- "Let's get started my friends. We have a world to conquer."
- ―Danada the Destroyer
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| Ape Nation | |
| Title: | "Plans" |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Cover price: | $2.50 |
| Cover date: | February, 1991 |
| Publisher: | Malibu Graphics Adventure Comics |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Chris Ulm |
| Writers: | Charles Marshall |
| Pencilers: | M.C. Wyman |
| Inkers: | Terry Pallot |
| Cover artists: | Dave Dorman |
| Cover inker: | Dave Dorman |
| Cover colorist: | Dave Dorman |
| Colorists: | David de Vries |
| Letterers: | Clem Robins |
| Assistants: | Mickie Villa; Dan Danko |
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| Next: | Ape Nation #2 |
"Plans" is the first issue of the Ape Nation comic book limited series published by Malibu Graphics under their Adventure Comics imprint. The story was written by Charles Marshall with artwork by M.C. Wyman and inks by Terry Pallot. It was colored by David de Vries and lettered by Clem Robins. Editorial assists are by Mickie Villa and Dan Danko. This issue shipped with a February, 1991 cover date and carries a cover price of $2.50 per copy (US).
"Plans"[]
Featured characters
- Heston
- Bartholomew
- Packer
- Winnipeg
Supporting characters
Villains
- Danada the Destroyer
- General Ollo
- Roto
- Simon the Slaughterer
Minor characters
- Caan
- Dingo the Wolf
Organizations
- Ape High Council
- Heston's posse
Races & Animals
Locations
- Ape City
- Outer space (In flashback only)
Items
Vehicles
- Space ship (In flashback only)
Miscellaneous
- Alien visitors (In flashback only)
- Black hole (In flashback only)
- Dead animals
- Flashbacks
- Slave
- Space travel (In flashback only)
Notes & Trivia[]
- Ape Nation is published by Dave Olbrich.
- The Planet of the Apes franchise was first created by French novelist Pierre Boulle, who wrote the novel La Planete des singes in 1963. The concept was retooled by famed science fiction author Rod Serling and brought to life as a feature film in 1968, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Serling and Michael Wilson. This inaugural film spawned four sequels, a live-action TV series, and animated series, and several remakes.
- The Alien Nation franchise was created by writer & executive producer Rockne S. O'Bannon. It is a science fiction franchise that began as feature film in 1988, and spawned into a television series, which ran from 1989 to 1990, and spawned several television movie spin-offs.
- This is the first full-color limited series published under Malibu's Adventure Comics imprint.
- Tom Mason is the creative director of this series.
- Includes a forward by Tom Mason called "Apes, Aliens and Humans - A Lesson in Ape Management".
- This issue also shipped with a special limited edition variant cover. This version also contains additional material.
- This issue shipped the same month as Planet of the Apes: Urchak's Folly #2.
- Reference is made to Aldo in this issue. Aldo was a gorilla general and the main antagonist from the 1973 film Battle for the Planet of the Apes.