Mar 11
Click for larger imageLord Kelvin Comments: Bob Morane IS The White Gorilla!
Published 1967
(Average: 7.58 out of 10)
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Lord Kelvin Comments: Bob Morane IS The White Gorilla!
Published 1967
(Average: 7.58 out of 10)Loading...
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March 11th, 2020 at 9:14 am
He’s multitalented – not just a white gorilla, but also a mime!
I read some of the Bob Morane comics during the years of my childhood I spent in Spain. I particularly recall the one where Bob Morane fights an alien which looks like an extremely old Mardi Gras participant with crystal eyes who lives in a secret underground kingdom and psychically makes the Easter Island statues walk around and wreck stuff. Or maybe that’s just a fever dream I had.
March 11th, 2020 at 10:36 am
Whatever you think of zoos, it’s sad to see such a mighty beast trapped on a book cover.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:27 am
I haven’t seen deepest Africa depicted in such stunning detail since Toto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
March 11th, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Was this the cinnamon challenge or the ice bucket challenge? Either way the the white gorilla has the right idea. “Enough with your silly internet memes. I’m outta here. And you can be sure that Tarzan will hear about this.”
March 11th, 2020 at 12:10 pm
BOB MORANE: Challenging Man and Beast in Deepest Africa
THE WHITE COVER ILLUSTRATION
March 11th, 2020 at 12:33 pm
White Gorilla says “rate this cover 10 stars”
March 11th, 2020 at 2:13 pm
Whitey Joe Young? (This cover is the gift that keeps giving)
March 11th, 2020 at 2:28 pm
No matter how open he actually was, none of his species-ist teammates would pass the ball to Bob Morane, the White Gorilla.
March 11th, 2020 at 2:43 pm
Not too many anatomical issues – apart from it all looking like human anatomy. This looks like a man in a white gorilla suit (that could possibly do with a wash) going ‘Grrrr’. Is this the result of the UA working partly from posing in a mirror and partly from imagination, or will the book end with a Scooby-Doo unmasking? If it hadn’t been for that pesky Bob Morane.
@Francis B: If you mean that brown bit in the background, I don’t want to imagine what sort of challenge it could be.
March 11th, 2020 at 3:01 pm
Challenging man and beast to what? Dodgeball? Charades?
March 11th, 2020 at 7:01 pm
@JuanPaul: Read.
March 11th, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Oh no, those little guys are chasing me and I am trapped inside this book cover!
March 11th, 2020 at 7:46 pm
It makes you sympathize with the gorilla…
March 11th, 2020 at 7:55 pm
Oh, you humans with your elephant guns and safari clothes and your hip-hop music. BAH!
March 11th, 2020 at 11:06 pm
This artist obviously didn’t take the UAI course on how to do backgrounds.
@fred: At least Toto had some tropical plants, decor, and a person of African descent. So I’d argue it’s far more African than this cover.
@Vlttp: I thought it was a guy with a gorilla mask on too. If The White Gorilla isn’t some sort of unholy mutant/hybrid created by a mad scientist in Deepest Africa — which, judging by @Bruce’s comment is likely — there’s no excuse for any of those proportions, particularly the hands. Unless you’re right about the Scooby-Doo ending.
THE MIME GORILLA.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:18 pm
@Verylatetotheparty
Well, that cinnamon’s gotta come out one end or the other.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:26 pm
@Vlttp: I can’t tell what Bob over there is holding. It’s just a dark blob. And his right arm/hand are in an end-of-pitch position.
So perhaps the human-ape-feces throwing is reversed here, and that’s why gorilla is running.
Either that or Bob’s thrown the shuriken and gorilla’s running before it can get hit in the back of the head.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:43 am
@Bibliomancer—That’s classic mime; you can tell he’s a mime by the whiteface. Performs under the name “Mighty Joe Marceau.”
March 12th, 2020 at 1:56 am
You gotta have a gimmick. So he’s a mime who performs in a gorilla suit to set himself apart from the other mimes.
Bob and pal must REALLY hate mimes to go to Deepest Africa to take one out. Did they clear France already and decide to go to the Congo? Zut alors!
March 12th, 2020 at 3:48 am
Alternate theory: the white gorillas were the first mimes. Human mimes paint themselves white to imitate the gorillas. Bob is going to Africa to destroy the primordial wellspring of mimedom.
March 12th, 2020 at 9:51 am
Bob Morane, what a monster!
March 12th, 2020 at 10:43 pm
@GSSxn 17: Maybe humans originally invented the feaces throwing, back in the mists of time, very soon after discovering how to ferment alcohol.
19. Is Africa too far to go to hunt a mime? (and when they get shot, do they have to silently stagger about clutching the middle of their chest for a few minutes then fall backwards with their legs in the air?)
@Francis B. Just rediscovered the band name generator – still funny.
March 13th, 2020 at 2:44 am
I bet this book isn’t nearly as entertaining as our mime-based speculations.
March 17th, 2020 at 7:10 pm
“It was this big!”
June 21st, 2024 at 3:02 pm
French book series, made into an animated series in 1998. Some English language eps.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFlze-mSKd8CfgOv1Mw18vg
June 22nd, 2024 at 5:32 am
I had my glasses off and the smaller guy in back (Bob’s sidekick?) looked like the (man in costume) gorilla was packing a pistol. More dangerous than earlier theories.