserves the film unaltered, without editorial comment. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection: A Public Service Announcement From ANSA (FX-x) d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
1991 - 1992
◆ Concerned that the apes might one day rise up against mankind, Governor Breck orders the vicinity near
Ape Management and the Archives Section lined with surveillance cameras so as to forestall any ape
conspiracies.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Three of the six remaining circus troupes in the United States disband, leaving only Armando’s Old-Time
Circus and two competitors.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
◆ Brought back from cancellation, the popular television show B.J. and the Bear goes back into production BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
under a new title, B.J. and the Bear: Reloaded. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Astronauts Capt. James Norvell, August Anne Burrows and Lt. Ken Flip undertake the United States’ first ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
manned orbit of Mars. Due to communications equipment malfunction, the team loses contact with Earth FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
for the duration of their 18-month mission. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Planet of the Apes #15: “Countdown Zero—Part Two” (AC-c) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: Dayton Ward’s timeline, published in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles, dates MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
these events circa 1985. A Public Service Announcement From ANSA, a short film NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
included in the Blu-Ray release, sets the first Mars mission in the 1960s. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
◆ Eventually, the U.S. space program is shut down completely. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
MEDIUM
NOTE: It’s no wonder the government would finally shut down the space program— a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
the United States has lost a lot of spaceships to time warps and other anomalies. Later b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
stories—the animated series, Tim Burton’s “re-imagined” film and the Ubisoft video c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
game, for instance—show the space program still operating after this date, but many d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
consider the canonicity of those stories questionable.
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◆ The quickly evolving apes gain awareness of the concept of slavery. Meeting in small groups, they grunt m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
their refusal to obey their masters, thus sowing the seeds of discontent until it’s time to act. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
NOTE: Cornelius tells Hasslein it will take two centuries for primitive apes to recognize s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
their status as slaves. However, the final two films show this to occur at a much more u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
accelerated rate—possibly evidence of an altered timeline, or Cornelius may have been v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
misinformed by inaccurate scrolls. x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Businessman Leland Reilly suffers a coronary but survives the attack. Reilly and his wife are among
Governor Breck’s business associates.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information comes from the novelization of the film.
july 1991
1991 - 1992
◆ With attendance dropping off sharply, Señor Armando takes drastic action to avoid losing his circus: He
brings 18-year-old Caesar on a publicity tour to hand out fliers, hoping his star performer might inspire
increased interest.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film's novelization. The July setting is established
in a timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection. Revolution
on the Planet of the Apes places Conquest in San Diego, while Future News, a promotional
newspaper distributed during its theatrical release, sets it in a city known as Megalopolis,
which sports a New York zip code. Dayton Ward's timeline, meanwhile, published in The
Planet of the Apes Chronicles, sets the film in New York City.
◆ An ape assaults its owner and is killed escaping, its body covered with welts and bruises. When Armando and
Caesar arrive via helicopter the next day, they find apes enslaved in a Gestapo-esque shackle of oppression.
Armando shows Caesar the Pet Memorial and explains how the slavery evolved. While handing out fliers,
Caesar sees a chimp servant named Lisa at Jolly’s book store. The chimps transfix on one another as Lisa
delivers a note from Mrs. Reilly, requesting A Young Queen Falls. Other apes in town sense Caesar’s anger
and commit acts of rebellion: At an outdoor restaurant, a gorilla waiter called Frank misbehaves until his
handler, Mr. Lee, can reign him in; and at Henri’s Beauty Salon, a chimp named Zelda grooms Mrs. Reilly’s
hair instead of cutting it.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Marvel’s timeline in issue #11 places the film in April 1991 and the war in
1992; Revolution on the Planet of the Apes has the war happening weeks after the film.
Marvel’s comic adaptation sets the film in November 1991, enabling the war to occur
soon thereafter and still take place in 1992. Future News, a mock newspaper released to
promote the film, bears a date of May 22, 1992, but I have ignored that date since it does
not jibe with other evidence. Marvel’s adaptation names the salon Henri’s Beauty Salon,
while the novelization calls it Mr. Phyllis—Coiffures. The novelization identifies one of
the diners as Harry; another is called Charles onscreen. The Marvel adaptation names
Mr. Lee. The opening scene, of the ape being killed, appears in Marvel’s version, but not
in the final cut of the film.
◆ Carson McCormick senses rebellion in the air as he heads to Ape Management Publications that day.
Accepting a circus flier from Armando and Caesar, he smiles, recalling better days. His happiness ends at
work, however, when he senses that same change in Stella, his office ape.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
◆ A pair of handlers escorts an ape named Aldo to the Civic Center. The protestors bar the way, causing Aldo
to panic. Police beat him down for disobedience until Malcolm MacDonald orders them to stop. When they
continue, Caesar yells out “Lousy human bastards!” then runs off. Armando tells the police he said it, not
the chimp, then runs after Caesar, urging his foster-son to let him handle the authorities.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
1991 - 1992
NOTE: The film’s novelization identifies one of Aldo’s handlers as Leo.
◆ Carson McCormick works late when Breck orders pamphlets entitled Breeding Your Ape and Punishing
Your Ape. His secretary, Doris, finds such treatment distasteful. Carson heads home to his wife Ruth and
son Michael. Ruth wants a second ape, as they are the only single-ape family in the neighborhood, but
Carson is wary, knowing how man has mistreated them.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
◆ Armando appears before Breck, MacDonald and two members of the State Security Agency (SSA)—Chief AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Inspector Arthur Vernon Kolp and his assistant, Inspector Hoskyns. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ Kolp, Breck’s chief security advisor, is also a senior member of President Trundy’s Defense Council. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Part Four: Truth and Consequences” (MR-c) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Skeptical of Armando’s story, Breck and Kolp hold him in custody as his staff is questioned. Caesar sneaks ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
aboard the S.S. Pacifica, a cargo ship owned by Atomic General Lines Inc., and hides in a cage of orangutans GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
from Borneo. Fingerprinted and sent to Conditioning Cage 90, he witnesses apes being beaten and taunted HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
with fire and electricity, while a scientist named Dr. Bowen conditions them to fear the word “no.” Caesar is HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
placed in a cage with three other chimps. A kindly handler, Eddie Morris, gives him a banana, which Caesar MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
divides among the others. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
NOTE: Marvel names the Pacifica and Atomic General Lines. Morris’ first name appears TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
in that adaptation; his and Bowen’s last names can be found in the novelization. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
JuLy To sEPTEMBER 1991 b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
◆ To the humans’ amazement, Caesar excels at every task without conditioning. Impressed, Training Control d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
sends him to the Breeding Annex. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
◆ En route to the annex, Caesar passes a nursery full of ape children and is touched deeply. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
September 1991
◆ After two weeks in the Annex, Caesar is auctioned to Governor Breck for $1,500. Breck’s administrative
assistant, Morgan Pine, brings the governor an IQ profile showing ape scores have risen 3 2/3 points in four
weeks, with ape workloads improving. MacDonald teaches Caesar to mix drinks, which he pretends to do
wrong; Morgan suggests reconditioning, but MacDonald protests. Pulling out a book of names, Breck tells
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Caesar to pick one for himself (he chooses Caesar), then meets with the Defense Council. As MacDonald
takes Caesar to work at the Command Post, other apes gaze at him in awe. The chimp is assigned low-
priority filing duties, and is surprised to find Lisa working there as well.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The two-week figure and Morgan’s last name appear in the novelization. The
September setting is established in a timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th
Anniversary Collection.
◆ Caesar overhears snippets of a top-secret project, code-named “Churchdoor.” Ordered to deliver classified
documents about this project to the security section, he reads them en route and learns about the Alpha-
Omega Bomb—a “doomsday bomb” capable of destroying the world.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
◆ Having envisioned such a weapon as a youth, Caesar is horrified to find his dreams again coming true.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Part Five: Weapon of Choice” (MR-c)
◆ Kolp orders the distribution of a new AMP pamphlet, Punishing Your Ape. While writing the document,
Carson McCormick wonders what would happen if ever the simians revolted. Neither he nor his secretary
Doris notice their office ape, Stella, quietly pocketing Carson’s letter-opener.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
◆ Kolp and Hoskyns subject Armando to the Authenticator, a device designed to determine the validity of a
person’s claims. When asked if he’d heard of Cornelius before their meeting, he realizes he’s been exposed
and tries to escape. While struggling with a guard, he falls out a high window and dies. In the Command
Post, Caesar hears Breck and MacDonald discussing his foster-father’s death and cries with grief. Heading
outside, he sees a sign for the circus and screams in rage.
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◆ Caesar decides to halt human cruelty toward his kind. Stopping outside the gorilla messengers’ quarters, he
assures Aldo they’ll soon end their masters’ hold over them. He then snaps a broom in half, giving a piece
to Aldo, who breaks it as well. As he leaves, other gorillas tear the broom to pieces.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (MC-c)
NOTE: This scene appears in both the Marvel comic adaptation and the novelization.
The October setting is established in a timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th
Anniversary Collection.
◆ Over lunch, Carson McCormick stops for a shoe-shine, but the rebellious ape worker polishes his sock
instead of his shoe. His wife later visits his office, repeating her need for a second house-ape. That night, he
dreams of a circus in which ape clowns taunt a human audience.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
NOTE: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes shows the shoe-shining incident in a montage
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of ape disobedience, though McCormick is identified by name only in this comic.
◆ Caesar instructs Aldo and other messenger gorillas to meet him at a specific janitorial closet each day. Word
spreads to other apes, who join them in increasing numbers.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This occurs in the film’s novelization.
◆ At such meetings, Caesar alters shopping lists to include weapons, kerosene and other products. The apes PUBLISHER / STUDIO
continue staging acts of disobedience, such as setting fire to the restaurant. Furious, Breck disseminates the AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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Achilles List, then orders Malcolm MacDonald to locate the talking ape. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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◆ In an effort to recondition Aldo, Ape Management assigns the gorilla to Area 51 in Groom Lake, Nevada. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
There, his anger at humans worsens when he witnesses first-hand the atrocities to which scientists subject CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
the captive apes. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
◆ Under the Area 51 project, initiated by Defense Secretary Culley Sparks, gorillas’ intelligence is enhanced, HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
enabling them to speak and serve as combat soldiers. Driven by Caesar’s unconscious mind—and by his MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
own desire for revenge—Aldo learns all he can, yearning to turn man’s weapons against him. In time, Aldo MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
and other Area 51 enhanced gorillas learn to speak like humans. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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NOTE: In a posting at the POTA Yahoo Group, Revolution author Ty Templeton
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explained that the gorillas’ speech capability was made possible due to genetic and
biological experimentation. MEDIUM
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◆ Ape Management stops accepting apes for reconditioning, or importing new apes into the country, until the b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
crisis passes. Breck orders a new pamphlet from Ape Management Publications—How to Terminate Your d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
Ape—which makes Carson McCormick particularly uneasy. Meeting his friend Miles for lunch, he learns e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
that Armando jumped to his death from their building. Moments later, a gorilla nearly kills them both. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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◆ Caesar warns Eddie Morris to take cover, but the apes beat the handler to death. Caesar regrets that one of
the few humans to ever treat his people with kindness should meet so horrible a fate.
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◆ Caesar gains control of Ape Management. Breck calls a curfew, mobilizing all forces. When a television
program airs news of the rebellion, Breck tells MacDonald to order a retraction and claim the talking ape
has been executed.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Carson McCormick sees the newscast and calls his wife Ruth, but hears only the laughing growl of his
servant ape, Dina. He finds the slain body of his secretary Doris, then meets his own end when the office
ape, Stella, stabs him with a letter-opener. As McCormick dies, his last thoughts are of simpler times, and
of the circus.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Quitting Time” (AC-c)
NOTE: Presumably, Dina also kills Michael, McCormick’s son, though this is unstated.
◆ A scientist finishes building a device to prevent Earth’s future destruction by shunting the Alpha-Omega
Bomb’s energies into space. Fighting his way through the chaos caused by Caesar’s rebellion, he hides the
device—containing a cryotube holding Janus, a clone of Cornelius—within the Statue of Liberty, to be
activated in 3979. Since he knows, from the apeonauts’ testimonial, that parts of the statue will survive the
impending nuclear war, he hopes his plan to save the Earth from destruction has a high chance of success.
Redemption of the Planet of the Apes (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black creator and author of Adventure’s The
Forbidden Zone, proposed this four-issue miniseries to creative director Tom K. Mason
as well. However, Cunningham says, the idea was rejected for being similar to the Planet
of the Apes film remake then being considered, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This
unpublished comic would have continued during the era of the first two films.
◆ As the apes march along Alpha Blvd., soldiers gun down the first wave before the next takes them out. Riot-
control units attempt to stop them, but the apes are well-armed and organized. One ape tosses a firebomb,
the rest attacking from behind a wall of flame. Many die on both sides, but the apes prevail.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Alpha Blvd. is named in the film’s novelization.
◆ Some apes involved in storming Ape Management are trapped in the sub-basement with little food or water,
cut off from the rest of the rebellion.
Planet of the Apes #2: “The Monkey Planet—Escape” (AC-c)
◆ Caesar orders the Pet Memorial torn down, eliminating a reminder of man’s dominion over ape.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
◆ MacDonald begs Caesar to avoid violence, which would make the apes no better than their ex-masters, but
Caesar is unmoved. Apes on five continents will join them, he proclaims, and he shall lead them from the
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wasteland of human cities, showing no mercy. The apes stare in awe, raising rifles to execute Breck, until
Lisa utters “No!” and Caesar reconsiders. If it is God’s will that man be dominated, he declares, it must be
with compassion and understanding. As the apes revel in their victory, MacDonald eyes the first King of the
Apes, wondering what the future holds for both of their species.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: In an earlier cut of the film, Caesar did not stay Breck’s execution. That original
ending, along with other scenes of violence cut from the theatrical release, were restored PUBLISHER / STUDIO
in an extended-length Blu-Ray release, the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
A timeline in that box set establishes two parallel histories, dating the rise of apekind in AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
the original timeline from 2050 to 2550. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ As Caesar’s declaration airs on the Internet, a priest views the footage on a laptop computer. Noise erupts BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
outside as the rebellion reaches his temple, and he kneels before a crucifix, stunned that any animal but man CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
could have “the divine spark” of intelligence. He seeks Christ’s guidance, wondering if he should accept DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
speaking apes as brothers. A gorilla crashes into the room, but rather than embrace peace, the priest grabs a ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
cross and beats it to death, choosing a solution more befitting the Old Testament than the New. In its dying FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
breath, the animal utters a single word, “mercy,” but the man shows him none. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes: “The Believer” (MR-c, unpublished) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: This tale, intended as a Revolution back-up story, was written, penciled and MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
lettered by Sam Agro, but was excluded from the miniseries due to concerns over NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
religious overtones, as its conclusion featured the Lawgiver supplanting Christ. At PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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presstime, however, it was slated to appear in issue #16 of Simian Scrolls magazine, with
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the author’s permission. The use of a laptop in 1991 jibes well with the Internet, blogging UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
and other technological innovations occuring earlier in the Apes mythos.
MEDIUM
◆ Caesar names MacDonald his liaison between humanity and apekind, and imprisons Breck in a cell. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c) c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
◆ The ape leader then renames the territory “Ape City.” e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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◆ Armando’s Old-Time Circus, slated to play a venue not far from Ape Management, fails to make its t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
scheduled appointment. Without its founder and star performer, the circus presumably shuts down. u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (MC-c) x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
NOTE: This information comes from Marvel’s comic adaptation of the film. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ The press scrambles to reach Caesar, who—enjoying the title’s irony—grants an interview to People
News Monthly. He confirms being the apeonauts’ heir, and the New York tabloid covers his story in an
issue titled “Hail Caesar!” However, Nora Rhodes, the president’s media undersecretary, orders editor-in-
chief Ivan Livingstone to bury the story before it hits stands, denouncing the rebellion as a hoax. Citing
national security, she seizes the print run and demands the reporter, Karen Carroll, turn over all materials.
Carroll resists, as Webcasts are already carrying the news, but her publisher, Arthur Bergen, fears the
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administration’s wrath. She “buries” a copy in a titanium wall safe, vowing to get the news out. Livingstone
warns her not to throw her future away, but she knows they might not have a future if no one reads it.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “People News” (MR-c)
NOTE: This tale was previewed online at http://www.mrcomics.ca/freestory.html, but is
no longer available at that site. The preview was entitled “People in the News,” but the
print issue’s contents page lists it as “People News.”Carroll’s first name and Bergen’s
full name appear only in the comic’s script.
◆ Caesar’s ape dynasty initially spans the ten city blocks housing Ape Management, but other U.S. cities soon
face similar rebellions. The government tries to negotiate peace but Caesar refuses, prompting the Daily
News to report, “Caesar Says No to Negotiations.”
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ The day after the rebellion, pirate blogger Chris Leung watches Internet footage of the riot until the news
feed is terminated for violating the Media Act. An approved broadcast of Nora Rhodes assures viewers the
“minor ape disturbance” in the area dubbed the Exclusion Zone is “well in hand.” His father dismisses the
Caesar rumors as a hoax, until an ape drives a truck through their wall, bringing the rebellion to the Leung
kitchen. Chris is knocked unconscious as the rest of his family is slaughtered.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ History later records the Leung family as the first humans to die on the so-called Night of Fires.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “If You Missed Issue 1” (MR-c)
NOTE: But apparently not for long, given how quickly records of this era become lost to
all but the ruling apes.
◆ Caesar awakens in a panic that night after dreaming of Earth’s destruction, and takes comfort in Lisa’s
arms. She cannot respond, but he promises to teach her to speak, knowing his mental abilities will soon
make that a reality.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ The apes christen the day following the Night of Fires as the Day of Freedom.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” (MR-c)
◆ The morning of his second day in power, hoping to bring order to the primitive apes before his empire
collapses in chaos, Caesar establishes the Ultimate Law: “Ape shall never kill ape.”
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Part One: The End of the World” (MR-c)
◆ Three days after founding Ape City, Caesar begins recording a journal. He keeps human captives alive
to prevent the military from bombing the city, but no reprisal occurs. Some apes refuse to wear clothes,
particularly orangutans, while others don the outfits of their oppressors; Caesar demands only that they
be civilized. The once-gentle gorillas fight for territory, tribes and females, having grown aggressive after
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years under human rule. Fearing the Planet of the Apes will not last a week, he writes that his people must
build their own civilization, founded on morality, purpose and life. Thus, he becomes the first Lawgiver.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
◆ Aldo frees his fellow Area 51 apes, who slaughter their trainers and steal military jets. In the Exclusion
Zone, Caesar watches the devastation from a high perch with Lisa, worried about the future he has created.
He wishes he could tell his parents he survived, as well as beg their forgiveness.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Part Two: Lines of Communication” (MR-c) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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◆ That night (day six post-revolution), Caesar continues his journal, describing nightmares of future events AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
involving unknown people and places. The pain of the shock table still throbs, but he resists his desire to BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
kill Breck, knowing that would doom apekind. He wishes Armando were here to advise him. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
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◆ Dr. Bryce Evans, a geneticist and ex-fiancé of Nora Rhodes, shoots an ape servant with a tranquilizer dart ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
and carries the simian off to his lab. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #2: “Part Two: Lines of Communication” (MR-c) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ Evans conducts experiments to find a plague that would kill specific primates, but not man. The genetic MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
similarity between apes and humans, however, makes it difficult to obtain the desired results. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Part Three: Intelligent Design” (MR-c) PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
NOTE: It’s possible Evans’ plague could have led to the eventual elimination of all TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
non-Caucasian races, implied in the first film (the apes of 3978 had never seen a Black UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
man before Thomas Dodge). His plague may also have contributed to mankind’s future
loss of intelligence. MEDIUM
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◆ On day eight of Ape City’s existence, Caesar writes a journal entry recalling a dream that has not come c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
true—namely, his grandchildren fighting in a global war with humans, destroying the moon in “an orgy of d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
violence and madness.” He writes of his vision that one of his future sons and daughter will die by violence. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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making him wonder if that will prevent the sky from catching fire. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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◆ Grabbing a parachute, Rhodes jumps from the plane, landing unharmed in the war zone.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Part Three: Intelligent Design” (MR-c)
◆ With Sparks dead, Trundy names Norman Akins (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) as acting defense
secretary. Akins advocates a direct strike on Caesar’s followers, despite the danger to Churchdoor.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Part Four: Truth and Consequences” (MR-c)
◆ Fourteen days post-rebellion, Caesar records several memories in his journal, including the day he learned
of Project Churchdoor. Realizing the project’s significance, he understands why the government has not
retaken the city—and why he must get his hands on the Alpha-Omega Bomb.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
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◆ Caesar tortures Breck for the location of the Churchdoor bunker, then orders him held for trial. Kolp and two
commandos, Mendez and Alma, spy on them with infrared goggles, intent on killing Caesar and rescuing
the governor. Dr. Evans opens a vial of plague, killing every ape in his lab but not himself. Leung, filming
the war for his blog despite government attempts to stop his Webcast, finds Rhodes lying in the street.
Caesar invites them both to witness Breck’s trial. Reich, meanwhile, suggests enacting the Inferno Protocol,
for the apes outnumber them and may have already found Churchdoor.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Part Three: Intelligent Design” (MR-c)
NOTE: If Alma is the same age as actress France Nuyen (who portrayed the character in
Battle for the Planet of the Apes), then she would be 16 years old at this point. A note in
Revolution #6 places these events 30 hours before full-scale nuclear devastation.
◆ MacDonald and several gorillas escort Breck to the former ape pit, now a courtroom. Caesar serves
as prosecution, MacDonald as defense, with humanity as judge and jury via Leung’s camera. Caesar
charges Breck with conspiracy to murder the world, citing Churchdoor as proof. Desperate to silence
him, Rhodes grabs the camera and calls the trial a terrorist hoax. Explosions rock the area as Kolp’s
commandos rush in. MacDonald pins Breck to the ground, but Kolp gains the upper hand, holding the
ape revolutionary at gunpoint.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Part Three: Intelligent Design” (MR-c)
◆ Caesar’s rebellion sparks similar revolts across North America, with other apes throwing off the yoke of
human oppression. It isn’t long before the continent is in the hands of the apes.
Planet of the Apes #22: “Quest for the Planet of the Apes, Part I—Seeds of Future Deaths” (MC-c)
◆ The influence of the ape rebellion spreads to Europe and Asia, beginning with Japan.
Online Posting from Ty Templeton
NOTE: This information was posted in the POTA Yahoo Group by Ty Templeton, author
of Revolution on the Planet of the Apes.
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◆ Apes overrun Beijing, and the Chinese government destroys the city with a 30-kiloton bomb, launched
from an orbital platform. Reich pushes for the Inferno Protocol, but still Trundy refuses. Aldo aerial-bombs
Washington, D.C. The carnage overwhelms Caesar, causing him to collapse. Kolp frees Breck, who heads
for the Churchdoor bunker. Trundy recalls all overseas troops as Russia bombs St. Petersburg and Moscow
to stop its own ape revolution.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Part Four: Truth and Consequences” (MR-c) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
NOTE: A note in Revolution #6 places these events 29 hours before full-scale AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
nuclear devastation. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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◆ Fearing further rebellion, the surviving countries in Europe and other parts of the world grant freedom to BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
their apes. In such areas, man and ape live together peacefully for many years. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Akins’ local forces fall to the air gorillas, who storm the White House, looking for President Trundy. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Eventually, the apes take over the War Room, slaying Akins and anyone else in sight. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ His dream of ape freedom becoming a reality, Caesar writes a journal entry expressing his hope that as his
fellow apes find their voice, they’ll tell him about their own dreams.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Caesar’s Journal” (MR-c)
◆ Police officer Tammy Taylor, the 23-year-old daughter of astronaut George Taylor, sees four men terrorizing
a chimp mother and baby. She warns them away, but a man named Darryl hits her with a pipe. The men
kill the baby, then are slain by a pack of angry gorillas. Tammy awakens to hear a woman crying for help;
the grief-stricken mother chimp has stolen her infant son Tommy and climbed a nearby building. Tammy
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climbs after the animal, soothes her into handing over the baby and then kills her, finally becoming the
“magnificent bastard” her mother had always called her father.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #4: “Paternal Instinct” (MR-c)
◆ MacDonald awakens to find Evans holding a gun to his head, but armed gorillas free him. Assuming
control, MacDonald assures his fellow humans that Caesar is trying to save the world.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Part Five: Weapon of Choice” (MR-c)
NOTE: This issue is set three weeks post-revolution. A note in Revolution #6 places these
events 25 hours before nuclear devastation.
◆ Trundy surveys the damage from his helicopter. Lacking sufficient fuel to reach a secure bunker at
Mount Rushmore, he heads for Fort Liberty. Akins reports that Chinese nuclear missiles have destroyed
satellite communications. Moments later, Aldo’s gorillas fire missile-launchers at them. Caesar’s forces
erect a battering ram in the bunker. Half a mile belowground, Breck threatens to fire the Alpha-Omega
Bomb if Caesar doesn’t surrender. Breck tells Mendez to contact Trundy, but with satcom disrupted,
nothing gets through.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Part Five: Weapon of Choice” (MR-c)
NOTE: A note in Revolution #6 places these events 24 hours before full-scale nuclear
devastation. According to author Ty Templeton, a cut scene would have occurred within
Mount Rushmore—an homage to Marvel’s “Terror on the Planet of the Apes,” in which
that story’s heroes found the bunker’s remains and a human corpse inside Lincoln’s nose.
Templeton says the cut scene would have revealed the body to have been Trundy’s vice
president, whom the Marvel series named Henry.
◆ Rhodes uses Leung’s camera to hack an ANN broadcast and warn Trundy of Breck’s actions. The network
cancels the transmission, but Leung hacks back in. Hearing the broadcast, several apes bomb Fort Liberty.
Trundy arrives to find the island in flames, the Statue of Liberty in pieces, and tunes in just in time to hear
Rhodes recommend he launch a thermonuclear strike at Caesar’s territory.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Part Five: Weapon of Choice” (MR-c)
NOTE: The statue’s head and torch will survive 2,000 years in their final resting place.
◆ One newspaper covering these events features the headline “Bombs Over New York.”
El Planeta de Los Simios #3: “The Beach of Time” (ET-c)
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contradicting Revolution’s placement earlier in the year.
◆ As full-scale war begins, power is disrupted to a movie theater showing a James Bond film. The film
remains on the reel, untouched for some 1,100 years.
El Planeta de Los Simios #1: “The Wandering Jew” (ET-c)
◆ Realizing they still love one another, Rhodes and Evans resume their former relationship.
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◆ In the course of the Great War, African and Chinese factions blow up two-thirds of the United States. After CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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of the Canals” features descendants of former African nations isolated from apes and MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
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faces on the once-proud national monument.
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◆ New York and San Francisco are obliterated in the war. Other cities remain partially intact, populated in e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ Amazingly, the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia escapes destruction. In later years, the historical landmark will
be revered as Ytrebil, Guardian of the Mountain and Protector of the Delphi.
Planet of the Apes—4 Exciting New Stories #1: “Mountain of the Delphi” (PR-r)
NOTE: “Ytrebil” is “liberty” spelled backwards, while “Delphi” is a shortened form of
“Philadelphia.”
◆ The war is swift and effective. Most major U.S. cities are leveled, though laser-defense ABM systems
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◆ One bubble-domed U.S. city survives the onslaught intact, its dome dented from the nuclear strike.
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed,
presumably, so as not to conflict with the cartoon series—was never released due to
Marvel’s decision to stop publishing Planet of the Apes comics as of issue #29, in
response to increased licensing fees. The above details come from a story outline and
dialog breakdown provided by author Doug Moench.
◆ The widespread nuclear war devastates Earth’s surface. Human history does not record who started it,
leaving future generations wondering if it was the work of a lone madman, international political pressure
or a rival country taking advantage of the United States’ governmental paralysis.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ Somehow, Peru avoids destruction during the war and is still intact when the fighting ends. Those who live
there believe U.S. apes must have caused the war.
Planet of the Apes (Authorised Edition) #3: “Flight From Terror” (BW-s)
◆ France and other parts of Europe also survive the war with their buildings intact.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c)
◆ Some survivors theorize that an enemy power attacked while the United States was occupied with the ape
problem, and that the U.S. government retaliated.
Planet of the Apes #22: “Quest for the Planet of the Apes, Part I—Seeds of Future Deaths” (MC-c)
◆ Another rumor claims the war began when a curious ape entered a Midwest nuclear power plant, accidentally
triggering an explosion of enormous magnitude.
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
◆ Still others suspect the Psychedrome aliens, the Keepers, may have launched the attack to punish humanity
for defeating their planetary takeover plans a decade earlier.
Planet of the Apes #27: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Apes of Iron” (MC-c)
◆ The East Coast Scientific Center sets up an automatic, repeating broadcast, inviting survivors to take refuge
in its bomb shelter. The center is buried beneath rubble before anyone can use it, however, when a dam
bursts, carrying in the ocean. Buried beneath a hill of sand on what will become known as the Beach of
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Time due to the many artifacts found there, the center repeats its broadcast for the next millennium.
El Planeta de Los Simios #3: “The Beach of Time” (ET-c)
◆ The apes eventually capture Breck, Alma, Mendez and other volatile humans, keeping them alive as a work
detail. This reversal of fate infuriates the humans, who await the opportunity to seek revenge.
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◆ Caesar leads his followers away from the city and into the provinces. There, he builds a new Ape City with CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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◆ Caesar dreams of his people learning to speak, and his psychic abilities make his dreams a reality, beginning NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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◆ Caesar decrees the First Law: An ape may say “no” to a human, but a human may never say “no” to an ape.
He also dictates that humans must live as vegetarians, and outlaws children’s games based on war.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The areas surrounding most major cities remain livable to a degree, but much of the United States is rendered
vast irradiated deserts. The ape government prohibits its citizens from entering these areas, which Caesar
declares Forbidden Zones.
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NOTE: Other zones designated by the apes include the Rural Zone, the Blasted Zone,
the Black Zone, the Forest Zone and the Danger Zone. It’s interesting to note that
following Caesar’s rebellion, the U.S. government dubbed the city the Exclusion
Zone—it’s possible the apes, mimicking human nomenclature, continued this tradition
when naming its territories.
◆ The fledgling ape society is not monetary-based. Instead, a ruling council provides every citizen a home at
no cost, while a barter system makes other goods and services available.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
◆ As the apes gain control of the planet, Trundy tells his VP and only companion, Henry, that he wishes he
could round them up and give them a good brainwashing in the Psychedrome. Ultimately, Trundy dies
alone in his Mount Rushmore refuge, his remains undisturbed for nearly eighty years.
Planet of the Apes #14: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—
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◆ With the world lost to the apes, a group of humans attempts to wipe out apekind with a man-made plague,
using Trojan horse-like tactics. The apes avert disaster, but a human is born who is destined to lead his
people in revolt.
Planet of the Apes: “The Most Dangerous Animal” (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This story treatment was never scripted due to Adventure Comics losing the Planet
of the Apes license. This synopsis was provided by author Charles Marshall. No further
details are available, though Marshall says it would have involved time travel.
◆ This time, the plague is quite virulent among humans, particularly in Europe—in fact, the species is nearly
eliminated on that continent.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c)
◆ Some blame the plague on the apes’ rise and retaliate with violence. Most Europeans die from the plague;
the few survivors become animal-like, robbed of speech capability and independent thought. In the end,
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human buildings in Europe still stand, electricity continues to flow and food and drink remain plentiful, but
humanity’s reign is completely over in that part of the world.
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
◆ Some pockets of sentient humans resist the plague in North America, including bands of irradiated mutants
who take refuge in the rubble of major cities, while other healthy humans gather in tribes across the planet.
Nonetheless, humanity’s fall from the top of the evolutionary hill is complete.
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call themselves the Underdwellers, and remain below the surface for two millennia. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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technology—extends below Ape City. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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ship, the aliens and their winged monkey-demon soldiers proceed as originally planned.
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◆ The ship’s descent is steep and fast. The stabilizer knocks out as the ship plummets back to Earth and the
crew prepares for a crash landing.
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◆ Norvell’s ship crashes into the Mississippi River, dropping 300 feet below the surface. The captain tries to
contact Control but gets no answer.
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◆ The crew swims to the surface and boards an inflatable raft, stunned to find the lifeless, bombed-out ruins
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◆ The astronauts row to shore, and Burrows marks the spot in case they need supplies. Her sense of humor
strained, she berates Flip for jokingly tossing his prosthetic limb at her.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Countdown One” (AC-c)
◆ Burrows begins a journal of her experiences. Their nerves frayed, the trio begins fighting over minutiae.
They head east, dismayed by the devastation, and stunned to see apes walking upright, wearing clothes, and
conversing—in Spanish. The apes give chase as the astronauts try to start an abandoned car. A distant drum
scares the simians, enabling the humans to escape. Heading in the direction of the drum, they meet a tribe
of gorillas. Their leader, a dangerous white-eyed ape called Zar, orders their capture.
Planet of the Apes #14: “Countdown Zero—Part One” (AC-c)
◆ After six days on the run, living off dehydrated food and boiled water, the astronauts find a Chevy pickup
with keys in the ignition, but Norvell fails to climb aboard and is captured. Burrows rams the apes and
rescues him, and they drive 200 miles before resting. Flip shows signs of snapping, so she eases his mind by
having sex with him. Over the next two weeks, they encounter huge cracks in the road and Norvell gets food
poisoning from a bad can of SpaghettiOs. Flip tries to resume his intimacy with Burrows, but she spurns his
advances. As the men scavenge a K-Mart, she finds a library and reads a Time magazine article about the
apes’ status as replacement pets. Moments later, Zar’s gang drops from the skylight.
Planet of the Apes #15: “Countdown Zero—Part Two” (AC-c)
◆ With Norvell’s help, Burrows fights her way to the truck. Flip senses attraction between them and broods
for three days. The truck dies, and they continue on foot until finding a Motel 6. Flip attempts intimacy
once more, growing violent when she refuses. Norvell hits him, but Burrows says they must get along for
survival’s sake. They find a horse and name it Clementine, which they use to carry their belongings. Zar’s
apes shoot the horse, who gives them one last ride to safety, then collapses on Burrows’ leg. Flip checks out
an Acme grocery store with Norvell, fracturing the other man’s skull with a shovel once inside the store.
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◆ Arthur Vernon Kolp and his commandos eke out a scavenger existence in the irradiated ruins of a former
city. Meanwhile, Caesar’s community accepts survivors from other areas, and an ape/human society
unfolds. Despite Caesar’s ideals, humans become second-class citizens and ape cultural divisions develop.
Aldo declares himself a general and begins training an army of gorillas. Residual radiation affects many
humans and apes. The apes’ plague-altered genes increase their already rapid intellectual development,
while humans grow more docile from living among highly evolved apes easily able to kill them.
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NOTE: Marvel’s timeline dates these events from 1992 to 2001, based on its 2001 AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
placement for the fifth film; I’ve moved the end date to 2020. Marvel places the mutants AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
in San Francisco, while Revolution on the Planet of the Apes transfers the action to San BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Diego. Since early treatments for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes set both films on the East Coast, however, I’ve kept the location of CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Kolp’s base vague. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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◆ NASA also continues to operate, its officers similarly unaware of world events.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
NOTE: The unlikelihood that neither NASA nor USAF officers would know of
the revolution illustrates why many fans ignore the Tim Burton film and the
animated series.
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◆ In Europe, as in North America, the Great Apes (chimps, orangutans and gorillas) attain intelligence. So do
European baboons, though it’s unclear if the same is true of North American baboons.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ In addition to the Great Apes, gibbons also gain sentience. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Planet of the Apes #13: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2— BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
The Magick-Man’s Last Gasp Purple Light Show” (MC-c) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
◆ Some mandrills achieve intelligence as well. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c) ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
NOTE: A mandrill also appears in Adventure Comics’ Planet of the Apes Annual. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
A sketch created for Revolution on the Planet of the Apes (available online at GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
http://www.mrcomics.ca/sketchbook.htm) features a drawing of a mandrill, with the HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
question “Why are there no mandrills on the planet of the apes?” Apparently, the artist MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
was unaware mandrills have, in fact, been utilized in the Apes universe. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ Bonobos also become sentient, some of whom reside in Ape City with the other Great Apes. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” (MR-c) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Other members of the primate kingdom—baboons, Barbary apes (macaques), gibbons and lemurs—are
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resistant to accepting Ape City as the capital, settling instead in the outlying areas. Among the chimps, a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
orangutans and gorillas, these other simians are considered “foreigners.” b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization. Presumably, “foreigner” status e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
also applies to mandrills. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
◆ An air of aristocracy grows among the Great Apes, who consider themselves above monkeys and other n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
primates. The word “monkey” becomes an offensive racial slur among the apes. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
◆ Ape civilization rises from the ashes of mankind’s fall, inheriting man’s culture, language and clothing, as u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
well as his strengths and weaknesses. v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #6: “Part Six: Survival of the Fittest” (MR-c) y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Another European ape group models themselves after the Hell’s Angels by donning leather, riding Harley
Davidson motorcycles and calling themselves Hell’s Apes.
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
◆ A spiritual band of French baboons forms a martial arts cult—the Baboonjas, also known as Followers of
the True Light. Their leader, a powerful sorcerer, can levitate objects and perform other mystical feats.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c)
◆ Several ape cultures model themselves after the American Indians. One such group builds an isolated
society a few miles outside Ape City. These mysterious, mystical apes call themselves the Lightfeet.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
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◆ The Lightfeet live near a frontier town in which apes emulate old Western films, complete with outlaws,
sheriffs and other accoutrements. A quartet of ape bounty hunters, the Ape Riders, police the area.
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “High Noon” (AC-c)
◆ A Native American ape-human village forms in South Dakota. The peaceful tribe lives in cliffside adobe
huts, guided by an orangutan shaman who uses psychedelic drugs to perform Rites of Divine Communion.
Planet of the Apes #19: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Demons of the Psychedrome” (MC-c)
◆ A third such simian tribe forms in Texas. This tribe, known as the Indiapes, keeps mute humans as slaves,
its members raiding other villages for mates, food and supplies. During one such raid, a kidnapped female
grows disgusted at her captor’s mistreatment of humans. When she asks if the slaves can speak, the Indiape
mocks a nearby human, entertained by the notion of a speaking man. She is not amused.
Indiape (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Roland Mann, author of Adventure’s Blood of the Apes, conceived this story as
a four-issue miniseries but never proposed it since the company opted to scale back its
Planet of the Apes titles. Mann says his initial concept was never fleshed out, and that no
specific date was included in his notes.
◆ Several humans and apes move away from Ape City to form a peaceful seafaring civilization known as the
River Society. The village resembles a Western frontier town, its citizens appropriately garbed.
Planet of the Apes #4: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—Gunpowder Julius” (MC-c)
◆ A village outside Ape City is inhabited by a brutal band called the Nameless Apes.
Planet of the Apes #22: “Part Two—The Land of No Escape” (AC-c)
◆ In Kansas, along the former Route 80, a gorilla tribe evolves known as the Assisimians. Superstitious and
primitive, the Assisimians are fierce, unrelenting warriors, ruled by a powerful chieftan.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—
The Magick-Man’s Last Gasp Purple Light Show” (MC-c)
◆ In another isolated land, two rival mutant ape societies develop, known as Her Majesty’s Cannibal Corps
(who travel on giant mutant frogs) and the Industrialists.
Planet of the Apes #29: “Future History Chronicles V—To Race the Death-Winds” (MC-c)
◆ Bruce “Mac” MacDonald succeeds his brother as Caesar’s trusted aide, representing Ape City’s humans
like Malcolm before him. Though loyal to Caesar, he resents the inequality among their species.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Bruce’s first name is revealed in Marvel’s adaptation of the film. The comic makes
no mention of his being Malcolm’s brother—rather, they are said to be the same man, as
Marvel used an early-draft script. Malcolm’s first name is revealed in Revolution on the
Planet of the Apes #4.
◆ Some of Ape City’s humans feel MacDonald receives favored treatment from Caesar.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (PR-c)
NOTE: This is revealed in the Power Records comic adaptation of the film.
◆ Religious zealots discover the journal of Dr. Lewis Dixon, revealing the fates of George Taylor,
Cornelius and Zira. They christen it the Book of Taylor, revering the journal as a holy text and Taylor
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as their savior.
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c)
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◆ Calling themselves Taylorites, the zealots preach the Book of Taylor, promising Taylor will return to hold AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
the world in his hands, offer salvation and create a new home for man and ape to live as equals. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c) BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ An ape village enslaves and tortures humans begging for food. When a human slays the local Lawgiver, BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
the apes kill and consume the humans in a savage religious rite. Outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, human CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
soldiers kill hundreds of starving apes seeking food. An ape lobs a grenade into the building, killing the DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
human leader. Survivors of both camps, horribly mutated by nuclear radiation, form the New Order Born ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
of Old Sins. Vowing to spread mutation to everyone on the planet, cleansing it of violent non-mutants, the FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
New Order builds a vast cathedral-lined city-ship, the Cathedraulus, and leaves the Forbidden Zone. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Planet of the Apes #24: “Future History Chronicles IV—The Shadows of Haunted Cathedraulus” (MC-c) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: This sets the stage for the cathedral’s significance in the films. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ A gypsy couple from the area once known as Greece travels the Atlantic Ocean (now called the All-antik PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Ocean) to live in North America. Traveling with them is their infant son, Saraband. After a long journey, TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
the family joins the peaceful River Society. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Planet of the Apes #8: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—The Planet Inheritors” (MC-c) MEDIUM
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◆ A chimp uprising protests the oppressive gorillas, who have cowed the orangutans into submission. The b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
outcome is unrecorded, though the gorillas dominate ape society for millennia. Some time later, on the so- c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
called Night of Blood, gorilla swords run red, the streets lined with chimpanzee corpses. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #2: “Escape From Ape City” (BB-n) f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. Clearly, the “Ape shall never kill ape” law m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
is not embraced by all. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
◆ While North American apes and humans brave post-apocalyptic conditions, European apes maintain a life r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
of peace and prosperity, since the plague has eliminated humanity on that continent. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c) u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Without mankind to maintain Europe’s power plants, however, they soon begin malfunctioning.
Ape City #1: “Monkey Business” (AC-c)
◆ Over time, the apes name many churches after Dr. Milo, reverently calling him “Milo the Pathfinder” for
making Caesar’s existence possible by bringing Zira and Cornelius into the past.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #6: “Catch a Falling Star” (MR-c)
NOTE: This is revealed in a dream, and thus might not have actually occurred.
◆ The Underdwellers build vast generators to provide heat and light in the Below World beneath New York
City. They find a stone bust of astronaut Judy Franklin in the rubble, erected after the Venturer vanished in
1976, and create a prophecy that she will one day return to lead them back to the surface and re-take Earth.
Since “USA” appears on the bust, they chant the name “Oosa” in their prayers.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Unearthly Prophecy” (NB-a)
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◆ Over the next 60 or so generations, the Underdwellers’ eyes grow accustomed to living underground. As
such, they find the light of the surface world uncomfortable.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Other mutants emerge as well. A quintet of giant bodiless brains, floating in vast nutrient-globes, form a
group consciousness (the Gestalt Mind, a.k.a. the Inheritors) in the caverns beneath an old city. Their leader
is Be-One, with others similarly named: Be-Two, Be-Three, Be-Four, Be-Five and so on—each with a
unique personality. Additional mutated brains are kept in frozen storage in case of damage.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: It’s unknown how these giant brains came to exist, but considering the various
scientific experiments being conducted before the war, any explanation is possible.
◆ The Inheritors’ ultimate goal is to wipe out all apes and non-mutant humans on the planet.
Planet of the Apes #3: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—The Abomination Arena” (MC-c)
◆ Several human researchers survive the holocaust. Sequestering themselves in a basement lab beneath the
New York Public Library, they repair their injuries with bionics and cybernetics, extending their lifespans
and strength. Their minds grow deranged, causing them to pursue bizarre experiments. The Inheritors’
mutant-drone soldiers encounter the crazed cyborgs, dubbing them the Makers for their propensity to build
things. After a pitched battle, the Makers go into hiding to plot their revenge.
Planet of the Apes #27: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Apes of Iron” (MC-c)
◆ Many mutated humans go insane from radiation sickness. At the Ape Management complex, several of
them find a band of dying apes trapped in a sub-basement with little food or water, having been cut off from
Caesar’s rebellion. The humans lock them in cages for 150 years, calling them “Funky Monkeys.” The
Children of the Forgotten Apes, as they call themselves, develop the ability to foresee the future. One such
ape, the Knower, predicts Caesar’s grandson Alexander will save them from this wretched existence.
