Marvel Announces Planet of the Apes Comic Team, Reprint of Old Comics

The Planet of the Apes franchise has been on ice because the reboot movies wrapped up with 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes. Fox is getting ready to begin the movies up once more in 2024, which means we’ll see what the collection is like now that Disney has a maintain of it. And with Disney comes Marvel, which implies some new comics.

Starting subsequent 12 months, Marvel will probably be publishing a model new Planet of the Apes ongoing collection from author David F. Walker (Bitter Root, Power Man & Iron Fist) and artist Dave Wachter (Guns of Shadow Valley, Aliens: Aftermath). The comedian was initially introduced again in June, with editor-in-chief CB Cebulski saying on the time that the brand new comedian “is going explore the limits of what this beloved franchise has to offer through bold comics storytelling, and we look forward to setting foot on this new adventure!”. Before the brand new ongoing’s launch, the Apes will headline variant covers for a number of Marvel Comics all through February, together with Venom, Avengers, and Miles Morales: Spider-Man.

As a comic book ebook collection, Planet of the Apes has been printed by quite a few comedian publishers over time, together with Boom! Comics extra just lately. Marvel acquired a maintain of the property again in 1974 underneath its Curtis Magazines imprint, which ran from that 12 months to 1977. During that point, Marvel additionally printed comedian variations of the then-first 5 Apes movies, and coloured variations of the unique two movies. Those Nineteen Seventies comics, printed underneath the title of Adventures of the Planet of the Apes, will probably be reprinted and launched throughout 2023.

Currently, this new Apes comedian is the one one from Marvel being launched. With its Fox franchises like Alien and Predator, comics for these collection haven’t ballooned in measurement like Star Wars has, however don’t be shocked if there are some tie-in books coming across the time that fourth film is gearing up for launch.

Planet of the Apes #1 will launch on print and digital in April 2023.

[through GamesRadar]

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