Her Midgitsy, lonely for her own kind, took a liking to Graymalkyn and gave her life to save his when the Industrialists torched the jungle. Banished from Sexxtann, Alaric’s team found the giant ape in a jungle at the city’s center. As such, she knew only a bastardized version of her title: Her Midgitsy. This angered the Cannibal Corps, ape environmentalists whose queen was captured and subjected to radiation and genetic experimentation, growing her to immense size and damaging her brain in the process. The Industrialists employed non-“green” methods of commerce, endangering the natural world. The city, a 42-level hexagonal fortress, contained a vast canal system filled with giant amphibians, used for amusement, transportation and sustenance. Upon arrival at Sexxtann, Alaric’s team met the Industrialists, descendants of citizens from several African nations who blamed apes and Caucasian humans for the planet’s devastation and decided to form their own isolated civilization. Moench’s final concept was quite different, both in terms of storyline, and in the giant ape being female. He was intelligent, but he was crazy and destructive, and had to be appeased with sacrifices of human beings.
Initially, Moench says, he’d conceived the tale as a “King Kong riff,” in which a giant ape would be captured and transferred to the ruins of an already-destroyed Manhattan - an irony, in that this Kong would have been taken “from civilization to primitive ruins.” As Moench describes it, “The giant ape was not only a nuclear freak from the radiation, but was also insane from radiation sickness.
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(Although it has long been assumed the series ended due to low sales, Moench explains that interest from both readers and Marvel remained high, and that only the increased fee necessitated cancellation.)
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The writer had already outlined a sixth chapter in the saga, titled “The Captive of the Canals,” when Marvel opted to drop the Apes license after APJAC Productions upped the licensing fee. For 30 years, their fate and the nature of the city remained a mystery to fans - but not to Moench. The final issue ended on a cliffhanger, with the group escaping Her Majesty’s Cannibal Corps - ape mutants astride giant frogs - and discovering a great city on land, known as Sexxtann. The story focused on a human couple, Alaric and Reena, their friend Starkor and a gorilla architect named Graymalkyn, whose adventures brought them face to muzzle with great dangers both above and below sea-level. One of the most popular - and unusual - storylines of the Marvel run was Doug Moench’s five-part “Future History Chronicles.” Illustrated by Tom Sutton, “FHC” presented a new take on Planet of the Apes, in which humans and simians traveled the oceans on vast city-ships. “Future History Chronicles VI: The Captive of the Canals” Included are an assortment of published covers … and unpublished art! With that, let’s take a look back at several time-lost comic books from the Planet of the Apes. Thanks to the generosity of these creative minds, I was able to work a wealth of previously unknown material into both books. What I received was staggering: not just brief descriptions but, in some cases, entire outlines or even scripts - and from every single writer, no less. While conducting research for a pair of Planet of the Apes reference books for Hasslein Publishing, I reached out to the writers and editors of the above series, hoping they might be willing to share some tidbits about their unpublished lore. This resulted in a number of proposed titles from each publisher never seeing the light of day. all saw their Apes runs prematurely aborted. Long before Boom! Studios successfully entered the Apes arena, Marvel Comics, Malibu Graphics’ Adventure Comics imprint, Dark Horse Comics, Metallic Rose Comics and Argentina’s Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa. When it comes to Planet of the Apes tie-ins, fans have gotten used to cancellation - particularly with regard to comic books. This week, Apemeister Rich Handley takes you on a fascinating journey through the Greatest Apes Comics That Never Were! Today: Some of the greatest - and strangest - Marvel Comics stories that never saw print.
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