Planet of the Apes #2: “The Monkey Planet—Escape” (AC-c)
◆ Several bizarre variants on humanity and apekind arise, including hybrids of the two species.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
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NOTE: Though never filmed or scripted, a scene was planned for the second film featuring
a human/ape hybrid child. Makeup tests were created, but the idea never progressed
beyond that point. A sixth film in the series, to have been written by Peter Jackson, would
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
have featured such a hybrid. The comics have since validated the concept by introducing AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
several hybrid creatures. This begs a disturbing question no author has yet addressed: AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
Are these hybrids the result of radiation exposure…or is widespread interbreeding AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
actually occurring between humans and simians? Both Marvel’s “Terror on the Planet of BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
the Apes” and Malibu’s Blood of the Apes feature ape-human romances, while Urchak’s BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Folly features a gorilla keeping a human woman as his sexual slave, so such unions BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
would not be without precedent. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ One such hybrid, a race of timid, shaggy primates, makes its home in the Forbidden Zone. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Planet of the Apes #2: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—Lick the Sky Crimson” (MC-c) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ Another hybrid, the Snow-Shamblers, evolves in the mountainous Northlands. These peaceful creatures HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
seek only to love and nurture, but a nearby village of Viking-esque simians, the North Apes, mistakes them MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
for a threat and wages war for years. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Planet of the Apes #26: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—North Lands” (MC-c) PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
◆ A third human-ape hybrid, a Yeti-like species, evolves beyond the Forbidden Zone. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Planet of the Apes #5: “Evolution’s Nightmare” (MC-c)
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a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
◆ Beyond the Forbidden Zone lives a tribe of aboriginal human-ape hybrids, known as the Mud People. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c) c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
◆ Many non-sentient creatures of the world undergo mutation as well. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
Planet of the Apes #5: “Evolution’s Nightmare” (MC-c) k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
◆ Rats in New York City’s subway system grow human-sized, gain intelligence and enslave a blind sub- p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
human species. The humans in a nearby tribe fear them, calling them the Monstrous Rodents. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
El Planeta de Los Simios #2: “Depth” (ET-c) t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Mutated lions inhabit the caves along the Forbidden Zone, their saliva emitting deadly mutative rays.
Planet of the Apes #4: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—A Riverboat Named Simian” (MC-c)
◆ Huge mutated crabs evolve near New York City, able to spit acid and with human-size claws.
Planet of the Apes #30: “Apeslayer Dies at Dawn” (MC-c)
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (NB-a)
◆ In waters along the edge of the Forbidden Zone, giant carnivorous serpents evolve, which local human
tribes call buh-hoy-yas.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #5: “Lagoon of Peril” (NB-a)
◆ The Forbidden Zone also becomes home to giant flying creatures known as snake-birds.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #10: “Attack from the Clouds” (NB-a)
◆ Giant mutant frogs evolve in an isolated land, used as mounts by a mutant ape society known as Her
Majesty’s Cannibal Corps.
Planet of the Apes #29: “Future History Chronicles V—To Race the Death-Winds” (MC-c)
◆ And on the strange island of Avedon, lizards mutate to the size of dragons.
Planet of the Apes #10: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—The Island Out of Time” (MC-c)
◆ Citizens of several African nations blame the apes and White humans for the devastation of the planet.
Calling themselves Industrialists, they build Sexxtann, a 42-level hexagonal fortress with a vast canal
system filled with giant newts, salamanders, frogs and other amphibians, forming a vicarium that provides
amusement, transportation and sustenance. Shedding their former third-world status, these Africans make
industry their way of life, further damaging the environment in the process.
Planet of the Apes: “Future History Chronicles VI—The Captive of the Canals” (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This story was never released due to Marvel’s decision to stop publishing
Planet of the Apes comics as of issue #29, in response to increased licensing fees. The
above details come from a story outline provided by author Doug Moench. This tale
may have been Moench’s response to the lack of dark-skinned humans in either of the
first two Apes films.
◆ Aldo and Caesar form a temporary truce. Mandemus knocks Lisa free, taking a bullet meant for Caesar.
Lisa and a gorilla named Phineas carry the elderly ape to a healer. Caesar beats Breck to a pulp, but lets him
return to the dead city, then heads home to find Aldo slaying humans. The gorilla claims rulership of Ape
City, challenging Caesar to a fight. MacDonald and Mandemus urge Caesar to decline, knowing few will
resist the gorillas. Caesar lures Aldo into a rope-trap, and Mandemus proclaims him the winner. The human
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compounds are dismantled and an era of cooperation begins. Mandemus suggests they destroy the guns, but
Caesar says they’ll be needed in the future, naming him Keeper of the Guns to ensure none are used for evil.
Lisa wants to name the child Caesar Jr., but Caesar prefers the name Cornelius. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Planet of the Apes #22: “Quest for the Planet of the Apes, Part II—The Keeper of Future Death” (MC-c) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ Lisa miscarries her unborn child. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
Conjecture BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
NOTE: “Quest” occurs two years after Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, while Battle CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
for the Planet of the Apes takes place at least 27 years later, as per Mandemus’ dialog. If CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
Lisa became pregnant for Cornelius in “Quest,” he would have been 25 or more in Battle. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
The timeline in Marvel’s issue #11 places Cornelius’ birth in 1995, but that would imply ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Lisa remained pregnant for two years, so I am discarding both Marvel references and FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
assuming she miscarried, got pregnant again years later and named that child Cornelius. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5 refers to Cornelius as “Caesar’s first son,” HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
implying there were other births. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ Breck dies shortly thereafter, likely from exposure to nuclear radiation. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
NOTE: Kolp says the war killed the former governor, but Breck shows up in “Quest for UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
the Planet of the Apes,” two years post-war. This discrepancy is easily reconciled since
Breck could have succumbed to radiation sickness after returning to the dead city. MEDIUM
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◆ Arthur Vernon Kolp assumes the governorship, and Mendez and Alma rejoin his band of mutants. For a f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
time, the fighting between humans and apes continues. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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NOTE: Mendez and Alma escaped the stockade in Marvel’s issue #22, “Quest for the p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Planet of the Apes.” Given their allegiance to Kolp in Revolution on the Planet of the r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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Apes and in the fifth film, it’s logical to assume they met up with him after escaping. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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◆ Mandemus mentors a brilliant orangutan named Virgil, who absorbs all of the knowledge he can, happily
expounding to any who will listen. In time, Virgil becomes a professor and serves as Caesar’s aide. Caesar
assigns Abe, a human teacher, to instruct apes how to read and write. The chimps and orangutans take to
learning much more quickly than the gorillas, who prefer to follow Aldo’s example and fight. The citizens
of Ape City call Abe “Teacher,” causing him at times to forget his own name. Humans and apes forge an
uneasy peace in Ape City, though humans perform all menial tasks while apes enjoy the benefits.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
1995
◆ The last atomic bomb falls, in upstate New York.
Planet of the Apes Revisited (FX-f, unfilmed)
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NOTE: This information comes from an early treatment for the second film, written by
Paul Dehn. The final version of the film was renamed Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
◆ Also developed is a neural connection training helmet, able to pump years’ worth of knowledge directly
into a brain in a matter of days. Though designed for humans, the device works on simian brains as well.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 9 (HE-n)
NOTE: Reconciling this with the classic films is equally problematic.
1998
◆ Sandy, future Ape City doctor during Caesar’s reign, is born.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Sandy’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actress Heather Low’s
age (22) when the film (set in 2020) was produced.
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EARLy 21st CEnTuRy
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
◆ A group of peace-loving apes, seeking freedom from oppression, relocates to the snowy mountain peaks AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
north of Ape City to form a Tibet-like society, led by a wise ape called the High Lama, or Worthy One. The AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
High-Mountain Apes worship a giant statue of Kygoor the Ice Ape—which comes alive to protect them BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
when needed—and neither hate nor fear humans. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Terror on Ice Mountain” (BB-n) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: The novelization indicates the High-Mountain Apes moved to the mountains CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
thousands of years before 3979, so I’ve placed their migration in the early 21st century. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
◆ The daughter of former astronaut August Anne Burrows has a child of her own and names her Anne. The GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Burrows clan moves to Mexico and eventually leads a tribe of speaking humans. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
Planet of the Apes #21: “Part One—The Terror Beneath” (AC-c) MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ As a child, Molly Benavides attends a country carnival and rides a gravity well, a wooden contraption NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
designed to propel children to the inside of a cylinder due to centrifugal force. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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◆ As a boy, Frank Barstow goes on several fishing trips with his uncle, whom he calls “Gramps.” Too b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
squeamish to bait his own hook, however, the youth feels ashamed when Gramps calls him a sissy. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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◆ Future USAF Oberon crewman Norman Griswold attends the Space Force Academy, located near Pike’s k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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2009
◆ Alma becomes Governor Kolp’s communications officer.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: Alma’s title is established in the novelization and Marvel’s comic adaptation.
2009 to 2020
◆ Over the next 11 years and 3 months, Kolp and Alma develop a solid working relationship and, in time, a
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friendship. Alma develops romantic feelings for him, but he never seems to notice.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
2010
◆ Lisa and Caesar have their first child—a boy, whom they name Cornelius to honor his father.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The San Simian Sentinel, a promotional newspaper distributed to moviegoers
during the release of Battle for the Planet of the Apes (set in 2020), gives Cornelius’ age
as 10 at the time of that film.
2019
◆ NASA turns Cape Kennedy into a space museum, moving its operations to California’s Mojave Desert.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #9: “Trail to the Unknown” (NB-a)
NOTE: Cape Kennedy’s closing occurs 60 years before Ron Brent’s birth in 2079. The
cartoons commit several snafus continuity-wise, and NASA’s continued existence post-
war is among them. Revolution on the Planet of the Apes and Marvel’s “Terror on the
Planet of the Apes” indicate the government had secret bases at Mount Rushmore and
Area 51, where the space program could still have operated—but why turn Cape Kennedy
into a museum? Who’d visit it…the apes?
2019 to 2079
◆ At its new site in the Mojave Desert, NASA continues improving on the rocket fuels and capsule design of
its space vehicles, enabling them to fly faster than previous models.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #9: “Trail to the Unknown” (NB-a)
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of the Planet of the Apes (2000), while Marvel #22 has Mandemus named armorer in
1993, setting the film in 2020. I have chosen the latter date, as it makes the most sense.
Why Caesar knows nothing of the future, however, having dreamed about it many times, PUBLISHER / STUDIO
written about it in his journal and told Lisa what he’d foreseen, is unclear. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ Abe joins Mac and his mate Sandy (the village doctor) for a rabbit dinner. Mac tells them he plans to visit AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
the city ruins with Caesar and Virgil, and they warn him to take weapons and a Geiger counter. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (MC-c) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: This scene occurs in both the comic adaptation and novelization. In the comic, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
the teacher is sometimes named Ed. The novelization establishes MacDonald and DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
Sandy as lovers. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
◆ Caesar, Virgil and Mac obtain supplies from Mandemus, then cross the Forbidden Zone to the ruined city. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Down in the archives, Caesar triggers an alarm. Wondering if he’s come to re-take the city, Kolp orders his HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
men to shoot the intruders, ending 12 years of peace. The trio view a tape of Cornelius and Zira discussing MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Earth’s eventual destruction, and Virgil says the future can be changed with the right choices. Mutants NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
ambush them disguised as dying refugees, but they escape. Mendez urges Kolp to let them go in peace, but PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Kolp dispatches scouts to find their village. Returning to Ape City, Caesar convenes a council meeting. He SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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describes the diseased humans, warning that attack is likely. Mac, Abe, Jake and other humans attend the UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
meeting at his request, enraging the gorillas.
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mutants, rather than Kolp. c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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◆ Radiation exposure causes Caesar to begin losing facial hair. Aldo uses this to his advantage, saying Caesar f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
looks more human than ape. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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NOTE: This occurs in an early-draft script, as well as in Marvel’s comic adaptation. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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◆ The gorillas storm out of the council meeting, refusing to attend with humans present. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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◆ Mendez urges Kolp not to renew the fighting, but when a scout learns of Caesar’s war council, Kolp orders
Alma to launch the Alpha-Omega Bomb if the apes win the coming battle.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: This and other scenes involving the bomb were filmed but cut from the final
release. The scenes, restored on a Japanese laserdisc, were otherwise unavailable for
many years until Fox finally released an extended edition of the film on DVD.
◆ Kolp notices Alma’s beauty for the first time and kisses her.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This scene occurs in the film’s novelization.
◆ Lisa urges Caesar not to wage war, but he says the mutants are beyond reason. That night, Cornelius follows
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his pet squirrel Ricky into the woods and overhears Aldo plotting a coup. Spotting him in a tree, Aldo hacks
off the branch, causing the child to fall. MacDonald later finds campfire ashes and the severed branch.
Sandy tends to the boy, but his injuries are fatal and he dies in Caesar’s arms. The mutant army crosses the
Forbidden Zone, firing a charge at a pair of gorillas. One makes it back to warn Aldo, who declares martial
law, corrals the humans, storms the armory and erects a barricade. The mutants reach the city; Kolp orders
Sgt. York to alert Alma if they lose, then orders his troops to begin their invasion.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The barrage decimates the city, burying Virgil in rubble and striking Caesar down. A student urges Virgil
to take cover, but a missile hits the tree in which the youth hides. Grief-stricken, Virgil flees the battle.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (MC-c)
NOTE: This scene occurs in Marvel’s comic adaptation of the film.
◆ The mutant convoy finds a field of dead apes, but as Kolp prepares to kill Caesar, the apes spring to life,
beating the mutants to death. As Kolp and others escape in a bus, gorillas storm the vehicle, shooting the
mutants and chanting Aldo’s name. Caesar frees the caged humans, but Aldo seizes control, ordering his
troops to kill them all. Caesar stands before them, daring them to shoot. Virgil exposes Cornelius’ murder,
and the apes surround Aldo—even his own soldiers—chanting “Ape has killed ape!” Aldo panics and
climbs a tree, brandishing a knife. Grabbing Aldo’s wrist, Caesar throws the gorilla to the ground.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Weakened by radiation, Caesar falls as well. Aldo’s body cushions his fall, and he survives.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (MC-c)
NOTE: This occurs in the comic adaptation and the novelization.
◆ MacDonald asks that his people be granted equality. Caesar insists man is too violent, but relents when
Virgil reminds him of Aldo. York survives long enough to return to the city and signal Alma, but Mendez
urges her not to activate the bomb, saying it must be respected and venerated—a reminder that humans
can rise above ugliness. The rebuilding of Ape City commences, and the gorillas return the weapons to the
armory. Mandemus asks that the installation be blown up, but Caesar knows that danger still lurks.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ In the spirit of equality among humans and apes, Caesar renames Ape City “Our City.”
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
◆ Mendez is named leader of the mutants, known thereafter as Mendez the First. Thus begins the Mendez
Dynasty, spawning 26 generations of the House of Mendez over the next 2,000 years.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
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◆ As the self-appointed Keepers of the Divine Bomb, the Mendez line and their followers exist only to protect
and worship the Alpha-Omega device.
The Mutant News (HM-p)
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AFTER 2020 AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
◆ As human status in ape society erodes, the name “Ape City” is restored. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Conjecture CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
NOTE: The village is still known as Ape City in future stories—in fact, no other tale
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
calls it Our City—so the new name must not last long (which makes sense, given the ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
widespread anti-human sentiment). FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
◆ Aldo dies as a disgraced exile, but a gorilla cult, the Aldonites, carries on his anti-human militarism. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Warriors” (AC-c) MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ Virgil records his memoirs, detailing the ape revolution and the actions of Caesar. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #6: “Catch a Falling Star” (MR-c) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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◆ Virgil and his wife have a son, whom they name Jacob. Virgil jokes that Caesar is a fool, for only a UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
fool would want to rule Ape City, but he actually respects him greatly. Unlike his father, however, Jacob MEDIUM
distrusts all humans. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
Planet of the Apes #1: “The Monkey Planet—Beneath” (AC-c) b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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◆ Ape City prospers with Caesar a benevolent ruler, but humanity’s role in society erodes in time. The m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
Forbidden Zones grow increasingly dangerous as animal and plant mutations abound. During this period, p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
the mutants split into rival factions, led respectively by Mendez the First and Be-One of the Inheritors’ r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Gestalt Mind. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m) u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
NOTE: Marvel’s timeline dates these events from 2001 to 2040, based on its placement
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
of the fifth film in 2001 rather than 2020. I have altered the beginning date to compensate y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
for the discrepancy.
◆ As the years pass, Mendez’s people forget their origins, including the name “New York.”
The Mutant News (HM-p)
c. 2020s or 2030s
◆ Despite their ages, Lisa and Caesar have a daughter and at least one more son, names unknown.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” (MR-c)
NOTE: Marvel’s timeline in Planet of the Apes #11 denies any offspring after Cornelius.
The Adventure Comics line, however, features a grandson, Alexander, even though
Cornelius dies before fathering children of his own. Revolution on the Planet of the Apes
backs up the existence of other heirs.
◆ The U.S. Air Force launches the Oberon, a nuclear-powered orbital space research station, and chooses as its
crew the military’s most experienced fliers, scientists and astronauts. These include Lt. Col. Grace Alexander,
chief medical officer and zoologist; Lt. Gen. Karl Vasich, flight chief and station commander; Specialist
Hansen, a technician manning the exterior monitors; and Majors Frank Santos and Maria Cooper.
Planet of the Apes: Leo’s Logbook—A Captain’s Days in Captivity (HE-k) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ Also in the crew are computer technicians Frank Barstow and Norman Griswold, and Specialist 1st Class
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Molly Benavides. Adm. Aphasia “Phase” Klein is the executive officer and second-in-command. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
◆ Lts. Cathy Mingo and Ken Kibo are among the station’s crew as well. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 13 (HE-n)
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
◆ Other crewmembers include Mark Caprolione, Elizabeth Elwell and Kenneth Haugan. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Planet of the Apes (DH-c)
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
NOTE: These names appear on a viewscreen in the comic adaptation of the film. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ The Oberon’s high-tech computers can synthesize food from primal atomic building blocks, as well as NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
laser-tailor uniforms and casual crew-wear. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 4 (HE-n) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ The station comes equipped with a medical chamber able to repair bodily damage and keep an injured MEDIUM
person’s organs running indefinitely. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
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◆ The Oberon also contains a neural connection training helmet, able to pump data directly into a human or e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
simian brain. Several years’ worth of knowledge—math, history, medicine, genetics and so forth—can be f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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thus downloaded in a matter of days. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 9 (HE-n) n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
◆ Frustrated with frequent media attention to high soldier mortality rates, the U.S. Air Force begins training s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
chimpanzees as frontline pod pilots—and, theoretically, for other duties as well. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ The Oberon is selected as the testing ground for the training program.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
Early 2027
◆ Leo Davidson is assigned to the Oberon to teach the genetically bred apes.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Pericles’ training culminates with his flying a pod once or twice per day. Despite his frustration over his
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own stalled career, Davidson takes a liking to his chimp protégé, who can operate the space vehicle with the
same manual dexterity as a human commercial flier.
Planet of the Apes (DH-c)
NOTE: This information comes from the film’s comic-book adaptation.
◆ Pericles possesses the intelligence of a five-year-old human, and his mate Aspasia is even smarter. When
she becomes pregnant, Grace Alexander realizes the baby could turn out to be a genius.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
◆ In addition to chimps, gorillas and orangutans, the Oberon carries several baboons.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
◆ Davidson teaches Molly to fly a pod, though he never instructs her in hard-landing procedures since the
vessels are primarily used for space-to-space missions, with landings required only in emergencies.
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pursuit of rank, honor and advancement. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 3 (HE-n) BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
◆ NASA maps out the surface of Mars. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Planet of the Apes: Leo’s Logbook—A Captain’s Days in Captivity (HE-k) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ The U.S. Air Force creates a device called the Messenger, enabling crew members to communicate remotely FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
with a spaceship’s computer. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
◆ An Air Force friend of Frank Barstow advises him never to let “the brass” know his name, for even if it MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
looks good at first, nothing good can come of it in the end. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Davidson records a log entry expressing frustration over being assigned chimp-training duties instead b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
of actual piloting. He also chastises Grace Alexander for being too concerned with “control groups and c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
repetitious test conditions” during the training, rather than with what matters most to a pilot: adaptability d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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and thinking on one’s feet. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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◆ Davidson leaves behind a mother, sister, younger brother and uncle on Earth.
Planet of the Apes (HE-y)
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◆ Molly Benavides reports three vectors into and out of the storm. Grace Alexander readies Alcibiades and
two other chimp pilots to scan the cloud in additional pods.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
◆ From the chimps’ readings, Molly determines the anomaly to be a quantum time storm, which the pods
could destabilize. The storm has a black hole at its core and exists in multiple dimensions and space-time
layers; sentient, it senses the probes and shifts to minimize its discomfort, engulfing the station and pods.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 2 (HE-n)
◆ This causes a power surge that rocks the station, injuring Vasich and other crew members. The storm
propels Oberon to the same planet, but it remains in the present, without a corresponding time jump.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The surge throws Molly across the bridge, but her fetus is uninjured. She and Barstow check Oberon’s
scanners and find that the station is about to crash on the other planet.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 2 (HE-n)
◆ The apes panic, and Dr. Alexander and a technician, Norman Griswold, strap down Aspasia to protect her
fetus. Stress pushes Molly into labor, and Klein delivers her baby boy, whom Molly names David.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 3 (HE-n)
NOTE: David’s name is appropriate since he’s the son of Leo Davidson (“David son”).
It’s unclear whether Alcibiades and the other two chimp pilots suvive the crash in their
respective pods.
◆ In a distant valley on this strange world, lizards of varying shapes and sizes roam the land, from piranha-like
water lizards to pterodactyl-esque flying lizards to huge dinosaurs. Sentient lizards rule the valley, using the
dinosaurs as pack animals.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 18 (HE-n)
◆ Also inhabiting the planet are giant glow worms and beetles, which feast on each other in a labyrinth of
underground caverns. The beetles immobilize their prey hypnotically, then suck out their lifeforce.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 11 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Elsewhere lives a sentient humanoid race who are displeased by the Earthers’ arrival, and by the apes’
eventual assumption of the prime ecological niche.
Planet of the Apes #7 and beyond (DH-c, unpublished—titles unknown)
NOTE: Writers Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett offer this glimpse at their plans for Dark
Horse’s comic-book series based on the Tim Burton film, had the series continued past
issue #6. Edginton describes his plans for these humanoids as experiencing a “parallel
evolution” to Earth’s mutant human population.
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◆ Davidson returns from his journey through time and crashes Alpha Pod in Washington, D.C., at the steps of AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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the Lincoln Memorial—which now honors Gen. Thade, a chimp military leader from the future alien world AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
of Ashlar. Police surround him, and to his horror, the cops—and everyone else—are apes. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: Ty Templeton, author of Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, had intended, in his CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
initial concept for that title, to explore how Thade changed Earth history. Fox, however, DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
opted to keep the two Apes incarnations separate. Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett had ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
also planned to reveal Thade’s fate in an unpublished storyline for Dark Horse, which FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
would have featured characters from Semos’ world visiting Earth’s past in the Oberon’s GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
remaining pods, via the anomaly. Their plan had been that the Earth Davidson returned HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
to was not the same Earth he left, but rather a parallel planet similar to that which Ulysse MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Mérou retuned at the end of Pierre Boulle’s novel, The Monkey Planet. The Thade name, MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Edginton says, would have been a powerful ape dynasty on that Earth, much like the NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Kennedys or the Rothchilds. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Over the next three days, Klein assesses the Oberon’s losses: nearly half the crew dead or missing, many a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
more incapacitated, leaving about 200 survivors. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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◆ With the station’s high-tech equipment decimated, food, clothing and medical care are very scarce. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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◆ Vasich decides to launch all remaining pods and transmit a distress signal. When Klein says they need the u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
pods’ fuel to restart the reactor, he realizes she poses a threat to his authority. v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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◆ In an effort to turn Grace’s lab into a med center, and with main computers inoperable, Griswold and Molly
code routines enabling the animal-lab comps to access Oberon’s human databases.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 5 (HE-n)
◆ Frank Barstow volunteers for scouting duty and is partnered with an engineer named Lewisall Bledsoe. As
they map the landscape, Barstow finds a boulder covered in brachiopods. A gooey, acidic substance extends
from the swarm to his right boot, and he feels “a billion eyes” watching him.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 4 (HE-n)
◆ The swarm dissolves Barstow’s boot, forcing him to incinerate his foot. The pain makes him pass out, and
hurts the Core of the Great Nest, which orders the surviving “appendages” in his body to multiply.
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◆ Bledsoe brings Barstow back to the Oberon, where Grace gengineers him new toes.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 6 (HE-n)
◆ To eradicate the invaders, the Core commands digger drones to create four new swarms.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 10 (HE-n)
◆ Aspasia gives David a carrot, causing him to choke, then alerts Molly to the infant’s distress. Grace removes
the obstruction, saving his life.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 4 (HE-n)
◆ Grace recommends the crew begin reproducing for the sake of their species’ survival. She and Molly also
gengineer the apes to be smarter and breed faster, to help them build a civilization.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 5 (HE-n)
◆ The first to be gengineered is Aspasia’s unborn fetus, whom Molly gives increased cranial capacity, an
altered voicebox and a shortened sexual maturity time, hoping to keep her people from enslaving the apes.
However, it also results in a skull too large to pass through a chimp’s pelvis.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 6 (HE-n)
◆ This gengineering also enhances the fetus’ senses, endowing him with limited psychic abilities.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 8 (HE-n)
◆ Aspasia dies in childbirth. Blaming herself, Molly names him Jonathan and raises him as her own.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 5 (HE-n)
◆ Grace and Klein notice the coding change but say nothing, curious about the effect a single super-intelligent
chimp might have on the simian gene pool.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ Klein sends Griswold, Bledsoe and Mike McFerry on a hundred-mile hike to photograph the area using
holographic (“holie”) cameras. When they investigate the acidic bugs that attacked Barstow, thousands of
brachiopods consume McFerry and Bledsoe. Griswold lasers his way to freedom and runs back to camp, his
sanity shattered.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 7 (HE-n)
2029 To 2033
◆ With rescue plans delayed by three damaged pods, Klein uses one pod’s computers to replace the
station’s synthesizing machines and fabricate a shelter community, which the crew names New Hope.
Grace adapts plants from the hydroponics bay to survive outside, while Vasich’s people opt to remain
aboard the station.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 8 (HE-n)
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NOTE: Some 3,000 years in the future, in the unpublished novel Rule, the crew’s savage AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
descendants also name a city New Hope, unaware of the connection to their origins. It’s AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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unclear if this was the authors’ plan or purely coicidenctal. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
◆ With Griswold unable to care for himself, Barstow shares his living space (or “fab”) with him. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ A crèche is established, and a guardian named Dorothy is assigned to watch Jonathan and David whenever DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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◆ Despite their different species, Jonathan and David grow up inseparably close. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 8 (HE-n) MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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between them, this draws the boys even closer. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 10 (HE-n)
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◆ Barstow and Molly alter the gengineering program, hoping to reduce ape skull size and enable birthing. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
This lowers simian IQs a bit, but still allows for apes far smarter than Pericles. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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◆ The chimps’ limited psychic abilities remain after the second alteration to the program. Once more aware f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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of the tampering, Grace fixes some mistakes but never lets on that she knows. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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◆ Angelina Piscopo, an inhabitant of the New Hope shelters, gives birth to a daughter and names her Kelsey v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
(“Kels” for short). x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
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Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
2033
◆ Four years after the crash, Barstow takes Griswold back to the Great Nest. Terrified, Griswold vanishes
in the night. To find him, Molly and Barstow steal a pod from the Oberon and begin searching the desert.
Meanwhile, Jonathan awakens David in a panic, sensing danger to their mother.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 8 (HE-n)
◆ The Benavides brothers, age 4, sneak out to the desert. Jonathan, the ape, senses the Great Nest, which he
dubs the Brax, and mentally forces them to leave Molly alone. She and Barstow find Griswold infested
with Brax and incinerate him to end his misery. The insects surround them, combining to take scorpion-like
forms.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 9 (HE-n)
◆ Using the pod’s torches, Molly roasts the brachiopods, then shows Klein and Vasich their scans. In agony,
the Core of the Great Nest is helpless to stop the slaughter. Sensing Jonathan’s mental influence, it sends
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another scorpion beast to kill the boys, but they force it to sting itself to death.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 10 (HE-n)
2033 to 2043
◆ New Hope’s food synthesizers eventually give out.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ The community prospers, protected behind a massive fence. Vasich and Klein form a tentative truce, and
Grace gengineers bees to pollinate food crops for both sides.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
◆ Grace initiates a human breeding program, comprised of multiple sexual partners—as soon as one is old
enough to mate—and artificial insemination. New Hope’s human population rises from 102 to 650, most
under the age of 14. As the firstborn human, David grows up a hero to other youths.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ Despite controlled breeding, the ape populace grows at a much faster rate than the humans.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
◆ The humans of New Hope develop a society based on ancient Sparta and Athens, complete with Greek
names for the apes. The true nature of the apes’ role, however—slavery—is glossed over.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 15 (HE-n)
◆ Molly realizes Barstow is ill and invites him to move into her family’s unit so she can care for him.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ The first geningeered apes learn to speak, but not as well as Jonathan. David feels the simians are treated as
second-class citizens, trained as soldiers subservient to humans.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
◆ The human scientists categorize the Brax by size: single, swarm, cloud, blob and protonest.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ The city begins sending out scout-and-destroy patrols to burn the protonests, dubbing the teams the Brax
Core. Jonathan leads one such team, and other apes revere him as the best of their breed.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
NOTE: The term “Brax Core” is used to describe both the alien entity and the fighting
force. It’s possible the latter was intended to be called the Brax Corps.
◆ The head chimp in Jonathan’s hunter-killer squad is named Thanatos. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 13 (HE-n) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
2038 BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
◆ Back on Earth, Caesar’s wife Lisa dies. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m) DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
2039 GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ When Jonathan turns 10, his mother reveals why he cannot breed. Realizing their species will never be MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
equals—and that humans see him as a threat—he begins relocating apes far from New Hope, at a rate of MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
ten females to every male. Changing his name to Semos (an anagram of Moses), he organizes his people NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
to build a great city, which he keeps secret even from his human family. He names that city New Hope as SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
well, symbolizing simian domination over man. His goal: to destroy humanity once the Brax threat has been TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
eliminated, and to strengthen his own race with his superintelligent seed. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Semos takes two more wives. Despite the death of his first mate, he again risks fate for the sake of simian
survival. Both die, but the children survive, and he lives with guilt for years to come.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
◆ Worried that Grace and Vasich might have him killed, Semos spends much of his time away from the city,
assigning food tasters to check his meals—two of whom die from stomach cramps.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 17 (HE-n)
2040
◆ Back on Earth, Caesar dies at age 67, two years after Lisa. With no successors to his bloodline able to
continue Caesar’s dynasty, leadership of Ape City is turned over to a ruling council of apes and humans, led
by a long line of respected orangutans with the title of Lawgiver.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: In the framing sequence of Battle for the Planet of the Apes, set in 2670, the
Lawgiver says Caesar died 600 years prior, which is close enough to 2040 to jibe. Marvel’s
timeline claims Caesar died without heirs, but this discrepancy with Revolution on the
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Planet of the Apes and the Adventure Comics line (both of which indicate otherwise) can
be reconciled by assuming his remaining children were too young to lead when he died.
Despite his time at the Ape Management Breeding Annex in Conquest of the Planet of the
Apes, no known children seem to have resulted from such matings.
◆ To protect simian society and ensure that the future remains unchanged, the future origin of Cornelius and
Zira is officially denied by Ape City’s ruling council, known only to a select few.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
◆ A second Lawgiver, name unknown, succeeds Caesar in ruling Ape City. This Lawgiver is wise, honorable
and sympathetic toward the plight of humanity.
Planet of the Apes #1: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—The Lawgiver” (MC-c)
2041
◆ Back on Ashlar, 12-year-old David Benavides tells his mother of his wish to join Jonathan’s scout-and-
destroy patrol. When she refuses, he accuses her of devaluing his brother’s life because he’s an ape.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
◆ The Core of the Great Nest instructs its appendages controlling Barstow to “kill the strongest.”
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 12 (HE-n)
◆ Barstow discreetly (and fatally) pushes Klein off a high ladder. Grieving her friend’s death, Molly gives
David permission to begin training.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
2041 To 2052
◆ Conditions between Earth’s apes and humans worsen. Educational programs maintain the pretense of
equality, but humans labor under an aura of inferiority, withdrawing from council participation to form
their own community, separated by a river. The level of culture in Ape City, meanwhile, degenerates.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ Recalling how a human war devastated the planet, the apes grow very wary of mankind.
Planet of the Apes #4: “The Monkey Planet—Battle” (AC-c)
◆ War erupts among the mutant factions of the Forbidden Zone. Be-One of the Gestalt Mind emerges
victorious, with Mendez and his followers escaping into trans-national transport tubes to find a new home. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
They take with them the Alpha-Omega Bomb, which has gained a religious significance. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
NOTE: This was Marvel’s attempt to explain what it perceived as inconsistent settings for BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
the first and fourth films—New York and California, respectively. Ty Templeton and Joe BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
O’Brien, in their original concept for Revolution on the Planet of the Apes (titled, at the CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
time, War on the Planet of the Apes), had intended a similar explanation. In that version, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
General Thade (from the Tim Burton remake) controlled the East Coast, while Caesar ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
controlled the West. During a war between the two ape militaries, Templeton explains, a FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
“wagon train” would have carried the bomb cross-country, in order to deal with Thade’s GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
more organized and militarized East Coast contingent. This idea, however, was dropped HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
when Fox nixed the proposed Thade-Caesar crossover. Templeton has since realized he HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
was in error regarding the later films’ placement, not having seen the extended version of MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Battle for the Planet of the Apes, which strongly implies the film occurs in New York. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ Eventually, the House of Mendez relocates the Alpha-Omega Bomb to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
doomsday missile supplants Christ’s image at the altar as the center of church worship. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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◆ On Ashlar, Sophocles is allowed to begin breeding and produces two children. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ As 14-year-old David heads for training, his friend Kels—a year younger and of childbearing age—flirts n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
with him openly, rousing his interest. Aboard Oberon, his mother and Grace Alexander deliver a chimp p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
baby. The chimp mother senses “many eyes” watching them, and the Brax attack moments later. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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◆ Sophocles’ mate and children are among those killed. Half the human population dies, and Grace loses an
arm. Vasich admits the need to keep their species alive outweighs his desire to get back to Earth.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 14 (HE-n)
◆ Molly boards a pod and torches as many brachiopods as she can, saving her sons’ lives. Unable to burn the
bugs within the ship, Vasich and Ken Kibo use coolant to freeze them.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 13 (HE-n)
◆ Frank Barstow records a goodbye message for Molly, explaining how to find the Brax Core and destroy the
nest. The hive-mind tries to make him destroy the Oberon, but he fights it. Jonathan finds him dead, bugs
bursting from his abdomen. Vasich makes peace with Grace, combining their forces as a single colony, and
Molly tells them about Barstow’s message. David, meanwhile, loses his virginity to Kelsey.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 14 (HE-n)
2043 to 2047
◆ At Vasich’s request, Grace compiles a colony history and message archive, to be transmitted into space on
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a repeating loop. During this period, the ape population in the fabs reaches about 3,000, a third of which
receive military training. The apes remain a second-class race, sent to fight and die in the Brax Core to keep
their population from dominating humanity.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 15 (HE-n)
2046
◆ In his secret ape community, Jonathan (Semos) marries his fourth wife, Aspasia, and fathers a son, Zaius.
Unlike his previous mates, she survives childbirth and becomes mother to all of his children.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 17 (HE-n)
NOTE: It’s unclear if Aspasia is her real name, or if Semos so names her to honor his late
mother, as he changed his own designation.
2047
◆ Molly notices a rise in the female ape mortality rate (caused by Semos relocating them to his new city).
Grace uses equine DNA from the station’s animal database to gengineer horses for the Brax Core. David
names his horse Silver, after an old Lone Ranger video, while Jonathan names his Lightning.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 15 (HE-n)
◆ Human scouts discover a distant valley inhabited by lizards of varying shapes and sizes, from piranha-like
water lizards to pterodactyl-esque flying lizards to huge dinosaurs. Sentient lizards rule the area, using
the dinosaurs as pack animals. The humans avoid the area, but never inform the apes of the danger, as a
precautionary measure for the future.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 18 (HE-n)
2048
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◆ Determined to keep the rising ape population in check, and hoping for a 90 percent death rate during the
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◆ The battle is over quickly, the apes slaughtering many of their former masters. Semos kills Karl Vasich,
impaling him with a spear near his former captain’s chair.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
NOTE: Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett, in writing Dark Horse’s Burton-based comic-book
series, had intended to explore the origins of Semos and man’s downfall on this planet.
Their story would have diverged from The Fall and Colony, however, portraying humans
and apes as equals. According to the writers, the Oberon crew would have left the station
behind to explore the world, bringing their technology (including several pods) with them
as they searched for a new home for both man and ape. Edginton had not been informed
of the novels’ existence until after the comics line began, but indicates he would still have
pursued his original plans, even if he had known about them.
◆ Molly saves a few humans in a pod, but many are slaughtered. As apes burst into Grace Alexander’s lab,
she records one final message and broadcasts it into space, never knowing if anyone will hear it.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 18 (HE-n)
◆ Rather than killing her outright, however, Semos captures Grace alive.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 1 (HE-n)
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◆ Many humans escape into the jungle, but Semos lets his people think all have been killed, knowing the lie
will give them hope for the future.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 2 (HE-n)
◆ David awakens to find Kels killing two guards. Unlocking the chain, she leads him to his horse, Silver, and
they ride out together into the jungle.
Planet of the Apes: The Fall, Chapter 18 (HE-n)
◆ Semos instructs his followers to leave everything from the Oberon behind, but some looting takes place as
apes sneak out bottles of wine and other items to their new home.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 8 (HE-n)
◆ Still, the fledgling ape society does retain some human concepts, including the metric system.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 15 (HE-y)
AFTER 2048
◆ Semos writes a set of Sacred Scrolls decrying mankind and providing the apes of his world with a set of
laws. The 116th Scroll, known as Discourses, warns that apes should never kill their fellow apes.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c)
NOTE: Semos’ name is misspelled “Seimos” in this story. This set of Scrolls is separate
from those later penned by the Lawgiver, back on Caesar’s ape-controlled Earth.
◆ Molly tries to rescue her, but the doctor refuses to leave, determined to lead Semos to his own defeat.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 18 (HE-n)
◆ The anti-Brax virus spreads to Semos’ people, but instead of killing the apes, it causes bizarre gestational
aberrations in several fetuses, altering their appearance. Semos learns about the virus while secretly
recording everything Grace mutters in her solitude.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 2 (HE-n)
NOTE: This would appear to be an explanation for the un-ape-like faces (some have
described them as resembling Michael Jackson) of the female chimps in Tim Burton’s
Planet of the Apes remake—virus-induced mutation.
◆ Armed with this knowledge, Semos decides to split his people up into two colonies, hoping a change in
location might reduce the disease’s spread and give his people a better chance of survival.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 17 (HE-n)
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2069
◆ In the Forbidden Zone, gorilla scouts discover the Caverns of the Inheritors, home to five giant brains
suspended in glass nutrient-globes. The Inheritors (a.k.a. the Supreme Gestalt Commanders) are linked
in a Gestalt Mind, backed by armies of cyborg mutant-drones. The giant brains are named Be-One, -Two,
-Three, -Four and -Five, with replacement brains in storage, while the drones are named for letters of the
alphabet (Mutant-Drone Ay [A], Bee [B], See [C] and so forth). Brutus forges an alliance with the Inheritors
to take over Ape City, and his scouts are “persuaded” to forget what they saw.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: The mutant-drones’ cyborg nature is revealed in “Terror on the Planet of the
Apes,” in Marvel’s Planet of the Apes #3.
◆ Unbeknownst to Brutus, the Inheritors have no respect for him or his kind. Rather, the Gestalt Mind
plans to exterminate all apes and non-mutated humans once their “alliance” with his army no longer
serves its purpose.
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BEFORE 2070
◆ Eccentric wayfarer Lightning Smith (“Lightsmith”) and his mute gibbon companion Gilbert travel the
Forbidden Zone seeking relics. Their goal: to restore civilization by promoting technology and progress.
In South Dakota, they discover Mount Rushmore. Believing the monument to depict onerous criminals,
Lightsmith dubs it the Lost Mount Mug-Face and claims the well-stocked bunker up Lincoln’s nose as his
home. The Seal of the U.S. president hangs on the wall, the skeletal remains of President Arthur Trundy
marking his refuge from the war in 1992. They find a recording in which Trundy discusses Caesar’s
rebellion with his chief advisor, Henry. Trundy comments that he’d like to brainwash all of the apes in the
Psychedrome, and the wayfarers set out to find what they think must be a storehouse of artifacts (though it’s
really an alien spaceship) so Lightsmith can wash his brain clean of ignorance.
Planet of the Apes #14: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—
Up the Nose-Tube to Monkey-Trash” (MC-c)
NOTE: According to a Yahoo Groups posting by author Ty Templeton, a scene cut
from Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5 would have taken place inside the bunker
as an homage to “Terror.” The scene, he says, would have revealed the body to have
been the vice president, not Trundy himself. Trundy is named in Revolution, but not in
this storyline.
◆ Lightsmith discovers a rusty hypodermic needle and accidentally sticks himself. This causes him to get very
ill, but he recovers. He also finds a stack of baseball cards, which he mistakes for portraits of great leaders
of the past.
Planet of the Apes: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—To Meet the Makers” (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This story was never released due to Marvel’s decision to stop publishing Planet
of the Apes comics as of issue #29, in response to increased licensing fees. The above
details come from an outline provided by Doug Moench.
◆ Leonidas, a chimp farmer, isolates his clan outside of New Hope to protect the virtue of Lykia—the daughter
of his brother Leukippos and sister-in-law Dikte—from Zaius and other eager young males.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 5 (HE-n)
◆ Over time, mutations result in several more unviable childbirths, killing the mothers.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Prologue (HE-n)
◆ Semos and Aspasia have twin sons, Glyppos and Glaukos, and a daughter, Galateia. His relationship with
his children is practically non-existent, however, as he spends weeks at a time aboard Oberon’s wreckage
instead of showing them attention—and they resent him for it. Aspasia tries to hide her anguish, but she,
too, resents his inattentiveness. Zaius, now nearly an adult, helps raise his younger siblings.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 3 (HE-n)
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◆ Stripped bare, the Oberon is filled with human skeletons. Semos brings his son to the animal lab, where MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
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◆ Semos reveals his plans to build a second city and gives Thados a mission: to hunt down and kill the
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◆ Semos rigs up the station’s neural connection training helmet and pumps years’ worth of knowledge into
Thados’ brain in a matter of days. Since some living humans retain such information, Semos believes their
line must secretly protect it as well.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 9 (HE-n)
◆ After a week’s training, Thados comes to realize his father’s plan is the right one.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 2 (HE-n)
◆ Semos and Thados return to New Hope after three weeks aboard the Oberon.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 3 (HE-n)
◆ Semos assembles his people in an amphitheater. Promising to find a way to stop the stillbirths, he proposes
building a second city. Despite some protests, his followers support him.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 4 (HE-n)
◆ Two weeks later, the brothers and a gorilla named Briarios lead more than 400 apes into the wilderness.
Unaware of his father’s intention that he one day return to succeed him as ruler, Zaius feels hurt when
Semos is more emotional in his goodbye to Thados than to him.
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◆ Archos forces his way into the expedition at knifepoint. Thados refuses, but Zaius accepts him anyway.
That night, Lykia tries to seduce Thados. Though attracted to her, he rebuffs her advances. Zaius tries to kill
Thados so he can rule the colony with Lykia as his mate. Both survive, but are badly injured.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 5 (HE-n)
◆ Lykia jumps Thados, thinking him the aggressor, then nurses Zaius back to health. Stricken with amnesia,
Zaius has no idea he started the fight. Weeks later, Thados gives Zaius a choice: accepting his rule, or
banishment. When Archos attacks Thados, Zaius submits to save his friend’s life.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 6 (HE-n)
◆ A month into the journey, the apes reach a swamp, which the carts cannot traverse. Leukippos suggests they
build rafts. Archos tries to cross a shallow river, but his horse is attacked and consumed by a swarm of water
lizards. He nearly drowns until Zaius rescues him and rushes him back to camp.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 7 (HE-n)
◆ Leukippos’ mate, Dikte, begins spying on his conversations with Thados, knowing her husband’s memory
is fading and that he might forget to tell her what they discussed.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 16 (HE-n)
◆ Thados announces plans to share power with Zaius, knowing the council will back him if they disagree. He
decides to cross the river, and Archos ties a bloody cloth to the saddle of his horse, Big Red. Drawn to the
blood, the lizards swarm him, consuming the horse alive. They nearly eat Thados as well, though he climbs
to safety. Passing out in agony, he awakens to find his genitals gone.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 8 (HE-n)
◆ Dikte witnesses the murder but tells no one, awaiting the right opportunity to reveal Thados’ treachery.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 15 (HE-n)
◆ Thados sends Zaius to scout for new colony sites. He asks Dikte to take Leukippos’ place on the council
and become his mate, knowing her support would prevent Zaius from gaining the upper hand. Despite his
castration, she agrees to the arrangement to secure her own power base.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 10 (HE-n)
◆ After a month, the apes fail to locate a suitable colony site. The brothers find a strange nest and a large bird
scale. Their scouts come under attack, and a flying lizard mutilates Hyllos. Archos slays the creature, and a
gorilla named Orthros rips its body apart.
Planet of the Apes: Colony, Chapter 11 (HE-n)
◆ Thados dissects the flying lizard and finds a wrought-iron arrowhead in its guts. He realizes humans made it,
but tells no one. The apes build a colony and name it Cool Mountain, erecting a protective stockade fence.
