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Issue: Planet of the Apes #23
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics UK LTD
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Pages: 36
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Price: £0.08 GBP
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Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White
Dimensions: Magazine Size
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Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Ron Wilson
Mike Esposito
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science fiction
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Miscellaneous
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Pencil and ink art credits from Nick Caputo.
Prologue: Future Imperfect!

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Apeslayer; Scrapper; General Raker; Dr. Ann Carver; Maureen Dozer (Apeslayer's mother); Johnathan Dozer (young Apeslayer)
Apeslayer takes revenge against the General, but the victory is unsatisfying. The General dies slowly, telling Apeslayer's origin story.
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Miscellaneous
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Reprinted with omissions and alterations.
Apeslayer Art & page alterations.

Originally a Killraven story. Art alterations: Ape heads drawn onto Martian bodies and Killraven costume modifications. Takes inspiration from H. G. Well's novel "The War of the Worlds." This storyline spans issues 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.

Breakdown of story pages:

page 1-5.
Page 6 of reprint comprised of Page 6 of original minus panels 5-8 which are replaced by 1st panel from page 11.
Page 7-8 of reprint comprised of Pages 12-13 of original.

Pages 7-11 of original not used (which mostly features the War of the Worlds backstory.)
Ape for a Day

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Maronie's experiences on the set of Battle for the Planet of the Apes, which included being an extra and being made up as an ape.
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Miscellaneous
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Ape Forum

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Letters from: Roger Cooper (Ipswich, Suffolk); D. Thomas (Sowerby Bridge, W. Yorks); Joe (London); Andrew Bennet, RFO, KOF, 38 Lincome Ban, Leeds 8, Yorks); Christopher Little (6 Rowley Avel, Sidcup, Kent)
He That Hath Wings

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adapted from the Edmond Hamilton story that appeared in Weird Tales, July 1938
Enter: the Machine Age!

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Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. Years later, they return to the surface, leaving the machines behind, but the machines begin to think for themselves, and rise up to conquer the surface world.
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