DC Finest: Science Fiction: The Gorilla World

Part of DC Finest

Illustrated by Murphy Anderson
Paperback
$39.99 US
On sale Jul 15, 2025 | 632 Pages | 9781799502159
Enter one of the wildest corners of the DC Universe! On Gorilla World, sentient apes rule and humans are kept in zoos! Follow heroes like Adam Strange as they navigate this bizarre reality and meet its colorful cast of characters.

DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!

Things got a little bit hairy in the DC Universe during the 1950s and 60s! Experience Gorilla World, an alternate reality where great apes reign supreme in the pages of Action Comics, Strange Adventures, and Mystery in Space, collecting up the sci-fi saga as part of the DC Finest line for the first time!

This volume collects Action Comics #183-196; Strange Adventures #35-48; Mystery in Space #16-22.
John Broome scripted the majority of the Silver Age Flash tales, beginning with the second story in Showcase #4 (the issue which launched the character's new incarnation) and continuing on The Flash until 1970. Prior to the Flash, Broome had accumulated a lively résumé of comic book credits, including Captain Marvel and the rest of the Marvel Family, the Golden Age Green Lantern, the Justice Society of America, Captain Comet, the Silver Age revival of Green Lantern, the Atomic Knights, Batman, Star Hawkins, Rex the Wonder Dog, Detective Chimp, and a variety of science fiction tales. Broome retired from comics in the 1970s and passed away in 1999. View titles by John Broome
Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, Gardner Fox was probably the single most imaginative and productive writer in the Golden Age of comics. In the 1940s, he created or co-created dozens of long-running features for DC Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman, the Sandman, and Doctor Fate, as well as penning most of the adventures of comics' first super-team, the Justice Society of America. He was also the second person to script Batman, beginning somewhere around the Dark Knight Detective's third story. For other companies over the years Fox also wrote Skyman, the Face, Jet Powers, Dr. Strange, Doc Savage and many others—including Crom the Barbarian, the first sword and sorcery series in comics. Following the revival in the late 1950s of the superhero genre, Fox assembled Earth's Mightiest Heroes once more and scripted an unbroken 65-issue run of Justice League of America. Though he produced thousands of other scripts and wrote over 100 books, it is perhaps this body of work for which he is best known. Fox passed away in 1986. View titles by Gardner Fox

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Enter one of the wildest corners of the DC Universe! On Gorilla World, sentient apes rule and humans are kept in zoos! Follow heroes like Adam Strange as they navigate this bizarre reality and meet its colorful cast of characters.

DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!

Things got a little bit hairy in the DC Universe during the 1950s and 60s! Experience Gorilla World, an alternate reality where great apes reign supreme in the pages of Action Comics, Strange Adventures, and Mystery in Space, collecting up the sci-fi saga as part of the DC Finest line for the first time!

This volume collects Action Comics #183-196; Strange Adventures #35-48; Mystery in Space #16-22.

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John Broome scripted the majority of the Silver Age Flash tales, beginning with the second story in Showcase #4 (the issue which launched the character's new incarnation) and continuing on The Flash until 1970. Prior to the Flash, Broome had accumulated a lively résumé of comic book credits, including Captain Marvel and the rest of the Marvel Family, the Golden Age Green Lantern, the Justice Society of America, Captain Comet, the Silver Age revival of Green Lantern, the Atomic Knights, Batman, Star Hawkins, Rex the Wonder Dog, Detective Chimp, and a variety of science fiction tales. Broome retired from comics in the 1970s and passed away in 1999. View titles by John Broome
Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, Gardner Fox was probably the single most imaginative and productive writer in the Golden Age of comics. In the 1940s, he created or co-created dozens of long-running features for DC Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman, the Sandman, and Doctor Fate, as well as penning most of the adventures of comics' first super-team, the Justice Society of America. He was also the second person to script Batman, beginning somewhere around the Dark Knight Detective's third story. For other companies over the years Fox also wrote Skyman, the Face, Jet Powers, Dr. Strange, Doc Savage and many others—including Crom the Barbarian, the first sword and sorcery series in comics. Following the revival in the late 1950s of the superhero genre, Fox assembled Earth's Mightiest Heroes once more and scripted an unbroken 65-issue run of Justice League of America. Though he produced thousands of other scripts and wrote over 100 books, it is perhaps this body of work for which he is best known. Fox passed away in 1986. View titles by Gardner Fox