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attack. Lykia’s son’s head gets stuck during birth. The baby survives, but a crazed Dikte stabs Lykia to p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
death to destroy the “demon seed.” Zaius escapes with the child alive, and Thados tells him to climb on his r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
shoulders. He runs across the river, braving water lizards so Zaius can survive to warn Semos. Before dying, s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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◆ According to the scriptures of that religion, the Almighty raised Semos up from the dust and breathed life
into him as the First Ape.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
◆ Semos’ betrayal of humanity fades from memory, with future apes awaiting his return to bring peace to his
children. The First Ape’s descendants bury all knowledge of simian subservience to man, hoping to prevent
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humanity from ever rising again, and refer to the era before his revolt as the Time Before Time.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Mankind on Semos’ planet degenerates into several clans, including the light-haired Valley Clan (known
as Teks) who grow and cook food, and sew leather into clothing; and the dark-haired Wildings, who grow
nothing, wear animal furs like savages and eschew fire since it attracts ape attention.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 5 (HE-y)
◆ Many humans come to fear the apes’ horses as flesh-eating monsters. This serves to further separate mankind
from civilization.
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NOTE: This information appears in the comic adaptation of the film.
◆ In memory of Karl Vasich, the Wildings take his last name as the title of each tribal leader. Thereafter, all
Wilding chieftans are known as Vasich.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 2 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Hanuman the Wise, an orangutan on Ashlar, leads three tribes into the wilderness. Traveling for a year, he
divides them into nine groups, sending each to conquer a separate distant land. His son Pharo builds the
First City and takes a gorilla mate, who bears a son, Kine—who, in turn, founds a warrior band known as the
Chimerae. Others inter-marry as well, enabling the Chimerae to incorporate each species’ best attributes.
Proud and arrogant, the warriors inbreed to keep their bloodline pure, causing future generations to grow
deformed and disturbed, and to turn against those under their protection. All non-Chimerae abandon the First
City, leaving the monstrous regiment behind. The jungle swallows up the city over time, and the Chimerae
devolve into myth. Thus, inter-marrying between species becomes a taboo among civilized apekind, those
of mixed ancestry deemed half-castes.
Planet of the Apes #3: “Old Gods, Part 3” (DH-c)
◆ The apes vow to destroy the Underdwellers, who long for the fulfillment of their own prophecy that a savior,
Oosa, will lead them back to the surface and help retake the planet.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Unearthly Prophecy” (NB-a)
NOTE: The conflict’s origin is undated, but is said to have occurred long before the era
af the animated series.
◆ Ape City’s gorilla army emerges victorious from several wars, protecting the city from the Underdwellers
in the Battle of the Bridges, and from the Ice Apes during a skirmish in the Sogan Desert.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ An artistic ape renaissance makes Earth’s oppressive simian government nervous. A human revolt adds to
the council’s difficulties, as does the existence of a half-human, half-ape hybrid, sheltered by a group of
liberal apes from the gorillas trying to hunt it down. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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direct a sixth entry in the classic film series. Unlike Tim Burton’s 2001 “re-imagining” BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
and various other proposed remakes by Adam Rifkin, Terry Hayes and Sam Hamm, the BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Jackson-Walsh script would have followed Battle for the Planet of the Apes and featured CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Roddy McDowall as a grey-haired chimp artist modeled after Leonardo da Vinci. However, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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lead and hire James Cameron as producer. As documented in Brian Sibley’s authorized GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
biography, Peter Jackson: A Film-Maker’s Journey, the duo opted to leave the project, HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
knowing with such big names attached, Jackson would have had little control over the HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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◆ A legendary figure named Kerchak emerges in ape lore, known for his powerful claws and horns. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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◆ Although orangutans remain the dominant ruling class of ape society, several ambitious gorilla rulers seize
temporary control on numerous occasions over a two-millennia period.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #8: “Screaming Wings” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
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◆ The Lawgiver, aware of the Inheritors’ existence, recognizes Brutus’ duplicity but still agrees to meet with
them, hopeful of negotiating peace with the Gestalt Mind.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—When the Lawgiver Returns” (MC-c)
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◆ Jason and his friend Alexander (a human and chimp, respectively, both age 18) leave school early to hear AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
a speech given by the Lawgiver. The orangutan pushes for equality between both species, announcing that AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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he’ll be gone indefinitely. He leaves in charge a fellow orangutan named Xavier, whom many consider BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
inept. Meanwhile, Ape Supremacists (hooded simian racists bent on scaring humans into submission) BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
assault Alex’s father for befriending humans, then burn Jason’s parents, Beth and David, to death. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ Alex joins Jason on a quest to find the killers, and both are captured by Ape Supremacists. When Brutus’ ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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wife Zena discovers his involvement with the hate group, Brutus kills her, framing Jason for the crime. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Mounting pressure from human-hating factions in Ape City forces Xavier to sentence Jason to death. Alex HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
frees him from jail, and the two head for the Forbidden Zone to find the Lawgiver and clear Jason’s name. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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◆ A gorilla named Tyrinius almost spots Alex and Jason hiding in a tree, but they slip by. At Zena’s funeral, PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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presided over by the Minister of the Second Life, Brutus uses his wife’s death to spread anti-human bigotry. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
Jason accuses Brutus of murder, and a guard shoots his shoulder with a crossbow. He and Alex attempt to UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
lure Xavier to Brutus’ camp, but the racist group slaughters Xavier’s peace officers and pin these murders
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it to the Caverns of the Inheritors, where mutant humans use the beasts to build war machines. There, Alex n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
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◆ The Inheritors order Jason and Alex killed. Mutant-drones bring them to a cell with moving walls that push
them into a great arena. The Supreme Gestalt Commanders watch as they combat giant beasts alongside one
of Brutus’ gorillas, First Lt. Warko, who helps them break free, liberate the Lawgiver and steal a sky-sled.
Out in the Forbidden Zone, however, Warko captures them again at gunpoint.
Planet of the Apes #3: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—The Abomination Arena” (MC-c)
◆ Jason throws the sky-sled into a nose-dive. Alex tries to wrestle the gun away, causing Warko to blast the
controls, crashing the vehicle into an ancient Roy Rogers restaurant. Jason nearly kills Warko, but Alex and
the Lawgiver stop him, and they head for Ape City. A mutated lion attacks, and Jason saves the Lawgiver
from its deadly saliva. The Inheritors give Brutus the resources to stop the Lawgiver from reclaiming Ape
City, intending eventually to betray him and exterminate both apekind and humanity.
Planet of the Apes #4: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—A Riverboat Named Simian” (MC-c)
◆ The Lawgiver is pulled away by a river’s current. Alex and Jason try to save him, and a shaggy, mute
humanoid jumps in to help. The water carries them over a waterfall to the River Society, a frontier town
of apes and humans led by a gorilla named Gunpowder Julius and his human friend, Steely Dan. They
nickname the humanoid Shaggy. Mutant-Drone Ess shows Brutus a mountain passage around the water. A
sentry warns Dan and Julius of the apes’ approach, and they create a gunpowder-filled trench. The mutants’
war machines fall into the trench, forcing Brutus’ forces to retreat. A parting shot kills Shaggy.
Planet of the Apes #4: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—Gunpowder Julius” (MC-c)
◆ Julius and Dan bring the fugitives to Ape City aboard their keelboat, the Simian. Giant river-slugs nearly
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kill them along the way. They meet a friendly ape/human nomad band in gypsy garb, led by an elderly
simian called Mama Lena. Among them is a beautiful human woman named Malagueña. Her chimp lover,
Grimaldi, reacts jealously to Jason, so Mama Lena orders them to resolve their disagreement in a fight to
the death. Jason gains the upper hand. He hesitates to kill Grimaldi, but Brutus arrives with a mutant-drone
army and finishes the job with a single shot. In Ape City, meanwhile, civil unrest erupts when Xavier fails
to act after Ape Supremacists kill three more humans.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—Malagueña Beyond a Zone Forbidden” (MC-c)
◆ Plagued by protests of anti-human persecution, Xavier seeks advice from Phaiton, an orangutan scribe,
who says he should back his fellow apes. Ape Supremacists—including Xavier’s personal guard, Zartor—
crucify the temporary leader, sparking widespread human harassment. Fearing for the safety of his species,
a human named Ivor leads others out of the hate-filled Ape City.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—When the Lawgiver Returns” (MC-c)
◆ A gypsy named Saraband and his midget chimp companion, Trippo, help subdue Brutus’ forces. Malagueña
urges Jason to show mercy, and he lets the gorilla warrior live. Julius taunts Brutus into a fight, knocking
him out, and Jason forces him to lead them to the Inheritors’ caves. Saraband and Trippo come along for the
ride as they steer the Simian to the giant brains’ Mutant Pits, where they face more drones.
Planet of the Apes #8: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes—The Planet Inheritors” (MC-c)
◆ Jason finds a map in Brutus’ camp, highlighting a site in South Dakota. Alex and Malagueña are abducted
by the Assisimians, a savage gorilla tribe in Kansas, led by Chieftan Maguanus. Jason meets Lightning
Smith and Gilbert, wayfarers searching for the Psychedrome. They spy on the Assisimians and see Alex
and Malagueña in bonds. Lightsmith plays a recording of Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds, then dons an
old Ku Klux Klan outfit (the original use for which he’s oblivious) and amazes the apes with magic. He
ignites fireworks and scares the tribe into releasing their captives, then drives them all to his home—up Abe
Lincoln’s nose at Mount Rushmore.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—
The Magick-Man’s Last Gasp Purple Light Show” (MC-c)
◆ Brutus offers the Inheritors a choice at gunpoint: their war machines, or their lives. At Mount Rushmore,
Lightsmith shows the fugitives a recording of President Trundy discussing the Psychedrome. When the
Assisimians arrive, Gilbert slingshots a warning up Lincoln’s nose. Lightsmith pops out Lincoln’s eyes as
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lookout holes, telling the others to lob grenades, don parachutes and jump to his Wonder Wagon. As they AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
ride to safety, Jason spots Brutus’ army, flanked by mutant-drones and war machines. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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Up the Nose-Tube to Monkey-Trash” (MC-c) BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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NOTE: Trundy is not named in this story; rather, he is so identified in Mr. Comics’
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Revolution on the Planet of the Apes miniseries. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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◆ Brutus interrogates Maguanus in his search for Jason. The fugitives, meanwhile, discover a cliffside village ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
of apes and humans living like American Indians. An orangutan shaman shares psychedelic drugs with FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
them, and Jason hallucinates Malagueña taking Alex as a lover, causing him to pummel his friend. The next HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
morning, neither recalls the fight. Lightsmith trades a “magic talisman” (a 7-UP button) for tunnel access HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
to the Psychedrome, and they blast the spaceship door with dynamite. Winged monkey-demons take the MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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wayfarer to a Conditioning Center, where they brainwash him to be a submissive “good person.” NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Planet of the Apes #19: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Demons of the Psychedrome” (MC-c) PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Alex and Jason battle the flying monkeys, then travel a levitrough (a glassite tube) up to an artificial sun UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
(or Lumenark). They enter the globe and find a multi-eyed alien called the Keeper of the Light, whom they
force to take them to the catatonic Lightsmith. MEDIUM
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◆ In a hidden lab beneath the New York Public Library, the Makers—deranged human scientists self- m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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augmented with bionics—capture numerous gorillas to create an army of berserker cyborg apes, which p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
they dub Gorilloids. The cyborgs resent their masters for turning them into machines, but are compelled by r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
their programming to obey. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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◆ The fugitives fight their way to a railway filled with weapons of mass destruction. Mutant-drones destroy
the nearby village. Brutus tortures Malagueña, ordering Warko to locate secret presidential documents
regarding “Project: Last Ditch.” Back in Ape City, as conditions worsen between humans and gorillas, two
scribes (Heironymous and Centarius) find the Lawgiver near death.
Planet of the Apes #20: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Society of the Psychedrome” (MC-c)
◆ Thaddeus, an orangutan attendant, vows to find a cure said to exist in the Forbidden Zone. Brutus locates the
Psychedrome’s weapons silo. Monkey-demons attack, enabling Jason’s group to escape. To prevent Brutus
from gaining nuclear technology, the Inheritors order a drone to set off the warheads. Maguanus attacks the
mutant, detonating the bombs and leveling the mountain on the apes. Furious, Brutus kills the Assissimian.
Alex and Jason, meanwhile, force the Keeper of the Light to lead them to safety via railcar.
Planet of the Apes #23: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Messiah of Monkey-Demons” (MC-c)
◆ The Assisimians rage over Maguanus’ death, so Gunpowder Julius and Steely Dan stockpile weapons to
protect the River Society. Meanwhile, a gorilla named Moravius is chosen to succeed Brutus as Ape City’s
peace officer.
Planet of the Apes #27: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Apes of Iron” (MC-c)
◆ The railcar carries the fugitives to the Northlands, far from the Psychedrome. Lightsmith vanishes, and a
trio of North-Apes—Eriko, Flarn and Jardo—accuse them of trespassing. When Malagueña bests Flarn
in a sword fight, however, they accept the group as equals. Eriko claims Lightsmith was abducted by an
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ape-human hybrid race called Snow-Shamblers. In truth, the creatures are quite nurturing—one, Eet-Eet,
frees Lightsmith from his brainwashing, then sacrifices her own life to save him when the North-Apes
attack. Humbled, the North-Apes make peace with the primitives and give the fugitives a great vessel, the
Longship, to return home. The alien, believed to be an Oracle promised in their religion, is left behind at
their fjord, despite its objections.
Planet of the Apes #26: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—North Lands” (MC-c)
◆ The Gorilloids capture Brutus’ army, killing the horses and mutants, but he forges an alliance with them,
promising to destroy the Makers if they help conquer Ape City. Julius and Dan meet up with the Longship,
which follows the Simian to their compound. Assisimians storm the stockade, and Julius proposes to put
aside their differences with combat. When he and Jason best the Assisimians’ champions, the tribe agrees to
a truce. The fugitives return to Ape City in time for Moravius’ inauguration, moments before the Gorilloids
launch an assault. The Makers, meanwhile, capture and cyborg Thaddeus.
Planet of the Apes #27: “Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Phase 2—Apes of Iron” (MC-c)
◆ The Makers signal Thaddeus to kill Lightsmith, who pokes the orangutan with a rusty hypodermic needle,
making him ill. In Ape City, a human rabble-rouser tries to incite anti-ape hatred. His words resonate with
Jason, who views his parents’ burnt cabin and taunts Brutus in his cell. Lightsmith asks Alex’s parents to
care for Thaddeus as he and Alex warn Moravius about the Makers. The wayfarer reads a medical text
claiming glycerin can heal heart ailments; retrieving nitro-glycerin from his wagon, he offers to cure the
Lawgiver, mistaking the explosive for medication. The Makers attack in Volkswagen rickshaws, but the PUBLISHER / STUDIO
apes repel them using captured war machines. An explosion jars the Lawgiver awake as Smashore—a AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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giant albino Gorilloid—levels the city. To their surprise, mutant-drones arrive to help fight the invaders. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Smashore shoots the jail, freeing Brutus. Alex, Dan and Julius lure Smashore into a trap, burying him in BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
an avalanche. The mutants then bring the Makers before the Inheritors, who warn Ape City that despite BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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this brief alliance, they will eventually resume their own attack. Moravius tries to make peace with Jason, CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
saying their species can be friends, and that both are capable of good and evil. Moments later, Alex’s CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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house catches fire. Before dying, Thaddeus says thugs in black hoods kidnapped the chimp’s parents. Alex DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
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and Jason mount a rescue, stunned to find the thugs are human. Realizing how wrong he’s been about FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
everything, Jason tries to apologize to Brutus for his hatred—but the gorilla is gone. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ Bill Hudson, Jeff Allen and Judy Franklin—NASA astronauts aboard the spacecraft Venturer, which
launched on an interstellar mission in 1976—read their ship’s internal chronometer shortly after take-off.
Due to time dilation, although it still seems like 1976 aboard ship, the chronometer reads 2081, proving
correct Dr. Stanton’s theory of time-thrust…though only the astronauts know it. Hudson transmits a message
to NASA’s Houston Spaceflight Center, and the Venturer vanishes in a strange energy distortion, propelled
to the year 3979.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
NOTE: One would assume NASA would be unable to receive the message at this
point, but given that future astronaut Ronald Brent is only two years old at this point,
anything is possible.
c. 2090
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popular once more, while scientific advances in electronics free music of many restrictions. Eventually, a FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
new type of music evolves, known as C-10, created entirely without the aid of a human musician. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ A NASA spaceship, commanded by Col. Ronald Brent, lifts off from the agency’s launch site in California’s
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the Venturer vanished in 1976, 133 years before Brent’s disappearance. In any case, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ Ollo takes a mate in Ape City. She gives birth to a hugely-built mute, whom they name Grunt. Ollo considers
his son’s inability to speak, and his pacifistic ways, a disgrace to his family name, and shows him no love
or respect.
Planet of the Apes #1: “The Monkey Planet—Beneath” (AC-c)
NOTE: No date is specified, but I assume it to have occurred after Ollo’s arrival at Ape
City since he slaughtered everyone in his former tribe.
◆ A rotund, jolly oranguntan known as Travellin’ Jack introduces a tradition mirroring the human concept
of Christmas. Traveling the land in a horse-drawn cart, he collects items of interest so he can return
each year to share them with the citizens of Ape City. After delivering his gifts, much like his human
counterpart, Jack departs with a hearty “Ho! Ho! Ho!” Children and adults alike look forward to the
annual visits of the simian Santa.
Planet of the Apes #8: “Here Comes Travellin’ Jack” (AC-c)
2120 to 2123
◆ Caesar’s grandson Alexander leaves Ape City to explore the land. During his three-year absence, the
plague that killed the dogs and cats, then nearly destroyed humanity, spreads once more. Many humans are
rendered mute in this latest outbreak, their mental faculties destroyed. The plague kills elder apes and also
spreads among rabbits, deer and cattle. Among the casualties are Alexander’s parents.
Planet of the Apes #5: “Loss” (AC-c)
NOTE: The plague’s resurgence is conjectural, intended to reconcile contradictory
accounts of its origin and effects, which place the disease’s spread in different eras.
Rather than choose one over another, I accept all accounts as having occurred.
2123
◆ Alexander returns from abroad and learns of his parents’ deaths. Despite a fear of failing to live up to their
legacy, he assumes the leadership of Ape City and earns Ollo’s immediate enmity. Alex’s insecurity proves
unfounded, however, as the masses embrace his rule.
Planet of the Apes #5: “Loss” (AC-c)
BEFoRE 2139
◆ A female chimp named Coure is exiled from her village for rebuking an elder.
Planet of the Apes #3: “The Monkey Planet—Conquest” (AC-c)
2139
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◆ Joshua, a chimp archeologist, saves a human dwarf named Max from villagers about to eat him. He meets AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Coure, and the two fall in love, adopting Max as a fond pet. Joshua later departs to study the ruined Statue AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
of Liberty, never to return home. He is unaware Coure is pregnant when he leaves. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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◆ An elderly orangutan named Zenir is named armorer of Ape City. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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◆ Dr. Moto, the city’s sadistic chief scientist, is assigned to track the plague in various species. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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◆ The plague kills a large number of East Coast humans, rendering many survivors as mute savages. A few SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
speaking, reasoning humans survive, but fear of reprisal forces them to keep their abilities a secret. Among TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
them are a young woman and her son, Simon. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Mojo, an ape actor, reads about the Old West in ancient books. Fascinated, he forms a team of bounty
hunters known as the Ape Riders. Riding with him are Shiloh of the Lightfeet; Deadeye, a quick-drawing
ex-bandit; and the Monk, a renowned gambler and the group’s physician.
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “High Noon” (AC-c)
◆ Sgt.-Major Caspian, a soldier in Col. Urchak’s gorilla regiment, encounters two humans quite unlike the
local savage tribes he’s used to meeting.
Urchak’s Folly #1: “Chapter One—The Valley” (AC-c)
◆ The Knower, a mutated psychic among the Children of the Forgotten Apes, predicts Caesar’s grandson
Alexander will save them from enslavement beneath the Ape Management Complex.
Planet of the Apes #2: “The Monkey Planet—Escape” (AC-c)
◆ Dr. Benday, an orangutan scientist in France, experiments with genetics to create Cong, a gorilla several
stories high with the mind of a child, who forms a bond with Benday’s chimp assistant, Flannagan.
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
Ape City #2: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” (AC-c)
◆ A French ape named Mongo, a musician and troublemaker, befriends Dinga, leader of a pack of Harley
Davidson-riding simians called Hell’s Apes.
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
◆ Europe’s ape civilization develops its own television shows, including The Mating Game, Championship
Wrestling With Gorilla Monsoon and the talk-show Gorillado. Television stations include MTV (Monkey
Television) and ABC (Ape Broadcasting Company).
Ape City #4: “Monkey See, Monkey Do” (AC-c)
2140
◆ Deetra, the mate of an ape military officer named Tonus, dies as both of their careers are taking off—killed
by a human while working to integrate humanity into ape society. Hardened by her death, Tonus earns a
reputation as a top assassin with a hatred of humans—and any apes who help them. Violating the apes’ most
sacred law (“Ape shall never kill ape”), he earns the nickname “Tonus the Butcher.” Only Tonus’ value to
Ollo and Noorev in capturing traitorous apes allows him to sidestep the law with impunity.
Blood of the Apes #1: “Part One” (AC-c)
NOTE: In an interview conducted as research for this book, author Roland Mann said
he’d intended Blood of the Apes to occur during the first film. However, this does not jibe
with the mention of Ollo, which sets it in the same era as Adventure’s comics, circa 2140.
Mann himself agrees that this placement makes more sense. Dayton Ward’s timeline,
published in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles, dates this storyline in 2095.
◆ Ollo decides to execute Grunt for being a pacifist. Elsewhere in Ape City, Simon practices writing until his
mother stops him, fearing for his safety. Ape soldiers later kill her. Alexander, meanwhile, decides to visit
the Forbidden City to relive Caesar’s journey and become a better leader. Alex’s friend Jacob, son of Virgil,
joins him. En route, they encounter Coure and Max, bound for the Forbidden City to find Joshua. The
four travel to the ruins of the former Ape Management Complex, where Coure goes into labor as mutants
close in on them. Back in Ape City, Ollo’s Aldonites slay Zenir and use his weapons cache to imprison all
humans and non-gorillas alike. Ollo renames the city Gorilla City, proclaiming himself its ruler.
Planet of the Apes #1: “The Monkey Planet—Beneath” (AC-c)
NOTE: If Jacob is Virgil’s son, that would make him rather old, given that Virgil was an
adult in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 120 years before this issue.
◆ Ollo orders Vonar, an Ape City sculptor, to build a great statue of Aldo.
Planet of the Apes #3: “The Monkey Planet—Conquest” (AC-c)
◆ Ollo’s gorillas catch Simon reading Tolkein’s The Hobbit. Grunt jumps to the boy’s defense, scaring them
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off and motioning for the boy to read him the story. In the Forbidden City, Alex leads his group to safety. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Crazed with radiation sickness, the mutants try to stop them from finding several caged simians, known AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
as the Children of the Forgotten Apes—descendants of apes who tried to join Caesar’s rebellion but were AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
trapped in a sub-basement with little food or water. For 150 years, the mutants have kept them captive, BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
torturing them and their progeny. The Forgotten Apes’ leader is named Dunzell. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ Mutated from living in low-level radiation, some of the Forgotten Apes have developed psychic abilities, ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
such as healing and prophecy. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes #21: “Part One—The Terror Beneath” (AC-c) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ Alex frees the Children of the Forgotten Apes, who slay their human tormentors. He offers them refuge in MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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Ape City, but they consider the ruins their home. Coure gives birth, then the group prepares for the return NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
voyage. The Knower—a psychic ape who’d foreseen their arrival—says Ape City faces its darkest hour. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Ollo orders all resistant apes shot, then gives Vonar three days to finish the Aldo statue. Alex finds Joshua’s
body and buries him near the Statue of Liberty, naming the baby after her mate. Jacob encounters Joshua’s MEDIUM
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Aldonite murderers, who torment the orangutan until Simon and Grunt save his life. Dazed and disoriented, b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Jacob mistakes Simon for an ape. Upon learning what Ollo has done, Alex vows to liberate his people. Ollo c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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◆ A goofy pair of gorilla guards, JoJo and Frito, are assigned to protect the statue.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
◆ Ollo’s Aldonite followers are banned as well. As word of Ollo’s fall from grace spreads, many outsiders
relocate to Ape City, hoping it will be a place of peace and harmony once more.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
◆ The spirit of Aldo reappears to Ollo, promising he will soon have the opportunity to avenge himself.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Warriors” (AC-c)
◆ Ollo forces all of his followers to disfigure their faces to match his own.
Ape Nation #1, Limited Edition: “Who’s Who in Ape Nation” (AC-c)
◆ Alex shares a night of passion with Coure. He names Jacob his Defender of the Faith, grants Coure a seat
on the council and invites Grunt to lead the army, but the mute declines. He tells Jacob to make Simon an
honorary council member, but Jacob disobeys, unwilling to give a human such power. Unaware of Jacob’s
treachery, Simon resents being left out after planning Ape City’s defense.
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◆ Having lived in Ape City for a week, Coure realizes she has found a place she can call home.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Welcome to Ape City” (AC-c)
◆ The council arrests Moto, then drops all charges, deciding Ollo forced him to serve the Aldonites. Furious
over the book-burning, Simon stabs Alexander. Doctors save the chimp’s life, and Simon flees when Jacob
and Grunt catch him trying again. On the run, he meets Capt. Doda, an Aldonite soldier. Doda invites him to
meet with Ollo, saying their common enemy makes them allies. Meanwhile, Jacob adds a passage to the 29th
Sacred Scroll, 6th Verse: “Beware the beast ‘man,’ for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates,
he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not
breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his
jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.”
Planet of the Apes #5: “Loss” (AC-c)
NOTE: Although Marvel’s timeline in issue #11 indicates the Sacred Scrolls were penned
in 2750, Jacob writes this revered passage more than 600 years prior. It’s possible the
scrolls were completed in 2750 after being written by various apes over the centuries. Ty
Templeton’s original concept for Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, titled Combat on
the Planet of the Apes, would have established Gen. Thade (from Tim Burton’s remake)
as the Lawgiver who wrote the “Beware the beast ‘man’” verse.
◆ In time, Simon regrets his decision to join Doda, who treats him with contempt rather than as an ally.
Planet of the Apes #8: “Here Comes Travellin’ Jack” (AC-c)
◆ The council calls Col. Urchak to account for his role in Ollo’s coup. As a gesture of loyalty, Urchak brands
his face to mirror Ollo’s. Eager to see him leave Ape City, the council sends Urchak on a mission to carve
out a road into the unknown. As word of the trip spreads, scientists and other curious apes volunteer to join
the colonel in his exile, anxious to learn what lies west of the city. Urchak’s punishment turns into a major
expedition that lasts two years.
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c)
◆ Rox, a European gorilla warrior, is exiled from her village and travels to France to work as a bodyguard for
her late father’s dear friend, renowned orangutan scientist Dr. Benday.
Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
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sense the crystal’s power and decide to steal it. Mongo meets Rox and travels with her to see Benday, who DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
hires them as bodyguards. Chimp crime-boss Big Mal also learns of the crystal and tells an assistant, Weenie, ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
to send the East Side Boys to steal it. After killing 57 apes, the Vindicators discover the crystal missing and FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
track it to Benday’s lab. As they burst into the lab, the Baboonjas and gangsters arrive as well. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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storyline between 2080 and 2095. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ To create a distraction, Benday blows an ultrasonic whistle, agitating Cong. The three invaders attack the SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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giant gorilla, enabling Flannagan to lead the others to the spaceship. Jo Taylor bars their way, but Benday UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
assures her their intentions are peaceful. Mongo retrieves the crystal from Benday’s home, stopping to
attend to Cong’s wounds. When he doesn’t return, Rox and Flannagan head out to find him. Seeing how the MEDIUM
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◆ Mongo catches up with his friend Dinga and the Hell’s Apes, then arrives at Benday’s home, now r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
a battleground. Scab launches napalm at the other factions, enabling MX and Devon to search for the s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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crystal. Mongo steals a thug’s clothes, but Big Mal sees through his “Rocco” disguise. Devon finds the u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
crystal, which changes hands several times before Mongo grabs it while driving by on Dinga’s motorcycle. v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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Ape City #3: “Monkey Planet” (AC-c)
◆ Henry, a young ape prince in line for the throne of England—a job he does not want—embarks on an
adventure of discovery throughout former Europe. In the course of his travels, he witnesses a variety
of ape cultures.
Henry the Ape (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Roland Mann, author of Adventure’s Blood of the Apes, verbally proposed this
working concept for a four-issue miniseries to creative director Tom K. Mason as well.
Although Mason liked the idea, Mann never submitted anything in writing, nor fleshed
out the story beyond a single paragraph, because Malibu opted to scale back its Planet
of the Apes titles. Mann’s notes contain no date for the tale, and he does not recall his
intention; for lack of a better placement, I have set it following the Ape City miniseries,
also set in Europe.
◆ When an ape named Reador moves to Ape City, its citizens welcome the newcomer: Coure gives Reador
a tour of the city; Vonar explains the city’s origins and shows off his statue; Heston tells Reador about
the Lightfeet and introduces Grunt; and Jacob takes Reador to see the new ape history museum, where
Moto outlines plans to control human breeding to prevent the species from regaining dominancy. Reador is
mugged in a bad part of town, but Alex intervenes. Reador then heads home to find a gathering of citizens
waiting to offer their welcoming wishes.
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◆ Dr. Moto begins abducting humans and apes to conduct scientific experiments on their bodies.
Planet of the Apes #9: “Changes” (AC-c)
◆ Moto snatches Coure’s pet dwarf Max. Dissecting his body for scientific research, Moto puts the man’s
head in a freezer, ignoring the guilt gnawing at him over his unethical work.
Planet of the Apes #7: “Survival of the Fittest” (AC-c)
◆ Alex, his spirit broken by recent events, grows cold and distant to everyone around him. To reduce his
stress, Coure plans a two-day trip into the wilderness with Alex and baby Joshua.
Planet of the Apes #8: “Here Comes Travellin’ Jack” (AC-c)
◆ Saddened by Alex’s and Coure’s “deaths,” Ape City’s citizens eventually go about their lives.
Planet of the Apes #8: “Here Comes Travellin’ Jack” (AC-c)
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◆ Doda meets with Capt. Pato, who begins training Simon to fight in Ollo’s name. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ Ollo allies with the Children of the Forgotten Apes, coercing Dunzell into waging war against a neighboring NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
tribe, known as the Swamp-Apes. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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Planet of the Apes #10: “Return to the Forbidden City” (AC-c) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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◆ Col. Urchak makes camp west of the Forbidden Zone, in the rainforest-covered remains of a city. Heat,
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and suffering to the Mud People, a tribe of aboriginal human-ape hybrids. Miranda, a Taylorite priestess, f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
and her mandrill protector, Argo DiVencenzo, introduce the aborigines to the Book of Taylor, the journal of k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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Dr. Lewis Dixon, revealing the time-lost fate of astronaut George Taylor. Prophecy foretells that Taylor will n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
hold the world in his hands, offer salvation and create a new home where man and ape can live together in p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
peace. The Mud People embrace the Taylorite teachings, making Miranda their beloved spiritual leader. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c) t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
NOTE: Argo DiVencenzo has the distinction of being one of the only apes ever said to v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
have a first and last name. x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Alexander leaves Echo in Narobi’s care and leads a squad of Swamp-Apes to the Forbidden City. He
spots Dunzell and the Children of the Forgotten Apes strategizing with Ollo, but does not remember them.
Dunzell’s forces surround Alex and bring him to Ollo, who delights at having his greatest enemy handed
over to him.
Planet of the Apes #10: “Return to the Forbidden City” (AC-c)
◆ At Coure’s request, Grunt takes Joshua to stay with Leta, a trustworthy human female. Jacob disagrees with
her decision to leave an ape child with a human.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Warriors” (AC-c)
◆ Coure heads for Moto’s lab to accuse him of murder, asking Grunt and Jacob to meet her there. Before she
can present her evidence, however, the scientist hypnotizes her into forgetting it.
Planet of the Apes #10: “Return to the Forbidden City” (AC-c)
◆ Moto encases Max’s body behind a brick wall to hide the evidence of his crimes.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Warriors” (AC-c)
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◆ Simon grows tired of apes ordering him around and beats Pato with a tree branch. Knocking him off a cliff,
Simon ignores the gorilla’s pleas for assistance as he dangles over the edge.
Planet of the Apes #10: “Return to the Forbidden City” (AC-c)
◆ As Grunt and the Swamp-Apes search for Alex, Ollo clubs the latter unconscious and leaves him to drown
in a stream. Dunzell finds Alex’s body and uses a mutant healing touch to restore his vitality. The Swamp-
Apes battle the ape mutants until Alex intervenes, urging both to avoid the mistakes of mankind. He then
offers Ollo a hand in friendship, apologizing for banishing him. After a beat, the gorilla accepts the peace
offering, and the two return to Ape City with Dunzell and Narobi.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Warriors” (AC-c)
◆ Heston provides firewood to a bar-owner named Dundee and receives an ale in payment. Roto then smashes
a table and offers the wood as payment for his own drinks. Elsewhere, Alex and Coure decide to wed. To
afford a gift, JoJo trades Frito’s bed to Borno the Traveler for three rifles; the guns to Zinga the Wheeler
for two wagon wheels; the wheels to Dugga the Digger for a shovel; the shovel to Looma the Weaver
for blankets; the blankets to Gumba the Potter for a serving bowl; the bowl to Farmer Bob for a dozen
apples; the fruit to Babo the Baker for a loaf of bread; and the bread to Vonar for a bottle of wine—which
Frito breaks over his head. The bell-ringing ceremony is interrupted when Ollo attacks Joshua’s caretaker,
Wosha. Ollo then departs the city, leaving the infant on Coure’s doorstep with a note saying he plans to
return as a conqueror.
Planet of the Apes #12: “Bells” (AC-c)
NOTE: It has been 12 months since Alex and Coure first met.
◆ Vonar trades a fake treasure map to Frito and JoJo for most of their belongings. Too dimwitted to realize
they’ve been conned, they follow the map 50 miles outside Ape City. JoJo digs up the treasure since Frito
“forgets” to bring a shovel. Buried underground are boxes of Hostess fruit pies, still fresh after a century.
The apes gorge themselves on hundreds of pies, then pack up the remaining snacks and head home the next
morning, hoping Vonar has another map they can trade for.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Frito & JoJo’s X-cellent Adventure” (AC-c)
◆ In France, the strain of Cong’s size endangers his health, so Dr. Benday experiments on mass reduction.
Cong shrinks so small, however, that Benday must also shrink Mongo to find him. Before Benday can
restore their size, two weasels escape Flannagan’s grasp and nearly eat them. Flannagan attempts to shrink
the animals but reverses the beam, growing them to enormous height. Rox rushes in to slay the beasts, and
Benday restores Mongo, but the overheated lab equipment explodes, leaving Cong an inch tall. Benday
places the gorilla in a small glass tank until he can figure out how to restore Cong’s size.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Ape City: Honey, I Shrunk the Apes” (AC-c)
NOTE: It’s unknown if Benday ever finds a way to reverse the shrinking. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ A chimpanzee traveler with wanderlust explores the great unknown beyond Ape City, fascinated with AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
artifacts of the past. Losing his map in a stream, he relies on his sense of direction to get home, the knowledge BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
that his loving mate and child await giving him the hope to keep trudging on. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “Morning Glory” (AC-c) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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◆ In a frontier town, Sheriff Cody arrests an outlaw ape called Little Mo. The outlaw’s kinsmen (Pa, Horse DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
and Scumhound) stage a jailbreak. The bounty hunters known as the Ape Riders offer their assistance, and ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
before long, the outlaws are locked up safely in Cody’s jail. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “High Noon” (AC-c) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
NOTE: Mo’s kinsmen are named for characters in the classic Western series, Bonanza. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ Sent to obtain tar-pit samples, Frito and JoJo discover a fallout shelter stocked with food. The halfwit NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
guards enjoy several dozen cans of beer, then brawl over whether the beverage tastes great or is less SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
filling. Among their other finds: a Playboy centerfold (which makes Frito vomit) and a stereo boom-box. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
The goofy gorillas eat and dance until nightfall, then return to Ape City, forgetting their assigned task. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Sentenced to seven days outside the city without food or supplies, the buffoonish apes smile, knowing MEDIUM
they’ll be just fine. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “Afternoon Delight” (AC-c) c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
◆ An ape storyteller scares three children with a campfire story: Two teenage chimps, Bobo and Jina, spend e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
the night in an abandoned mansion reputed to be haunted. Bobo is afraid, but the thought of getting Jina f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
alone counters his fears. An un-dead vampire mandrill is also in the house, who kills them both and feasts m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
on their blood. The ape kids are delighted and frightened, so the storyteller relates an even-more terrifying n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
tale, about an ape who, on full-moon nights, turns into a human. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “Eternal Dusk” (AC-c) s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
NOTE: It’s highly doubtful the tales can be taken as truthful.
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ The road-weary chimpanzee traveler finally returns to Ape City, to find that his lonesome mate has lit a
candle for every night he was away. Now he is home, and their reunion is joyous.
Planet of the Apes Annual—A Day on the Planet of the Apes: “Midnight Tears” (AC-c)
◆ Enjoying a day with his life-mate Keysha, Heston is nearly slain by a bear. Meanwhile, out in space, a
Tenctonese officer named Caan tries to spend time with his mate but is interrupted when a meteor storm
threatens their ship. Running for the bridge, Caan destroys the meteors and saves his people.
Ape Nation #1, Limited Edition: “Twice Upon a Time” (AC-c)
NOTE: This crossover tale between Planet of the Apes and Alien Nation continues
in 2150. Caan is named for James Caan, star of the Alien Nation theatrical film. The
Alien Nation movies, TV series, spinoff novels and other comic books are not covered
on this timeline.
BEFORE 2142
◆ Col. Urchak orders the construction of a great bridge in the wilderness so he can cross a river and conquer
all of North America.
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c)
◆ Urchak’s ultimate goal: to prove himself superior to Caesar, Alexander and Ollo.
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◆ Some of Urchak’s underlings disagree with his plans. Two scientists, Drs. Titus and Morris, conspire with
Claudius, the bridge’s designer, and Sgt.-Major Caspian, an officer in Urchak’s army, to demolish the
bridge. Their plan: to force William (a captured mutant from the Forbidden Zone, his mouth stitched closed)
to detonate himself and the bridge once they cross, so they can study the savage civilization to the west, free
of the military’s control.
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c)
◆ The apes find the remains of Elvis Presley’s Graceland and convert it into a bar called Gracela Tavern.
Blood of the Apes #1: “Part One” (AC-c)
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◆ Miranda, the Taylorite priestess of the Mud People, enters Urchak’s camp, hoping to make peace with the
apes. Urchak ignores her overtures, however, making her his sexual slave for weeks until she escapes.
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c)
◆ William telepathically warns Thorne that they’re all about to die. The apes assign him to the bridge
construction crew. Titus and Morris ask permission to search for herbs across the river. Chenko denies the
request, but Caspian approves it, humiliating Chenko into hitting Caspian with an axe. Claudius, unwilling
to sacrifice William, decides to destroy the bridge himself. Titus and Morris dash across the water, followed
by Thorne and William. Claudius then pulls a grenade pin, reducing the bridge to timbers.
Urchak’s Folly #2: “Chapter Two—The Bridge” (AC-c)
◆ Urchak executes and crucifies Caspian for his role in the conspiracy. Across the river, Taylorites surround
Thorne’s group. Miranda’s mandrill protector, Argo DiVencenzo, shares with them the Book of Taylor
and explains the prophecy of Taylor’s resurrection. Hoping Miranda might be able to help him recover his
missing past, Thorne helps Argo rescue the priestess. Crossing back to Urchak’s camp, Thorne slips into PUBLISHER / STUDIO
the general’s room to find Miranda lying naked on a bed. Urchak beats him near-fatally, jarring his blocked AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
memory, then orders both humans executed. Knowing they’ll die the next day, they enjoy a night of love- AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
making in their cell. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
Urchak’s Folly #3: “Chapter Three—The Savages” (AC-c) BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
◆ The Taylorites attack at dawn, killing many apes and freeing Thorne and Miranda. Thorne shoots Chenko, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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and a massacre ensues as he and Miranda escape into the jungle. There, they locate the ruins of Foucault’s DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
Institute for Mental Incurables. Urchak follows, and Thorne tricks him into entering the time machine, ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
propelling the ape back to the year 1900. Thorne and Miranda find the village in flames, the Taylorites GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
in control. Chenko staggers into the clearing, killing Titus, and Argo fells the giant gorilla with an axe. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Burying the dead, Thorne and Miranda head for the Forbidden Zone, inviting William to join them. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Urchak’s Folly #4: “Chapter Four—The War” (AC-c) MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
NOTE: The fates of Thorne, Miranda and William are unrecorded. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
◆ Tonus, a gorilla bounty hunter and firm protector of ape dominancy, visits Phis (the area once known TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
as Memphis, Tenn.) to detain a chimp suspected of helping humans. Tonus delivers him dead to Col. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Noorev, who chides him for killing a fellow ape. Across the Mizziphee (Mississippi) River, in a Taylorite MEDIUM
colony, a woman named Myndith teaches human children how to read. Her partner, Luthor, says their ape a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
contact has been caught—their second contact killed in the past three weeks. Frustrated, they push on with b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
educating humanity. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
Blood of the Apes #1: “Part One” (AC-c) e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
NOTE: Tonus’ claim that Ollo assigned him to Phis would seem to place this story before k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
Ollo’s exile in 2140, but issue #2 sets it after Urchak’s Folly, which occurs two years m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
beyond that point. I’ve placed Blood of the Apes directly after Urchak’s Folly, assuming n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
Ollo assigned Tonus to Phis before his exile. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ Tonus gets drunk at Gracela Tavern, then stumbles outside and mistakes a female ape—Valia, an animal-
rights activist favoring human-ape equality—for his lost love, Deetra.
Blood of the Apes #1: “Part One” (AC-c)
◆ Myndith chastises Richard for sending Marcus on a fool’s mission. She breaks Marcus out of jail, and many
blame the ape activists. Valia meets with a human named Edward and an ape called R.E., who supply her
with weapons for the Taylorites. Argo DiVencenzo warns them not to head north, for the Mud People will
attack any apes they see. As they leave, Tonus apprehends her for arming humans.
Blood of the Apes #2: “Part Two” (AC-c)
◆ Gen. Stedal arrives from Ape City, sent to handle Noorev’s human problem. Several Taylorites beat
Tonus with a baseball bat, but Valia convinces Richard to spare the ape in an effort to make him see the
light. Myndith ponders their leniency, hoping that showing such compassion to “the hardest of all apes”
might make others see mankind’s worth. As a gesture of peace, she rallies the Taylorites to march on Phis
unarmed. After they leave him, Tonus locates a weapons cache and sights a human mother and her child in
his rifle scope.
Blood of the Apes #3: “Part Three” (AC-c)
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◆ Tonus lowers his weapon, however, letting the family live. En route to Phis, he encounters Noorev’s army
preparing to slaughter every human in the area. He protests, claiming the marchers pose no threat, and
steals a horse to warn Valia, but the soldiers shoot them both. Stedal beats the bounty hunter for betraying
apekind, and Valia intercedes, taking a bullet for Tonus, who admits his love for her before dying. Pulling
off a mask to reveal her true identity—the human, Myndith—she admits she loves him as well, then dies
in his arms.
Blood of the Apes #4: “Part Four” (AC-c)
◆ Keysha, Heston’s pregnant life-mate, dies from a prolonged illness, their unborn child dying with her.
Heston learns to get on with his life but is never quite the same. Growing more serious with the passing
years, he enlists in the ape military as a border guard.
Ape Nation #1, Limited Edition: “Twice Upon a Time” (AC-c)
NOTE: It’s not clear when Keysha dies. I have chosen this gap in time since it takes place
before the events of Ape Nation. However, there is room for debate.
◆ Winnipeg of the Lightfeet dreams of an alien takeover of Ape City, including the time and place the alien
spaceship will touch down.
Ape Nation #1: “Plans” (AC-c)
NOTE: This, of course, begs the question of why he did not prevent the events that follow.
◆ Simon befriends a wolf pup, which he names Dingo. Over time, Simon grows quite powerful, acquiring a
legion of human followers and mounting frequent attacks on the apes.
Ape Nation #1, Limited Edition: “Twice Upon a Time” (AC-c)
NOTE: The pup’s name changes during the course of the story, from Dingo to Lobo.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
c. 2150 AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ A Tenctonese refugee ship commanded by Capt. Caan experiences equipment failure and breaks away from AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
the rest of its fleet, headed for Earth to seek sanctuary from slavers. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Ape Nation #1, Limited Edition: “Who’s Who in Ape Nation” (AC-c) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: Ape Nation, a crossover with the Alien Nation franchise, marks the second of CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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three thwarted alien takeovers of Earth. The first occurs in the 1980s, the third in 2200. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
The miniseries is undated, but is said to occur several years after Ollo’s exile. Given ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Simon’s age, as well as those of Alex’s and Coure’s children, it would appear ten or so FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
years have passed since Simon’s betrayal. Thus, I have set this tale circa 2150, though HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
there is room for debate. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
◆ Sucked into a black hole, the Tenctonese ship is propelled through a space-time warp, to land beyond the MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Forbidden Zone in an alternate future. Caan’s brother Danada stages a coup, imprisoning him. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Ape Nation #1: “Plans” (AC-c) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
◆ Danada also imprisons his sisters, Pascha and Elysa. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Danada allies with Ollo and Simon, consolidating their forces into a single, massive army. Heston’s group
travels six weeks without incident before meeting the combined forces. Badly outnumbered, the five apes
fall in battle, and Heston is taken aboard the alien ship, shackled and bleeding.
Ape Nation #1: “Plans” (AC-c)
◆ The combined forces storm the countryside. Elysa escapes her cell, freeing Caan and Heston. Simon stabs
her with a knife, and the others pummel him to a pulp, then flee on horseback. Danada strikes Ollo for
failing to capture them, earning the gorilla’s hatred. Simon takes Dingo to find the prisoners, his partners
conspiring to eliminate him from the troika. Caan and Heston, meanwhile, hide in a farmhouse. Caan drinks
a bucket of sour milk, wanders off drunk and falls into a lake, just as Roto arrives on the scene.
Ape Nation #2: “Pasts” (AC-c)
◆ Roto tosses Caan at Simon. Tenctonese guards arrest them all, and Simon realizes Ollo and Danada betrayed
him. To atone for his crimes, he helps the others fight the guards. The trio then rush to find Heston and
stop the invasion. Heston discovers Elysa alive, only one heart pierced by the blade, and helps her thwart
Danada’s plans. Out in the woods, a boar chases Bart, causing him to fall from a tree; feeling useless, he
returns to Ape City. Meanwhile, Danada orders his guards to assassinate Ollo.
Ape Nation #3: “Pawns” (AC-c)
◆ Heston and Elysa burst into Danada’s quarters just as Ollo slays the alien. Escaping through a trash chute,
they separate to foster dissent among their enemies. Before long, the aliens and apes turn on one another.
Simon, Roto and Caan continue fighting despite impossible odds, until Bart returns with the Lightfeet and
a battalion from Ape City, who quickly defeat the combined army. Ollo ultimately escapes on horseback,
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and Heston and Elysa settle down in the woods to “get wrecked” on fruit juice and sour milk.
Ape Nation #4: “Pains” (AC-c)
◆ The Lightfeet realize their culture’s end is impending when eight of nine prophesied omens come true.
Zakula, the tribe’s leader, awaits the final omen—seven crows roosting together—so his people can battle
a great evil.
Planet of the Apes #22: “Part Two—The Land of No Escape” (AC-c)
◆ Relaxing with Elysa, Heston recalls his life-mate Keysha and their unborn child. Elysa consoles him over
their deaths, then leads him back to their camp.
Planet of the Apes #13: “Ape Nation—Drunken Interlude” (AC-c)
◆ Caan, Heston and Elysa free those imprisoned in Danada’s coup—including Packer, who has absorbed
Winnipeg’s spirit into his own to save the other’s life, and who decides to live with the Lightfeet tribe
therein. Elysa and Caan give Heston a canteen of wine and a necklace, symbolizing the eternity of their
friendship. Bidding farewell, the Tenctonese take to the stars as the simians return to Ape City, each changed
by their mutual experiences.
Ape Nation #4: “Pains” (AC-c)
◆ For seven nights, a guilt-ridden Moto dreams of Max breaking through the wall to expose his evils. The
scientist tries to bury himself in his work, but fails to assuage his anxiety. Elsewhere, Frito brings JoJo a
cannon for them to guard the statue of Alexander, accidentally blowing up the monument in the process;
horrified, he falls over a cliff. JoJo begs him not to die, promising a house, horses and bananas if he survives,
and the mention of bananas revives him. Heston briefs Coure and Alex about the Tenctonese front, which
they decide to withhold from the masses. That night, Milo has a nightmare of Ollo returning to kill them.
Moto, meanwhile, hangs himself in his lab.
Planet of the Apes #18: “Gorillas in the Mist” (AC-c)
◆ An ex-Lightfoot once named Northstar (now called Dirty Hairy) abducts Princess Zo, daughter of King
Louie, the orangutan leader of New Dodge. Louie asks the Ape Riders to find her, but four henchapes
(Dolenz, Tork, Nesmith and Jones) stand in their way. Hairy shoots Shiloh, putting him in a brief
coma, then kills Monk. Deadeye shoots three of the outlaws, forcing Jones to reveal Dirty Hairy’s
location. A former thespian, Mojo poses as Zakula to fool the fallen Lightfoot, but Hairy sees through
his disguise. Shiloh kills the fallen Lightfoot, promising one day to offer his own life to atone for
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
violating the Lightfoot code. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Planet of the Apes #20: “Cowboys and Simians” (AC-c) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: Hairy’s henchapes are, of course, named for the musical group The Monkees. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ In the Forbidden City, a ragged group of human mutants holds a séance in the ruins of Ape Management, BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
hoping to summon the spirit of Governor Arnold Jason Breck so he can save mankind. Breck’s ghost CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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destroys them, however, disgusted by their mutations and determined to rid the world of all non-humans. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Planet of the Apes #21: “Part One—The Terror Beneath” (AC-c) FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
◆ Shiloh of the Lightfeet senses an intense evil near the Forbidden Zone. Despite the odds against them, the HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Ape Riders head out to confront the source of his vision. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Planet of the Apes #22: “Part Two—The Land of No Escape” (AC-c) MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ Roto arrests a speaking human named Anne (granddaughter of former astronaut August Anne Burrows), PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
whom Jacob tortures to learn her tribe’s location. In the Forbidden City, Breck kills the Children of the TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
Forgotten Apes. Only Dunzell, absent at the time, survives—but after years of living in radiation, he is UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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◆ Despite Jacob’s objection, Alex accepts Simon’s offer. Zakula “hears” Dunzell’s final words in Heston’s
mind, realizes they refer to Caesar and instructs his tribe to summon Alexander so they can revitalize the
First Lawgiver. As Ape City’s council mounts a defense against Breck’s rising numbers, Jacob accuses
Simon of aiding the enemy, but Grunt forces Jacob to leave, forgiving his friend despite all he’s done. Roto
finds Anne, but instead of arresting her, he brings her to Dundee’s to hear her story. And in the Lightfeet
camp, a shimmering glow surrounds the tribe as Caesar’s spirit returns from the afterworld.
Planet of the Apes #23: “Part Three—The Final Conquest” (AC-c)
NOTE: Given the crying statue of Caesar in the year 2670, as seen in Battle for the
Planet of the Apes, the First Lawgiver’s return from the dead may not be so difficult a
premise to accept.
◆ Simon urges Roto and Grunt to help him overpower Breck’s followers without bloodshed. Caesar fights
Breck’s spirit as others battle on the physical plane. Breck gains the upper hand, but Alex distracts him,
offering to care for the humans if Breck ends the war. As Caesar engulfs Breck’s spirit, the Lightfeet join
minds to lend their power, sacrificing themselves to close the door to the spirit-world. Normalcy restored,
Simon and Anne urge the council to bridge the species divide. Jacob resists, but ultimately agrees to give it a
try. Alex decides the future lies not on the path of fear and racism, but in making the world a better place.
Planet of the Apes #24: “Part Four—Last Battle” (AC-c)
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NOTE: Sadly, like his grandfather Caesar, Alexander is rather naïve in his hope for a
peaceful future.
AFTER 2150
◆ The gorillas of Ape City—descendents of those worst persecuted during the so-called Silent Times—
continue to harbor resentment toward mankind. Many wish to exterminate the species, but the chimpanzees
prefer to live in peace with humanity.
Empire on the Planet of the Apes (MR-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Details of this proposed sequel to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes were by
authors Ty Templeton and Joe O’Brien.
◆ A civil war erupts between these factions, lasting a century. Orangutans and bonobos inhabit both camps;
as the smartest apes, the two species assume responsibility for the sciences and schooling.
Empire on the Planet of the Apes (MR-c, unpublished)
◆ Still, in an area known as the Valley, apes and humans do achieve a true peace.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5: “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” (MR-c)
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the first film, that he is up for a raise. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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◆ Apeslayer eventually escapes the Martian simians, injuring Warlord in the process.
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c)
◆ Warlord’s face and arm are replaced with cybernetic implants, leaving him hungry for revenge.
Planet of the Apes #28: “Airport of Death” (MC-c)
c. 2205 to 2206
◆ Apeslayer spends 12 months foraging in the ruins of Queens, eating whatever cats, dogs and rabbits he
can find, and reading old books to revisit life before the invasion. He learns that the alien apes genetically
breed human slaves as sirens to lure others to their doom. In Brooklyn Heights, he kills an alien molesting
a human female, then escapes to Staten Island, where he meets a resistance cell called the Freemen.
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c)
NOTE: As with the television series, the Apeslayer storyline features dogs centuries after
their extinction.
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◆ Apeslayer lives among the Freemen for six years, eventually becoming their leader.
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c)
c. 2212
◆ The Freemen sneak aboard an ancient ferry bound for Manhattan to terrorize the former mayor, who has
betrayed humanity for comfort and power. This infuriates the aliens and draws new members to the rebel
cause. Apeslayer and a fellow rebel, Dagger, decide to breach Raker’s defenses and kill the traitor.
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c)
◆ The Freemen storm Grand Central Station. Defeating an alien named Scrapper, Apeslayer battles several
mutant creatures bred by Raker. Making his way to the General’s office, he fatally impales the man with a
shard of machinery, breaking the aliens’ hold over him. Raker thanks him for ending his nightmare.
Planet of the Apes #23: “Prologue: Future Imperfect” (MC-c)
◆ Raker tells Apeslayer he has a special power enabling him to defeat the simian Martians, and that he chose
the boy for that very reason. The old scientist then dies, his dignity restored. As Apeslayer exits at 7th
Avenue, a trio of sirens try to ensnare him with their alluring gaze.
Planet of the Apes #24: “The Birth of Apeslayer” (MC-c)
◆ Master Twelve orders a scout to investigate, and the pilot finds the abandoned ferry on fire. Kempleton’s
superiors recall him to New Jersey, assigning Skarlet, Queen of the Sirens, to kill the Freemen. Skarlet
infiltrates the rebel base, entrances Arrow, Mala and others, and ensnares Apeslayer in a tripodal machine
that takes him to Madison Square Garden. The overlords order Slasher, a cybernetic gladiator, to kill him,
but Apeslayer breaks free of his bonds, kills Slasher and escapes with his fellow rebels.
Planet of the Apes #26: “Death in the Ape-Pit” (MC-c)
◆ Master Four and Warlord prepare a trap to capture Apeslayer at LaGuardia Airport, planting a weapons
cache there to lure him in.
Planet of the Apes #28: “Airport of Death” (MC-c)
◆ Besieged by Martians, the Freemen hide in a museum until the aliens destroy it. Mala dislodges a hanging
vessel to kill one simian, and Apeslayer impales another with a silver-star. They demand the location of the
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museum into an abandoned truck, then head back to Staten Island. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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men topple the machine by loosening the sandstone upon which it rests, then swim ashore. They locate the CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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airport weapons cache, but are quickly subdued and sentenced to fight in the Arena of Mutants. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
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◆ Apeslayer kills several mutant apes, including his final opponent (Kre-kor) and an elite force of soldiers. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Warlord enters the arena, slams him with a metal arm and orders him prepped for surgery sans anesthesia. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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games with Warlord, then betrays the Martians, summoning a mutant named Grok Zom to help her storm NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
the prison and rescue the Freemen. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Bursting into the surgery ward to rescue Apeslayer, the Freemen engage Warlord’s Red Canal Units. Grok
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◆ This battle serves as a balancing point in history, where human devolvement most clearly coincides with
ape evolution. It is also the last major gasp of human aggressiveness.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
2220 to 2750
◆ The remaining sentient humans become a slave culture, tolerated but disrespected in gorilla-dominated ape
society. Exploration flourishes, as populations expand in all directions. Land is tamed and cultivated with
slave labor, outposts are established and contact is made with other surviving tribes. A few minor wars
break out, sparked by gorilla aggressiveness, but peace otherwise reigns as energies are channeled into
retaking the planet. The cultural heritage of Caesar’s Ape City gains widespread popularity, with regional
governments modeled after the Lawgiver/council mold. Still, some bands of renegade humans continue to
harass ape outposts.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
◆ A tribe of reclusive humans, the Delphi, takes refuge within a mountain in Philadelphia’s Forbidden Zone.
In the ruins of Independence Hall, the Delphi worship the Declaration of Independence, awaiting the
fulfillment of a prophecy that saviors shall descend from the sky and lead them to a promised land where all
creatures live in harmony. A similar legend forms among the apes, who name this area the Mountain of the
Delphi. Some ape scholars wonder if the Delphi might be a missing link between humans and apekind.
Planet of the Apes—4 Exciting New Stories #1: “Mountain of the Delphi” (PR-r)
NOTE: This placement is conjectural, as no specific date is provided—just that it
happened centuries before the TV series, set in 3085.
c. 2260
◆ Dogen, future Lawgiver of the Primacy, is born.
The Forbidden Zone #1: “Part One—Forbidden Knowledge” (AC-c)
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gorilla, learns of Arvo’s defiance and is displeased. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
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of “normal” human faces to hide their inner selves, and to project an aura of outer beauty. It is deemed a TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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◆ In New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the House of Kolp defeats Mendez X in a clash for control of
the mutants’ Holy City. Kolp believes the Alpha-Omega Bomb a god, while Mendez considers it evil.
Framed for murder, Mendez is exiled and wanders the desert for days before collapsing in the woods. Julius
finds a gas station with restrooms for men, women and apes—a sign that apes and men once shared the
world, with humans in charge—and sends Nero to inform the council. In the Primacy, Lawgiver Dozen (an
orangutan) and Security Cmdr. Pell Shea (a human) visit the classroom of a teacher named Circe to educate
her students about Primacy history. The two are suddenly called to a hospital, where Drs. Romulus and
Titus treat Mendez X, found in a forest by a border scout. Watching these events in his mind, Kolp sends
Gen. Jaekel to wipe out all life in the village.
The Forbidden Zone #1: “Part One—Forbidden Knowledge” (AC-c)
NOTE: That Mendez would consider the Alpha-Omega Bomb evil is surprising, given
that his ancestor, Mendez the First, introduced the bomb worship in Battle for the Planet
of the Apes, and that the House of Mendez still favors the bomb in 3978, as seen in
Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Why the Mendez line would go from deifying the bomb to
thinking it evil, and then back to worship, is unknown.
◆ Panicking upon seeing the ape doctors, Mendez creates an illusory sea of fire. When a terrified gorilla
named Bock incites a riot, Shea orders Sgt. Garth to arrest him, then tries to calm the mutant, granting him
Primacy citizenship. As Kolp’s army marches to the Primacy, Jaekel tells his lieutenant, Conrad, to let the
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soldiers remove their life masks and keep cool, despite the sacrilege of doing so. In Ape City, Julius’ report
outrages Arvo, who rips up the scroll, calling it blasphemous.
The Forbidden Zone #2: “Part Two—Danger Zone” (AC-c)
◆ Though his methods are harsh, Arvo’s intentions are noble. Having heard legends of humans enslaving the
ape race, he fears what mankind might do if ever given the chance to do so again.
The Forbidden Zone #3: “Part Three—Battle Zone” (AC-c)
◆ Zoe tells Brak to let Arvo destroy the site, then to eliminate all witnesses. Brak’s second, Durga, refuses to
take part, but agrees not to stop them. Julius studies the gas station and finds a U.S. map behind a Cooky
Cola machine. Fascinated to learn that the Forbidden Zone was once called New York, Julius sets out to
locate more cities and stumbles upon Primacy’s Outpost 12. Two guards—a human, Lt. Jasper, and an
orangutan, Nebo—arrest him.
The Forbidden Zone #2: “Part Two—Danger Zone” (AC-c)
◆ Surveying the battlefield, Brak realizes humans and apes died fighting as brothers, and that his people
need not fear the Primacy. Arvo’s troops decimate the mutants and nearly kill Shea’s troops, but Brak
shoots the gorilla, ending the war. Dogen honors Shea, Mendez and Julius, hoping the hard-won peace
will last. Kolp rejoices despite losing the battle, for the ape military has been weakened; what’s more,
Primacy poses no threat and the “stunted” mutants have been culled, allowing his people to evolve
unfettered by genetic inferiority.
The Forbidden Zone #4: “Part Four—War Zone” (AC-c)
AFTER 2320
◆ The House of Mendez regains dominancy in the Holy City. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ In time, the reclusive human mutants lose all memory of the apes’ existence. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
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◆ The Holy City’s government ceases the practice of killing its enemies. Instead, the mutants begin using their FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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on the Alpha-Omega Bomb, affirming it as divinely sent. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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◆ A photo of an unbombed, futuristic-looking New York City is said to be from this era. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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◆ In one section of the United States, man and ape live together in a peaceful agrarian society. Religion
teaches that God created beast and man so both might live in friendship, sharing dominion over a world
of peace. The Lawgiver of this land reverently recounts the exploits of Zira, Cornelius and Caesar for the
ape and human children of his era, so that both species might learn from the mistakes of the past. Playful
brawling between the children, however, serves as an omen of darker times to come—as does a statue of
Caesar, which is seen to cry tears.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
2750
◆ A human raid into a large ape population causes a public outcry of rage. The systematic destruction of the
human outlaw bands is thus instituted, and the Lawgiver of the day writes the Sacred Scrolls, presenting a
rather unflattering portrait of humanity.
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Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: The first film, set in 3978, places the writing of the Scrolls 1,200 years prior.
Marvel’s timeline, thus, indicates a date of 2750. Malibu’s issue #5 reveals the “Beware
the beast ‘man’” verse to have been penned by Jacob in 2140, but this need not be seen
as a contradiction, as the apes likely altered the dating of the scrolls to fit a revised ape
history in which humans never ruled the planet.
◆ The Sacred Scrolls usher in a more ape-centric view of history, suppressing all knowledge of simian
subjugation and urging apes to shun mankind. The Scrolls offer wisdom, religion and laws, claiming ape
history began at this point in time. Only the ruling council’s orangutan elders know the truth. Any ape
questioning the wisdom or truth of the Scrolls can be charged with heresy and sentenced to up to two
years’ imprisonment.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The 19th Scroll, 27th Verse, reads: “Wheresoever goest man, there with him goes ignorance, pestilence and
destruction.”
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes: “The Believer” (MR-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This tale, intended as a back-up story for Revolution on the Planet of the Apes,
was written, penciled and lettered by Sam Agro, but was not published in that miniseries
due to concerns over religious overtones, as its conclusion featured an image of the
Lawgiver supplanting Christ. At presstime, however, it was slated to appear in issue #16
of Simian Scrolls magazine, with the author’s permission.
2750 To 3085
◆ The Sacred Scrolls prove reactionary, reinstating isolationism. Growth slows, and the orangutan elders take
ever more power from the gorillas until ruling completely. The loss of communication among population PUBLISHER / STUDIO
centers is slow at first, speeding up as the Forbidden Zones become unlivable due to poor conservation AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
techniques. The radiation-blasted soil dies, deserts bloom and humankind grows docile. Cultural patterns in AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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the isolated areas retain shards and snippets of others; thus, one area might have a Lawgiver, while another BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
might operate differently. Ape City grows isolated after its incorporation into pan-American ape society. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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◆ Disgusted at the bigotry pervading ape society, a band of humans and apes departs for a distant island, DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
which they name Avedon. Together, they build a civilization of honor and peace, based on depictions of the ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Middle Ages in ancient writings—complete with King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Planet of the Apes #10: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—The Island Out of Time” (MC-c) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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◆ In the former western United States, a number of human settlements form, separated by wide distances, MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
each governed by an ape prefect with a garrison of soldiers to maintain the peace. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Planet of the Apes episode #2: “The Gladiators” (CB-t) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
◆ These settlements are overseen by the Supreme High Council, located in Central City, in an area once UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
known as California.
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Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t) a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
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◆ An ape creation myth develops in Central City. According to this myth, the first ape civilization arises from c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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an age of inferior humans, in an area south of Philadelphia untouched by the Great War. After the apes e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
abandon the area, a race of tree-dwelling humans—the Tree People—inhabit it in their wake. Driven by a f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
fear of the apes, the Tree People build their homes high in the trees. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
Planet of the Apes—4 Exciting New Stories #2: “Dawn of the Tree People” (PR-r) n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
NOTE: This would seem to contradict the first film’s account of ape creation myth. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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3035
◆ Miller, a human farmer from the village of Numay, is born.
Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Trap” (CB-t)
NOTE: In the episode’s script, Miller is said to be 50 in 3085.
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◆ Talbert, a human male from the village of Trion, is born. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Planet of the Apes episode #12: “The Cure” (CB-t) NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
NOTE: In the episode’s script, Talbert is said to be in his 40s in 3085. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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3040
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◆ Travin, future head human at a medical center outside Central City, is born. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t) c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
NOTE: In the episode’s script, Travin is said to be 45 in 3085. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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3045
◆ A human male named Martin, a future blacksmith, is born in the village of Venton.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t)
NOTE: The episode’s novelization establishes that Martin is 40 in 3085
c. 3055
◆ Clim, a human from the village of Borak, is born. His father is Porto, his mother’s name unknown.
Planet of the Apes episode #13: “The Liberator” (CB-t)
NOTE: In the episode’s script, Clim is said to be about 30 in 3085.
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◆ Galen’s parents, Yalu and Ann, are a respected couple living in Central City.
Planet of the Apes episode #10: “The Interrogation” (CB-t)
◆ Augustus, Galen’s third cousin on Ann’s side, is born that same year. The two grow up close friends.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
NOTE: Galen’s specific relation to Augustus is revealed in the episode’s novelization.
◆ The sound of running water from a small brook running behind Galen’s Central City home is often a source
of comfort to the young chimpanzee.
Planet of the Apes episode #13: “The Liberator” (CB-t)
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MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
Planet of the Apes episode #13: “The Liberator” (CB-t)
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NOTE: In the script (in which he is named Trung), Miro is said to be 25 in 3085. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ Barlow, a chimpanzee in his mid 20s, becomes prefect of Kaymak, a human settlement north of former SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
San Francisco. Searching for a way to control mankind’s aggressive nature, Barlow initiates a series of UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
gladiatorial battles—known as the Games—to keep his humans occupied, entertained and less likely to
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rebel.
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c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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◆ Janor, a human youth from the village of Hathor, often plays a game with his younger brother, Mikal, in m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
which humans and apes live together as equals. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (AW-n) r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
NOTE: This information appears in the novelization. The placement is conjectural, based
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on Mikal’s appearance. u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ Arna, daughter of Travin, is born to a medical community on the outskirts of Central City.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t)
NOTE: The novelization reveals her to be 18 in 3085.
c. 3065
◆ Urko attends the Central City military academy and befriends two fellow gorillas, Aboro and Bulta. The
three young apes show promise as leaders, but Aboro is caught cheating, his reputation irreparably tainted.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
c. 3065 to 3085
◆ Despite Aboro’s scandal, he, Urko and Bulta remain friends for the next two decades. Urko is named chief
of Central City security, hiring Bulta as his assistant. Aboro rises only to the level of Hathor district chief,
however, and though he pretends to accept his fate, he secretly covets his friends’ success.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
3066
◆ Talia, a human female from the village of Borak, is born.
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Late 3060s
◆ A boy is born to a human named Travin and his wife, who work at a medical clinic on the outskirts of
Central City.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t)
NOTE: This is an approximate figure, given that we know the boy’s age when he dies—
16—but not the year in which his death occurs.
◆ As a young chimp, Galen sometimes hides in a secret gully to play hooky from school.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization, and in an earlier draft of the script.
3069
◆ Gregor, son of a human blacksmith named Martin, is born in the village of Venton.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t)
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◆ Dardon, the son of chimpanzee farmer Telemon, is born in a village in northern Arizona. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
NOTE: This script was never filmed. Dardon is said to be a young teenager in 3085. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ As Gregor grows up in the village of Venton, the youth develops a passion for riding horses, knowing full MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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well that humans are forbidden to do so. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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3070
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◆ A human girl, Lisa, is born to a farming couple named Miller and Mary, from the village of Numay. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
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Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Trap” (CB-t) c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
NOTE: In the episode’s script, Lisa is said to be 15 in 3085. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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◆ A human boy named Kraik is born in the ruins of Oakland, Calif. His parents die when he is young, leaving p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
him an orphaned urchin, forced to survive by stealing food and selling secrets to the apes. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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NOTE: In the episode’s script, Kraik is said to be 12 or 13 in 3085. v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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BEFORE 3075
◆ A spaceship crashes near Central City. Four human survivors—Taylor, Thomas, LaFever and Bengsten—
are captured, claiming to be from Earth’s past. Councilor Zaius, leader of the High Council, and Urko,
the city’s chief of security, realize they have greater intelligence and abilities than local humans, as well
as a greater sense of independence and freedom. Worried that their influence might spread, Urko kills the
astronauts, which infuriates Zaius, who’d intended to interrogate them.
Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Escape from Tomorrow” (CB-t)
NOTE: The astronauts’ names are noted in an early-draft script of the first episode,
written by Rod Serling; the names Thomas and LaFever are holdovers from Serling’s
early-draft script from the first Planet of the Apes film, in which George Taylor and John
Landon were known, respectively, as John Thomas and Paul LaFever. It’s unclear if this
Taylor is related to George Taylor and his daughters, Jo and Tammy. The astronauts’
arrival is undated, said to occur “more than ten years” before 3085.
NOTE: This episode was never filmed, but the script is available online at Hunter’s Planet
of the Apes Archive.
c. 3070s to 3085
◆ Lucian, a book-collecting chimp living in a simple home along the shore, shares his collection with his
daughter Fauna. After she loses her sight, he reads them to her every night by the fire.
Planet of the Apes episode #8: “The Deception” (CB-t)
NOTE: This placement is conjectural, based on her appearance in 3085.
Mid 3070s
◆ A human boy, Jick, is born to a farming couple named Miller and Mary, from the village of Numay.
Planet of the Apes episode #3: “The Trap” (CB-t)
NOTE: I have based Jick’s age on his appearance as a young boy of 10 in 3085.
3080 To 3085
◆ Since ape tradition dictates that a son coming of age must await the birth of a bull calf before starting
his own farm, Anto begins the appropriate rituals to summon a bull calf. All new cows born to the farm
are heifers, however, and are taken by the family’s landlord. For five years Anto waits for a male birth,
convinced the signs are against him.
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
EARLy 3080s
◆ Drs. Kira and Leander, ape surgeons at a medical center on the outskirts of Central City, attempt blood
transfusion. The test patient, a human boy of 16, is badly injured in a hunting accident. His father Travin
allows the experiment, knowing he’d otherwise die. Travin’s daughter Arna is chosen as a donor, but the
doctors inadvertently kill the boy, unaware of the need to match blood types. Leander deems transfusion PUBLISHER / STUDIO
against the laws of nature, and the girl is branded as having evil blood, her name and status stripped. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Only her father speaks to her therein, and he and the 11 other humans at the compound routinely beat AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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her for any mistakes. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
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◆ Galen enjoys time spent with his cousin and friend, Augustus, now a member of the Central City council. It HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
is the last time the two will see each other for the next three or four years. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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NOTE: This information appears in the script but not in the televised episode. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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◆ Farrow, a human from Chalo—a settlement 30 miles south of Central City—discovers an ancient MEDIUM
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set in 3085.
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◆ A human male is killed by ape soldiers. Devastated, his wife Katrin joins the United Freedom Force (UFF), r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
an illegal organization promoting human/simian equality, so she can help end ape brutality. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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Planet of the Apes: “Hostage” (CB-u) u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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◆ The council passes the Human Control Laws, which impose a strict curfew and prohibit humans from
leaving their villages without a pass. This makes humanity even more placid. In response, the United
Freedom Force (UFF) increases its activity. Though labeled a terrorist group, the UFF—consisting
of apes and humans unhappy with societal inequities—usually sticks to non-violent protests, so
the government takes a light hand in dealing with it. For eight months, Urko searches for the UFF
headquarters, but to no avail.
Planet of the Apes: “Hostage” (CB-u)
NOTE: This episode was never filmed, but the script is available online at Hunter’s Planet
of the Apes Archive.
BEFORE 3085
◆ For an unspecified length of time, Galen lives in Nufort, a human-less village administered by an orangutan
named Ponar. Galen’s closest friend there is a chimpanzee named Shako. Another chimp, Naten, is not so
fond of him.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #1: “A Promise Kept” (BW-s)
◆ In the early part of the Ornan Period, several hundred humans are found dead of an unknown illness in
the Rural Zone. Once known as malaria, the disease is named the Sleeping Sickness because it causes its
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victims to convulse horribly and die. For years, the entire sector remains barren.
Planet of the Apes episode #12: “The Cure” (CB-t)
NOTE: Dating these events is impossible. The episode, set in 3085, places them in the
Ornan Period of ape history, but does not specify when that period occurs.
◆ A male orangutan named Doswa serves as leader of the Central City High Council, later remembered as one
of Zaius’ most admired predecessors.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t)
◆ Lucian, a chimpanzee tired of seeing humans mistreated, forms a clandestine group sympathetic to man’s
plight. Befriending several humans, he secretly shares ape knowledge with them. This angers other apes,
including his brother Sestus, a member of an anti-human hate group called the Dragoons.
Planet of the Apes episode #8: “The Deception” (CB-t)
◆ The ruins of New York City become a safe haven for those hiding from Urko’s forces. The security chief
wishes he could destroy the city to stop fugitives and traitors from taking refuge there.
El Planeta de Los Simios #4: “Ultrasonic” (ET-c)
◆ A human couple named Arn and Tomar fall in love. Tomar, who works on a farm with his brother Derlin,
dislikes how mankind is treated, and is arrested and executed for trying to convince others to rebel. The
apes let Arn live, which Urko considers a mistake, believing the family of a rebel should always be killed
to prevent the spread of poisonous ideas. After time spent in a stockade, she is set free. Unable to face the
loneliness of farming without Tomar, she ends up a homeless scavenger in the ruins of Oakland, Calif.
Planet of the Apes episode #5: “The Legacy” (CB-t)
NOTE: Arn’s stockade time is established in the episode’s script. The novelization spells
the brother’s name as “Durlin,” but the DVD’s subtitles use the spelling “Derlin.”
◆ Galen romances a female chimpanzee named Landa, the prefect of a peaceful artist’s village.
Planet of the Apes—4 Exciting New Stories #3: “Battle of Two Worlds” (PR-r)
◆ Galen also meets Kira, a surgeon at a medical center on the outskirts of Central City. The two fall in love
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AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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◆ A young chimp named Fauna and her lover spend time in a secret grotto whenever they can. When she loses BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
her eyesight, however, he leaves her alone and heartbroken. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ Galen’s cousin Augustus is promoted to prefect of Hathor. A decent and honest ape, he prides himself on ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
the fairness and justice of his administration. One of his district chiefs (Aboro) becomes corrupt, however, FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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◆ Ape scientists try to analyze the Blasted Zone, a barren, desolate stretch of irradiated countryside left over UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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◆ A human named John finds 2,000-year-old library tapes that educate him about humanity’s history before
the nuclear war. Pretending to be a prophet from two millennia past, he uses this knowledge to bypass other
humans’ distrust of machines and offer them hope for the future.
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◆ Prefect Kobal, an orangutan leader in a province near the former New York Metropolitan Opera House,
turns the Met—the only building still standing in its vicinity, now called the Palace—into a fighting arena
known as the Circus. Humans are horribly mistreated and forced to fight to earn food, with a grand prize of
freedom promised to the winner of the Great Tournament. In reality, however, all winners are executed so
Kobal can mate weaker humans and reduce the likelihood of rebellion.
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◆ A brilliant gorilla named Sover is expulsed from the High Council and accepts a posting as the prefect of
a small village, where he turns the human population into his personal labor force. There, he discovers an
underground military base containing more than a dozen working rockets, built a thousand years earlier by
humans. With permission from the council, he studies the rockets to figure out how to launch them.
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NOTE: This Spanish-language comic was published only in Argentina. Though the
seventh issue in the series, “Rockets” is numbered “1” due to the publisher’s name
change from Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa. to Editorial Tynset S.A.
◆ Dr. Pandere, an ape expert in geothermal energy, puts forth a controversial theory on shifting continental
plates. Dr. Zaius dismisses her findings as outlandish.
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◆ At a fishing village along the shore of what was once Pismo Beach or Malibu, Prefect Hurton struggles to
keep up with frequent quota increases from his superior, Bandor. To keep overhead low, Hurton decides to
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eliminate elderly humans by tying them to a raft and sending them out to sea to be consumed by sharks.
Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Tomorrow’s Tide” (CB-t)
◆ Harimon, an elderly orangutan and an expert in sound waves, is exiled from ape society for sorcery.
El Planeta de Los Simios #4: “Ultrasonic” (ET-c)
◆ The Ministry of Knowledge declares it a crime for any ape to read books deemed forbidden.
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Zaius in Central City, hoping to become his assistant. Turvo arrives, delivering word of the fugitives to UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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◆ In Zaius’ study, Galen notices a book on human anatomy, written by humans before mankind’s fall.
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◆ Virdon wonders who built the grenade, hoping they might have a computer able to read a magnetic disk
containing the ship’s telemetry data. He asks Galen to free them, but the chimp fears being charged with
treason. That night, the guard leaves their cell door ajar. Realizing it’s a trap, they risk heading outside.
Galen sees the guard take aim and warns them, grabbing the gun. The weapon accidentally fires in the
scuffle, killing the guard, and Urko arrests Galen for murder and possession of a heretical book.
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◆ Dr. Kira, Galen’s fiancée, learns that the ape she loves has become a criminal and traitor. Angry that he
would choose to live with humans instead of her, she turns her back on him and moves on with her life. In
time, she forms a friendship—and potentially more—with her hospital superior, Dr. Leander.
Planet of the Apes episode #7: “The Surgeon” (CB-t)
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◆ Running from gorillas, Galen is hurt falling down a hill. His friends carry him to the farm of chimpanzee
couple Polar and Zantes, who leave them in the barn as they take Galen inside. Polar’s oldest son, Anto, is
outraged to find them sleeping near his cow; humans are considered bad luck, and he awaits the birth of a
bull calf in order to start his own farm. Zantes, a nurse, tells Galen to stay off his feet, so Polar puts the men
to work. The astronauts teach the family advanced farming methods, such as windmill power, irrigation
and planting the best seeds to produce better crops. Remus, the youngest son, is amazed, but Anto refuses
to trust them. The cow goes into labor, and Anto urges his father to send the men away, convinced they
plan to eat it. Polar’s daughter Jillia flirts with Galen, who pretends not to notice. A patrol gorilla named
Lupuk spots the astronauts showering and alerts his superior, Barga, who rides out to arrest them, thinking
them recently escaped slaves. The calf turns in utero, but Virdon turns it around, delivering twin bulls. The
fugitives hide in a loft when Urko visits the farm. Realizing he was wrong about them, Anto claims it was
him in the shower. He later names the bulls “Burke” and “Virdon” in their honor.
Planet of the Apes episode #4: “The Good Seeds” (CB-t)
NOTE: Lupuk and Barga are named in the novelization.
◆ The fugitives find an ancient computer in the ruins of the Oakland Science Institute. The machine emits a
hologram of an elderly scientist, claiming the sum of human knowledge was stored in several vaults when
war was imminent. The power falters, and as they search for materials to build a battery, gorillas spot
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them and they separate. Virdon is captured and imprisoned with Arn, a widower whose husband Tomar
was killed as a rebel, and Kraik, a street urchin. Urko, meanwhile, tortures Virdon. Burke builds a battery
and the hologram reveals a vault embedded in the Midtown Railway Station. Kraik, hired by apes to spy
in exchange for food, asks about Virdon’s friends, but Virdon changes the subject. He carves a wooden
airplane for Kraik, which the boy takes without permission. When Virdon chastises him, he smashes the
plane and informs the apes about the computer. Feeling guilty, he helps the astronaut rejoin his comrades.
Zaius finds the computer, watches the hologram and orders the building destroyed. As the vault burns, the
fugitives escort Arn and Kraik to the farm of Tomar’s brother, Derlin. Arn adopts Kraik as her own child.
Though in love with Virdon, she knows he must return to his family.
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NOTE: This episode was originally titled “Second Family.”
◆ At a fishing village along the shore near Pismo Beach or Malibu, Prefect Hurton begins exiling elderly
humans to keep overload low. A man named Gahto, father of Soma, is the next slated to die. Tied to a raft,
Gahto is set afloat at sea to be consumed by sharks.
Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Tomorrow’s Tide” (CB-t)
◆ Drs. Kira and Leander, surgeons at a medical center on the outskirts of Central City, send a human orderly
to disciplinary camp for disobeying orders. Kira wonders if they were too harsh, but Leander thinks the
punishment appropriate since the human was acting unruly.
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◆ The fugitives drag Gahto’s raft ashore, but he tries to return to the water, saying the gods have willed him to
die. Leaving Galen to watch him, they spy on the labor camp where Gahto worked. Captured and taken to
see Hurton, they claim to be fishermen. The ape puts them to work so he can meet new quotas imposed by
his superior, an old orangutan named Bandor. Posing as Zuma, a Central City official—and the astronauts’
master—Galen visits the camp. Hurton orders them fed to the “gods of the sea” (sharks) for lying, but Galen
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search for the old man. Hurton puts the fugitives to work, refusing to release them to Galen until Bandor AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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◆ When a gorilla shoots Virdon, Galen poses as a surgeon named Dr. Adrian so he can seek help from his MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
ex-fiancée, Dr. Kira. The astronauts are housed in human quarters. Travin, the head human, tells them not NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
to talk to the serving girl (his daughter), who has been stripped of her name (Prunella Alexandrina—”Arna” PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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one written by humans. Bluffing his way through a meeting with Dr. Leander, Galen takes Burke to Zaius’ UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
home and tells a guard, Chester, that the councilor has had a heart attack. They grab a 20th-century tome—
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donate, but Arna volunteers. Surgery commences, with Galen and Burke consulting techniques in Zaius’ e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ The fugitives meet a human whose brother, a friendly farmer named Jasko, offers to provide them shelter
and food to break up their travels.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Lucian, a chimp sympathetic to humans, angers a hate group called the Dragoons for sharing knowledge
with humans. His brother Sestus (a Dragoon) and the group’s leader, Zon (a police deputy), warn him to
stop. Zon hits Lucian, causing him to crack his head on a rock and die, then bullies Sestus into claiming
humans were the culprits. A chimp named Chilot and two gorillas, Macor and Krono (also Dragoons),
want to punish all humans for the crime, but police chief Perdix demands it be handled within the law. The
fugitives arrive at Jasko’s home, and he feeds them and recounts recent events. The Dragoons later set the
home aflame and drag Jasko to his death.
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NOTE: Macor and Krono are named in the novelization.
◆ Galen obtains directions to the home of Lucian’s daughter Fauna from a neighboring ape farmer. Fauna
shares the home with her uncle Sestus.
Planet of the Apes episode #8: “The Deception” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization.
◆ The fugitives visit Fauna posing as apes named Phoebus (Galen), Alar (Virdon) and Pargo (Burke), and
are careful not to let on that two of them are human. When her uncle arrives, Burke claims the Ministry of
Knowledge is pursuing them for reading forbidden books, and she hides them in a grotto at Sandy Point.
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NOTE: In the novelization, Burke’s alias is spelled “Pago.” Why Fauna wouldn’t be able
to smell the difference between humans and apes is unclear.
◆ The astronauts recognize the site as Hanson Point, where they relaxed after preflight indoctrination.
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◆ When Fauna asks to touch Burke’s face, Galen offers his instead. She invites them to stay, promising
food in the morning. After she leaves, they plot to infiltrate the Dragoons. Claiming humans stole his
horse, Galen befriends Sestus, espousing anti-human sentiment. Virdon follows Krono to the Dragoon
hideout, knocks him out, discovers a hood in his bag and heads for the grotto. Burke, meanwhile, keeps
Fauna company. She asks about the books he’s read, and he offers a retelling of Robinson Crusoe, but
with ape characters.
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◆ Urko transfers Barlow from Kaymak to the village of Venton. The chimp prefect resents the decision, and
is unhappier still when he learns Urko has arranged a horse race in the province. If he loses—and Barlow
knows all prefects lose against Urko—the price will be half his lands and his horses.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t)
NOTE: This placement is approximate, based on Martin’s reference to Barlow as “the
new prefect.” The script calls Kaymak “Alar,” Virdon’s alias in the previous episode.
◆ When word of the race circulates, a friend in the village of Regego warns Barlow that Urko is known to
cheat, even when he’s clearly ahead.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (AW-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization.
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loves Burke, and though he tries to let her down gently, he hurts her feelings. Feeling guilty, he tells her the PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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Perdix to the Dragoons’ meeting spot but grab a deputy instead, enabling Perdix to subdue them. The High AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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refuses to harm a fellow ape. Fauna falls into the sea, and Burke dives in to save her. She touches his face, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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◆ In the village of Venton, a human male is spotted riding a horse—a crime carrying the death penalty. The UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
youth (Gregor) evades capture, but ape soldiers keep an eye out in case he dares ride again.
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◆ Furious, Urko orders the blacksmith executed. Gorilla guards drag the man off to his death.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (AW-n)
NOTE: This occurs in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Two humans, Levis and Roras, help the fugitives. Word of their criminal assistance reaches the council,
which opens an investigation into the matter.
Planet of the Apes episode #10: “The Interrogation” (CB-t)
NOTE: This is conjectural, based on Wanda’s question regarding whether these two
humans ever helped Burke and his friends.
◆ Martin, a Venton blacksmith, and his wife Seelah offer the fugitives food, and they work in his shop to
repay his kindness. Urko’s lieutenant, Zandar, orders Martin to shod Tusan for an upcoming race. Galen
is bitten by a tiger scorpion, and with the nearest doctor five miles away, Martin’s son Gregor rides out
for an antidote. Gorillas arrive, seeking the human rider. Virdon tries to take the blame, but Gregor admits
his crime and a soldier named Zilo arrests him to face execution. Galen asks Barlow for leniency, and the
prefect offers a deal: the boy will go free if Virdon wins the race for him. Zaius allows Barlow to use a
human jockey, but Virdon’s horse, Woda, is untamed. Urko ups the stakes, betting all of Barlow’s horses
and land versus reassignment to Kaymak. Urko’s soldiers create pitfalls to make sure Woda falls, so Galen
and Burke even the odds. Martin offers to rig the race if Urko frees his son, and the gorilla agrees—but
orders Zilo to shoot both Gregor and the human jockey, win or lose.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t)
NOTE: In the novelization and script, the boy’s name is spelled Greger and the village
is called Venta, but DVD subtitles identify them as Gregor and Venton. The novelization
calls Kaymak “Cela.” Seelah appears in the script.
◆ Urko orders a soldier named Moro to rig a branch to knock the human jockey from his horse.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (AW-n)
NOTE: This occurs in the episode’s script and novelization, but not onscreen.
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◆ Martin puts wedges in Woda’s shoes, causing the horse to throw Virdon. Zilo sets traps for Woda, but
Virdon manages to catch up with the other horse. Urko recognizes him and orders Zilo to fire, but Galen
puts a scorpion on the soldier’s shoulder, immobilizing him and enabling Virdon to win. Zilo frees Gregor,
intending to shoot him, but Burke beats the ape senseless. Galen steals a wagon and joins the others outside
town, sending the empty cart for Urko’s apes to chase. Barlow leaves Venton, allowing Gregor and his
family to come work for him in Kaymak.
Planet of the Apes episode #9: “The Horse Race” (CB-t)
◆ Two human farmers, Janor and his younger brother Mikal, give refuge to the fugitives. Lt. Daku, aide-de-
camp to District Chief Aboro, orders his driver, Hosson, to take all of the grain the farmers have shoveled.
The gorillas head for the Darog farm, en route to a gold caravan at Hathor. Aboro, fancying himself the
“Lord of the Apes,” has been trading grain for gold to buy a promotion from Urko’s corrupt assistant, Bulta.
With Mikal’s help, the astronauts trip Daku’s horse, hijack the cart and retrieve the grain. Before passing
out, Daku recognizes Mikal’s shirt.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
NOTE: The novelization names Hosson and reveals Aboro’s nickname. The TV series PUBLISHER / STUDIO
writer’s bible, excerpted in Simian Scrolls #12, mentions a female version of Janor named AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
“Jana,” and has Aboro stealing pelts and plotting to kill Urko from the onset. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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◆ Burke and Virdon hide the wagon in a cave and recognize Jennings’ Nose, a hill near Edwards Air Force BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Base that they, as cadets, jokingly named after their hook-nosed commanding officer. With Mikal’s help, BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
the astronauts distribute the grain to local human farmers. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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NOTE: This is revealed in the episode’s novelization. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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◆ Mikal’s acts inspire Janor to resist, but Aboro and Daku shoot both men and burn the barn, killing Mikal. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Galen visits his cousin Augustus, Hathor’s prefect, to report Aboro’s crimes. Aboro arrives, however, HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
bypassing a human servant, Gola, to deliver a scroll naming him prefect. Augustus is reassigned to the MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
remote village of Dorvado, and Aboro assumes command. Urko, who attended the academy with Aboro and NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Bulta 20 years prior, makes a surprise visit during an inspection tour, to congratulate Aboro on his promotion. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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him to frame Urko so Aboro can replace him. Aboro prefers a more direct approach, however: hiring a UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
human named Amhar to kill the gorilla, then having Daku kill Amhar. First, however, Aboro requests
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the device, they pose as Bron, the Supreme Council’s acting secretary, and respond in the affirmative. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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◆ Burke and Virdon show up with weapons, but Urko knows they can’t fire without alerting guards. They
urge him to accompany them to Aboro’s home so Burke can pose as Amhar and trick Aboro into admitting
the crime. Despite his skepticism, Urko agrees to the ruse.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
◆ Intent on killing Aboro, Janor hitches a ride to Hathor. Galen and Virdon spot him headed for Aboro’s home
and explain their plan, urging him not to resort to murder.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (AW-n)
NOTE: This scene occurs in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Freed by a guard named Feena, Daku tells Aboro he failed to contact Amhar. Aboro sets an explosive,
telling Daku to summon him before lighting the fuse. Urko arrives with Galen, and when Burke shows up
claiming to be Amhar, Urko orders him arrested. Virdon discovers the bomb, leaving its fuse lit to fool
Aboro. The prefect hears the fuse and runs for the door. Urko grabs a gun and stops him from leaving.
Virdon enters holding the bomb, forcing the apes to lower their weapons so the fugitives can escape.
Urko arrests Aboro for bribery, corruption and conduct unbecoming an ape, then returns to Central City
to expose Bulta.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (CB-t)
NOTE: Feena’s scene appears in the script but not onscreen.
◆ The fugitives return to Janor’s farm, where he thanks them for avenging Mikal’s death. Knowing the council
will restore Augustus as prefect, Galen hopes to stay and visit his cousin, but the approach of a gorilla patrol
sends the trio on their way once more.
Planet of the Apes episode #11: “The Tyrant” (AW-n)
NOTE: This scene occurs in the episode’s novelization.
◆ In Trion, a villager named Talbert and his daughter Amy offer the fugitives refuge. Amy falls in love with
Virdon, reacting badly when he reveals his identity (an indiscretion that upsets Galen). A worker drops near
a stagnant pond, twitching with the Shaking Sickness. The disease spreads, and Talbert is among its victims.
Zaius quarantines Trion, assigning Dr. Zoran, the council’s chief medical officer, to study the plague. A
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coal-carrier named Mason tells the fugitives about the disease. Recognizing malaria, they instruct the locals
to burn the dead, but Zoran and his assistant, Inta, scoff at the idea—until an ape named Neesa dies as well.
Zoran offers Virdon’s diagnosis as his own, and though skeptical, Zaius lets him seek a cure. Virdon creates
breathing masks, instructing villagers to drain the pond and extract quinine from a cinchona tree. Amy falls
ill, and Zoran hears her muttering about a man from another time. A second ape, Kava, falls sick as well.
The council gives Zoran another day to find a cure, after which Urko plans to burn the village. Virdon
secretly gives Kava the medicine, and he recovers. Seeing the drug’s success, Zaius orders Urko’s troops to
withdraw. Zoran intends to turn the fugitives in despite his gratitude, but keeps silent when they threaten to
reveal their part in the cure.
Planet of the Apes episode #12: “The Cure” (CB-t)
NOTE: Neesa is named in the episode’s script and novelization. In early drafts of the
script, Amy was said to be age 12, then 14, reminding Virdon of his 14-year-old daughter
back home. When his daughter was removed from the final draft, Amy’s age was increased
to make the bond a romantic one instead.
◆ To protest a new curfew and anti-human regulations, the United Freedom Force (UFF)—a radical group
promoting human-simian equality—kidnaps Lora, the daughter of Senator Sallus. The UFF, consisting of
human and ape members, is run by two human extremists named Grayson and Kemmer.
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ Leuric, a human inventor, builds a hang-glider but crashes it near Chatka. Virdon and Burke hide him from BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
ape guards, urging him to stop flying before he gets caught. He refuses, but agrees to find a more concealed BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
area. Burke borrows a hunk of lightning-formed glass in his lab to make a magnifying glass. A chimp CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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scientist named Carsia suggests they examine the glider, and Zaius orders Cmdr. Konag to kill the pilot. The DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
apes arrest Leuric, and Carsia provides a lab to continue his work. Posing as Protus, an archeologist, Galen ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
seduces Carsia so he can monitor Leuric’s work. The astronauts realize the glider was faulty and build their FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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own. Setting Leuric’s glider afire with the magnifying glass, Galen offers “servants” and materials to start HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
anew. Carsia shows Galen a book of pro-chimp sentiments, saying their kind should rule the planet. Among HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
her belongings is an ancient fragmentation cosmoline pack, with which she plans to bomb Urko’s HQ and MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
the council chambers, then lead a chimp revolution. Galen is captured trying to free Leuric, however, and NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
the inventor is injured during the escape, so weapons instructor Robar forces Galen to fly with him. When PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
they fly too far, the apes shoot down the glider, causing it to crash into the sea. The astronauts rescue them SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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with a raft, and Galen suffers sea-sickness as they row to safety. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Planet of the Apes episode #14: “Up Above the World So High” (CB-t)
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scenes, included above; and has Virdon flying with Leuric. According to Simian Scrolls b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
issue #12, an early-draft episode outline in the TV series writer’s bible revealed a wife for c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
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◆ After years of hiding, an ethnic minority tribe of humans is convicted of resisting the apes. Facing
extermination, some push for an accommodation with the apes, but others prefer either to go down fighting
in a last glorious battle, scratch out a subsistence existence in a secret canyon or risk a trek to a better life
beyond the Forbidden Zone. The latter poses many dangers, with no certainty such a “promised land” exists.
The fugitives and Galen become involved with the tribe when they save a tribesman from summary execution
by a gorilla patrol. The astronauts advocate finding the Forbidden Zone, despite Galen’s superstitious fears
of that area, and his belief that the tribe is dangerous. Ultimately, Galen overcomes his fears and leads the
tribe through the wasteland.
Planet of the Apes: “The Trek” (CB-u)
NOTE: The humans’ “ethnic minority” is unspecified. No scripts for this or the following
three unfilmed episodes are available, though synopsis are included in the TV series
writer’s bible, reprinted in Simian Scrolls issue #12.
◆ A human named Odin is recognized while saving one of the astronauts. A gorilla prefect offers amnesty
to anyone with information about the fugitives. The trio allow Odin to accept such amnesty once they’ve
escaped, but fear it might be a trap. Galen visits the prefect and learns the offer is legitimate, and that
the gorilla is investigating the disappearance of several prominent humans, who may have left to forge a
rebellion. As such, the prefect forbids travel within his territory without passes. The fugitives discover an
underground railroad for apes and humans seeking Shangri-La. They accompany the group to the contact
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point, then set out for the “promised land.” Avoiding patrols, they reach the next railroad stop—Urko’s trap
to ensnare rebellious humans. Foiling the gorilla in charge of the stop, the passengers embark to build a
better life, while the fugitives continue on their own quest.
Planet of the Apes: “Freedom Road” (CB-u)
◆ An old man locates a once-advanced human city and uses its technology to build a water-driven mill.
The fugitives find the mill and hope whoever built it might help them find a way home. The old man is
forced into slave labor, mining salt for the apes. A corrupt gorilla operates the mine, cheating the council
and forcing extra work from his slaves by feeding them in proportion to productivity. The astronauts lose
track of Galen while trying to free the man, and are themselves captured and enslaved. To free them,
Galen assumes the guise of a government inspector, not realizing the corrupt leader would feel threatened
by—and try to kill—an inspector. The astronauts convince the slaves not to compete for food, then escape
and save Galen’s life. The old man and the gorilla leader are killed in the process. Failing to learn the great
civilization’s whereabouts, the astronauts wonder if it really exists.
Planet of the Apes: “The Mine” (CB-u)
◆ Gorilla hunters mistake Burke and Virdon for Stern and Lang, escaped humans from a village north of
Central City. The prefect realizes they’re not from his settlement and interrogates them. Wary of their
rebellious nature, he sends a messenger to summon Urko. The actual escapees encounter Galen and take
him hostage. When they tell him of the slave-labor conditions in their village, he agrees to help stop the
ruling gorillas’ tyranny. Virdon and Burke overpower a guard and try to escape, but are quickly subdued
outside the prison. The messenger returns with orders from Urko to deliver the astronauts. Galen, Stern
and Lang destroy an armory, inspiring others to rebel. Galen frees his friends in the confusion, and when
the outnumbered soldiers retreat, the humans head east to build their own mountain village. The astronauts
decline their invitation to join them, knowing their path lies elsewhere.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #1: “Journey Into Terror” (BW-c)
NOTE: Released in Britain, the following three hardcover annuals (or “authorised PUBLISHER / STUDIO
editions,” as stated on their covers) contain a number of comic-strip and text stories. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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◆ After several days unpursued, the fugitives arrive at Galen’s old home, Nufort, a human-less village home BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
to 30 or 40 apes. Galen visits his chimp friend Shako, and Ponar, the village’s sympathetic orangutan leader. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Zaius and Urko tour the village, and Ponar worries that a troublesome chimp named Naten might inform BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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them of Galen’s arrival. When Galen tries to talk to Zaius in private, the elder refuses to help him, though CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
he pities the chimp and promises not to tell Urko—which Naten does. Urko declares martial law and orders DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
soldiers to search each home, but Shako and others take up arms, enabling Galen to escape. Urko turns on ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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Naten, who swears he saw Zaius talking to the fugitive, but the orangutan denies Naten’s claims. Guards GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
arrest Naten for lying, and Galen returns to his friends. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ When Virdon is injured in an earthquake, Galen visits Prefect Koro in a nearby village, claiming to be SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
on a relic hunt for the council. An orangutan physician, Dr. Yasu, refuses to help Virdon, but a servant TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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named Dane refers him to Jefferson, a human herbologist. Koro shows Galen old Beatles albums (which UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Galen erroneously deems an ancient game), and brings him to a quaint human ceremony: the worship of an MEDIUM
ancient warplane. Astonished, Galen borrows a horse and informs the astronauts, who find the plane resting a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
on a cliff. A mob of angry humans attacks, and the trio hide in the plane as gorillas subdue the mob, firing b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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two rockets as a diversion. The rockets trigger a quake, dropping the plane—along with several apes and d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
humans—over the cliff. The fugitives flee in the chaos. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ Apes pursue the fugitives through a swamp. After a day of chasing, Urko arrives to direct operations.
Clambering onto an earthen bank, they find a path through the bog but are captured by gorillas. Before
dawn, they escape back to the bayou and use a tinder box to ignite marsh gas in a pool of water. The
resultant explosion scares off all soldiers except Urko, who falls into the muck and is nearly sucked down
to his death. The fugitives offer to save his life if he’ll set them free. He accepts, warning that once the sun
comes up, the hunt will resume.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #1: “Swamped” (BW-s)
◆ Entering an earthquake zone, the fugitives meet a band of humans in the ruins of a futuristic city. One
man, Green, shares his shelter. Virdon asks to see his people’s holy place, and he takes them to a decrepit
skyscraper. None dare enter, he says, since most fear the flashings and whirrings within. They enter and find
a computer center powered by a miniature nuclear generator. Virdon hits a master switch, activating a light.
A quake damages the generator, however, cutting power to the computer. Burke builds a wind generator,
but before they can access the computer again, Green’s people throw rocks through the windows, calling
them sorcerers and blasphemers. Another quake threatens to level the building, and the fugitives barely get
to safety before it crashes down around them.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #2: “From Out of the Past” (BW-s)
◆ Stopping to rest, Galen falls through a hole. Virdon and Burke dive in after him when ape sentries arrive.
Inside is a U.S. Army bioweapons storage bunker, used to store plagues for germ warfare. While one soldier
stands guard, the other summons his superior, Cmdr. Griz. Determined to keep the contents out of ape
hands, the fugitives search for a way to close the tanks, but Griz’s troops enter the shelter before they can
do so. The astronauts blow up a corridor, cutting off their pursuers. Griz mistakes a deadly germ sample for
poison gas and releases it, killing himself and his troops. The fugitives destroy the corridor, escaping to the
surface uninfected.
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◆ Galen follows the scent of stewing fruit and comes face-to-face with Urko’s troops. Urko forces him to lead
them to his friends, but the astronauts see them coming and evade capture. Staying to the trees, they follow
Urko’s group to a nearby village, where Galen is escorted to the local prefect. Virdon lights a brush fire as a
distraction, then Burke overpowers a guard and frees Galen. Avoiding the firelight, they make for the woods
and escape into the night.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #2: “The Captive” (BW-s)
◆ Pursued by gorillas, the fugitives reach the Pacific Ocean shore and hide in a cave down a steep slope. They
hear the sounds of machinery and spot a small boat and a band of fishermen planning to sail west across the
sea. Scouts capture Galen as a spy, and Virdon and Burke fight for his freedom. A schism forms between
their leader, Werner, who trusts Galen, and Miller, who refuses to accept an ape. Werner invites the trio to
sail with them. Miller protests but is more concerned with survival when the local prefect and his soldiers
are seen nearby. The fugitives break free of Miller’s hold, taking to the hills to lead the apes away and give
the men time to set sail. Burying the gorillas in an avalanche, they return to the beach in time to watch
Werner’s men sail safely away.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #2: “Ship of Fools” (BW-c) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ The fugitives see apes acting fearfully toward an old building. They meet a farmhand named Jess and claim AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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within, which lights up the edifice when pleased. Inside, the astronauts hear laughter as the light goes out, BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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the hermit to use his skills to help others. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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Cluf to kill Zaius. The fugitives encounter ape sentries guarding the town. Galen pretends to be studying NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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◆ The fugitives discover a prison camp for renegade humans. A ragged inmate named Ellis welcomes them,
saying his people have been unable to escape the ape sentries surrounding the village and would gladly go
with them if the newcomers had a plan. Finding a natural gas vent in the ground, Virdon and Burke teach
the prisoners to build a hot air balloon to distract the apes, allowing time for escape. Only a few apes follow
the balloon, so Burke rigs an explosion at the vent, luring the rest into ambush. Beating the gorillas to death,
the renegades split up into small groups and scatter, while the fugitives continue on their way.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #3: “Breakout” (BW-c)
◆ A gorilla squad pursues the trio to the ruins of an old city, where Burke falls upon catching his foot on a
rock. Galen and Virdon help him hobble to an old apartment building to hide from the gorillas. Galen scouts
the structure and finds a massive armory, which they realize must be one of Urko’s secret arms dumps,
in case the council tries to replace him. The fugitives blow up the building and shoot the few remaining
gorillas, then steal horses to ride off before more gorilla soldiers can arrive.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #3: “The Arsenal” (BW-s)
◆ Urko interrupts a council meeting, demanding additional troops to control the human population. Zaius
rebuffs him, reminding Urko of his past failures. Zaius launches a plan to offer humans more freedom
to quell their rebellious nature, but his assistant Oris doubts it will work. Narza, a gorilla prison camp
commander, steals a draft of the plan as leverage for Urko to seize control. As Zaius leads an orangutan-
chimp search party, Narza asks a scribe named Mardik to alter the documents, making it appear Zaius was
freeing humans entirely. During a prison inspection, Zaius confronts Mardik, knowing no chimps serve on
Narza’s staff, and Mardik admits the forgery. Narza tries to kill Zaius, but Urko stops him and orders his
soldiers arrested, then offers to drop the whole affair if Zaius agrees not to give humanity any concessions.
To avoid being discredited by the fake plans, Zaius relents.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #3: “Power Play” (BW-s)
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NOTE: This story is one of three from the third annual in which the fugitives make no
appearance. Ironically, it’s one of the best stories set in the TV-series era.
◆ Burke and Virdon spot a spaceship propelled through time by the same anomaly that brought them here.
Apes find the landing site before they do. The astronauts shoot the gorillas and free a female astronaut
named Verina—a friend of Burke’s who was still in the Space Academy when they vanished. Her vessel
is mostly undamaged, but her two shipmates are dead. The astronauts set about fixing the ship, a fuel leak
limiting them to only one passenger for the return trip. Verina suggests Virdon go, but as the lightest human,
she has the greatest chance of surviving and rescuing them. She lifts off when additional gorillas arrive,
scorching the pursuing apes and their horses in exhaust flames. Continuing on their journey, the trio hope
she’ll find a way to get them home again.
Planet of the Apes (Authorized Edition) #3: “From Out of the Sky” (BW-c)
NOTE: It’s unknown if Verina rescues her fellow astronauts, but it’s possible she does,
as extra scenes of Galen filmed for an ABC-affiliate broadcast of the Planet of the Apes
telefilms (re-edited from several TV-series episodes) include the revelation that they
eventually made it home to their own era.
◆ The fugitives visit Arizona and find a village where humans are mute. Syrinx, a dogmatic preacher ape,
captures Burke and Virdon, saying the ape god sent him to rid the world of mankind. Galen claims the men
as his own, but Syrinx makes him sell them to Telemon, a chimp farmer. Telemon and his children, Dardon
and Delphia, worship a radio transmitter found in their field. As the astronauts study it, Telemon mistakes
them for intruders and shoots Virdon. Burke jumps out a window, heads for the hills and meets a tribe of
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wound, Dardon names him Thura and treats him with kindness. Virdon asks Galen to get him tools to fix AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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believes the men to be evil. Galen urges Burke to abort the raid, saying the farmers are peaceful, but Burke BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
calls him a sellout. Syrinx tries to destroy the radio, but the farmer lets Virdon fix it, amazed when someone BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
responds. Gorn’s people storm the farm, destroy the radio, beat up Galen and kill Syrinx. Running off the CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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invaders, the fugitives set out to find whoever answered the radio, vowing to return if they find a place DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
where humans and apes can live in peace. As they leave, Dardon tries to fix the transmitter. ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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Archive. Since it takes place in Arizona, I have placed it after all other episodes and HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
spinoff stories set in California. The mute-human motif of the early films is in place here, MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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even though the TV series features speaking humans. Apparently, the degeneration of NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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them through a village to stand before a trio of leaders, who order them imprisoned as spies. Two council UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
members, Seth and Thorn, listen to their tale but decide to execute them at the Full Moon Festival, to boost MEDIUM
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◆ Galen, Burke and Virdon travel to the east coast, pursued cross-country by Urko’s troops and Zaius.
Conjecture
NOTE: Seven Spanish-language comics, released only in Argentina, place the fugitives
on the East Coast instead of the western setting of the TV series. The Power Records
audio adventures make the same error. To reconcile, I postulate that the trio headed
east to escape Urko and Zaius, who pursued them all the way. (That might explain the
existence of a future Zaius, Urko and Galen in New York’s Ape City.)
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◆ The Blue Star, a spaceship lost in the 1970s, crashes in an ape village beyond a mountainous desert, killing
the crew on impact. The opportunistic prefect, Arpo, finds human skeletons within. To guard its secret, and
to keep his subjects frightened and subdued, he deems the wreckage an object of worship.
El Planeta de Los Simios #5: “The Star Gods” (ET-c)
◆ Near the coast of Long Island, the fugitives hear Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade.” They find a hilltop
villa, but trigger a trap and fall into a crevice. Apes haul them out and beat Virdon. In the villa, Galen
meets Ahasuerus, a hermit granted solitude in return for playing loud music so the apes can lure humans
as slaves. Recognizing the astronauts from Urko’s alerts, the prefect imprisons them in an old theater and
summons Urko. Dr. Kalia, a chimp veterinarian, empathizes with their plight and suggests they take her
hostage and climb to the projection booth. As Urko’s gorillas storm the theater, Virdon gets a generator
running, scaring the apes with a James Bond film. The generator fails, and as they flee the balcony, Kalia
gives her life to save them. Galen and Ahasuerus await outside with horses. Ahasuerus, they discover, is
a 2,000-year-old cyborg, created in late-20th-century life-prolongation tests and named for the story of the
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Wandering Jew. He passes out from exhaustion, and when apes show up, the fugitives escape. Eventually
he rises, condemned—like his namesake—to walk the Earth ad infinitum.
El Planeta de Los Simios #1: “The Wandering Jew” (ET-c)
◆ Ape slavers round up primitive humans until Virdon shoots one from a tower. The other apes panic, for
the tower is considered taboo. The primitives crowd into the crumbling tower, pursued by Capt. Tormo’s
gorilla squad. The fugitives lead the slaves to a subway station, lit by mutated luminous fungus. Terrified
that the gods are punishing them, the humans run back to the surface and are recaptured. One woman
stays with the fugitives, saying her people fear the Monstrous Rodents living in the tunnels. The giant rats,
mutated to human size, keep blind sub-humans as slaves. The sub-humans attack, but Virdon convinces
them he’s a friend. Stirred by ancient memories of atrophied language, the sub-humans slaughter their
former masters. Tormo, touched that men would risk their lives to help an ape, sets them free, promising to
protect the sub-humans, and to urge the council to end the hunts.
El Planeta de Los Simios #2: “Depth” (ET-c)
◆ The fugitives visit New York City with Harimon, an outcast orangutan deemed a sorcerer by other apes.
A sonic blast crumbles a nearby building. Harimon, a sound waves expert, attributes this to a single low-
frequency chord. In the mall, they find a radio station with equipment capable of such a blast. Harimon
activates an amplifier, emitting a pulse that shakes the building, alerting Urko’s troops. When Harimon
refuses to leave his new toy, Virdon knocks him out and carries him to safety. Along the way, he spots a
set of solar-powered portable transceivers. At the sight of Urko, Galen grabs Burke and jumps to another
building, dropping the radio. Urko pursues them and nearly chokes Burke to death, but Galen intervenes.
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and apes for his workforce. Galen approaches the village temple’s supreme priest, posing as a theology CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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expert. Arpo suspects him of spying for Zaius until the chimp feigns interest in his “new ideas” regarding DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ape history. After a night in the stables, the astronauts accompany the apes to see what Arpo calls the Ship ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
of the Gods—the Blue Star, a vessel from their era. Arpo forces Virdon to repair the craft, and to train him FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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and his lieutenants, Craor and Gard, to fly it so they can attack Central City. Virdon sabotages his plan, HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
neglecting to tell the apes to open the floodgates before firing. The apes launch the ship and try to shoot the HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
astronauts, but the rocket fails to clear the floodgate and destroys the spaceship instead. Grateful, the village MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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apes give them a cart and horses for the journey ahead. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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◆ A bear knocks Galen unconscious. Tromh, self-proclaimed Master of the Forests, shoots the beast with a
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branch. The hunt begins, and Burke kills Varlo with the knife, while Virdon takes out another ape. Grabbing k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
the hunters’ weapons, they help Galen fend off two others. Tromh arrives, armed with a sidearm, which he m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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◆ An ape hunting party captures Burke. Virdon and Galen follow their jail wagon to the Metropolitan Opera
House, now called the Palace. An ape overseer whips penned humans within, providing Burke and others
with fighting sticks. Urko arrives to inspect Prefect Kobal’s local police. Kobal explains that all humans
must fight for food in the Circus. Burke is put in the arena with a young man and given kendo knives. Seeing
Urko, he beats the boy badly so he can leave before being spotted. In the Great Tournament, pairs of humans
fight for their freedom. Burke knocks out a guard and runs with Galen for an exit, inadvertently entering the
arena. Virdon sneaks into the building and finds bells in the Met’s sound room. Urko recognizes Burke, but
the bells pierce the air, vibrating the masonry to pieces. Everyone runs for cover as the building collapses,
and the fugitives sadly depart the fallen opera house.
Planeta de Los Simios #7: “The Circus” (ET-c)
NOTE: Although the seventh issue in the series, “Rockets” is numbered “1” due to the
publisher’s name change from Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa. to Editorial Tynset S.A.
◆ The fugitives visit a village subjugated by an elderly gorilla, Prefect Sover. A rocket blasts forth from the
ground, startling the slaves, and the astronauts realize it might be their ticket home. Galen meets a human
named Anitra, who says the town is built over an underground lab called Down Below, where she and others
perform heavy labor. When her mate, Bilé, is arrested for riding a horse, she agrees to take the fugitives to
Sover’s lab, telling his guard, Keno, that the prefect has sent for them. The astronauts find a science lab with
anti-atomic protection, along with a bunker containing more than a dozen rockets. Sover enters, offering to
free Bilé and give them one of the rockets if the astronauts make the vessels fly. He betrays them, however,
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putting Bilé in a test rocket that explodes on launch. He then threatens to kill Anitra if they don’t help him,
but slays her anyway once they finish. Galen helps the men escape, and Burke beats the gorilla to death with
a pole. Setting the rockets to explode, they run for cover as the detonations cause a quake that swallows the
entire building.
El Planeta de Los Simios #7: “Rockets” (ET-c)
◆ A human hunter shoots apes at a school until Virdon, Burke and Galen risk death to stop him.
El Planeta de Los Simios: “The Killer” (ET-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This and the following four tales were never published due to the cancellation of
the Spanish-language comic series. These synopsis are provided courtesy of author Jorge
Claudio Morhain; the full details of these stories are unavailable.
◆ Thomas Alva Edison arrives from the past in a time machine of his own design. Virdon and Burke try to use
it to return to their own era, but it only returns Edison, stranding them in the future.
El Planeta de Los Simios: “Encounter with Edison” (ET-c, unpublished)
◆ A human village, mobilized by a brainwashing device, digs up a lost civilization in New York’s John F.
Kennedy Airport. As the astronauts flee, they see the Statue of Liberty, semi-buried in the sand.
El Planeta de Los Simios: “The Archeologist” (ET-c, unpublished)
◆ The fugitives are captured by a group of apes who have created a fanatical community.
El Planeta de Los Simios: “The Queen” (ET-c, unpublished)
◆ The fugitives are buried by falling boulders in Philadelphia’s Forbidden Zone, where primitive
humans—the Delphi—surround them. Within a nearby mountain lies Independence Hall, where the
Delphi worship the Declaration of Independence, awaiting the fulfillment of a prophecy that saviors
from the sky will lead them to a promised land. The astronauts reveal their origin to Tamarane, Guardian
of the Delphi, who instructs Braylock, head of defense, not to harm them. Zaius sends an army to deal with
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where he reads to his congregation from the Declaration. Braylock stages a coup, ushering Urko’s troops AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
into the hall. Shooting Braylock, Tamarane leads the fugitives to safety on the mountain top. There dwells AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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Ytrebil, Guardian of the Mountain and Protector of the Delphi, prophesized to save them at their hour of BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
greatest danger. A quake brings the mountain down, dropping Ytrebil—the Liberty Bell—on the apes. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Urko’s troops and the Delphi are all killed in the collapse. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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NOTE: The narration places “Mountain of the Delphi” in 3885. I have ignored that date
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in favor of the TV series’ 3085 setting. “Ytrebil” is “liberty” spelled backwards. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ Moving south, the fugitives find an area untouched by war. Urko’s troops approach, and the men become HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
ensnared in quicksand. Magnum of the Tree People and his son Molan save the astronauts, then lead them MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
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to a treetop village. The reclusive Tree People fear Galen—particularly a man named Bronto, who thinks NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
him Urko’s spy. Magnum offers shelter for the night, convening a council meeting to decide their fate. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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and repopulate the world with his kind. Prefect Landa, Galen’s ex-lover, escapes into the woods and meets k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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holds a council session to report a band of killer humans invading the planet. Despite unbalanced odds, p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Urko orders an attack. Landa and the astronauts examine the Nazis’ tank tracks. A gorilla, Sgt. Blendo, r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
spots the tracks and alerts Urko. The fugitives visit an armory ten miles distant and discover weapons and s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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military vehicles. As apes battle the Nazis, Virdon and Burke take out the tanks with gas grenades. Trang u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
shoots Landa and steals her horse, jumping to safety as Burke destroys his spaceship. After a romantic v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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AFTER 3086
◆ Virdon and Burke eventually locate a working computer in the ruins of a city and discover a way to return
to space. They invite Galen to go with them, but he declines, knowing he’d be as out of place in their
world, where apes are caged, as they were in his. Galen bids farewell to his friends and resumes his former
life. Years later, he befriends another human time-traveler and shares his adventures involving the former
fugitives, including his shock at seeing a spaceship for the first time, and what it was like being a fugitive
on the run from Urko.
Telefilm #1: Back to the Planet of the Apes (AB-t)
NOTE: Ten episodes of the TV series were re-edited into five telefilms, which ABC
affiliates aired with newly filmed framing footage starring Roddy McDowall as Galen,
speaking to an unseen human time-traveler about his past adventures with Burke and
Virdon. The revelation of the return to their own time is the most intriguing aspect of
these scenes, though it does create a paradox—if they could warn humanity of the ape-
controlled future, why would mankind still take apes as pets, allowing that future to
unfold? How Galen avoids prison is unknown, as is the traveler’s identity, and no date
is specified as to when the new scenes occur. These scenes were excluded when the TV
series was released on DVD, but can be viewed online at Kassidy Rae’s Planet of the
Apes: The Television Series Website.
◆ The time-traveler returns to Galen’s hut the next day to hear more stories of Virdon and Burke. While
entertaining the traveler with his stories, Galen begins putting together a doll-like toy.
Telefilm #2: Forgotten City on the Planet of the Apes (AB-t)
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◆ Resuming his story-telling a day later, Galen recalls how difficult it was risking his life for his two human
friends, and how they braved constant danger in their search for a computer, knowing all the while that Urko
could find them at any moment. Meanwhile, Galen sews clothing for the doll.
Telefilm #3: Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes (AB-t)
◆ The time-traveler visits Galen once again, and the chimp shares the book of human anatomy he stole from
Zaius. Fascinated with the human body’s complexity, Galen recounts Virdon’s ordeal in the hospital after
being shot by gorillas. As he does so, he plays with the tiny doll’s hand.
Telefilm #4: Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (AB-t)
◆ While painting the doll’s head, Galen tells one last story to the time-traveler, recounting how his friends
eventually found a computer and returned to their own era, while he remained in his. Finally, he applies the
finishing touches to his toy—which consists of a windup chimpanzee and a clapping human doll.
Telefilm #5: Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (AB-t)
◆ Dark skin is largely bred out of the human gene pool, giving most humans a “tan Caucasian” look.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: The first two films contain no Black humans other than Thomas Dodge and
some mutants, and the novelization of Escape from the Planet of the Apes indicates
the apes were amazed upon seeing the astronaut since they’d never met a dark-
skinned human before. How all non-White races ceased to exist is unexplained, but this
apparently happened after the TV series, since humans of color still lived during that
period, and before the 3400s, when (in an unpublished Marvel tale by Doug Moench),
dark-skinned humans were unheard of.
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◆ Her Majesty’s Cannibal Corps, ape environmentalists riding giant frogs, wages war on the Industrialists,
citizens of former African nations who blame apes and White humans for the planet’s nuclear devastation.
The Cannibal Corps’ leader, captured when her people try to stop the Industrialists from destroying the
plants and trees, is subjected to genetic experimentation and radiation, causing her to grew to immense PUBLISHER / STUDIO
proportions, her mind greatly damaged in the process. Unable to remember her past, she recalls only a AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
distorted form of her name: Her Midgitsy. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
Planet of the Apes: “Future History Chronicles VI—The Captive of the Canals” (MC-c, unpublished) BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
NOTE: This story was never released due to Marvel’s decision to stop publishing Planet BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
of the Apes comics as of issue #29. The above details come from a story outline provided CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
by author Doug Moench. This tale may have been Moench’s attempt to partially explain CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
the lack of dark-skinned humans in either of the first two Apes films. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
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◆ Graymalkyn, a gorilla architect, serves aboard the city-ship Chiropoda with his friend Garshan, who GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
transfers to the Klarion. Grimstark, an orangutan visionary, moors a dozen city-ships, including the Klarion, HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
to form a massive island-ship called the Federation. His hope: that the merged crews will share knowledge, HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
commerce, cultures and expenses. When others begin resenting him and his “demon-magic,” however, he MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
isolates himself in an ancient tower and lives out the rest of his life as a hermit. This earns him the nickname NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
“Grimstark the Crazy One.” PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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◆ Civil war erupts aboard Hydromeda when a gorilla named Barbarus leads a mutiny against the orangutan
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take the gorillas’ place as the lowest of society, and an area known as Demolition Row affords an uneasy b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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palace defenses. This sudden defensive increase worries Barbarus, whose aide, First Lt. Swarthos, urges e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
him to attack the orangutan’s New Hydromeda territory. Lornus’ assassin (Alaric) sneaks into the palace to f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
kill Dymaxius during dinner, then returns to Old Hydromeda to poison its water and destroy supplies. The k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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territories go to war, unaware a third party is fanning the fires of hatred. Alaric frees his friends from the n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
ship’s bowels. The humans fight their way to lifeboats, taking to the sea as the city-ship dies in flame. Many p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
perish during the voyage to find land. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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◆ Most of Freedom Reaver’s apes return to their homelands, but Graymalkyn and others remain aboard to
help end human slavery. The Reaver docks with the Federation so Alaric can seek out Grimstark. A band
of apes injure Starkor, and Garshan takes them to the Night-City, where a barkeep, Saxtur, directs them to
Grimstark’s tower. Grimstark mends Starkor’s wound and shows them many marvels, including a flying
machine of his design. His plan: to fly off, leaving the island-ship behind. Two drunk Reaver crewmen,
believing Alaric weak, decide to sink the Federation. Reena kills the mutineers but the damage is done, and
the panicked masses shoot Grimstark from the sky. Alaric’s friends swim back to the Reaver as the broken
portion of the Federation snaps off and sinks.
Planet of the Apes #17: “Future History Chronicles III—Graveyard of Lost Cities” (MC-c)
◆ The Reaver discovers the Cathedraulus, a radioactive city-ship containing many interconnected cathedrals.
Alaric refuses to take Reena with him, and she ends their marriage when the argument becomes violent.
Two corridors run the length of Cathedraulus; Graymalkyn takes one, Alaric and Starkor the other. Both
meet slaves from their own species, each recounting massacres of their kind at the hands of the other.
Masked beings—the New Order Born of Old Sins, mutated descendants of apes and humans altered in the
war—await them at the tunnels’ end, dragging hooded prisoners behind them. At the center of a garden is
a nuclear missile, worshipped by the mutants. A priest prepares to sacrifice a slave—Alaric sees that it’s
Reena and realizes the prisoners are his crew. He and Graymalkyn jump to their rescue as Starkor topples
the missile, crushing many beneath it. When the Reaver sinks in flame, Alaric’s group has no choice but
remain aboard Cathedraulus, where radiation has already begun to mutate them.
Planet of the Apes #24: “Future History Chronicles IV—The Shadows of Haunted Cathedraulus” (MC-c)
◆ Alaric sides with Graymalkyn in stopping Starkor from killing the mutant leader. Reena accuses him of
preferring apes to their kind. A great balloon (the Cloud Swarm) ascends from the floor, and Graymalkyn
and Starkor grab its ropes. Alaric shoots a crossbow line at the gondola, pulling Reena with him, then the
four climb up and slaughter the mutants. The balloon enters the Death Mists, a black miasma of thunder
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and lightning. Waiting for the storm to pass, the companions put aside their anger. Three flying machines
approach, ten times’ the balloon’s size, and set it afire. The gondola hits the ground, where Her Majesty’s
Cannibal Corps mistake them for the Industrialists. The ape mutants hang them by their feet above a kettle
of boiling oil. Graymalkyn asks to join them as a ruse, but when the leader gives him a spear to kill his
comrades, he up-ends the oil on their captors. Escaping, they find Sexxtann, a city on land with airships
docked nearby. Alaric approaches in friendship, suggesting they settle down and live together in peace.
Graymalkyn, however, has his doubts.
Planet of the Apes #29: “Future History Chronicles V—To Race the Death-Winds” (MC-c)
3400s To 3978
◆ Encroaching Forbidden Zones usher in a new Dark Age. Progress slows to a halt in New York’s
Ape City, where human civilization is relegated to legend, then to nothing at all as the conservative
orangutans conceal such knowledge, stifling the progressive chimpanzees. Late in this period, simians
begin using humans as experimental animals and entertaining diversions for gorilla hunters. A certain
instinctive survival pattern remains in the humans, but it is less than successful. Meanwhile, the Forbidden
Zones’ land masses begin shifting, with once-oceanic areas becoming endless miles of barren desert. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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◆ A large body of water outside of New York City dries up completely, replaced by a series of rocky valleys BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
known to the apes as the Dead Lake. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ The conservative ape government establishes the Book of Simian Prophecy, article 18 of which states that ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
if ever talking humans are found, they must be exterminated immediately. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ The orangutan Council of Elders knows the truth about man but guards the secret to protect society. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
◆ The apes create the Book of Laws, a set of governing mandates. Punishment for breaking these rules is SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
harsh, handed out un-democratically by a small ruling body known as the Supreme Council. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (BB-n)
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
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◆ Both the Book of Laws and the Book of Simian Prophecy make it illegal to enter the Forbidden Temple c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
of Mount Garr, after an unknown deadly factor kills most apes who remain inside for too long. Others d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card 3087 - 3977
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
who enter, however, are strangely cured of their illnesses. Radiation is the cause, though the apes do not f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
understand the concept. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Terror on Ice Mountain” (BB-n) n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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◆ The simian government eventually amends its Book of Laws to enable the Senate to override the High t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
Council if necessary. However, this law is one the Senate never invokes. u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Talk of a democratic government replacing the “rule by Supreme Council” model spreads. One Council
member, Elder Muvala, dismisses the notion by quipping, “There is absolutely no evidence that 100 stupid
apes are smarter than several intelligent ones.”
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #5: “Lagoon of Peril” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
c. 3880s
◆ Surgora the Bold, one of ape history’s greatest generals, attempts to cross the Forbidden Zone. Though his
soldiers survive the trip through the desert, their vehicles are unable to climb the western mountains. With
no way around the mountains, Surgora’s forces keep heading north, looking for a pass—so far north that
they find a land covered in ice—but still are unable to traverse the mountain range.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #4: “Tunnel of Fear” (BB-n)
NOTE: The novelization dates these events “almost a hundred years” before the series.
3911
◆ The wife of Augustus, the orangutan minister of science for Ape City’s Supreme Council, has a son. They
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name him Zaius and agree that he will one day follow in his father’s footsteps.
Planet of the Apes Special #1: “The Sins of the Father” (AC-c)
NOTE: Since Zaius’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Maurice Evans’
age (67) when the film (set in 3978) was produced.
EARLy 3900s
◆ As a child, Zaius attends many sessions during his father’s tenure on the council. Thus, he witnesses a
number of debates between Gen. Kurda, hero of the Battle of Silkor, and Boniface, a leader in the field of
humanoid anthropology.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Truga, a male gorilla, elopes with a female chimp to the Wambo Province, to escape persecution for their
forbidden cross-species love. Their grandson, Mungwort, later faces racial prejudice due to his resultant
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
mixed heritage. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #7: “River of Flames” (BB-n) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. Truga is named in the novelization of episode BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
#2; his wife’s name is unknown. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Ursus, a gorilla and future leader of Ape City’s military, is born. FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
NOTE: Since Ursus’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor James Gregory’s HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
age (59) when the film (set in 3979) was made. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
3923 PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
◆ Caspay, future inquisitor of New York City’s human mutant population, is born. UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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(56) when the film (set in 3979) was made. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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◆ Honorius, an orangutan and future Ape City deputy minister of justice, is born. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
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age (50) when the film (set in 3978) was made.
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◆ Zira’s father, Pavel Fabian, is an associate of Zaius, the future minister of science.
Planet of the Apes Special #1: “The Sins of the Father” (AC-c)
NOTE: The Sins of the Father names Zira’s father Pavel, but the novelization of Return
to the Planet of the Apes episode #1 names him Fabian. To reconcile the discrepancy, I
have combined the two.
◆ A much-respected member of ape society, Zira’s father is widely considered a wise ape.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (BB-n)
NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Maximus, an orangutan and future Ape City commissioner for animal affairs, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Maximus’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Woodrow
Parfey’s age (46) when the film (set in 3978) was made.
◆ Julius, a gorilla and future assistant at the Academy of Ape Sciences, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Julius’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Buck Kartalian’s
age (46) when the film (set in 3978) was made.
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◆ Galen, future chimpanzee surgeon at Ape City’s Academy of Ape Sciences, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Dr. Galen’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Wright King’s
age (45) when the film (set in 3978) was made. This is a different Galen from the character
appearing in the TV series; it’s unknown if the two are related.
◆ Mendez XXVI, future leader of the New York City mutants, is born to the House of Mendez.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Mendez’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Paul Richards’
age (46) when the film (set in 3979) was made. It should be noted that 2,000 years (since
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the time of Mendez the First) would likely be insufficient for only 26 generations of
Mendezes, unless each leader remained in power for an average of 77 years.
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◆ Cornelius, a chimpanzee and future scientist (and father to Caesar, founder of ape society), is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Cornelius’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Roddy
McDowall’s age (40) when the film was made.
◆ Julian, Cornelius’ grandfather, imparts a wise saying as well: “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself”—
words first spoken by another human, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cornelius’ grandmother, Mokka, is equally
wise: “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only robs today of its strength” (attributed to AJ Cronin,
a human). His other grandmother, Steffa, often says, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” (from the Jewish
text, Midrash Shocher Tov).
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization. It’s unclear which grandparent—Mokka or PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Steffa—is the mother of Julian, and which is Cornelius’ maternal grandmother. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
◆ Adiposo, future inquisitor of New York City’s human mutant population, is born. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
NOTE: Since Adiposo’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Victor Buono’s ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
age (32) when the film (set in 3979) was made. The character is identified as “Fat Man” FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
in the film’s credits; his actual name appears in The Mutant News, a promotional GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
newspaper distributed to moviegoers during the film’s release.
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
◆ Ongaro, future inquisitor of New York City’s human mutant population, is born. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
NOTE: Since Ongaro’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Don Pedro SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Colley’s age (32) when the film (set in 3979) was made. The character is identified TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
as “Negro” in the film’s credits; his actual name appears in The Mutant News, a UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
promotional newspaper distributed to moviegoers during the film’s release. Planet of the MEDIUM
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◆ As leader of the Supreme Council, Zaius becomes privy to the top-secret personal writings of Caesar and
Virgil, detailing the events surrounding Caesar’s revolution two millennia prior. Most apes consider Caesar
a myth by this time, but the orangutan elite know better. These accounts conflict with what is written in the
Sacred Scrolls, particularly in regard to Aldo’s place in history.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #6: “Catch a Falling Star” (MR-c)
3949
◆ Albina, future inquisitor of New York City’s human mutant population, is born.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Albina’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actress Natalie
Trundy’s age (30) when the film (set in 3979) was made. Her name appears in The Mutant
News, a promotional newspaper distributed during the film’s release.
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3958
◆ Lucius, a chimpanzee and the nephew of scientist Dr. Zira, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Lucius’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Lou Wagner’s age
(20) when the film (set in 3978) was made.
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EARLy 3960s AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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◆ A NASA spacecraft carrying astronaut Ronald “Ron” Brent crashes in the Forbidden Zone after being AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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propelled in time from the year 2109. His leg broken, Brent nearly dies until a tribe of wandering humans BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
finds him. The friendly primitives stay with him until he is well enough to travel. One of the tribe’s children, BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Nova, grows quite fond of him, and he teaches her to say his name. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
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NOTE: The date of Brent’s crash is unclear. He says only that he crashed 15-20 years
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before meeting the Venturer crew in 3979. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ Brent offers Nova his military dogtags, which she wears around her neck on into adulthood. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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dogtags as well—is unclear…aside from the obvious explanation, that the cartoons don’t PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Brent decides to travel with the humans wherever they’re going, but a sandstorm separates him from the
tribe. Unable to find them again, he returns to the wreckage of his ship and makes that his base of operations. MEDIUM
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◆ Though attracted to Cornelius’ eyes, Zira loves him most for his exceptional mind.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #13: “Battle of the Titans” (NB-a)
3968 to 3978
◆ Damage caused by humans scavenging for food among Ape City’s crops increases by more than 400
percent over a ten-year period.
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Mid 3970s
◆ Dr. Pleta, an ape scientist, attempts to build a lighter-than-air flying machine similar to a hot-air balloon.
Unable to compensate for the weight of the stove needed to heat the air, he fails to make it fly. Though the
Senate deems this conclusive proof that flight is impossible, Cornelius suspects an unknown design flaw
might be overcome.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #6: “Terror on Ice Mountain” (BB-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Gen. Urko siphons funds for the construction and maintenance of a secret base in the Mulkalla Mountains,
east of the Forbidden Zone and west of a series of caves inhabited by primitive humans. Over the next
several years, Urko fills the base with artillery and equipment for an eventual governmental takeover.
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The orangutan elders learn of the base’s existence, and the Senate discovers he has a Strategic Defense
Headquarters where he trains troops, but the roughness of the nearby terrain and its proximity to the
Forbidden Zone keeps either agency from investigating.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #8: “Screaming Wings” (BB-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization.
◆ The area surrounding the base—the Black Zone—is highly restricted. Word of clandestine activities here
sometimes reaches the ears of ape society, though no one outside of Urko’s officers may visit.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #8: “Screaming Wings” (NB-a)
3975
◆ Derek Zane, a naïve dreamer who built a time-machine in 1974, arrives in the year 3975, hoping to rescue
George Taylor’s lost Liberty 1 crew. The crash demolishes his time machine, so he sets off across the globe
to find the missing team. Sleeping in the wild, he awakens to find primitive humans watching him but is
unable to elicit a response. Shots disturb the tranquility, scattering the mute humans and nearly killing Kane.
The shooter, an eye-patched gorilla named Gen. Gorodon, is frustrated when Zane gets away—having spied
the man’s attempts to communicate, he’d hoped to impress his orangutan elder, Xirinius, by capturing a
speaking human. He settles for Zane’s knapsack and toolbox, then heads home with his chimp servant,
Whelp. Zane follows, intent on retrieving his belongings.
Planet of the Apes #9: “Kingdom on an Island of the Apes—Arrival” (MC-c)
NOTE: When Marvel published this tale, it used the same 3975 date incorrectly attributed
to the adaptations of the first two films. Although I have set the films in their proper years,
I am keeping the 3975 setting for this story, as it adds to the tragedy of Zane’s story that
he arrived three years too early to find the Liberty 1. Dayton Ward’s timeline, published PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles—which accepts Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
3955 dating for the first two films—places these events in that same year. AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
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◆ As gorillas prepare human slaves for target practice, Zane sneaks into Xirinius’ home to retrieve his items. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Gorodon enters with Xirinius, saying Cassius’ research regarding the human larynx proves the council has BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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lied regarding the species’ intelligence. Xirinius accuses him of heresy, and of coveting his position as city CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
administrator. Gorodon kills him, hoping to blame the talking human and become the first gorilla to serve DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
as city administrator. Kane pulls a gun on him, however, and ties him up at the scene of the crime before ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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escaping with the captured humans. With no hope of finding Taylor’s crew, he builds a raft to carry him and GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
a cache of gunpowder barrels to a distant island. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ Disgraced following the murder, Gorodon is replaced by Gen. Zaynor. Bent on revenge, Gorodon takes 200 NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
gorilla soldiers and sets out to track Zane down. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ Sir Gawain, a gorilla in knight’s armor, takes Zane to the Camelot court of a benevolent orangutan, King
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and Arthur spares his life at the behest of the beautiful Lady Andrea. The island has been plagued by a b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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based on ancient writings. During the tournament, Zane wins without bloodshed by shining a flashlight k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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in Gawain’s eyes and lassoing him to the ground. Gawain tries to kill him and is banished, while Zane is n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
knighted and begins a love affair with Andrea. On the mainland, Gorodon’s troops build a raft to pursue p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Zane to his island paradise. r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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Zaynor, however, petitions Magistrate Hastus to force them to give the human up for target practice. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
Planet of the Apes #21: “Beast on the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c)
◆ Guilt-ridden over abandoning his search for Liberty 1, Zane returns to the shore on a steed called Gandalf. A
chimp known as Robin Hood, impressed by his staff-dueling skill, offers to help with his quest. They steal
clothing and a horse, pose Zane as Hood’s slave and visit Cassius’ lab, where Zane hears Plexides mention
a talking human female. Zane recalls Liberty 1’s Maryann Stewart, but it’s not her. As Cassius prepares to
remove her larynx, Zane startles the doctor, and the woman slays him with a scalpel. Hood pulls her into
hiding as guards capture Zane. Hastus orders him hanged, but Hood shoots the noose, catching him in a cart.
Zaynor jumps onto the wagon but falls and is trampled by horses. Shot, the woman dies in Zane’s arms.
Blowing up the apes’ armory, Zane rides out of town and buries her, etching “Hope” on her gravestone.
Hood suggests they return to Avedon, but Zane is not yet ready to go back.
Planet of the Apes #21: “Beast on the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c)
3977
◆ Faron, a chimp scientist, discovers a bubble-domed, human-built city, now inhabited by apes. Branded
a heretic, he is hunted down by gorillas. One soldier, Jurando, shoots him as he jumps over a waterfall.
Primitive humans save his life, and he lives among them for months. Derek Zane meets the same tribe and
befriends Faron, who tells him of the city. Soldiers arrest Faron and place him before a firing squad. Zane
sets off homemade firecrackers to distract the apes, then frees Faron and rides with him to the city, hoping
to find technology to build another time machine. A second time machine—Chronos I, built by NASA
based on Zane’s plans—arrives. Two “tempunauts,” Mara Winston and Jackson Brock of the NASA Time
Research Labs, disembark. Brock refuses to search for Zane, however, having volunteered only to profit
from knowledge of the future. At the sight of the bleak desert, he tries to strand Mara in 3977 and travel
to another era, but damage to Chronos I causes the device to explode, putting out one of his eyes. As she
nurses him back to health, Jurando’s gorilla squad captures them both.
Planet of the Apes: “Journey to the Planet of the Apes” (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: This tale—originally titled “Return to the Planet of the Apes” but renamed so
as not to conflict with the cartoon—was never released due to Marvel’s decision to stop
publishing the comic as of issue #29. These details come from a story outline and dialog
breakdown provided by author Doug Moench. With Marvel’s film adaptations completed,
the Zane storyline would have replaced them as the magazine’s mainstay, with Faron
and the tempunauts as regular characters. Although Zane says it has been a week since
Hope’s death in issue #21, this story takes place in 3977—two years later.
◆ Mara escapes her gorilla captors, encounters Zane and Faron, and begins traveling with the duo. Faron
meets a female chimp in the domed city and falls in love. Eventually, Zane returns with his friends to
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Avedon, reuniting with Andrea, Gawain, Robin Hood and King Arthur. Brock, meanwhile, uses his
20th-century knowledge to lead a group of renegade gorillas, becoming a recurring nemesis
to the others.
Planet of the Apes: [multiple issues, titles unknown] (MC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Doug Moench's story breakdown for "Journey to the Planet of the Apes" concludes
with notes to artist Val Mayerik and editor John David Warner, detailing future plans to
craft a "movie sequel" spanning eight to 10 issues involving an ape culture similar to that
from Pierre Boulle's novel The Monkey Planet. Other multi-issue "sequels" would have
followed, each starring Zane and his friends. The first of these would have been "Beyond
the Planet of the Apes," outlined below. An art page for one issue of this unused storyline,
created by Mayerik, was later repurposed as the cover to issue #117 of Marvel UK's
Planet of the Apes run.
◆ Dr. Cornelius, a prominent chimp psychologist and archeologist, mounts an expedition to the Forbidden
Zone with special permission from the National Academy of Science. His goal: to find ancient artifacts
proving his theory that the ape evolved from a lower form of primate, possibly man.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Dayton Ward's timeline, published in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles—which
accepts Beneath the Planet of the Apes' 3955 dating for the first two films—places
these events in 3954. A timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary
Collection sets them in 3953.
◆ Several chimp scientists join Cornelius’ expedition, including his fiancée Zira, and Dr. Zaius goes along
to contain any heretical information. Cornelius discovers a 1991 issue of People News Monthly with a
cover photo of an ape, and estimates it to be 2,000 years old—older than the Sacred Scrolls. Before he can PUBLISHER / STUDIO
read it, Zaius grabs it and sees the title “Hail Caesar!” along with a blurb about the “King of the Apes” AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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being the “fabled lost child of Cornelius and Zira.” He denounces it as an abomination, a joke planted by AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
a disgruntled student to discredit their work. Cornelius protests, but is reminded that his job security relies BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
on Zaius’ approval, that jobs of influence are a rare commodity and that he and Zira might one day have a BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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family. Ripping up the magazine, Zaius leaves them alone. Recognizing a threat, Zira stops Cornelius from CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
pursuing the matter further. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
no longer available at that site. The preview was entitled “People in the News,” but the HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
print issue’s contents page lists it as “People News.” HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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older than the 12 recorded centuries of ape history. Zaius and the Academy dismiss his theories and work NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
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as heresy—punishable by death—and cancel his travel permit, saying he exceeded his orders. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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◆ Cornelius meets with Zaius to ask why his permit has been canceled. The orangutan says he wished to spare MEDIUM
him “an exercise in futility,” stating science must never supplant the spiritual truths of the Sacred Scrolls, a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
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lettered by Sam Agro, but was cut due to concerns over religious overtones, as its r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
conclusion featured the Lawgiver supplanting Jesus Christ. At presstime, it was slated to s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
appear in issue #16 of Simian Scrolls magazine, with the author’s permission. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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◆ A chimp architect named Viraga (“Vira” for short) grows furious when her husband Julius humiliates her by
ridiculing her work in public—and not for the first time. Apologizing, he says he’s grown cynical and bitter
in his old age, unable to accept the cruelty ape society inflicts on humans. As he speaks, the young-at-heart
chimp executes a series of acrobatic flips and jumps around the town square.
Planet of the Apes #30: [title unknown] (MC-c)
NOTE: This tale, written for Marvel by Doug Moench, was unknown to fans until
March 2006, when a page of original artwork was discovered for sale online. Little
is known about the story, including its title or setting, though Moench (who himself
does not recall any further details) confirms it was likely intended to appear in a 30th
issue that was created but never saw print due to the series’ sudden cancellation. The
art page is credited to Philipino artist Sonny Trinidad, though Trinidad denies having
produced any such illustrations.
◆ The granddaughter of Dr. Zaius receives a human baby doll—but, naturally, not one that talks.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The human mutants of New York City, led by Mendez XXVI, discover the apes’ existence after a rock fault
causes several simian soldiers to fall into the underground city. The apes are killed, their bodies destroyed
immediately to protect the Holy City’s inhabitants from potential alien diseases.
The Mutant News (HM-p)
◆ Pvt. Mungwort, a chimp-gorilla soldier frequently mocked for his mixed heritage, alienates Sgt. Brutar
by refusing to torture a human prisoner, starting a garden for the troops to grow their own vegetables and
assembling a party to attend a performance by a chimp dance group—as well as by preferring such TV
shows as Exploring Our World and Living with Grunt over popular gorilla series like Bloodsports and The
Growler’s Tales of Gorilla Force Ten.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #7: “River of Flames” (BB-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization. That the apes even
have television, though, is a prime example of why the cartoons don’t fit with the rest
of the mythos. It’s noteworthy that a character named Grunt features prominently in the
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◆ Zeat and Zeat, an ape weapons manufacturer, introduces the Rea Voom 88 hunting rifle. Meanwhile, a
clothing designer called Zeeka’s, located at 77 Simia Way, introduce its new “Long Look” robes.
The Ape (HM-p)
NOTE: Given how little simian fashion ever seems to change, Zeeka’s new robes can’t
be all that new.
◆ A quota system is established to keep chimpanzees below orangutans on the social order, but is later
abolished. Dr. Zira is among those who “make it” following the lifting of the quotas, and is given the
resources needed to further her work in studying the cerebral functions of man in order to lay the foundation
for scientific brain surgery.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: This information appears in an early draft of the film’s script.
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◆ Sgt. Brutar is assigned to clean out a human nest. Mungwort rides around the perimeter of the battle while
others handle the beasts. He claims to be checking for strays, but Brutar knows better—his chimp blood
has made him a pacifist. Later, during bayonet practice, Mungwort gives a human a quick death rather than
prolonging it, as orders dictate. Brutar is disgusted, knowing that neither Mungwort’s deceased father nor
his grandfather, Truga—gorillas, both—would ever have been so soft on humans.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #2: “Escape From Ape City” (BB-n) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
NOTE: This occurs only in the episode’s novelization. AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ A simian filmmaker known as Citizen Naarthrok releases his highly successful theatrical film An Ape for BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
All Reasons. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Marcus, chief of the Simian Secret Police, receives an intelligence report from the elite Gorilla Scouting FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Corps responsible for controlling the human bands roaming the remote, fertile lands north of Ape City. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
With human over-population—and pillaging of the rich corn fields along the Forbidden Zone—a growing HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
problem, Marcus arranges for a gorilla squad to surround and capture them when they next come to feed. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
The primary purpose of the raid is to capture both male and female humans for scientific experiments. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
The Ape (HM-p) PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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NOTE: In early drafts of the film’s script, Marcus is named Mr. Digby. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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◆ The gorillas involved in the raid are known colloquially as the Hunt Club.
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◆ At that moment, while overseeing an archeological dig, Dr. Zaius takes a nap and dreams of an alternate
reality in which a more advanced ape society has suffered centuries of war with mutant humans: Zaius visits
Dr. Milo to tell him Taylor’s spaceship—prophesized to bring doomsday to their world—was seen falling
from the sky. Milo dismisses the Divinity of Taylor and Caesar as myth. Zaius shares millennia-old pages
from Caesar’s journals, describing how Milo, Zira and Cornelius traveled into the past. Caesar’s existence
is against God’s Law, Zaius says; Aldo was supposed to lead the ape rebellion, not Caesar. To prevent the
couple from giving birth in the past, Zaius has come to kill Milo. He stabs the young chimp, only to find the
pages contain his own name, not Milo’s. Zaius awakens to find Cornelius and another chimp standing over
him. Cornelius introduces the latest member of their expedition: Milo, a mechanically gifted engineer. As
Zaius tries to recall where he’s heard the name before, a bright light streaks across the sky. The apes think
it a falling star, but it is really Taylor and the Liberty 1.
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #6: “Catch a Falling Star” (MR-c)
◆ Liberty 1 crashes near the Forbidden Zone’s Dead Lake, an inland sea south of Long Island. Taylor, Thomas
Dodge and John Landon awaken from their cryogenic slumber, but Maryann Stewart has died from an air
leak in a cracked chamber. As the ship fills with water and sinks, the trio launch an escape raft and row to
shore. Taylor checks provisions while Dodge scans the soil. A chrono-reading indicates they’ve travelled
2,000 years into the future. With no idea of which planet they’re on, they head out to find food. As they do
so, rainless lightning rocks the desert, with no moon visible in the luminescent sky.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Some fans have speculated that the lightning may be an illusion created by the
mutated humans living in New York's irradiated ruins, intended to keep the astronauts
from discovering their hidden community. This, however, is unstated on film.
◆ Several days into their trip, an exhausted Dodge discovers a plant in the desert, giving the astronauts hope
of finding more life. Despite extreme exhaustion and thirst, they carry on.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The rocky terrain leads to a ridge of scarecrow-like barriers, beyond which Taylor discovers trees and
a waterfall, in an area known as Simia. Stripping off their uniforms, they run for the water, unaware of
primitive humans stealing their belongings. They later find their clothes shredded, their equipment destroyed
and the humans feasting on corn. A growl scares off the mute tribe, and the astronauts follow. The Hunt
Club shoots many humans and nets others. Dodge is killed in the raid, and Taylor is shot in the throat, losing
sight of Landon in the chaos.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Simia is named in The Ape, a promotional newspaper distributed to moviegoers
during the film’s release.
◆ Acting on the orders of Police Chief Marcus to show no mercy, the hunters shoot or club any humans who
offer resistance or try to escape Simia into the Forbidden Zone.
The Ape (HM-p)
◆ The Hunt Club brings their human catch back to Ape City, posing for photos with their prizes.
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AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
◆ The hunt is celebrated as being among the most successful in recent history. More than 30 humans are AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
captured, many of them female and many viable candidates for scientific study. One female, a dark-haired BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
beauty in vigorous health, is chosen for genetic experiments at the Academy of Ape Science. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
The Ape (HM-p) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
NOTE: The female, of course, is Nova. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
◆ The hunters are intrigued by Dodge’s dark skin color, having never seen a Black person before. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
NOTE: This information is revealed in the film’s novelization. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
◆ Dodge’s corpse is stuffed and put on display in the Great Hall of the Zaius Museum, his eyes replaced with NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
glass replicas, as part of a re-creation of natural human habitats. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (AW-n) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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emergency brain surgery, but later admits Taylor is not unique as a speaking human, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
adding, “There was the one you call Landon.” f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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filthy conditions at the Academy of Ape Science. There, a surgeon colleague, Dr. Galen, tends to humans p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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wounded in the hunt. Galen envies the preferential treatment she receives from the council. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
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distributed to moviegoers during the film’s release. It’s unknown whether this Galen is x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
descended from the Galen in the Planet of the Apes television series. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ Taylor and other humans are caged separately. Unable to speak from his wound, he tries to communicate,
much to Zira’s delight, and the amusement of a gorilla named Julius. Naming him “Bright Eyes,”
Zira urges him to speak, but when he tries to grab her note pad, Julius beats him down. Zaius scorns
Taylor’s efforts as mimicry, cautioning Zira not to pursue heretical behavioral studies suggesting a
link between ape and man.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
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◆ Zira provides Taylor a mate—the dark-haired beauty caught in the hunt—but he shows little interest despite
her obvious attraction to him. He scrawls “I can write” in the sand, but she wipes out the letters before the
apes see them. Cornelius, meanwhile, plans another archeological dig, hoping to find more artifacts of the
past. Zaius sees the remains of the letters and quickly erases them.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ The price of bananas on the Simian Market rises by an unprecedented 17 percent. This spurs a rush of
panicked buying among ape investors in anticipation of further rises.
The Ape (HM-p)
NOTE: This implies apes have a concept of financial market trading.
◆ Taylor grabs Zira’s pad and writes, “My name is Taylor.” She takes him home so he can tell them how
he got here. When Cornelius disputes his claims, Taylor builds a paper airplane to prove flight possible.
Zaius arrives with Dr. Maximus, commissioner for animal affairs, who orders Taylor returned to the lab.
Zaius then destroys the plane, ordering Taylor gelded. Taylor tackles Julius and flees, pursued by Xirinius
and other guards. He passes a gorilla funeral and frightens an ape child looking for a lavatory. The guards
chase him into the Great Hall of the Zaius Museum, passing displays of stuffed humans—including Dodge.
Dozens of apes stone Taylor so guards can capture him. Netted, he stuns them all by yelling for them to get
their “stinking paws” off of him.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Marvel’s comic adaptation names Xirinius and reveals that the child is looking
for a bathroom. The Ape, a promotional newspaper distributed to moviegoers during the
film’s release, refers to the Great Hall of the Zaius Museum as the Simian Museum.
◆ The search for Taylor lasts 55 minutes. A dozen ape guards are injured in the incident, five of whom
are detained for treatment at Ape Hospital. One injured ape dies, and the government awards the Simian
Star—the highest decoration for ape valor—to several guards involved in Taylor’s capture.
The Ape (HM-p)
◆ Over the next four weeks, neither Zira nor Cornelius visit Taylor. Left alone with his mate, he names her
Nova and grows increasingly fond of her, wondering if she is capable of love.
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◆ Zaius orders John Landon terminated. Landon’s body is stuffed for preservation in the museum alongside
Dodge’s, his eyes similarly replaced with glass replicas.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Cornelius tells Brent that Taylor nearly ended up a museum specimen “like his
two friends,” which can only refer to Dodge and Landon since Stewart’s body is still in
the lake and half-decomposed. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ Rumors spread through Ape City of an impending invasion by humans with ape-like intelligence. Zarka, AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
chief government spokesman, provides an official denial, blaming the story’s origin on apes unsatisfied AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
with the current regime looking to create unease and unrest. Several ape intellectuals are not so easily BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
swayed, however, particularly in light of reports of humans landing in an air vehicle. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
The Ape (HM-p) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Zira’s nephew Lucius helps Taylor and Nova escape so Zira and Cornelius can sneak them to the Forbidden ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Zone to make a new home in the jungle. The Hunt Club tries to commandeer their wagon, but Lucius lies FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
that the humans are rabid. Three days later, the group reach a beachside cave, where scaffolding marks HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Cornelius’ former dig. Nova experiences nausea, and Zira discovers she’s pregnant. Zaius arrives, but HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
Taylor forces his guards away at gunpoint, offering Zaius a deal: If the couple prove their theories, Zaius MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
will drop the charges. Cornelius displays a talking human doll and other artifacts, some more than 2,000 NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
years old, but Zaius negates each finding with scripture. Hearing shots, Taylor forces Zaius to withdraw his PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
troops. As Lucius fetches provisions and horses for the humans, Taylor demands Zaius keep his side of the SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
bargain. In response, Zaius asks Cornelius to read the 29th Scroll, 6th Verse: “Beware the beast ‘man,’ for UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder
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his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of
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his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.” Taylor b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
invites Cornelius and Zira to join him, but they’re confident they’ll be exonerated. After he leaves, Zaius c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
orders Xirinius to arrest them and Marcus to destroy the cave, in order to protect the future. Zira asks what d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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Taylor will find, and Zaius replies, “His destiny.” f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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the wagon were cut from the film. Adventure Comics’ issue #17 line reveals the doll p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
to have belonged to astronaut August Anne Burrows. The name Marcus appears in r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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◆ Three days after Taylor leaves with Nova, Zaius recalls his father’s warning from thirty years prior—that
mankind is a dangerous animal—and finds his faith in that wisdom renewed.
Planet of the Apes Special #1: “The Sins of the Father” (AC-c)
◆ Riding along the beach with Nova, Taylor comes across the head and upper torso of the Statue of Liberty,
dilapidated and half buried in the sand. Dropping to his knees in anguish, he realizes he’s been home all
along, and that mankind must finally have destroyed its own world in a nuclear war.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Profoundly affected by the plight of George Taylor, Lucius begins writing his own scrolls, recounting the
story of Taylor’s journey and what he found in the Forbidden Zone. The moral of the story, according to
Lucius, is that “Whatever thinks can speak. And whatever speaks...can murder.”
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (MC-c)
NOTE: This information comes from Marvel’s comic book adaptation of the film, based
on an introduction cut from the final script.
◆ Dr. Zaius calls a press conference, pleading for additional human bodies for experimentation. Humans’
similar physical structure to that of the ape, he says, makes them an invaluable aid in the development and
improvement of medical techniques.
The Ape News (HM-p)
◆ During this period, a USNSA astronaut named Ben (last name unknown), whose ship was thrown forward
in time in the same manner as Taylor’s, arrives searching for his lost comrades.
Planet of the Apes (UB-v)
NOTE: This video game is not easily added to a timeline—after all, which specific game
session “happened?” What’s more, it’s unclear how USNSA relates either to NASA or
ANSA. Thus, I am only including the game’s premise, not the specifics of gameplay. Ben’s
ultimate fate is unknown, though it’s unlikely pleasant since the Earth will be destroyed
within months of his arrival. It’s probably for the best—for readers, as well as for Ben—
not to consider this game part of the greater story.
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◆ An assassin, sent by the U.S. government to prevent Taylor from destroying Earth, arrives in a time-
travel device, then sets out to hunt down and kill him. In the course of her mission, she must avoid being
captured by apes.
Manhunt on the Planet of the Apes (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Mike Valerio, author of Adventure’s Sins of the Father, proposed this second
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one-shot to creative director Tom K. Mason as well. However, Valerio says, the idea
was deemed too reminiscent of The Terminator in terms of story, and the assassin (who
presumably fails in her mission) was seen as too much like Alien’s Ellen Ripley. It was
also rejected due to several plot-logic problems.
◆ Passing through the illusion, Taylor enters the ruins of New York City and makes his way to St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. Five mutant Inquisitors—Albina, Caspay, Ongaro, Adiposo and their leader, Mendez XXVI
(a.k.a. Mendez the Divine and Invincible), a descendant of Mendez the First—torture him telepathically,
accusing him of spying for the apes and pushing him to reveal the army’s plans. Their weapons (traumatic PUBLISHER / STUDIO
hypnosis and visual/sonic deterrents) are illusory; as the Keepers of the Divine Bomb, they exist only to AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
protect and worship it. Unable to get information from him, and convinced of his madness after he claims AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
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to be from another time, they lock him up in a cell. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
The Mutant News (HM-p) BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
NOTE: Ongaro and Adiposo are identified as “Negro” and “Fat Man” in the film’s CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
credits; their names appear in The Mutant News, a promotional newspaper distributed to CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
moviegoers during the release of Beneath the Planet of the Apes. The book Planet of the DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
Apes Revisited misspells Ongaro’s name as “Ono Goro.” An early film treatment, also ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
titled Planet of the Apes Revisited, identifies Caspay as a dwarf and gives him the title of GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
minister of external affairs. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ Pleading for clemency in the trial of Zira and Cornelius, Zaius arranges to have their charges dropped by MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
making a deal: In exchange for their freedom and the privilege of learning the true history of humanity and MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
apekind, they will agree to keep silent about their discoveries, and to support the council. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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◆ As per this deal, Cornelius is granted access to secret scrolls few apes know about, which detail the history
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NOTE: Apparently, these scrolls fail to mention that Caesar is his and Zira’s son. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ Cornelius and Zira are named directors of the Humanoid Behavioral Studies Laboratory.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
◆ Dr. Milo raises Taylor’s damaged spaceship Liberty 1 from the ocean floor, carting it to a secret area outside
Ape City. There, despite the pretense of allying with Zaius, Cornelius and Zira aid him in studying the
craft. Their hope: that the existence of a flying vehicle will convince the citizens of Ape City to escape the
untruths holding back society.
Planet of the Apes #11: “Outlines of Tomorrow—A Chronology of the Planet of the Apes” (MC-m)
NOTE: Dayton Ward’s timeline, published in The Planet of the Apes Chronicles—which
accepts Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ 3955 dating for the first two films—places these
events in that same year. A timeline packaged with the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary
Collection places these events in December 3954. Marvel’s timeline and the third film
both indicate the ship to be Taylor’s, but that seems inconceivable—Milo would need to
locate the waterlogged craft, raise it from the lake bottom, repair its damaged computers,
refuel it, discern its operation and get it into orbit. Plus, the ship’s chronometer reading
does not match Taylor’s (hence, the “3955 vs. 3978” debacle), and Stewart’s corpse is
missing. What’s more, its design matches neither Liberty 1 nor Brent’s ship—instead, it’s
similar to that used by Virdon and Burke in the TV series. The Escape from the Planet of
the Apes novelization attempts to reconcile these discrepancies by establishing the craft
as a separate vessel, found intact on the seacoast, with Milo learning to fly it by studying
books and papers aboard ship. However, I’ve adhered to Escape’s claim (improbable
though it may be) that it is, in fact, Liberty 1.
◆ Milo reveals the spacecraft's existence, and his intention to make it fly, to Ape City authorities. Flight is
deemed impossible, however, and his theories are dismissed. Though Zira and Cornelius agree to help him,
they doubt him as well. Still, being an historian, Cornelius—having seen evidence that humans once had
flying machines—knows his theories to be possible. Reading books and papers found aboard Liberty 1,
Milo understands just enough of the ship's workings to discern how to make it spaceworthy.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (AW-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film's novelization.
◆ Ape society grows very advanced in a short span of time, as the apes build motorized vehicles, construct
great buildings, utilize electricity, develop long-range communications and so forth.
Return to the Planet of the Apes episode #1: “Flames of Doom” (NB-a)
NOTE: The cause of such a sudden upsurge in technology is unknown—perhaps the apes
found an ancient human city and relocated Ape City’s population, then moved back to the
country at a later date…I know, it’s patently absurd. In truth, the series simply doesn’t
fit well with the films, no matter how hard one tries to make it jibe. Several sources
place the animated series in 3810, based on the last date seen on the ship’s chronometer.
However, Hudson says they arrive in 3979, placing the show between the first two films…
if it actually happened. The cartoon is a continuity nightmare, given the apes’ advanced
technology level and other factors, and is thus often ignored by fans.
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◆ The Venturer, an interstellar NASA spacecraft launched in 1976, splashes down in a lake near New York
that resembles Deming, New Mexico, propelled forward in time by a spatial distortion. Aboard are three
astronauts: Cmdr. Bill Hudson, Jeff Allen and Judy Franklin.
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NOTE: Hudson’s rank is found in the novelization. Jeff Allen’s name has been mistakenly
listed as Jeff Carter in some online sources. The anomaly the Venturer encounters is
likely the Hasslein Curve. Franklin, in episode 7, says their home is 3,000 years in the
past, but 1976 is only two millennia prior.
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learned to speak, and to request his army be dispatched to seek out and destroy all humans on the planet. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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◆ The gorillas react in outrage at this suggestion, their behavior shocking many in attendance, including a GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
venerable old orangutan council member named Zao. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ The Venturer crew takes a lifeboat to shore. With two days’ rations in their survival packs, they head out SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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saying to deliver it to her sister Lily if she doesn’t survive. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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◆ A sudden rockslide, the result of Underdweller illusion, nearly kills the astronauts, followed by spontaneous
fire that burns their survival packs. An earthquake swallows Franklin. Seeking higher ground, Hudson
and Allen see a mountain with ape faces carved into it—a monument known locally as Mount Apemore.
Trudging on, the men befriend a band of primitive humans. Among them is Nova, who wears dog-tags
around her neck from another NASA astronaut, Ronald Brent. Trumpets sound in the distance, and the
primitives hide them as a convoy of ape-filled vehicles arrives. Urko and his aide-de-camp, Capt. Mulla,
lead the charge as Tummo, Sgt. Rak and others use gas grenades to force the humans out of their caves.
Allen and Nova get away by falling through a hole, but Hudson and the others are captured in wagons and
taken to Ape City. There, Zaius tells Urko to let Cornelius and Zira have the six finest as lab specimens.
Without his patronage, Zira fears, simian science would soon die of disinterest.
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NOTE: Nova is drawn wearing two dog-tags; the first belongs to Ronald Brent, so the
other could conceivably be Taylor’s. Mulla, Tummo and Rak are named in the episode’s
novelization. Another novelization, Return to the Planet of the Apes #3: Man, the Hunted
Animal, identifies the monument as Mount Apemore.
◆ Cheerful ape children play a game of “Humanoids and Apes,” amusing (or annoying) onlookers. Outside
the Ape Senate Building, Sgt. Brutar regrets not being chosen to join Urko’s hunt, while Pvt. Mungwort
is content to remain behind. Brutar is disgusted, convinced he’ll never make a soldier out of the pacifist
Mungwort. Old Zao expresses distaste for the proceedings. Zaius agrees, but says the gorillas must be
allowed to relieve their aggression. Warga, a gorilla soldier, requests the council fire cannons to honor the
event, but Zao refuses. As Urko enters the scene, five chimp journalists—Zirko, Mikki, Ziora, Munko and
Drik—prepare to record the big event.
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◆ The Council debates what to do about the talking human. Zao urges them not to act hastily, and Zaius
dreads the consequences of eliminating Urko’s cannon fodder. Zuka, another councilor, questions whether
Urko really needs the humans for his war games. Zaius suggests Urko may be close to rebelling, but others
cite his loyalty to the Simian Nation. Removing the human work force could damage society, Zao argues.
Ultimately, Zaius deems the risk worth taking if it protects society from talking humans.
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◆ A gorilla squad led by a soldier named Armic searches for Hudson, who sneaks past them across a cable. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
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◆ Hudson runs for cover, hiding in the shadows as search lights and alarms flood the city. Urko promises TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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◆ Zaius imposes a curfew on Ape City, ordering all non-essential personnel indoors. Zira wonders if they did
the right thing in helping Hudson.
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◆ Urko orders all forces to join the search for the astronaut, so Capt. Trimbo reassigns guards watching the
caged humans, enabling Allen and Hudson to sneak into the jail without complications.
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NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Hudson and Allen load all of the human prisoners onto a stolen truck, destroy all of the wagon cages and
drive off in the night. Zaius is furious, blaming Urko for such ineptitude.
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◆ Urko demotes Trimbo for letting the humans escape. Back at the cages, Hudson covers his face and arms
with a primitive’s furs to disguise himself as a gorilla driver.
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NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization.
◆ Apes spot the stolen truck on the Boropark Mountain road. The astronauts push it onto the pass, barring
their way. Worried about the primitives’ safety, they decide to retrieve a laser drill from the Venturer and
carve a defense perimeter out of nearby boulders. Unable to reach them, Urko vows to find the tribe.
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◆ Urko leads a convoy into the Forbidden Zone to destroy the Underdwellers’ cavern. His underlings fear his
wrath, Nutark enduring the heat without comment, and Mulla following his orders word for word.
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NOTE: This information appears in the episode’s novelization, which calls this tale “A
Date With Judy,” based on an early-draft episode script. Many Web sites and other
resources have, thus, incorrectly identified “A Date With Judy” as the title of a “lost”
14th episode, when no such episode exists.
◆ Hudson and Allen search a 50-mile radius around the caves, finding no habitable areas. Mountains thrust
from the ground, separating Urko and Hudson. A door in the sand opens near the astronauts, and they
climb down. Grabbing a moving ladder, they enter a complex of caverns filled with energy-generating
machinery—the Below World, home to the Underdwellers. A tunnel leads to the ruins of New York City,
and they realize they’re still on Earth. They follow two robed humans into a large computer room. The
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Underdwellers enter a cavern chanting “Oosa!” and Franklin is with them, similarly clad. The mutant
leader, Krador, stuns them with eye beams, saying their ancestors took refuge underground when war
ravaged the planet. Prophecy foretells that Franklin (“Oosa”) will help them retake Earth from the apes. She
enters, but appears to be in a trance.
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◆ Urko splits his team into three groups, led by Urko, Capt. Ramja and Major Sark. Franklin returns to
her friends, saying she lied to fool Krador. Damaging a reflector dish, she disables the mutants’ illusion
generators, disabling power across the complex and freeing the astronauts—and revealing to Urko an
entrance into the Below World. His defenses weakened, Krador uses the Chair of Power to repair the
machinery and hide the entrance. The astronauts head back to the surface on a train car. Underdwellers
try to stop them, but to no avail. Franklin grows weaker as Krador regains control of her mind, however,
and as they reach the tunnel’s end, she vanishes. Hudson and Allen climb back to the surface without her,
wondering if they can get through to Nova’s people to ask their help.
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NOTE: Ramja and Sark are named in the novelization.
◆ Allen and Hudson spot a group of apes preparing to attack the Underdwellers, and Hudson kills a soldier
in self-defense. Allen suggests abandoning Nova’s people, but Hudson points out that as a Black man
sensitive to racial inequality, Allen isn’t the type to dismiss people for being different. Urko, meanwhile, PUBLISHER / STUDIO
learns of his soldier’s death and orders Capt. Mulla to find the humans responsible. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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◆ Allen suggests moving the human colony to a safe place where they can fortify themselves. They decide to CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
ask Cornelius and Zira for help. Hiding in a truck (whose driver is listening to a country song, “I’m Going CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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when a patrol boat passes and hide when troops approach the dock. The apes notice the boat, however, and FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
mount a search party. The astronauts hide in a sewer, where a giant mutated spider captures them in its web. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
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◆ En route to the lab, the astronauts pass a movie theater showing the film Zantar of the Humanoids. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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paddle to safety on a river log. The current gets stronger, however, washing them over a waterfall. The k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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◆ News spreads fast after a gorilla returns from the Forbidden Zone claiming to have seen a spaceship and
sentient humans. The soldier is hospitalized, babbling about astronauts. The dawn edition of the Ape City
Tabloid reports, “Intelligent Humanoids Invade Planet of the Apes.”
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◆ Julius, the reporter, sees the Tabloid and regrets sitting on the news. A radio broadcast reports an unidentified
flying object over the Forbidden Zone might have carried intelligent humans. The radio journalist compares
the rumors to something out of the television series Spokka the Space-Ape.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ In the Simian Senate, an orangutan senator urges others to arm themselves, and to protect their families in
case the rumor of sentient humans is true. Urko’s solution: to destroy all humans first. The Lawgiver ends
the debate, meeting with the Supreme Council to decide what to do.
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◆ Julius broadcasts an editorial questioning the wisdom of ushering in a new age of democracy, reporting
that the Simian Nation is in an uproar over rumors of sentient humans from outer space. All are poised in
anticipation of the answer to one question: Will this mean all-out war?
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Dick Hadley, of the Ape Broadcasting System (ABS), reports that observers foresee “dark days ahead.”
A mob of protestors bears out this prediction. Urko urges Zaius to act fast, so the council sends both apes
to the Great Lagoon to investigate, authorizing full media coverage. Zira and Cornelius warn Hudson and
Allen about the expedition, and they rush to the lagoon to blow up the ship before the apes can find it.
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◆ As the expedition traverses the Forbidden Zone, Mungwort bemoans his lot in life, always picked on and
chosen for dangerous tasks. Pvt. Pooka, one of his only friends, sees something in the distance.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ In the Forbidden Zone, the astronauts and Nova encounter Underdweller illusions of fire and earthquakes,
intended to keep them away. The same obstacles terrify the apes, who make camp for the night. A fire-
emitting ape skull fills the sky, but vanishes when Zaius stands up to it. The apes survive a rockfall and
additional flames, but ignore the illusions. Hudson and Allen leave Nova on the beach and row to the
Venturer. Hudson swims to the entrance hatch and pries it open. Grabbing an oxygen mask, he retrieves
the laser, then heads underwater again to destroy the capsule. As he swims back, a buh-hoy-ya (a giant
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mutated serpent) tries to eat him. Allen saves him, shooting the beast with the laser, then the duo erase their
footprints and run for cover. The capsule explodes before the ape convoy hits the beach. Seeing the serpent
but no ship, Zaius decides the soldier was in error and orders a retreat.
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◆ Back in Ape City, Zaius holds a press conference to dispel the rumors of spaceships and talking humans.
Later, the Ape City Bugle’s headline reads, “Planet of the Apes Safe!”
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◆ Col. Boora sends a detachment of ape troops to investigate uncharted mountains at the extreme northern
edge of Wambo province. Led by Capt. Jemmo, the soldiers don cold-weather gear and scout for humans.
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◆ Cornelius digs up an ancient book titled A Day at the Zoo. Written by humans, with photos of caged
apes and free humans, it proves man could once read and write. Urko demands to examine his lab for
incriminating artifacts, but he and Zira refuse to let the gorilla in unless so ordered by the council. Cornelius
suggests they destroy the book so Urko won’t find it, but Zira knows it’s too valuable. Cornelius has also PUBLISHER / STUDIO
found plans for a flying balloon. Ecstatic, he asks Hudson and Allen for help in building it. Cornelius and AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
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causing the statue to come alive and destroy them. Hudson gratefully asks the Worthy One to guard the UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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◆ When a lava river threatens the Below World, Krador projects a vision of Franklin to her friends, urging
them to save the Underdwellers. Wary of tricks, they hide their laser and descend. Cornelius and Zira
debate with Urko whether future funding should go to science or the military. Since Hudson has eluded the
gorillas for months, Zaius suggests he might vote in Urko’s favor were he to capture the man. The chimps
question the wisdom of arming his enemy, but Zaius is more concerned with the danger Hudson represents
to apekind. Krador tells the astronauts a volcano thought dormant has come to life; if the lava reaches their
power supply, it will set up a chain reaction, destroying the planet. Their price for assistance is Franklin’s
freedom. Krador protests, but she promises to return.
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◆ Mungwort’s woes continue as Brutar mocks his chimp accent. The pacifist watches his patrol—Dubark,
Trommo and Kork gambling in secret; Corp. Morgo checking out a jeep engine; Theka and Pvt. Tritor
trading jokes; Sturbo snoozing in the sun—and is reminded once more that he doesn’t fit in.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ The astronauts ascend to the surface, but Mungwort finds the laser before they can retrieve it.
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NOTE: The novelization identifies Mungwort as the ape who finds the laser.
◆ Unfamiliar with the laser, Mungwort nearly kills his squad before Brutar can grab the gun. Brutar delivers
it to Red Leader One, Urko’s temporary Forbidden Zone command post.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ The general meets with his officers to discuss the laser. Major Surga suggests a human might have built it.
Col. Trafuna accuses him of heresy, but Urko realizes Surga is correct.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ As the meeting ends, Urko inadvertently knocks an energy cell loose from the laser. Hudson, meanwhile,
decides to create a diversion so he and Allen can retrieve the weapon.
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◆ Sgt. Kukar assigns two soldiers, Wallo and Girk, to guard the pass so no humans can enter the Forbidden
Zone. The guards discuss recent films they’ve seen, including Doctor Hydo and Mister Jekkill.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ The blast kills several apes, including Girk. Urko, thinking Wontor fired the laser, tells Capt. Wimja to
arrest the radio operator. He orders Mulla to form a column of soldiers to catch Hudson, then tells Trafuna
to prepare to attack the caves. Allen, however, shoots both Wontor and Trafuna.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ The astronauts revisit the Below World and blast the side of a cavern, causing the lava to bypass the
Underdwellers’ power source. The laser’s power drains, but howitzers finish the job when Urko orders
the mountain fired upon. The resultant eruption kills many apes, destroying their vehicles and equipment.
The Underdwellers free Franklin, promising their assistance if ever she requires it. The Senate holds Urko
responsible for firing at an active volcano, agreeing to replace the lost equipment but granting future funding
to science instead of the military.
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◆ Urko and Mulla return to their hidden Strategic Defense HQ stronghold in the Mulkalla Mountains, where PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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cell. After resting in the Forbidden Zone, they set out on a three-day journey back to the caves. CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
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◆ Crossing the Forbidden Zone, Allen and Hudson see Urko’s army making camp. Larko’s fighter plane GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
zooms past, firing a net at human-shaped ground targets. Realizing the danger this poses to humanity, they HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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vow to destroy or steal it. Urko announces the plane’s existence, demanding Zaius give him control of the MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
government, and invites all leaders and scientists to a demonstration at his Strategic Defense Headquarters. MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
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contain the fire, the duo enter a hangar and discover Urko’s fleet. Before they can act, however, a vehicle TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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and a juvenile orangutan named Plato, who roam Ape City solving crimes. Apewitness News begins, and e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
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◆ Senator Demetrius and Old Zao suspect Urko of planning something evil. However, Franklin replaces
Larko in the pilot seat, then buzzes the audience before flying off with the craft. Larko escapes his bonds
and rushes to warn Urko. Humiliated, the general vows to start over—but without the original airplane,
Lykos says, they cannot build more. Stealing a truck, the astronauts load the fearful humans aboard and
drive them to safety.
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NOTE: Demetrius is named in the novelization.
◆ Urko orders several soldiers—Ranko, Zuira, Mulla, Surga, Tuka, Gurto and Kogora—to take action.
Knowing his temper, they scramble to follow his command.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Urko pursues the truck down Mulkalla Pass, but Franklin stops him with a net. Zaius orders an evaluation
of Urko’s competence. In the Forbidden Zone, meanwhile, the astronauts hide the stolen plane in a cave.
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NOTE: Mulkalla Pass is named in the novelization.
◆ Cornelius gives the astronauts a map of New Valley so Nova’s people can be safe. The men teach the
primitives to cut down trees and build four great rafts. Thinking Cornelius and Zira stole the plane, Zaius
thanks them for saving civilization. Urko mounts a reconnaissance mission to the caves, while the rafts
carry Nova’s people downriver to their new home. Some become ill, but Hudson says they must keep
traveling. As night falls, bats swarm the rafts. Leaving the jungle, they come to a high cliff and begin
climbing. Urko vows to restore confidence in the military, promising a thousand pieces of simian silver to
anyone who exposes the airplane thief.
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◆ Urko’s troops prepare to ravage the caves and kill the humans, but the tribe is gone when they arrive.
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NOTE: This is revealed in the novelization.
◆ Seeing the cut trees, Urko orders his officers to send for rivercraft. The soldiers are reticent, for ape law
demands they get permission from the council. The humans brave sandstorms and other hardships, then
hide behind a mesa. In the morning, they find the remains of a crashed vehicle. Atop a hill stands Col.
Ronald Brent, who offers to escort them to New Valley, 25 miles south of the crash-site. Allen suggests
they take his ship’s self-destruct device. Hudson tells Brent about the apes, whom he never encountered
in the two decades since his crash. Arriving at New Valley, the men use the laser to cut building blocks
out of boulders, to create a settlement of stone pueblos. Back in Ape City, the council questions Urko’s
ability to command. Zaius grants permission to find the elusive humans, warning him not to attack without
a council mandate.
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◆ Lt. Samic informs Urko that scouts have picked up the humans’ trail through the Southern Desert, an
unexplored sector surrounding Dead Ape’s Canyon. As the army converges on that spot, the humans take
refuge in the adobe dwellings, pulling up ladders to deter invaders. The apes launch gas grenades, which
bounce back to the convoy. Unable to reach the tribe, Urko returns to Ape City for proper weapons. With
no defense against ape artillery, the astronauts use the self-destruct mechanism to destroy the land bridge.
Their next move: to retrieve the airplane.
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NOTE: Samic and Dead Ape’s Canyon are named in the novelization.
◆ As Nova’s people domesticate a herd of horned cattle, a snake bird (a giant mutated flying creature) attacks.
The panicked animals stampede and get stuck in a cave, so Allen uses the laser to cut a hole in the wall
and feed them. Nova nearly dies in the stampede, but Brent pulls her to safety. Unable to reach the cattle,
the snake-bird tries to eat the astronauts. In Ape City, the council votes to replace Urko if he fails. Franklin
retrieves the plane in order to survey the pass, but Urko sees it flying overhead and dispatches his officers.
She arrives at New Valley to find the panicked tribe under attack from the snake-bird. Clipping its wing, she PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ The astronauts fix the plane, then steal fuel from an ape aviation plant. Nova falls ill, and Brent diagnoses her BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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finding a cure, hiding as two elderly apes solicit donations for the Gorilla Veterans’ Relief Fund. Cornelius CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
recognizes the disease as inflamatus pneumococcal, and creates a serum. The stolen truck overheats, forcing DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
the astronauts to stop for water. Avoiding ape soldiers, they refuel the plane so Judy can rush the drug to ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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Allen eventually return as well. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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authorize an invasion of mutant territory. They steal valuable artwork from several museums, and a First PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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Edition of the Collected Works of William Apespeare. Zira, Cornelius and the astronauts contact Krador, TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
who denies involvement. Urko brings false witnesses before the council—Mrs. Thorto von Bruen, who UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
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the wall, revealing the stolen objects and robes. Hypnotizing an ape to confess the crime, Krador projects e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
Hudson’s face to Cornelius’ mirror so he can expose Urko, then transports the astronauts to the tunnel so f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
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◆ With help from Nova’s people, the Venturer crew formulate a plan to destroy the apes’ ammunition dumps
and airplane fuel tanks.
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NOTE: This and the following two episodes were planned but neither scripted nor
produced; a brief synopsis of each appears in Planet of the Apes Revisited, courtesy of
director Doug Wildey. No further details are available.
◆ A major battle ensues between the ape army and the fugitive humans and their allies.
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◆ The battle concludes when New Valley’s humans blow up the ammo dumps and fuel tanks, crippling the
technology level of ape society and enabling the humans to build a community in the Forbidden Zone.
Eventually, the leaders of both species agree to a truce.
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◆ In the battle’s aftermath, the apes abandon the city in favor of a simpler life. Disgraced, Urko is removed
from power and replaced by Gen. Ursus. Peace between humans and apes, however, quickly crumbles.
Conjecture
NOTE: I offer this feeble attempt to explain the lack of technology in the second film,
and to show the transition from Urko to Ursus. It doesn’t really work…but what does? In
truth, the only workable solution is to say the cartoons never happened.
◆ Assuming command, Ursus—frustrated at Ape City's enclosure by the eastern sea and the desert on all other
sides, and by humanity's infestation—decides to expand ape territory and exterminate the beasts.
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◆ Rumors of speaking humans spread as Ape City grows awash in political undercurrents, despite Zaius’
attempts to quash the ripples. Ursus believes the astronauts must hail from a tribe living beyond the
Forbidden Zone. Powerful and charismatic, he is beyond even Zaius’ control as he campaigns the council
to let him build a massive army and wage all-out war on humanity.
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◆ Ursus sends 12 scouts to the Forbidden Zone. Eleven vanish, but a twelfth returns with tales of fire and
earthquakes. The missing scouts are captured and interrogated by mutant humans living in the ruins of New
York City, ruled by Mendez XXVI. The mutants try to control the gorillas’ primitive minds but cannot hold
the illusions for long. Urko petitions to invade the Forbidden Zone, and Zaius joins him.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ An ANSA shuttle crashes in the Forbidden Zone. Ship’s medic John Christopher Brent survives, but his
colleague, Donovan “Skipper” Maddox, is fatally wounded. Nova approaches on horseback, wearing
Taylor’s dogtag. She brings Brent to Ape City, where Ursus pushes for war at a Citizens’ Council meeting.
Zira refuses to applaud until Cornelius forces her, fearful of alienating the general. Zaius and Ursus debate
the invasion during a steam bath at Zeeka’s Simian Sauna. A gorilla shoots Brent in the arm, and Nova takes
him to see Zira. Amazed to meet another talking human, she hides him when Zaius visits. Seeing Brent’s
bloody cloth, Zira pretends Cornelius hit her for showing disrespect. Zaius warns her against defying Ursus,
asking them to put aside their convictions and guard science in his absence. Brent and Nova leave town, but
a gorilla shoots their horse and cages them with other humans. Ursus claims them for target practice, but
Zira unlocks the wagon door, enabling them to escape out on the road.
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NOTE: Brent’s full name and medic status come from Marvel’s adaptation. Marvel’s
timeline places Beneath in 3976, while the script sets it in 3975. An onscreen chronometer
indicates 3955, as does Dayton Ward’s timeline, published in The Planet of the Apes
Chronicles. The Ape News bears a date of March 1, 3955, whereas a timeline in the PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ Brent explores the subway station. Following a high-pitched hum, he and Nova travel a tunnel that deposits
them outside the ruined New York Public Library. Passing the New York Stock Exchange and Radio City
Music Hall, they reach St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Brent feels a strong compulsion to drown Nova in a fountain,
forced upon him by the mutants. Fighting the urge, he enters the church to find a verger praying to an
atomic missile—the Alpha-Omega Bomb. Guards bring him to a meeting hall near Grand Central Station’s
Lexington Ave. station, passing children singing “Ring Around the Neutron.” The Keepers of the Divine
Bomb—Albina, Caspay, Ongaro, Adiposo and their leader, Mendez XXVI—torture Brent telepathically,
accusing him of spying for the apes. Finally, the mutant Inquisitors force him to violate Nova until he breaks
down and tells them everything he knows of the apes’ plans.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Caspay and Albina are named in the film’s novelization. Ongaro and Adiposo
are identified as “Negro” and “Fat Man” in the credits, but their names appear in The
Mutant News, a promotional newspaper distributed during the film’s release. Planet of
the Apes Revisited misspells Ongaro’s name as “Ono Goro.” An early film treatment,
also titled Planet of the Apes Revisited, identifies Caspay as a dwarf and gives him the
title of minister of external affairs. The Mutant News dubs Mendez “Mendez the Divine
and Invincible,” and switches Albina’s and Caspay’s names in its photo captions. The
“Ring Around the Neutron” scene was filmed but cut from the final version of the film.
◆ As the mutants prepare for an imminent ape attack, General of Defense Ygli VII trains citizens in the use of
such mental deterrents as brain torture and mind dissuasion. These defenses are expected to stop the apes at
the boundaries of the Forbidden Zone.
The Mutant News (HM-p)
◆ A cryotube, hidden within the Statue of Liberty since 1991, activates. Janus, a clone of Cornelius
created by a scientist of that era, emerges from the cryotube and sets out to activate a 20th-century device
designed to prevent Earth’s destruction. To that end, he places several nodes in a rough circle around the
detonation site which, when activated, will form an energy field that will shunt the Alpha-Omega Bomb’s
energies into space.
Redemption of the Planet of the Apes (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black creator and author of Adventure’s The
Forbidden Zone, proposed this four-issue miniseries to creative director Tom K. Mason
as well. However, Cunningham says, the idea was rejected for being too similar to the
Planet of the Apes film remake then being considered, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
◆ The mutants scare the army with illusions, but Zaius sees through them. Mendez calls a Public Thought
Protection, sending all children indoors and all adults to the cathedral. Singing "Psalm of Mendez II," the
mutants remove their masks, revealing their diseased flesh. Caspay and Ongaro take Brent to a cell. Unable
to release him since he knows too much, Ongaro mentally forces him to fight Taylor to the death. Nova sees
them and cries out Taylor's name, distracting the mutant long enough for the men to kill him. Brent tells
Taylor about the missile, which the latter recognizes as the Alpha-Omega Bomb.
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◆ Brent and Taylor hide as an ape soldier, Xerxes, peers into the cell. Moments later, an ape kills Nova,
devastating Taylor. Gorilla soldiers then decimate the Corridor of Busts, a hallways of stone statues
honoring the 26 leaders of the House of Mendez.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Xerxes is named in Marvel's comic adaptation. The Corridor of Busts is named in
the script and novelization.
◆ Albina commits suicide, injesting a phial of poison. Zaius finds her corpse, disgusted when a gorilla guard
bestially gropes her exposed human breast.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (BN-n)
NOTE: This scene occurs in the novelization.
◆ Ape soldiers burst through the cathedral doors as Mendez arms the missile. Ursus' troops kill Mendez and
pull the bomb down with ropes. The astronauts try to stop them, but Ursus shoots Taylor. Brent kills Ursus,
then is himself slain. Shot down from a balcony, Taylor begs Zaius for help, then falls on the detonator
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
when the orangutan rebuffs him, activating the bomb in one last defiant act.
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ The device activated by Cornelius’ clone, Janus, shunts the bomb’s destructive energies away from the BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
planet, enabling it to survive the missile's detonation. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Redemption of the Planet of the Apes (AC-c, unpublished) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
◆ Shockwaves of tremendous energy cascade across the planet and out into space, striking the orbiting Liberty ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
1. From inside the shuttle, Milo, Zira and Cornelius witness a white, blinding light followed by a tornado- FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
like effect as the planet’s rim appears to melt. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f) HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
NOTE: According to writer Lowell Cunningham, the melting-rim effect seen by the MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
apeonauts would actually have been the effects of Janus’ device, rather than the planet’s NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
destruction, which would have been averted. This would enable the ship to be sent back to PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
the past and also make the chimps think the Earth had been destroyed, thereby preserving SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
the original timeline while also saving the planet. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ The detonation causes a fold in the fabric of space-time, creating what will, in 1973, be known as a “Hasslein MEDIUM
Curve” (named for Dr. Otto Hasslein). The fold is not technically a curve, however, so much as a recursive a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
anomaly, folding back infinitely upon itself, from the future into the past and back again. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Hasslein’s Notes” (MR-c) d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
NOTE: Although the Hasslein Curve connects the years 1973 and 3978, its entry points f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
are apparently not restricted to those years, as witnessed by the losses of the Venturer in k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
1976, Probe Six in 1980 and other time-lost spaceships. It’s possible, though unstated, m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
that Janus’ device may have also played a part in creating the anomaly. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
3978 - 3979
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
◆ Due to this recursive anomaly, the Liberty 1 and its simian occupants are thrown back in time to April 1973, s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
resulting in a cycle of events that will culminate in the birth of the Planet of the Apes. t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
◆ Thus, Liberty 1’s return flight home causes its original journey into the future—a classic paradox. y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #3: “Hasslein’s Notes” (MR-c)
◆ The explosion, however, does render humans extinct in the area once known as Texas. Mutated by radiation,
a race of sentient tigers arises in that region and begins hunting apes as prey. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Sky Gods #2 (AC-c, unpublished) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
NOTE: Roland Mann, author of Adventure Comics’ Blood of the Apes, proposed this AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
four-issue miniseries (alternately titled Second Coming) to creative director Tom K. BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
Mason as well. Although Mason greenlit the proposal, it was ultimately scrapped before BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
going to contract, when Malibu opted to scale back its Planet of the Apes offerings. No BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
artist was assigned. It’s unclear if Earth’s humans became extinct in other parts of the CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
world as well. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
c. 4000 GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
◆ In Hitek, an ape city on Ashlar where humans and apes live together as equals, a deadly plague causes its HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
victims’ bodies to disintegrate. Unable to stop the disease, the citizens bury the dead in mass graves and MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
the survivors abandon the city. In time, Hitek becomes a myth among Ashlar’s ape population, as well as NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
among local human tribes who sing children’s songs about “spirits in the blood.” PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 11 (HE-y) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
NOTE: Most events beyond this point are from Tim Burton’s “re-imagined” Planet of
the Apes film and its spinoff fiction. The name Ashlar appears in William Broyles’ initial MEDIUM
script for the Burton remake. Dating for these tales is based on Dark Horse’s comic a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
adaptation of the film, which sets it in the year 5021. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
◆ Written history on Ashlar officially begins. All knowledge of the 2,000 years since Semos’ arrival, including d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
Hitek’s origins, is lost to time. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y) k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
After 3979
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
c. 4620s
◆ Climate changes force the apes of Ashlar to abandon an early settlement and head east.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 3 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ This movement becomes known as the Eastward Migration. After heading east, the apes construct new
buildings, with all records of previous civilizations lost over time.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
c. 4620s to 4720s
◆ No progress in ape society is recorded for approximately 100 years.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
4924
◆ Zaius, a direct descendant of Semos, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Zaius’ age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Charlton Heston’s
age (77) when the film (set in 5021) was produced. This Zaius is a separate individual
from the various characters by that name on Earth.
4956
◆ Karubi, a human from the Tek tribe known as the Valley Clan, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Karubi’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Kris
Kristofferson’s age (65) when the film (set in 5021) was produced.
Mid 4900s
◆ Zaius’ father reveals a secret known only to his family: that humans were once the apes’ masters, and that
the cause of their power—and downfall—was their reliance on guns and technology.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: This date is an approximation, assuming Zaius was a young man at the time.
After 3979
EARLy 4960s
◆ A human male named Luc—who will one day be known as Mad Luc—is born to the Valley Clan.
Planet of the Apes #1: Resistance, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
NOTE: Luc is said to be in his late 40s in 5010.
4961
◆ Sandar, a chimpanzee and future senator, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Sandar’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor David Warner’s
PUBLISHER / STUDIO
age (60) when the film (set in 5021) was produced. AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
LATE 4960s oR EARLy 4970s BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
◆ Bon, future human servant to the house of Senator Sandar, is born. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
NOTE: Since Bon’s age is unknown, and since the age of actress Freda Foh Shen is ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
unknown, I have estimated a range based on Shen’s appearance when the film (set in FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
5021) was produced. GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
4970 MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
◆ Krull, a silverback gorilla and future military officer, is born. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
NOTE: Since Krull’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Cary-Hiroyuki UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Tagawa’s age (51) when the film (set in 5021) was produced.
MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
4972 b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
◆ Tival, future human servant to the house of Senator Sandar, is born. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
NOTE: Since Tival’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Erick Avari’s age m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
(49) when the film (set in 5021) was produced. n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
After 3979
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
c. 4970s
◆ Sandar and Nado form a close friendship. The two future senators spend much of their youth climbing
through the rain forests of Ape City.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: This placement is an approximation, based on the characters’ estimated ages.
4976
◆ Thade, a chimpanzee and future military leader, is born.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance (HE-y)
NOTE: On an enclosed trading card, Thade is said to be 34 in 5010, giving him a birth
year of 4976 and making him 45 during the Planet of the Apes remake, set in 5021 (actor
Tim Roth was 40 at the time).
Late 4900s
◆ Sarai meets Karubi, and they eventually become mates. Sarai’s father is named leader of the Valley Clan,
and she succeeds him in the role. Many humans consider her line smarter than the apes.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 5 (HE-y)
NOTE: It’s unclear when this occurs, but it must be before Daena’s birth in 4997.
4987
◆ Limbo, an orangutan and future human slaver, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Limbo’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Paul Giamatti’s
age (34) when the film (set in 5021) was produced.
4988
◆ Gunnar, a human from the Tek tribe known as the Valley Clan, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Since Gunnar’s age is unknown, I have based this figure on actor Evan Dexter
Parke’s age (33) when the film (set in 5021) was produced.
4994
◆ Ari, daughter of chimpanzee Senator Sandar, is born.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force (HE-y)
NOTE: On an enclosed trading card, Ari is said to be 15 in 5009, giving her a birth year
of 4994 and making her 27 during the Planet of the Apes remake, set in 5021 (actress
Helena Bonhan Carter was 35 at the time).
◆ Sandar’s wife (name unknown) is an independent thinker—a trait Ari inherits. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 7 (HE-y) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
c. 4990s BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
◆ Leeta, a chimpanzee and future friend of Ari, is born. CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
Planet of the Apes #1: Force (HE-y) DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
NOTE: Since the ages of Leeta and actress Eileen Weisinger are unknown, I have ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
estimated her to be Ari’s contemporary. Leeta is identified as a bonobo in the film’s
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
spinoff novels, though she appears to be the same chimpanzee species as Ari onscreen. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
◆ The beautiful Leeta is the daughter of Senator Sandar’s aide. MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 3 (HE-y, unpublished) NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
BETWEEn 4994 AnD 5009 TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ Ari shows kindness to human slaves, offering strays food and shelter. Her parents indulge her, earning a
MEDIUM
reputation as human sympathizers. The young chimp frequently sneaks outside the city walls where none a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
can find her, but as Sandar rises in politics, he urges her not to endanger their lives with her antics. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Planet of the Apes (FX-f) d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
◆ After Sandar’s wife dies young, the senator raises Ari on his own. f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 3 (HE-y) m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
After 3979
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ In school, Ari is taught that apes are at the top of the food chain, followed by monkeys and so on, down to
unintelligent species. Humans are considered a mistake, slightly smarter than dogs and unable to reason,
though they can be taught to speak and perform simple tricks. Ari disagrees with such teachings.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 11 (HE-y)
◆ Young Attar grows up in the Temple of Semos’ orphan wing. Though he questions the priests’ teachings,
and though some let power go to their heads, he does not see religion as entirely evil.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
NOTE: Given that the Planet of the Apes comic strip serialized in Dark Horse Extra
issues #36-38 indicates his father to still be alive, it’s unknown why Attar would be raised
in an orphanage.
◆ The head of the orphanage is the city’s spiritual pontifex, a chimpanzee named Timon.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
◆ Timon sees in Attar the potential to be a great priest, though the gorilla believes Timon uses the orphans
as slaves, forcing them to wait on him under the guise of discipline. When Attar leaves to join the military,
Timon accuses him of turning away from Semos, predicting he’ll amount to nothing outside the temple.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 6 (HE-y)
◆ One night, Ari uses her father’s influence to sneak into the orphan ward. Attar attacks her, thinking her a
burglar, but from their brief fight springs a strong friendship.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
◆ Thade becomes the only chimpanzee to attain a position as a top commander in the Ape City army; the rest
are all silverback gorillas.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
◆ Sandar exposes corruption among Derkein’s fruit traders, including an orangutan named Limbo, who steals
fruit from local shopkeepers, sells it, then uses the money to buy his own booths and sell other fruit cheaply
enough to put his competitors out of business. Falling on hard times, Limbo begins trading human slaves.
He runs against Sandar for public office and insults the other’s good name, but later supports Sandar’s
election to suit his own purposes. An enmity between the two continues for years.
After 3979
c. 5000
◆ A time-lost colony spaceship—launched in the 20th century to preserve humanity following the apeonauts’
warning of Earth’s destruction—exits the Hasslein Curve and crashes on what the crew believes to be a
distant planet, but is actually Earth, in one-time New Orleans. A few survivors escape the wreckage before
it explodes. The colonists bury their dead and inventory their equipment. One survivor, Nick, surveys the
land and sees two creatures in the distance, astride horses. He and another man investigate while the rest
prepare a permanent settlement, which they call Plymouth. Arrows fly past as a bipedal figure runs between
them. One rider on horseback chases the figure, the other confronting the newcomers—who are stunned to
see that he is a tiger, clad in American Indian-style garb.
Sky Gods #1 (AC-c, unpublished)
NOTE: Roland Mann, author of Adventure’s Blood of the Apes, proposed this
four-issue miniseries (alternately titled Second Coming) to creative director Tom
K. Mason as well. Although Mason greenlit the proposal, it was scrapped before
going to contract, when Malibu opted to scale back its Planet of the Apes titles. The PUBLISHER / STUDIO
AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
story is undated, but Mann says he conceived it as occurring a thousand years after AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, or approximately the year 5000. His notes reveal he’d AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
contemplated having the tigers run on all four legs rather than ride horses, and that BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
he’d considered making them of extraterrestrial origin, though he opted to keep them BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Earth-born and mutated by radiation. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
◆ The men dive for cover as the tiger pulls back a bow to kill them. Unable to find them, the rider resumes DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
the hunt, and Nick watches as the tigers ride off with a man-like figure slung over a horse. Stopping to rest, ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
the men discover an ape with an arrow in his stomach, who begs for help, then passes out. Stunned to see FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
a talking ape—as their ship left Earth to avoid that very thing—Nick brings him back to the human camp. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
There, tending to the ape’s wounds, the colonists debate what to do next, and what planet they’re on. The HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
ape, Teryl, tells them they’re on Earth. Detailing the war one millennium earlier, he says he’d assumed MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
mankind extinct until seeing Nick. Nick and the other man offer to help him return to his people, but a tiger NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
jumps them en route to the ape village. PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
Sky Gods #2 (AC-c, unpublished) TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
◆ The tiger tears Nick’s companion apart, slashing Nick’s chest. Apes surround them, ripping the tiger to
pieces. Teryl tells them not to disturb the dead human, then quickly leads Nick away as the apes’ enter a MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
blood frenzy, consuming the tiger. They enter the apes’ treetop camp, where Teryl’s people are amazed b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
to see a living human. Nick and Teryl return to the human colony to find it destroyed by tigers, though no c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
one was killed since a guard was on watch. Teryl tells them to move downstream, away from the tigers, d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
then returns with Nick to the ape tribe, hoping to ally their groups. A tiger shoots at them from below, f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
following on horseback as Teryl swings from vine to vine, Nick holding onto him. Changing direction, k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
Teryl catches the tiger off-guard and attacks, then Nick kills the creature with its own bow. Recovering m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
from their wounds, the two decide to launch a surprise attack on the tigers. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
Sky Gods #3 (AC-c, unpublished) r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
After 3979
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
5006
◆ Birn, a male Tek in the Valley Clan, is born.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: The film’s script cites Birn as being 15 in 5021, matching actor Luke Eberl’s age
when the movie was produced, for a birth year of 5006. But in the novel Resistance, set
in 5010, he seems older than 4. Rule, an unpublished sequel to Resistance, rectifies the
discrepancy by describing Birn as “a little boy.”
BEFORE 5009
◆ Snaks, the son of a gibbon weapons maker named Mel and his wife, shows no interest in his father’s line of
work, preferring instead to arrange flowers.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 7 (HE-y, unpublished)
5009
◆ Reading the Sacred Scrolls during her final year of school, Ari notices gaps in recorded ape history and
informs Sandar. Knowing his daughter’s reputation as a genius, Sandar looks into the matter further.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 3 (HE-y)
NOTE: This book is said to occur 12 years prior to the Tim Burton film, thus setting
it in 5009.
◆ Attar attends a science class at Ape City’s war academy, taught by Professor Nestor, a baboon instructor.
Nestor urges him to apply himself, saying battles are won in the brain before the field. Attar receives a
visit from his friend Ari, who has come to research history in the library for her father. A cadet named
Gaddi harasses her for visiting during classes, but Attar protects her. She says her father’s friend, General
Krull, has called Attar the finest cadet in the academy, and that he’ll soon see military action. This fills
the young gorilla with pride.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 1 (HE-y)
◆ Attar and Ari hang from a chandelier to eavesdrop on a meeting between Sandar, Krull, Thade and Timon.
Sandar asks to mount an expedition to Hitek to discover why 2,000 years’ worth of ape history following
Semos’ arrival has been lost. Thade calls the mission dangerous, saying he’s about to launch a campaign to
exterminate humanity. As a compromise, they put the invasion on hold until after the Hitek quest.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
After 3979
◆ Rather than court-martial Attar, Krull assigns him as sanitation officer to Third Company, saying he’ll make
a fine officer if he lives down the humiliation. Attar reports in to a baboon supply officer, who refers him
to a chimp baggage handler—or, rather, Ari posing as the baggage handler so she can join the expedition.
Torn between duty and friendship, Attar chooses not to expose her.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 4 (HE-y)
◆ When the land of the Valley Clan grows short on food, clan leader Sarai, her husband Karubi and their
12-year-old daughter Daena cross the mountain to forage in the jungle. There, they meet a group of Wildings
hunting apes. Because Sarai’s ancestors were Wildings, they allow her people to look for food, but warn
them to stay out of their way. In the distance, a war cry marks the arrival of an ape army.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 5 (HE-y)
◆ Sarai hopes to join her clan with other human tribes in the area. Although humans outnumber apes five to
one, the simians’ tree-climbing skills and superior weaponry make them impossible to defeat. Ultimately,
she hopes to make peace with the apes, but Karubi and Daena do not share her optimism.
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misfortune as he digs latrines. The Wildings attack, clubbing the priest unconscious. Attar protects Ari until BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
the soldiers scare off the savage humans. Impressed with Attar’s fighting skills, Krull gives him a sword and BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ Krull informs Sandar of his daughter’s presence. Furious, Sandar suggests she be sent home, but Krull says FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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◆ In Hitek, Ari and Attar sense someone watching them. Timon is dismayed to see the Temple of Semos in NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
tatters, the remains of beds and rotten food untouched after a thousand years. As scribes rush to copy a PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
damaged holy book, Maga and Kestos pick a fight with Attar, angry that he was rewarded despite missing SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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rope, and Maga is treated for a head wound. Timon dismisses their find, as it violates the tenet that ape shall c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
never kill ape. When a sentry reports a sighting of the human tribe, Krull cancels the expedition, and with d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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◆ The Wildings kill Maga and leave him for others to find. In burying him, Kestos becomes covered in his p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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◆ Karubi hands Ari the holy book’s remains. Ari is stunned to see an image of humans and apes living as
equals. Sarai says she wants her daughter to grow up in a safer world, and that Ari will help make that
happen. En route back to the ape camp, they find the body of an infected soldier. Others attack, chasing
Sarai despite Ari’s protests. The warriors then carry the infected soldier back to Ape City.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 12 (HE-y)
◆ Ari tells Sandar about the plague, but Thade and Timon reject the story since it violates gospel. When the
injured ape dies in agony, Sandar sends Attar to offer the tribe blankets in exchange for medication. Timon
decides to thwart their efforts and make sure no ape ever learns about Hitek. Thade agrees, adding the
infected soldier’s blanket to the pile so the humans will die of the plague.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 13 (HE-y)
◆ The Hitek expedition is quarantined in Sandar’s house until the crisis has passed, but still the disease
spreads among the citizens of Derkein.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 16 (HE-y)
◆ Ari notices a cut on Attar’s arm, caused by Timon while blessing his mission. The gorilla departs to find
Sarai’s tribe, but Ari overhears Thade and Timon plotting and realizes Attar is in danger. The two leaders
are unconcerned, for death in defense of apekind is a noble way to die.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 14 (HE-y)
◆ On horseback, Ari travels for hours before finding Sarai. She vows to help make peace if the humans help
her find Attar. Karubi locates him lying weak in the woods. Sarai says they must climb a nearby mountain to
the Cave of Paintings, the only place they can find the moss used to make meeda. Despite his illness, Attar
decides to join them.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 15 (HE-y)
◆ Sandar asks Thade to help retrieve his daughter. Thade sends a soldier named Ronin to track her, secretly
ordering him to kill Ari to prevent apekind from learning the truth. Meanwhile, the Wildings’ scarred leader
attacks Attar, who is too weak to fight back. Sarai and Ari step in, frightening the savages into the woods.
With Attar unable to travel, Sarai stays with him and tells Ari how to reach the cave.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 16 (HE-y)
◆ Delusional and feverish, Attar sees visions of Timon, Krull, Thade and Semos expressing disappointment
at his failures. Out in the woods, Ronin slays the scarred human, then prepares to kill Ari as well.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 17 (HE-y)
NOTE: Semos is said to be a gorilla in this book, when he was, in fact, a chimpanzee. This
discrepancy can be explained by the disease affecting Attar’s mental faculties.
◆ Attar dreams of Semos saying he created the plague in order to make apes stronger, and to bring humans and
apes together—a goal he says Attar will one day help fulfill. Two demons attack Semos, and he somehow
finds the strength to defeat them. As his delirium fades, he realizes he has just saved Sarai from two apes.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 18 (HE-y)
After 3979
◆ Ronin chases Ari through the woods. She ambushes him and breaks his neck, but injures her knee in the
process, making it difficult to walk.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 18 (HE-y)
◆ Ari follows Sarai’s directions to the Cave of Paintings. Ignoring her fear of enclosed spaces, she crawls
through a tiny opening and deep into the mountain, where she finds a vast chamber filled with cave paintings
detailing centuries of ape and human history. Overwhelmed, she collects the healing moss.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 19 (HE-y)
◆ Sarai shows Ari how to brew meeda. The apes awaken, and Sarai threatens to dump the medicine if they try
to arrest her. When they relent, she administers the cure.
Planet of the Apes #1: Force, Chapter 20 (HE-y)
◆ Despite a quarantine, the plague spreads in Derkein until Ari returns with the moss and cures the sick. Krull
allows Attar to finish his Academy training. Attar submits a report describing his dreams, which Timon
and Thade dismiss as human trickery. Thade compliments his performance, telling Attar to see him after
graduation, then burns both the report and the remains of the holy book.
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◆ Several Wildings join the Valley Clan, looking to Sarai for leadership. Among them are a man named CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
Vasich and his son Pak. Vasich urges her to move their group further from ape civilization, but she refuses, CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
determined to make peace with the simians. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
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third book in the series—is a reference to USAF Oberon officer Karl Vasich. HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
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◆ Thade and Timon decide to build a new Temple of Semos, and to teach human slaves to read and write TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
so they can follow blueprints and construct the temple for them. To that end, they hire an orangutan slave UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
trader named Limbo to capture and tame wild humans for the project. Attar, meanwhile, attains the rank of MEDIUM
lieutenant. Over the next year, he and Ari rarely speak, as he spends most of his time trying to become the a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
best soldier he can be. b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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◆ Ari’s aunts, who live on the other side of the jungle from Ape City, visit Sandar and Ari—the first time Ari p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
has seen them since the death of their sister (her mother). r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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◆ Ganji, a baboon professor, teaches Luc to read so he can lead other humans in building the temple.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 14 (HE-y)
◆ The human children try to sneak out of the area without the apes noticing, but the sound of a snapping twig
alerts them. The apes give chase, and Birn is captured. Thrusting a tree branch into an ape’s face, Daena
saves the young boy, and the trio escape into the forest.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 2 (HE-y)
◆ Daena’s group returns to camp to tell Sarai and Karubi what happened. Relieved that they’re safe, Sarai
chastises them for wandering off alone. Blaming the incident on their clan’s proximity to the apes, Vasich
accuses Sarai of poor leadership and challenges her position as clan ruler.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 3 (HE-y)
◆ Sarai and Vasich undergo three tests. Vasich chooses tests of strength, relying on sheer musculature to beat
her, but she outsmarts him on two trials and retains leadership. Humiliated, Vasich accepts her rule but
warns the clan that Sarai will lead them to their deaths.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 4 (HE-y)
◆ The apes abduct an increasing number of humans, including Tarik, son of Suni. Several elders, such as
Mellie and Ark, urge Sarai to relocate the tribe. Defending her mother’s decision, Daena claims apes aren’t
as dangerous as most think, so Pak and Birn dare her to touch Ape City’s walls. Though she succeeds, a
column of soldiers exits the city gates, heading in the direction of the boys’ hiding spot.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 5 (HE-y)
◆ Daena distracts the apes by calling out insults, giving Birn and Pak time to head for the forest. Pak is
scooped up by the hunters, but Birn makes it to safety among the trees.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 6 (HE-y)
◆ Captured by apes, Daena is caged with other humans. A woman named Mai recognizes her tribe and says
many of her people have been captured. Sarai, she asserts, keeps her tribe too close to Ape City.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 7 (HE-y)
◆ Sarai announces plans to head into the mountains and find a permanent home for the Valley Clan. Birn runs
into the camp, revealing what happened to Pak and Daena. The news devastates Vasich, who blames Sarai
for his son’s capture. Sarai decides to visit Ape City and seek help from Ari.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 8 (HE-y)
◆ With Sarai gone, Karubi rules in her name, facing frequent opposition from Vasich.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Epilogue (HE-y)
After 3979
◆ Ari tries to eavesdrop on their meeting again, but Attar stops her. He says a new temple is being built, and
that human enslavement is rising. Curious, Ari visits Limbo, who shows off his operations, hoping to get in
her father’s good graces. In a room filled with filthy humans, she notices Sarai in one of the pens.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 10 (HE-y)
◆ Ari watches as humans are sorted into carts—Teks in one vehicle, Wildings in another—and follows them
to the new temple’s construction site. Slaves lift rock slabs into place, managed by an ape overseer armed
with a whip. When one human fails to complete a task, he is crushed between two slabs, frightening the rest
into working faster.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 11 (HE-y)
◆ Timon tells the Tek slaves on Sarai’s cart that Semos has singled them out for education because they utilize
more of their brains than most humans. To reinforce the penalty for failure, guards bring forth eight humans
to be executed—and Daena is among them.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 12 (HE-y) PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ Sarai pleads for Daena’s life. Timon agrees to spare the girl if Sarai does the work of four. She tries to AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
negotiate for the others’ lives, but he has them executed to spite her. Daena and Sarai are penned in separate AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
work crews, then the apes begin teaching them to read and write so they can follow blueprints. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
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◆ Sarai befriends a woman named Pica. Ganji tells Luc to teach the humans to read and write, threatening to DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
kill them if he fails. After the baboon leaves, Pica and others accuse Luc of aiding the apes, but Sarai says ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Luc is following her orders to learn all he can so she can build a safe, new home for humankind. Mollified, FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
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◆ For three days, Luc educates the Teks in the metric system, pulleys, architecture and reading. Sarai learns NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
all she can, then is paired with Luc, Daena and Pak to build the temple. Timon and Thade inspect the PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
project. Attar is with them, but spurns Sarai’s attempts at familiarity, saying Semos saved his life, not her. SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
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Luc forms an escape plan. d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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set in place, they will form a tunnel invisible to those outside the structure. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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◆ As the entombed humans panic in pitch blackness, Sarai calms them by having them call out their names.
The stone behind her moves, and Luc, still alive, crawls into the space and ignites a torch.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 18 (HE-y)
◆ Luc explains how he survived, then shows them the tunnel he created. The humans crawl through to the
temple’s interior, surprising Attar. The gorilla lifts Sarai by the neck, but when she questions whether
Semos would condone burying humans alive in his temple, he lets them go.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 19 (HE-y)
◆ Sarai guides her people outside. Ari shows them the underground water pipes she sometimes uses to
sneak out of the city at night. Leading her people to safety, Sarai realizes she must move her clan far
from Ape City.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Chapter 20 (HE-y)
◆ Returning to the Valley Clan, Sarai stops Vasich and Karubi from fighting. Many slaves, both Tek and
Wilding, remain with her tribe, and those who return home inform their people that humanity will soon
build its own city.
Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance, Epilogue (HE-y)
5010 to 5011
◆ Sarai’s people begin building the city in a fertile mountain valley. They name it New Hope.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 1 (HE-y, unpublished)
NOTE: Rule was contracted and written by J.E. Bright, but never released due to low
sales on the first two books. The following details come from the unpublished manuscript
(the cover proof of which incorrectly lists John Whitman as the author). This book is said
to occur a year after the temple escape. New Hope is also the name of the first city built
by the Oberon crew (in the novel The Fall) 3,000 years prior; Sarai is likely unaware of
this connection to her tribe’s origins.
◆ A woman named Yatai becomes pregnant. Several boys are stricken with red fever. And an insect infestation
damages some of the clan’s fruit supplies.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 2 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ During this period, Attar avoids Ari. Though he regrets hurting her, he feels guilty over helping the
humans escape, and vows to spend his life dedicated to the glory of Semos. Still, he watches Ari from afar,
ready to protect her.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 4 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Several tribes merge with the Valley Clan, forming the biggest, most stable human settlement in living
memory—nearly 400 members. Pica’s tribal leader is killed by apes, and her people pledge their loyalty to
Sarai as well. Sarai assigns a council of advisors: Ark, in charge of information gathering; Vasich, security
head; Pica, clan healer; Luc, lead architect; Toni, head of agriculture; the blacksmith Dornal, managing
craftspeople; Karubi, peacekeeping; and Daena, construction head.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 2 (HE-y, unpublished)
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◆ Sarai convenes her council of advisors. Rosulo, leader of a human tribe decimated by the apes, allies with
the clan, offering to teach them to weave cloth. Sarai announces plans to return to Ape City to seek peace.
Daena offers to join her, jealous when Sarai takes Brona instead.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 2 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Ari meets her friend Leeta for dinner. Leeta ignores the fawning of several cadets, preferring powerful
males like Attar. A human boy saves a baby ape from being crushed, but is punished for attacking the child.
Ari defends the boy, enraging onlookers. Sandar and Krull arrive with Timon and Thade, who chide her for
siding with a human.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 3 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Attar heads for the Temple of Semos, avoiding Thade and Timon. The pontifax sees him, however, and tells
him to spy on Ari, then orders the human boy’s execution. Attar disagrees but says nothing. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
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◆ Sarai and Brona travel for a week before reaching Derkein. Traversing the sewer, they sneak under the city BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
wall, ascend to the surface and locate Ari at a public celebration. Ari leads them to her home to speak in BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
private, but despite Ari’s willingness to help, she still harbors false precepts about humanity. BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
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◆ Ari hides the humans in her sunroom, and Brona gratefully makes her a sculpture. A servant named El runs ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
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away after being scolded, and Sarai advises her to handle the situation with respect. This elicits a better GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
response from El, and Ari realizes this is how ape masters should always treat their humans. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
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◆ Attar conceives a design for an improved catapult, which a gibbon named Mel helps him create. Thade and NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Timon chastise him for neglecting his duties and remind him of the danger Ari’s attitudes represent. Despite PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
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his dislike for Timon, he agrees that she must be stopped. TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
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simians as superior, despite her claims of tolerance—grating. When Ari comments that humans could never b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
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purposes. The chimp is stunned at the sight of the human city. Attar, having followed her, returns to Derkein n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
to report the city’s existence—and Ari’s involvement—to his superiors. p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
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Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 9 (HE-y, unpublished)
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◆ Karlo erects a great hall while Luc oversees the building of a gatehouse for a 25-foot wall with arrow u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
slits and other protective measures. Sarai and Brona return home, where a feast is held to celebrate New v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
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Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 10 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Learning of New Hope’s existence, Thade vows to crush the city, but Krull is worried about potential
military losses. Attar tells them about his catapult, suggesting they might use it to level the wall.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 12 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Leeta warns Ari that soldiers have come to arrest her. Ari submits to the guards, who drag her through the
streets amidst taunts of “human lover.” Locked in a prison dungeon, Ari lies helpless as Timon and Thade
plan an assault.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 13 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Sarai congratulates Pak for building the Spire of Hope, then unveils Brona’s statue to wild applause. To
Daena’s astonishment, the statue depicts her. She is their future, Sarai says, urging her to keep human-ape
relations moving forward when Daena becomes ruler. Despite her doubts, Daena promises.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 14 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Guided by Mel and Attar, a carpentry team builds three catapults. Meanwhile, as Thade drills his soldiers,
Timon blesses the army, promising Semos will welcome into paradise those slain in battle.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 15 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Leeta seduces a guard named Laran to help Ari escape her cell, then rides out with her friend to warn the
New Hope humans of the impending attack.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 16 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Gatehouse sentries bar Ari and Leeta from entering New Hope. A human boy named Colcol summons
Sarai, and Ari tells her Thade’s plan. Ari offers to fight alongside them, but Sarai says to attend to her own
troubles so she can continue acting as a messenger of peace.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 17 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ The attack begins at dawn, and many apes die trying to pierce the fortified city. Viewing the bloodbath,
Attar and Timon realize the humans must have known they were coming. Attar’s first war leaves him
disillusioned, unable to see the valor and heroism he’d expected. With resources exhausted, Thade orders
the catapults fired.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 18 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Daena drops rocks on the apes below, then helps Luc dump boiling oil on the troops. Two chimps make it
to the ramparts, but Daena dispatches them. Suddenly, entire sections of the wall crumble, blasted by the
catapults. As debris rains down on her, Daena and others run for cover.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 19 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Ape soldiers storm New Hope, and Sarai’s guards lead her to safety. Watching her city burn, Sarai calls a
retreat. Thade corners her and Brona, however, recognizing Sarai from the temple. He orders the Great Hall
set aflame, killing many humans hidden within, then executes both Brona and Sarai.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 20 (HE-y, unpublished)
After 3979
◆ Thade congratulates Attar, promising to reward him when they return to Derkein. Even Timon now shows
him respect. Basking in their praise, Attar leads a band of soldiers in leveling Brona’s sculpture.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 22 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ The 20 survivors of the Valley Clan travel for days before resting, with Pica tending to the wounded. Karubi
decides his people must now live like Wildings, for their survival outweighs the need for revenge. Daena,
however, vows one day to make her mother’s dream of freedom a reality.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Chapter 23 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ At Ari’s trial, Thade suggests that Sarai must have brainwashed her, and Ari denounces the human to
save her own life. The council stays her execution, sentencing her to a year’s solitary confinement in her
home. Locked in her room, Ari finds Brona’s statue and holds out hope that their two species can one day
live in peace.
Planet of the Apes #3: Rule, Epilogue (HE-y, unpublished)
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◆ Ethan views paintings of large beetle-like creatures. Spotting a small opening, they notice another tunnel up
ahead. A moment later, water pours into the cave as the apes try to drown them.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 6 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Daena and Ethan urge their people into the new tunnel. Large luminescent worms burrow through the
mountain, creating additional caves. Suddenly, a giant beetle moves toward them.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 7 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ When Attar fails to locate the tribe, Thade sends a squad in to find them. This angers Krull, but Thade
ignores his objection, knowing other apes will sympathize with humanity if he doesn’t end the problem.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 8 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ The beetle spots a glow worm and sucks out its insides. A pleasant smell accompanies the bug, and Daena
and others are hypnotically drawn to it. One woman stands passively as the beetle consumes her lifeforce.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 9 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Karubi pulls his people away from the beetle, and they make camp in another cave. The light of their fire
attracts more bugs, however, so Ethan stamps out the fire, plunging the tribe into darkness.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 10 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Daena falls into a lower tunnel and gets lost in deep catacombs, surrounded by glow worms feasting on a
dead beetle. She lays down to cry and falls asleep, awakening when something moves above her.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 11 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Attar’s squad encounters a giant beetle. More olfactorily attuned than humans, they succumb to its hypnotic
scent. Attar grabs his soldiers and runs, but loses them in the darkness.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 12 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Attar finds Daena and lights a fire, attracting a beetle. With the hypnotized Attar her only way out, she kills
the bug with his sword, attracting several glow worms, whose light draws more beetles. Daena and Attar
are overwhelmed by the intoxicating smell as pincers pierce her sides.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 13 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Karubi’s people save Daena and slay the beetle. She says not to kill Attar, and a deal is struck: If they
protect him from the beetles and help locate his soldiers, he’ll lead them to the exit and set them free.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 14 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ This arrangement, Karubi asserts, proves humans and apes can live together, but Attar and Daena both
disagree. Eventually, they find Attar’s soldiers in the beetles’ nest.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 15 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ All but three soldiers have been consumed. The humans cover their faces with cloth and pull the survivors
to safety.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 16 (HE-y, unpublished)
After 3979
◆ The apes grow passive before the beetle, and Thade accuses them of weakness. Attar insists the scent is
impossible to resist, so Thade walks up to the creature, waits for it to attack and slaps its mandibles, causing
it to retreat in fear.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 18 (HE-y, unpublished)
◆ Thade orders the caves destroyed, eliminating the last remnant of human civilization. Daena weeps, but
Karubi reassures her they must retain hope for the future.
Planet of the Apes #4: Extinction, Chapter 19 (HE-y, unpublished)
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◆ The human claims that his daughter was attempting to save her brother, who’d been taken captive by the
apes. Impressed at her boldness—and disgusted at having to save his brother
yet again—Attar frees the woman. Humiliated, Tolan grabs a spear and kills
the man as he runs for the trees. Furious, Attar turns his back on his brother,
asking if Tolan would venture into enemy ground to save his life, as the
humans had done for their kin.
Dark Horse Extra #38: “Planet of the Apes, Part 3” (DH-c)
◆ Thade makes repeated romantic overtures to Ari, but she rebuffs him due to his attitude toward humans.
Infatuated with her—and her father’s Senate influence—he vows to win her affections. After being
repeatedly jilted, however, he stops visiting Sandar’s home for a time. Ari’s friend Leeta thinks Ari’s
response a mistake, for Thade is a powerful ape who can provide her a privileged life.
Planet of the Apes (HE-n)
NOTE: This information appears in the film’s novelization.
◆ Frustrated by Ari’s rejection, Thade consoles himself by taking a half-gorilla, half-chimp courtesan as his
lover. Unable to marry her because of her lower class, he keeps their relationship a secret, even when she
bears his child. The courtesan devotes herself to him fully, receiving only empty promises in return.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c)
◆ Visiting Oracle’s cell, Thade taunts her over the loss of her son. The blind psychic says his plan to destroy
humanity is doomed, for the sky will be torn asunder and Semos shall return. The general dismisses the
prophecy, knowing his fiercest soldier, Attar, leads his army. Oracle accuses him of corrupting the once-
noble gorilla, predicting Ari and others will ultimately turn against him and fight for inter-species equality.
Angered by such riddles, he mocks her prophecies, convinced he is destined to achieve greatness.
Planet of the Apes Collector’s Comic (DH-c)
NOTE: This mini-comic was given out free at Toys’R’Us stores to publicize the film’s
theatrical release.
◆ The apes build cities encroaching on the humans’ lands, and mankind has no choice but to raid the apes’
orchards. Humans infest the provinces, breeding so quickly they soon outnumber the apes four to one.
Some politicians propose sterilization, but the cost is too prohibitive, creating a welfare state that nearly
bankrupts the government. Thade wants to dispose of them entirely, but with the Senate limiting his power
and human-rights factions keeping a close eye on his activities, he finds it difficult to act. Still, his soldiers
are able to kill the humans in large numbers with impunity, for though the Senators consider such actions
extreme, they fear opposing Thade more.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
◆ Future senator Seneca breaks ape tradition as a child by learning to swim despite his species’ aversion to
water. His mother, therefore, nicknames the young chimp her “little sea monkey.”
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #2: “Part 2” (DH-c)
After 3979
LATE 5021
◆ Senator Nado vacations at his country house in the rain forest, enjoying the break from politics and spending
much of his time sleeping. The elderly orangutan’s latest wife—a high-maintenance young chimp named
Nova—finds the trip boring and wishes they could go out instead.
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December 1, 5021
◆ Thade claims humans have kidnapped Ari, manipulating Sandar into declaring martial law. Zaius calls
Thade to his death-bed, sharing their family secret that apes once served man. Before dying, he reveals
an ancient human laser gun and urges his son to stop the humans from finding Calima. Davidson’s team
reaches a scarecrow-guarded path, blocked by an ape encampment. Attar assumes command of the camp,
appalled at the lack of discipline. After dark, Davidson’s group steal horses and set the apes’ tents afire. Ari
and Davidson are knocked from their horses, but he carries her across a lake to join the others. Outraged
that the soldiers tried to kill him, Limbo changes loyalties.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
December 2, 5021
◆ Davidson’s group reaches Calima—the millennia-old wreckage of the Oberon, so named for a corroded
sign reading “Caution: Live Animals.” The ship is decimated, but its nuclear power source functions.
Davidson finds database footage of an elderly Karl Vasich from millennia prior, issuing a mayday when
the station crashed, then accesses a video of Grace Alexander regarding Semos’ betrayal of mankind.
Stunned, Ari realizes her people owe their existence to Davidson. Outside, hundreds of humans await, for
word has spread that his friends are coming to save them. That night, Krull and Ari visit the ape camp. Ari
offers herself to Thade in exchange for the humans’ freedom, but he brands her like a human and casts her
out to die with them.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
December 3, 5021
◆ Davidson hides the tribe behind Oberon, intending to use its fuel tank as a weapon. Daena, Krull and
Gunnar take the front line to lure in Thade’s army. Birn tries to join them but falls off his horse. Saving his
life, Davidson ignites the engine. The blast kills most apes, the tribe slaying the rest, but Gunnar and Tival
die in battle. Ari saves Daena’s life; upon seeing her brand, Daena apologizes for misjudging her. Attar kills
Krull in hand-to-hand combat, then all fighting stops as Alpha Pod lands. Seeing Pericles, the apes think
Semos has returned. Thade attacks Davidson, their fight taking them inside the station, where the general
injures Pericles and steals a laser pistol. Ari and Attar enter as Davidson locks Thade in a compartment.
Calling the Semos line traitors, Attar turns his back on his friend. Thade throws a fit of rage, laser shots
ricocheting around the room. Attar organizes a mass burial for all fallen apes and humans, leaving the
graves unmarked as a sign of unity. Limbo, meanwhile, launches a new career trading with humanity. Ari
asks Davidson to stay with them, but he declines. Bidding farewell, he heads for space, leaving Pericles in
Ari’s care, then locates the ion storm and attempts to return home.
After 3979
◆ Thade is publicly disgraced. Wary of his growing ambition, the Senate strips him of his rank and power, and
he eventually vanishes without a trace. Attar, meanwhile, begins questioning his faith.
Planet of the Apes #7 and beyond (DH-c, unpublished—titles unknown)
NOTE: Writers Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett offer this glimpse at their plans had Dark
Horse’s comic based on the Tim Burton film continued past issue #6.
◆ Ari is arrested for treason. In exchange for Attar’s surrender, she is freed and goes into hiding as well.
Planet of the Apes #1: “Old Gods, Part 1” (DH-c)
◆ Given Attar’s past association with Thade and his newfound radical beliefs, the Senate permanently exiles
him from Ape City, sending him to live as a prisoner on Shame Island.
Planet of the Apes #7 and beyond (DH-c, unpublished—titles unknown)
◆ There, Attar’s prison guards—his former soldiers—treat him as badly as they would other criminals. PUBLISHER / STUDIO
Planet of the Apes #1: “Old Gods, Part 1” (DH-c) AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
◆ Security on Shame Island is lax, and Attar knows he can escape at any time. But as an ape of honor, he BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
accepts his punishment, knowing his sacrifice will save the lives of his friends. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
Planet of the Apes #2: “Old Gods, Part 2” (DH-c) CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
◆ Attar’s fall casts doubt on his family’s honor, including his grandson, Cmdr. Kharim. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #2: “Part 2” (DH-c) FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
NOTE: Presumably, Attar’s brother Tolan and their father are dishonored as well, GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
though this is never stated. HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
◆ Thade is officially pronounced dead. His half-chimp, half-gorilla courtesan keeps his belongings as MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
mementos, unaware of their true significance for decades to come. NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c) SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
5021 To 5041
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◆ Unmarried and without children, the cold-hearted Shiva has but one purpose in life: to succeed, and to make f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
sure everyone else fails. k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
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◆ Ashlar faces two decades of civil war between the Insurrectionists—ape rebels advocating human integration, r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
led by ex-senator Seneca and Esau, a bloodthirsty human—and the powerful ape regime, led by Kharim. s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
Having faced violence and oppression his entire life, Esau is willing to die for freedom. Seneca comes from t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
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a privileged family, but believes society must change or face mutual extinction. Seneca’s brother Fyn serves v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
as a double-agent for the Insurrectionists, using his position as Shiva’s personal assistant to monitor her
After 3979
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Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c)
BEFORE 5041
◆ Keyser, a skilled ape warrior, is cast out for professing a belief in tolerance for both apes and humans.
Hiding behind armor and a mask, Keyser continues to fight for equality between the species.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Bloodlines, Part 3” (DH-c)
◆ In the enclave of Ultimar, a band of ape warriors mistreats their human slaves until the latter revolt and
the streets run slick with blood. Slaves no more, they flee into the woods and call themselves the Forest
Humans, living as nomads to avoid detection. The Ultimar vow to kill every human they meet, so the Forest
Humans begin killing the apes. Keyser protects the Forest Humans, and is so fast that few ever see him
coming, earning him a reputation as the Ghost in the Trees. The apes fear him, while the Forest Humans
revere him as their guardian demon.
Planet of the Apes #4: “Bloodlines, Part 1” (DH-c)
5041
◆ Kharim lures the rebels to a fortress at Mikdoul so his cavalry can slaughter them. Facing Insurrectionist
fire, his soldiers retreat. Esau revels in victory, but Seneca is appalled at the high body count.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c)
NOTE: Issue #2 of Dark Horse’s monthly title establishes 20 years’ passage since Attar’s
imprisonment in 5021.
◆ Trooper Bouel, a gorilla soldier, survives Esau’s massacre. Witnessesing Fyn living among the rebels on
good terms, the soldier returns to Derkein and tells Shiva what he’s seen.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #2: “Part 2” (DH-c)
NOTE: Trooper Bouel is named for Planet of the Apes creator Pierre Boulle, author of
The Monkey Planet.
◆ Minister Rodi informs the Senate that the Insurrectionists are plundering their caravans, trade and commerce
are floundering, food and grain prices are skyrocketing, and the rebels are well-armed. Shiva urges the
Senate to exterminate all rebels, human and ape alike. Others agree, but the chairman prefers negotiation
to genocide. Furious, Shiva vows to take over the government once the elderly ape dies. She shows Fyn a
secret box belonging to her grandmother, Thade’s courtesan, containing detailed drawings of the Oberon.
Convinced these are the keys to changing the world, she assigns Fyn to an expedition to Calima.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #1: “Part 1” (DH-c)
◆ The expedition visits munitions works at Ap’Jac. The rebels attack and surround them in a clearing.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #2: “Part 2” (DH-c)
NOTE: Ap’Jac is named for APJAC Productions, which produced all five classic Planet
of the Apes films.
After 3979
◆ Fyn tells them of Shiva’s plans and half-caste status, then returns to Derkein claiming he was captured but
escaped. Seneca swims to Shame Island, where Attar reveals the truth about Semos, their origins and Leo
Davidson. Shiva visits Fyn at a Derkein hospital, dismissing his kidnapping story and letting Trooper Bouel
torture him. Meanwhile, Seneca returns to the rebels, adamant that they must journey to Calima and reclaim
their heritage.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #2: “Part 2” (DH-c)
◆ Seneca leads his forces to the Forbidden Zone, to find Fyn’s corpse stuffed in a scarecrow. Kharim’s troops
ambush the rebels, killing many, then head on to Calima. Seneca hears a trooper mock Fyn and slaughters
every soldier. Aboard Oberon, Shiva tries to operate the reactor controls, but Esau and Seneca expose her
half-caste status and family secret. Kharim betrays her, unwilling to watch her destroy others in her thirst
for power. Shiva disengages the safety protocols, filling the station with light. Kharim kills her, then helps
Seneca avoid a meltdown. He keeps the station a secret, blaming Shiva’s death on the rebels, but refuses
Seneca’s hand of friendship, vowing one day to see the senator hang as a traitor.
Planet of the Apes—The Human War #3: “Part 3” (DH-c)
◆ When Kharim repeatedly catches the rebels off guard, they suspect an infiltrator. During one ambush,
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his forces capture Esau and Seneca. Attar’s Shame Island guards, meanwhile, arrive three days late with AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ABC-TV
food, which contains a note from Ari, asking for help. Building a raft, he dispatches his guards and rows to AC . . . Adventure / Malibu Comics
Derkein. Rodi orders the rebels’ execution, but the masked executioner turns out to be Attar, who cuts their AW . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Award Books
BB . . . . . . . . . . . Ballantine Books
bindings, helping them escape. BN . . . . . . . . . . . . Bantam Books
Planet of the Apes #1: “Old Gods, Part 1” (DH-c) BW. . . . . . . Brown Watson Books
CB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CBS-TV
NOTE: This three-part story was originally published untitled; the title comes from the CV . . . . . . .Chad Valley Sliderama
trade paperback collection. DH . . . . . . . . . Dark Horse Comics
ET . . . . . . . . . Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa.
◆ Ape and human skulls line the road as the trio ride toward a township where humans happily serve ape FX . . . . . . . . . . 20th Century Fox
GK . . . Gold Key / Western Comics
masters. Few males between ages 15 and 50 are in evidence. Attar’s group pretend to be farmers, and the HE . . HarperEntertainment Books
prelate orangutan, Paracelcus, tells them his son was slain when ape killers decimated his town. Esau meets HM. . .Harry K. McWilliams Assoc.
Crow, a woman whose family has been indentured to Paracelcus’ for generations. Attar, deciding to help MC. . . . . . . . . . . . Marvel Comics
MR. . . Mr. Comics / Metallic Rose
them, gives Esau a list of materials to obtain. That night, apes scale the walls with claw-like devices, slaying NB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NBC-TV
Paracelcus. Attar unleashes gunpowder grenades packed with nails, forcing the killers to retreat. Surveying PR . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Records
the dead, Attar recognizes their foe as the Chimerae, a mythical band of deformed, deranged warriors, SB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Signet Books
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topps
whom he calls “the best of us, and the worst.” UB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ubisoft
Planet of the Apes #2: “Old Gods, Part 2” (DH-c)
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◆ Attar’s group mount a preemptive strike on the Chimerae as Crow gets her people to safety. Arrows rain b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
down as they reach the warriors’ First City, and though injured, Attar breaks his spear in truce. In response, c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
Warlord Saghat agrees to hear their request. Attar asks him to leave the villagers in peace, but Saghat claims d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
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the town cleared his land and trees. Attar kills the warlord and demands the Chimerae swear fealty to him, f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
but they attack en masse. Explosions rock the battle site as Crow fires explosive-tipped arrows, and the four k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
seek refuge in the jungle. m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
Planet of the Apes #3: “Old Gods, Part 3” (DH-c) p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
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◆ As snow falls, Esau's team seeks shelter from the Ultimar, a staunch band of human-haters.
After 3979
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Planet of the Apes #5: “Bloodlines, Part 2” (DH-c) y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
◆ The Forest Humans tie Attar and Seneca to posts in the snow. Tribal law, dictating that human shall never
kill human, spares Crow and Esau. One human, Ewan, says he has no choice but to kill apes since they
insist on hunting his kind. Crow points out that Keyser is an ape, but another human, Urlin, deems him a
guardian demon sent to protect them. Ewan urges his tribesmen to execute the newcomers, while Urlin
reminds his people that both species once lived together, until humans paid the price. The Ultimar attack
before the execution can be carried out, and Keyser frees Seneca and Attar, knowing his people will need
all the warriors they can get.
Planet of the Apes #5: “Bloodlines, Part 2” (DH-c)
◆ As Urlin leads the women and children to safety, the others face the Ultimar in a bloody battle. Touched at
the sight of apes fighting alongside humans, Ewan dies by Scarak’s hand. Esau charges the Ultimar leader,
but Scarak knocks him to the ground and attacks Keyser. His sword severs the latter’s blade, slashing
through his armor and flesh, and he nearly kills Attar as well before Crow slays him with an arrow. The
Ultimar flee for the hills, leaving Keyser mortally wounded. After burying the proud ape warrior, Attar’s
team continue on their quest.
Planet of the Apes #6: “Bloodlines, Part 3” (DH-c)
NOTE: Since Dark Horse’s Apes comic was canceled as of this issue, the fates of Esau,
Seneca, Attar, Crow, Ari and Kharim were never revealed in print. That said…
◆ Determined to restore his family honor, Kharim pursues the fugitives as they search for Ari. Attar’s
companions travel the planet, encountering other ape civilizations and discovering more about the origin
of Semos. As news of Calima spreads among the populace, the regime grows ever more paranoid about the
insurgency and turns to a martial leader—the disgraced Thade—to set things right. Seneca’s group elicits
help from Limbo and Daena, eventually finding Ari on a remote island in a community of human-friendly
apes and the technologically advanced descendants of the Oberon crew. Kharim’s forces siege the island,
forcing Seneca and several others to escape in the station’s remaining pods. This propels them through
space-time, depositing them on Caesar’s Earth.
Planet of the Apes #7 and beyond (DH-c, unpublished—titles unknown)
NOTE: Writers Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett offer this glimpse at their plans for Dark
Horse’s Tim Burton-era comic series had the series continued past issue #6. When Dark
Horse pulled the plug following the film’s critical failure, the writers conceived a way of
bridging this film with the classic five, hoping to relaunch the license in that reality. Such
plans, however, were not approved.
◆ Thade launches in a pod as well, and the spatial anomaly propels him into Earth’s past. There, the
general becomes an honored military icon among Earth’s apes, supplanting the memory (and memorial)
of Abraham Lincoln.
Planet of the Apes (FX-f)
NOTE: Thade’s trip to Earth is not explicitly stated, but can be inferred given the film’s
surprise ending, along with Dark Horse’s unrealized plans, outlined above. The details
of his launch are unrecorded.
After 3979
MEDIUM
a . . . . . . . . . . . . animated series
b . . . . . . . . .book-and-record set
c . . . . . . . . . . comic book or strip
d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trading card
e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e-comic
f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theatrical film
k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . storybook
m . . . . . . . . . . . . magazine article
n . . . . . . . . . novel or novelization
p . . . . . . promotional newspaper
r. . . . . . . . . recorded audio fiction
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . short story
t. . . . . . . . . . . . . television series
u . . . . . . .unfilmed script or story
v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .video game
After 3979
x . . . . . . . . . . . Blu-Ray exclusive
y . . . . . . . . . . . young adult novel
Classic Era
❑ The Monkey Planet (Pierre Boulle’s source novel)
–Plus adaptations: Hungarian comic book, BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Audio
❑ Beneath the Planet of the Apes (3979—dialog mistakenly sets film in 3955)
–Plus adaptations: Novelization, Gold Key Comics, Marvel Comics #7-11, Power Records
❑ “Terror on the Planet of the Apes”—Planet of the Apes #1-4, 6, 8, 11, 13-14, 19-20,
23 and 26-28 (2070, Marvel)
❑ “The Monkey Planet, Parts 1-4”—Planet of the Apes #1-4 (2140, Adventure)
❑ “Loss”—Planet of the Apes #5 (2140, Adventure)
❑ Ape City #1-4 (2140, Adventure)
❑ “Welcome to Ape City”—Planet of the Apes #6 (2140, Adventure)
❑ “Survival of the Fittest”—Planet of the Apes #7 (2140, Adventure)
❑ “Here Comes Travellin’ Jack”—Planet of the Apes #8 (2140, Adventure)
❑ “Changes”—Planet of the Apes #9 (2141, Adventure)
❑ “Return to the Forbidden City”—Planet of the Apes #10 (2141, Adventure)
❑ “Warriors”—Planet of the Apes #11 (2141, Adventure)
❑ “Bells”—Planet of the Apes #12 (2141, Adventure)
❑ “Frito & JoJo’s X-cellent Adventure”—Planet of the Apes #13 (2141, Adventure)
❑ Ape City: “Honey, I Shrunk the Apes”—Planet of the Apes #13 (2141, Adventure)
❑ A Day on the Planet of the Apes annual (2141, Adventure)
❑ Urchak’s Folly #1-4 (2142, Adventure)
❑ Blood of the Apes #1-4 (2142, Adventure)
❑ “Twice Upon a Time”—Ape Nation Limited Edition #1 (between 2142 and 2150, Adventure)
❑ Ape Nation #1-3 (2150, Adventure)
❑ Ape Nation: “Drunken Interlude”—Planet of the Apes #13 (2150, Adventure)
❑ Ape Nation #4 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “Gorillas in the Mist”—Planet of the Apes #18 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “Cowboys and Simians”—Planet of the Apes #20 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “The Terror Beneath”—Planet of the Apes #21 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “The Land of No Escape”—Planet of the Apes #22 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “Final Conquest”—Planet of the Apes #23 (2150, Adventure)
❑ “Last Battle”—Planet of the Apes #24 (2150, Adventure)
❑ Apeslayer saga—Planet of the Apes #23-30 (c. 2200-2212, Marvel UK)
❑ “Evolution’s Nightmare”—Planet of the Apes #5 (2220, Marvel)
❑ “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” (2290, Mr. Comics—Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #5)
❑ Beneath the Planet of the Apes (3979—dialog mistakenly sets film in 3955)
–Plus adaptations: Novelization, Gold Key Comics, Marvel Comics #7-11, Power Records
Re-Imagined Era
❑ Planet of the Apes (2029—Tim Burton’s film “re-imagining,” opening sequence)
❑ Planet of the Apes: The Fall (2029-2048, HarperEntertainment)
❑ Planet of the Apes: The Colony (post-2048, HarperEntertainment)
❑ Planet of the Apes #1: Force (5009, HarperEntertainment)
❑ Planet of the Apes #2: Resistance (5010, HarperEntertainment)
❑ Dark Horse Extra #36-38: Planet of the Apes (pre-5021, Dark Horse Comics)
❑ Planet of the Apes Toys ‘R’ Us Collector’s Comic (pre-5021, Dark Horse)
❑ Planet of the Apes (5021—Tim Burton’s film “re-imagining,” after opening sequence)
–Plus adaptations: Novelization, Young-Adult Novelization, Leo’s Logbook, Dark Horse Comics
Late 1960s
◆ Dr. Otto Victor Hasslein theorizes a space-time tangent as a means of interstellar travel. His theories involve
time, dimensional matrices and infinite regression, depicting the space-time continuum as a series of
eight interlocking Möbius strips, made up of “curved time” and “alternative time-tracks.” A spaceship, he
postulates, could travel great distances at super-fast speeds, with time passing more slowly aboard ship than
on Earth. To test this theory, Hasslein drives congressional funding to develop an experimental spacedrive.
The theorized space-time tangent is later dubbed a Hasslein Curve in the scientist’s honor.
1971
◆ The U.S. Congress approves Hasslein’s spacedrive, and the Interstellar Exploration Program (IEP) is
created to test it using the space shuttle Liberty 1. The president appoints ANSA astronaut George Taylor to
spearhead the mission. Fellow astronauts John Landon, Thomas Dodge and Maryann Stewart are assigned
to Taylor’s team.
February 1972
◆ Liberty 1 departs Cape Kennedy on a one-way trip to the Betelgeuse Star System, its crew in cryogenic
sleep. The ship passes through a fold in space and is propelled to the year 3978. Hasslein’s theory is thus
proven true.
November 1972
◆ Unable to reach Taylor, ANSA launches a second ship to find Liberty 1, crewed by Donovan “Skipper”
Maddox and John Christopher Brent. This ship slips through the Hasslein Curve and is thrown forward to
the year 3979.
After 1972
◆ The USNSA sends a ship to locate Taylor’s crew as well. This vessel, commanded by an astronaut named
Ben, vanishes into a time-warp and is propelled to the year 3978.
1974
◆ Derek Zane finishes building his time machine and presents it to Dr. Krigstein, a top-level NASA
administrator. When Krigstein scoffs at his theories, Zane tests the machine on his own, propelling himself
to the year 3975.
Before 1976
◆ Scientist Dr. Stanton puts forth his controversial “time-thrust” theory. Similar to Hasslein’s theory, Stanton’s
claims humans can propel themselves into the future if they travel fast enough.
1977
◆ Investigating the disappearance of Derek Zane, Dr. Krigstein finds Zane’s plans for the Temporal
Displacement Module, which he deems revolutionary. NASA spends nine months building its own
model, the Chronos I, to rescue the inventor. Two “tempunauts,” Mara Winston and Jackson Brock, are
chosen for the mission.
December 1977
◆ Derek Zane returns from the future, along with Mara Winston and a chimp named Faron, but feels like
a misfit in his own era. Missing his future wife, Andrea, he builds another time machine and returns to
the 40th century.
1970s
◆ An ambitious Nazi named Trang steals an experimental NASA craft and travels to the year 3085 to
subjugate Earth. The USAF spaceship Blue Star hits an electrical storm near Alpha Centauri and is
propelled forward to the same year. Two months after Blue Star’s disappearance, ANSA launches Probe
Six, assigning astronauts Alan J. Virdon, Peter J. Burke and “Jonesy” on a long-range reconnaissance
mission to circumnavigate the Belt of Orion.
Before 1990
◆ The U.S. government creates the top-secret Vindicator Project, intended to prevent apes from dominating
Earth. A specialized flying vehicle, energized by a power crystal, is built to carry six covert operatives
into the future.
1990
◆ Astronaut Jo Taylor (George Taylor’s daughter) volunteers for the Vindicator Project, as does a man
known as MX, and four convicted killers (Scab, Devon, Moriah and π [pi]) are offered amnesty for
taking part as well. Their objective: to kill as many apes as possible, thereby giving humans a fighting
chance to regain dominancy.
Before 1991
◆ Heeding the apeonauts’ warning regarding Earth’s future destruction, mankind launches a colony ship
carrying 40 females and 10 males into space in suspended animation, intending to preserve the species on
another planet. The ship enters a Hasslein Curve, however, and is propelled to approximately 5000 A.D.
1991
◆ Astronauts James Norvell, August Anne Burrows and Ken Flip undertake the first U.S. manned orbit of
Mars. Due to equipment malfunction, the team loses contact with Earth for the duration of their 18-month
mission, and are thus unaware of Caesar’s rebellion and the subsequent nuclear war.
August 6, 2081
◆ The Venturer crew reads their ship’s chronometer after take-off. Due to time dilation, it still seems like
1976 to them, but the clock reads 2081. The Venturer hits a strange energy distortion and jumps forward
to the year 3979.
August 6, 2109
◆ A NASA spaceship commanded by Ronald Brent lifts off from California’s Mojave Desert. Caught in a
time-warp, the ship is transported to the early 3960s.
December 4, 2125
◆ NASA launches the spaceship Cassiopeia, its crew of four (Ulysses, Martinez, Romulus and Sophie) in
cryogenic sleep during the voyage. Entering a time-warp, the ship jumps ahead to the year 3889.
2140
◆ The Vindicator team arrives from the past. After killing 57 apes, the assassins discover their ship’s
power crystal missing, forcing them to abort their mission and instead focus on locating the crystal
for the return voyage.
2142
◆ Asylum patient Sebastian Thorne arrives in an ape-controlled future and joins forces with a human religious
sect, the Taylorites, to defeat a gorilla warrior known as Col. Urchak. Dr. Foucault tries to retrieve Thorne
with his time machine, but the device pulls Urchak back instead, stranding the ape in the Victorian era.
2150
◆ A Tenctonese refugee ship experiences equipment failure and breaks away from the rest of its fleet
headed for Earth to seek sanctuary [as seen in the Alien Nation TV series]. Sucked into a black hole, the
ship enters a space-time warp, landing on the Planet of the Apes. Eventually, the ship lifts off again and
returns to its own reality.
After 2150
◆ Gorilla guards JoJo and Frito undertake a trip through time, the details of which remain unrecorded.
3086
◆ The Blue Star, launched in the 1970s, crashes in an ape village; the corrupt Prefect Arpo tries to repair the
ship to conquer Central City, but Burke and Virdon rig it to explode when he fires its missiles. Thomas
Edison arrives in a time machine that same year, returning to the past before the fugitives can use the device
themselves. Trang, a 20th-century Nazi with a time-traveling airship full of armored vehicles, attempts to
subjugate both ape and humankind.
After 3086
◆ Virdon and Burke locate a working computer in the ruins of an ancient city and discover a way to return to
space. Galen remains in his own era, knowing he’d be out of place in their human-led world. Years later, the
chimp befriends another human time-traveler and relates his past adventures with the two astronauts.
Early 3960s
◆ A NASA spacecraft, launched in 2109, crashes in the Forbidden Zone. Astronaut Ronald Brent nearly dies
on impact, but a tribe of primitive humans saves his life.
3975
◆ Inventor Derek Zane arrives from the year 1974, using a time-machine he built in an effort to rescue the lost
Liberty 1 crew. The crash demolishes the device, stranding Zane in the future.
3977
◆ Chronos I, a NASA-built time machine based on Zane’s plans, shows up to rescue the inventor. Damaged
on impact, the device explodes, leaving its “tempunaut” occupants, Mara Winston and Jackson Brock,
unable to return home. Mara meets Zane and his chimp friend Faron, and the trio locate another way to
return to the past.
Late 3978
◆ An astronaut named Ben, sent by USNSA to rescue the Liberty 1 crew, is stranded in this era as well.
August 6, 3979
◆ The Venturer, an interstellar NASA spacecraft launched in 1976, splashes down in a lake near New York. Its
three occupants (Bill Hudson, Jeff Allen and Judy Franklin) all survive the crash.
December 3, 5021
◆ Pericles, Davidson’s chimp pilot protégé aboard the Oberon, arrives in the Alpha Pod, which the human
pilot then uses to get home again. Davidson leaves Pericles in the care of an Ashlar chimp named Ari.
Winter 5041
◆ A band of human and simian fugitives encounter descendants of the Oberon crew on Ashlar. The military
tries to capture them, but the rebels escape in the station’s remaining pods, carried to Earth by the ion storm.
General Thade, a ruthless military leader, follows in another pod and becomes an honored military icon
among Earth’s apes.
2
An extended cut of Battle of the Planet of the Apes, containing 10 minutes of new footage, was released on DVD in 2006, and previously on a Japanese
laserdisc.
NOTE: “The Liberator” never aired in the United States during the series’ initial run, though it did run in Europe and was eventually
syndicated on Sci-Fi Channel and other networks in the 1990s. The scripts to “Hostage” and “A Fallen God” are available online at
Hunter Goatley’s Planet of the Apes Archive; synopsis of the other four unfilmed episodes were included in the series bible, reprinted
in Simian Scrolls issue #12. Rod Serling wrote two pilot scripts (“Episode One” and “Episode Two”) that greatly differed from the
aired versions. Ten episodes were re-edited into telefilms, with newly produced framing sequences featuring Roddy McDowall as
Galen. These framing sequences were not included on the TV series’ DVD release, but can be viewed online at Kassidy Rae’s Planet
of the Apes: The Television Series website. An animated version of this series was briefly discussed in the 1980s but never produced; a
concept drawing by artist Jack Kirby, reproduced in The Jack Kirby Collector and later in Simian Scrolls #6, shows that it would have
featured Virdon and Burke, along with a female “blonde companion of astronauts” and Toomak, a “human slave boy.”
NOTE: The episodes were aired on television out of their proper order. Planet of the Apes Revisited mentions the unfilmed
entries, which Wildey conceived but never scripted. Some sources, such as Planet of the Apes: An Unofficial Companion, have
erroneously cited “A Date With Judy” as an unfilmed episode, due to William Rostler’s use of an early-draft title for “The
Unearthly Prophecy” in that episode’s novelization.
sHoRT FILM
BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE (20th Century Fox)
TITLE DATE WRITER DIRECTOR
A Public Service Announcement From ANSA 2008 (unknown) (unknown)
NOTE: This six-minute “fake documentary,” detailing the history of ANSA and Liberty 1, is included in high-definition (HD) on
the individual Blu-Ray release of Planet of the Apes, as well as in the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection. No writer
or director credits are provided for the production.
CLASSIC FILMS
TITLE AUTHOR YEAR FILM ADAPTED PUBLISHER
Beneath the Planet of the Apes Michael Avallone 1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes Bantam Books
Escape from the Planet
Escape from the Planet of the Apes Jerry Pournelle 1973 Award Books
of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes John Jakes 1974 Award Books
of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes David Gerrold 1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes Award Books
LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES
TITLE AUTHOR YEAR EPISODES ADAPTED PUBLISHER
Planet of the Apes #1:
George Alec Effinger 1974 “The Cure” & “The Good Seeds” Award Books
Man the Fugitive
Planet of the Apes #2:
George Alec Effinger 1974 “The Surgeon” & “The Deception” Award Books
Escape to Tomorrow
Planet of the Apes #3:
George Alec Effinger 1974 “The Legacy” & “The Horse Race” Award Books
Journey Into Terror
Planet of the Apes #4:
George Alec Effinger 1974 “The Tyrant” & “The Gladiators” Award Books
Lord of the Apes
ANIMATED TV SERIES
TITLE AUTHOR YEAR EPISODES ADAPTED PUBLISHER
“Flames of Doom,” “Escape from
Return to the Planet of the Apes #1: William Rostler
1976 Ape City” & “The Unearthly Ballantine Books
Visions from Nowhere (as William Arrow)
Prophecy”
Return to the Planet of the Apes #2: Donald J. Pfeil “Tunnel of Fear,” “Lagoon of Peril”
1976 Ballantine Books
Escape from Terror Lagoon (as William Arrow) & “Terror on Ice Mountain”
Return to the Planet of the Apes #3: William Rostler “River of Flames,” “Screaming
1976 Ballantine Books
Man, the Hunted Animal (as William Arrow) Wings” & “Trail to the Unknown”
TIM BURTON’S “RE-IMAGINED” FILM
TITLE AUTHOR YEAR FILM ADAPTED PUBLISHER
Planet of the Apes William T. Quick 2001 Planet of the Apes HarperEntertainment
Planet of the Apes (young adult) John Whitman 2001 Planet of the Apes HarperEntertainment
Leo’s Logbook: A Captain’s Days
Benjamin Athens 2001 Planet of the Apes HarperEntertainment
in Captivity
NOTE: According to Films Into Books, Keith Laumer was first hired to novelize Beneath; Avallone was
offered the job when Laumer backed out.
NOTE: Issues #7, 16, 18 and 25 contained no original stories—only movie adaptations. Issues #1-4 of “Terror on the Planet of
the Apes” were reprinted in 1991 by Malibu Graphics as a four-issue miniseries. Malibu also reprinted Marvel’s first three film
adaptations. In addition, Marvel colorized and reprinted the first two film adaptations as an 11-issue series entitled Adventures on
the Planet of the Apes. The Apeslayer storyline, adapted from Marvel’s Killraven series, appeared in Marvel UK’s weekly Planet
of the Apes comic—all other U.K. issues reprinted material already published in the U.S. version, though some stories contained
additional pages or individual panels not included in the U.S. versions. Details of Doug Moench’s unpublished storylines were
provided by the author himself.
1
Moench no longer has a copy of the Viraga script, and does not recall the story’s title. Although Trinidad’s name appears on a surviving page of unpublished
artwork, his son, Norman Trinidad, maintains that his father did not illustrate it.
2
A page of Mayerik’s artwork may have been repurposed as the cover for issue #117 of Marvel’s UK Planet of the Apes series.
MAngA CoMICs
FILM ADAPTATIONS: SARU NO WAKUSEI
(“PLANET OF MONKEYS”)
PUBLICATION WRITER / ARTIST YEAR
Bouken Ou Bessatsu Jôji Enami April 1968
Tengoku Zôkan Minoru Kuroda 1970s
NOTE: These adaptations of the first film were released only in Japan, and never in English.
The Kuroda publication date is unknown.
NOTE: No writer or artist credits are available for the above tales, though John Bolton and Oli Frey are known to have been
among the artists involved.
1. Aug. 1990 “Monkey Business” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman, Marvin Perry Mann & Steve Miller
3. Oct. 1990 “Monkey Planet” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman, Marvin Perry Mann & Steve Miller
4. Nov. 1990 “Monkey See, Monkey Do” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman, Marvin Perry Mann & Steve Miller
1. Jan. 1991 “Chapter 1: The Valley” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner & Dillon Naylor
2. Feb. 1991 “Chapter 2: The Bridge” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner, Dillon Naylor & Greg Gates
3. Mar. 1991 “Chapter 3: The Savages” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner, Dillon Naylor & Greg Gates
4. Apr. 1991 “Chapter 4: The War” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner, Dillon Naylor & Greg Gates
1. Feb. 1991 “Plans” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman & Terry Pallot
1. Feb. 1991
(Limited Collector’s “Twice Upon a Time” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman & Terry Pallot
Edition)
2. Apr. 1991 “Pasts” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman & Terry Pallot
3. May. 1991 “Pawns” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman & Terry Pallot
4. Jun. 1991 “Pains” Charles Marshall M.C. Wyman & Terry Pallot
1. Nov. 1991 Chapters 1 to 3 Roland Mann Darren Goodhart & Bruce McCorkindale
2. Dec. 1991 Chapters 4 to 6 Roland Mann Darren Goodhart & Bruce McCorkindale
3. Jan. 1992 Chapters 7 to 9 Roland Mann Darren Goodhart & Bruce McCorkindale
4. Feb. 1992 Chapters 10 to 12 Roland Mann Darren Goodhart & Bruce McCorkindale
1. Dec. 1991 “Morning Glory” Charles Marshall James Tucker & Greg Cravens
UNPUBLISHED
N/A Back from the Future Charles Marshall (no artist assigned)
N/A The Most Dangerous Animal Charles Marshall (no artist assigned)
N/A Manhunt on the Planet of the Apes Mike Valerio (no artist assigned)
N/A Sky Gods (early title Second Coming) Roland Mann (no artist assigned)
NOTE: Monthly issues #1-4 were collected in trade-paperback format, under the title Planet of the Apes: The Monkey Planet;
individually, the issues did not contain the “Monkey Planet” title. Adventure also offered reprint collections of Marvel’s first
three film adaptations, as well as reprints of the first four issues of Marvel’s “Terror on the Planet of the Apes” storyline. Details
of the unpublished storylines were provided by the authors themselves.
UNPUBLISHED
ISSUE/DATE TITLE WRITER(S) ARTIST(S)
Combat on the Planet of the Apes /
N/A Ty Templeton & Joe O’Brien Richard Pace
War on the Planet of the Apes
N/A Empire on the Planet of the Apes Ty Templeton & Joe O’Brien (no artist assigned)
N/A (title unknown—story of moon’s destruction) Ty Templeton (no artist assigned)
N/A (title unknown—story of Australian apes) Ty Templeton (no artist assigned)
N/A “The Believer” Sam Agro Sam Agro
NOTE: Revolution on the Planet of the Apes was originally to have been titled either Combat on the Planet of the Apes or
War on the Planet of the Apes, and would have featured both Thade, from the Tim Burton film, and Caesar, from the originals.
Artist Richard Pace created a poster for the series, as well as some interior art pages utilizing Thade as a character, but
when Fox opted to keep the two incarnations separate, Thade’s involvement (and, thus, Pace’s artwork) was removed from
the final product. Templeton’s three other unpublished stories were slated to appear in Empire on the Planet of the Apes, a
proposed followup miniseries, but were canceled due to low sales on Revolution. “The Believer,” written as a back-up story for
Revolution, was written, penciled and lettered by Agro, but did not run due to concerns over religious overtones—at presstime,
however, it was slated to appear in issue #16 of Simian Scrolls magazine, with the author’s permission. Templeton’s name was
listed as co-writer for that tale, though the story and art, according to Templeton, were Agro’s creation. “People News” was
originally released as a free online preview, entitled “People in the News.” Details of the unpublished storylines were provided
by the authors. “Little Caesar” was originally previewed in issue #1 of Mr. Comics’ Big Max, under the title “Armando’s
Marvelous Menagerie Circus.”
NOTE: Dark Horse’s run was based on Tim Burton’s film “re-imagining.” Details of the unpublished storylines were provided
by the authors.
NOTE: These illustrated strips, released in 1975 (and only in the United Kingdom), provided a retelling of several TV-series
episodes combined with the first film’s courtroom scene, in a set similar to the Give-a-Show Projector sets sold in the United States.
The set contained 16 filmstrips with two chapters apiece. The complete set of strips is available online at www.beegeesfever.com/
posting/picture_show/planet_apes/, and fan-remastered versions can be found at Yahoo’s Planet of the Apes Discussion Group.
The writers and illustrators for these strips are unknown.
NOTE: Boulle’s novel, originally published in French, appeared abridged in Saga and Bizarre Mystery magazines. An audio
adaptation of the novel, presented as part of BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime series, was read by Michael Maloney. Hunter
Goatley’s Planet of the Apes Archive offers MP3 files of the adaptation for downloading.
NOTE: A Hungarian publisher produced this comic-book adaptation of Boulle’s novel in 1981. Scans of the comic, along with a
fan-made English translation, can be found at Hunter Goatley’s Planet of the Apes Archive. No publisher information is indicated
in the comic.
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
— Hunter Goatley’s Planet of the Apes Archive (pota.goatley.com)
— Kassidy Rae’s Planet of the Apes: The TV Series Website (potatv.kassidyrae.com)
— Chris Shields’ Last Flight of the Icarus (www.goingfaster.com/icarus)
— Planet of the Apes Media Archive (www.potamediaarchive.com)
— Yahoo Group: POTA—A Community of Planet of the Apes Fans
(movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/pota)
— Yahoo Group: POTA Discussion Group (movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/potadg)
— Friends and Fugitives: A Loving Tribute
(www.netcomuk.co.uk/~pdownes/potatv/potatv.html)
— BrokenSea Audio Productions’ Planet of the Apes Audio Drama, by Bill Hollweg
(www.brokensea.com/planetoftheapes)
— The Planet of the Apes Fan Collective (www.potacollective.com)
— Terry Hoknes’ International Planet of the Apes Fan Club / Ape Chronicles Magazine
(www.hoknes.com/apes.htm)
— The Forbidden Zone (theforbidden-zone.com)
— Forum of the Apes (forumoftheapes.yuku.com)
— Apemania (www.apemania.com)
The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet
(a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes)
The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet
(a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes)
The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet The Monkey Planet
(a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes) (a.k.a. Planet of the Apes)
— Film Novelizations —
Escape from the Planet Conquest of the Planet Battle for the Planet
Beneath the Planet
of the Apes Novelization of the Apes Novelization of the Apes Novelization
of the Apes Novelization
— TV Series Novelizations —
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
TV Series Novelization #1 TV Series Novelization #2 TV Series Novelization #3 TV Series Novelization #4
Return to the Planet of the Return to the Planet of the Return to the Planet of the
Apes Novelization #1 Apes Novelization #2 Apes Novelization #3
Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Planet of the Apes Collection Planet of the Apes
U.S. VHS Release Apes U.K. VHS Release VHS Box Set Remake VHS Release
— DVD Releases —
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
DVD Release 35th Anniversary Widescreen DVD Release British Special Edition
Edition DVD Release DVD Release
Conquest of the Planet Conquest of the Planet Battle for the Planet Battle for the Planet
of the Apes DVD Release of the Apes DVD Release of the Apes DVD Release of the Apes DVD Release
Planet of the Apes Return to the Planet Planet of the Apes Remake Planet of the Apes Remake
TV Series DVD Release of the Apes DVD Release DVD Release DVD Release
— Blu-Ray Releases —
Planet of the Apes Beneath the Escape from the Conquest of the
Blu-Ray Release Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Blu-Ray Release Blu-Ray Release Blu-Ray Release
Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet Escape from the Planet Battle for the Planet
Book and Record Set of the Apes of the Apes of the Apes
Book and Record Set Book and Record Set Book and Record Set
Battle of Two Worlds Mountain of the Delphi Dawn of the Tree People Planet of the Apes
Little LP Audio Adventure Little LP Audio Adventure Little LP Audio Adventure Little LP Back Cover
Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes:
4 Exciting Stories 4 Exciting Stories 4 Exciting New Stories 4 Exciting New Stories
(Front Cover) (Back Cover) (Front Cover) (Back Cover)
The Ape (Distributed The Ape News (Distributed at The Mutant News (Distributed
at Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes at Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Showings) Showings—Front Cover) Showings—Back Cover)
The Ape News (Distributed Future News (Distributed at San Simian Sentinel
at Escape from the Planet Conquest of the Planet (Distributed at Battle for the
of the Apes Showings) of the Apes Showings) Planet of the Apes Showings)
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #1 Monthly Issue #2 Monthly Issue #3 Monthly Issue #4
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #5 Monthly Issue #6 Monthly Issue #7 Monthly Issue #8
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #9 Monthly Issue #10 Monthly Issue #11 Monthly Issue #12
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #17 Monthly Issue #18 Monthly Issue #19 Monthly Issue #20
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #21 Monthly Issue #22 Monthly Issue #23 Monthly Issue #24
Adventures on the Planet Adventures on the Planet Adventures on the Planet Adventures on the Planet
of the Apes Issue #4 of the Apes Issue #5 of the Apes Issue #6 of the Apes Issue #7
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #1 Weekly Issue #2 Weekly Issue #3 Weekly Issue #4
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #5 Weekly Issue #6 Weekly Issue #7 Weekly Issue #8
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #13 Weekly Issue #14 Weekly Issue #15 Weekly Issue #16
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #17 Weekly Issue #18 Weekly Issue #19 Weekly Issue #20
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #25 Weekly Issue #26 Weekly Issue #27 Weekly Issue #28
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #29 Weekly Issue #30 Weekly Issue #31 Weekly Issue #32
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #37 Weekly Issue #38 Weekly Issue #39 Weekly Issue #40
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #41 Weekly Issue #42 Weekly Issue #43 Weekly Issue #44
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #49 Weekly Issue #50 Weekly Issue #51 Weekly Issue #52
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #53 Weekly Issue #54 Weekly Issue #55 Weekly Issue #56
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #61 Weekly Issue #62 Weekly Issue #63 Weekly Issue #64
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #65 Weekly Issue #66 Weekly Issue #67 Weekly Issue #68
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #73 Weekly Issue #74 Weekly Issue #75 Weekly Issue #76
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #77 Weekly Issue #78 Weekly Issue #79 Weekly Issue #80
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Weekly Issue #85 Weekly Issue #86 Weekly Issue #87 and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #88
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #89 Weekly Issue #90 Weekly Issue #91 Weekly Issue #92
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #97 Weekly Issue #98 Weekly Issue #99 Weekly Issue #100
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #101 Weekly Issue #102 Weekly Issue #103 Weekly Issue #104
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #109 Weekly Issue #110 Weekly Issue #111 Weekly Issue #112
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives
Weekly Issue #113 Weekly Issue #114 Weekly Issue #115 Weekly Issue #116
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes The Mighty World of Marvel
and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives and Dracula Lives Weekly Issue #231
Weekly Issue #121 Weekly Issue #122 Weekly Issue #123
The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel
Weekly Issue #232 Weekly Issue #233 Weekly Issue #234 Weekly Issue #235
The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel
Weekly Issue #240 Weekly Issue #241 Weekly Issue #242 Weekly Issue #243
The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel The Mighty World of Marvel
Weekly Issue #244 Weekly Issue #245 Weekly Issue #246
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Issue #1 Planet of the Apes
Issue #1 Issue #1 (With Slipcover) Limited Collector’s Edition Issue #2
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Issue #3 Issue #4 Issue #5 Issue #6
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Issue #7 Issue #8 Issue #9 Issue #10
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Issue #15 Issue #16 Issue #17 Issue #18
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Issue #19 Issue #20 Issue #21 Issue #22
Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Unpublished Ape Nation Ape Nation Issue #1
(Collects Marvel’s Apes (Collects Marvel’s Cover (Used in Solicitation) Limited Collector’s Edition
Film Adaptation) Film Adaptation) (Alien Nation Crossover)
Ape Nation Issue #1 Ape Nation Issue #2 Ape Nation Issue #3 Ape Nation Issue #4
(Alien Nation Crossover) (Alien Nation Crossover) (Alien Nation Crossover) (Alien Nation Crossover)
Terror on the Planet Terror on the Planet Terror on the Planet Terror on the Planet
of the Apes Issue #1 of the Apes Issue #2 of the Apes Issue #3 of the Apes Issue #4
(Reprints Marvel Issue #1) (Reprints Marvel Issue #2) (Reprints Marvel Issue #3) (Reprints Marvel Issue #4 )
Urchak’s Folly Issue #1 Urchak’s Folly Issue #2 Urchak’s Folly Issue #3 Urchak’s Folly Issue #4
The Forbidden Zone Issue #1 The Forbidden Zone Issue #2 The Forbidden Zone Issue #3 The Forbidden Zone Issue #4
— Misc. Comics —
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Sketchbook
Film Adaptation (Remake) Film Adaptation (Remake) (Online at www.dhorse.com)
Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes:
The Human War Old Gods The Ongoing Saga Bloodlines
(Collects Miniseries #1-3) (Collects Issues #1-3) (Collects Issues #1-3) (Collects Issues #4-6)
The Human War The Human War The Human War The Human War
Issue #2 Issue #2 Issue #2 Issue #3
The Human War Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Issue #3 Monthly Issue #1 Monthly Issue #1 Monthly Issue #1
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
Monthly Issue #4 Monthly Issue #4 Monthly Issue #5 Monthly Issue #5
El Planeta de los Simios Issue #1 El Planeta de los Simios Issue #2 El Planeta de los Simios Issue #3
El Planeta de los Simios El Planeta de los Simios El Planeta de los Simios El Planeta de los Simios
Issue #4 Issue #5 Issue #6 Issue #7 (Numbered
on Cover as #1)
— Video Games —
A dystopian future. The enslavement of an entire race. An upside-down world where apes
became the masters and mankind lived as savages. And into that future society walked several
time-lost astronauts, who found the world they once knew had become a planet of apes.
Six films and two television series comprise the Planet of the Apes canon—but the story does
not end there. A line of novels, comics, audio tales and more have helped flesh out the mythos,
exploring facets never revealed onscreen.
• How did Caesar's rebellion grow, in so short a time, into a complete reversal of fates for
humanity and apekind?
• How did the apes acquire the power of speech—while man was rendered mute?
• Where did the plague that ravaged the planet come from, and what effects did it have not only
on man and ape, but on other creatures as well?
• What unique cultures spawned around the globe in the post-apocalyptic aftermath—and how
did the Statue of Liberty end up in pieces, on a desolate beach?
Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Unauthorized Chronology explores these and
many other questions in detail, presenting every event of the Planet of the Apes saga in its
proper chronological context—from long before Caesar's birth to far beyond Earth's destruction.
It's a madhouse—and now, at last, find out how it was built.
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