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APE race

Classification: Alternate reality (Earth-7481) Simian-humanoid extraterrestrial race 

Location/Base of Operations: An unidentified number were based on Earth;
    the Grand Ape Chamber seemed to be directly connected to the base
a base on a cliff overlooking what had been the Jersey Palisades, from which Kempleton monitored the destruction of the tripods; however, as Kempleton spoke to a face on a viewscreen, it may be that the Apes were based out of a different location, but that the center from which their agents could directly contact them was known as the Grand Ape chamber;
    they apparently at least had a base on Mars, the 4th planet from the sun in the Sol system (see comments);
    General Raker was based out of the former Grand Central Station, in what was Manhattan, New York

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Known Members: Master 4, Master Twelve, "Simian Master," many unidentified;
    possibly Elric and his prison guard partner, Kre-Kor and his associates,
Scrapper and/or his warriors, the Scout ship pilot and others;

Affiliations: "Ape-Stooges" (humans loyal to the Ape Masters, including Kempleton), unidentified mutates;
    numerous humans mutated into ape-form (presumably including Gort, Warlord, and possibly 6, Scrapper and/or his warriors, Slasher and others)
    formerly General Raker (as their mind-controlled pawn) and his agents;
    at least formerly Sandra Simian

Enemies: Apeslayer (Jonathan Dozer) and his Freeman (Eagle, Mala, Socrates, others), Sandra Simian, Zom;
    indirectly Ann Carver, Maureen Dozer; and her unidentified younger son;

Aliases: Ape Masters, Generals (see comments), Simian Generals, Simians

First Appearance: Planet of the Apes (UK) #23 (March, 1975)

Powers/Abilities: The Ape race were simian-humanoids with at least human level intelligence, as well as advanced technology, including weaponry and monitoring equipment.

    Notable amongst their weapons were the Tripods, three-legged walking crafts with a large command module. They could fire laser blasts that could blow up an entire metropolitan bridge. They were used to control humans and herd them to extermination centers

ape_masters-7481-pota24-coverTraits: The Apes were imperialistic, seeking to conquer and enslave other races.

    They considered humanity to be lesser beings, and they appreciated scientists whose loyalty was to their work rather than to their fellow man.

Type: Bilaterally symmetric humanoid-simian bipeds
Eyes
: Two (on head; PRESUMABLY brown; black & white comic with limited color see on the covers)
Fingers
: Four (plus opposing thumb)
Toes
: Unrevealed
Skin color: Black
Average height: Approximately 6'

History:
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Planet of the Apes#26 (fb) - BTS) - The Ape-Masters invaded Earth.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - For a century, man revolted against the Apes.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - Inmates of a mental hospital on Welfare Island escaped their hospital when the Apes first attacked.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - Early battles against the Apes seemed hopeless, as many brave men died seemingly futilely, achieving victories against time but not against the simians.

    As mankind learned, so did the Apes, building weapons and machines that they sent against man.

(Planet of the Apes#25 (fb) - BTS) - The Apes defeated mankind in a final war, conquering Earth.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - Within days, Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco were all in flames.

    People fled from the urban centers, such as Manhattan, via bridges.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - The Apes took weapons away from humans.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - For umpteen hundred years, the average fighting man was unfamilar of the sound of steel upon steel.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, the Apes mentally-enslaved some humans, such as General Raker, to serve them and direct other humans who served the Apes.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS / Planet of the Apes#25 (fb) - BTS) - Raker mutated a number of humans into savage ape forms. He also had multiple inhuman/bestial "mutants" (or possibly mutates).

(Planet of the Apes#28 (fb) - BTS) - The being who would become known as the Warlord was a human who willing chose to serve the Apes and presumably to become an ape-mutate.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - Simian-created and/or operated tripod war machines pursued Maureen Dozer and her sons, Jonathan and his unidentified brother (see comments) as they fled to Welfare Island. The trio reached the island just before the ape's tripods destroyed the bridge to Welfare Island.

(Planet of the Apes#23 (fb) - BTS) - Fifteen days later, General Raker and some human soldiers flew to Welfare Island.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb) - BTS) - Raker had his soldiers kill Maureen Dozer and Dr. Ann Carver, who had befriended the Ravens, and capture the children. Raker took Jonathan with him for training by the Apes but told the other soldiers to do whatever they wanted with Jonathan's younger brother, as he was of no concern.

    Raker brought Jonathan before the Simian master, where another human agent of the Ape Masters informed him that he would be trained as a gladiator to fight and kill for the pleasure of his masters. ape_masters-7481-pota-dozerfightsape

    Jonathan and the other youths were trained in swordplay, karate, savate, wrestling, etc.

(Planet of the Apes#28 (fb) - BTS) - This training was brought about by those serving the ape known as the Warlord.

(Planet of the Apes#25 (fb) - BTS) - Apeslayer was taught to throw razor sharp "silver stars" as a child.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - As the youths grew, they were pitted against the Apes' champions, and Jonathan took pleasure in battling them.
    He was mockingly given the name "Apeslayer," which he cherished.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - Eventually, while at least one of the Apes tried to stop Dozer and reported his efforts, Apeslayer slashed that guard across the neck and/or face, broke free and escaped. ape_masters-7481-pota24-asescape

(Planet of the Apes#28 (fb) - BTS) - As Apeslayer escaped, he tore off the arm and part of the face of the ape-mutate that would later be known as the Warlord after months of painful prosthetics/bionics experimentation/implantation.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb) - BTS) - Apeslayer spent the next 12 months foraging for food in what was formerly Queens, New York, feeding on wild animals and studying the old books and information tapes about what life was like before the Apes took control.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - During this time, Apeslayer frequently encountered Simian forces and their human slaves as they sought to collect the remaining freemen for their games and stockyards.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - When he encountered an ape accosting a woman, Apeslayer struck the simian, only appreciating how deadly he had become after killing it with a single blow.

(Planet of the Apes#24(fb) - BTS) - On the former Staten Island, Apeslayer met and stayed with a number of freemen for six years, eventually becoming their leader.

(Planet of the Apes#25 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, the scientist Kempleton came to willingly serves the Apes as they would facilitate his ribonucleic acid (RNA) project.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - On New Year's Eve, Apeslayer led his freemen to invade the ferry that carried a cargo of human slaves, taking out an Ape guard in the process. The ferry brought them to the palace of the human puppet mayor, to whom they demonstrated their power and his inability to stop them.

(Planet of the Apes#24 (fb)) - Having gained recognition by the Ape masters, Apeslayer was denounced by them as a cutthroat and a thief.

(Planet of the Apes#25 (fb) - BTS) - Apeslayer and two Freemen allies, Eagle and Mala, tethered their horses in an abandoned church, and Apeslayer went after the General (Raker).

(Planet of the Apes#23) - Having fought his way past a number of apes (possibly humans mutated into ape-form by Raker), Apeslayer confronted the ape Scrapper, who told Apeslayer he would die for the trouble he had caused. Tackling Scrapper over a ledge and forcing him to bear the impact (incapacitating Scrapper), Apeslayer mockingly apologized, noting that he had a mission to deliver to Scrapper's Generals, and he meant to deliver it personally.

(Planet of the Apes#23 - BTS) - After Apeslayer entered the former Grand Central Station, General Raker unleashed a pair of mutates. Apeslayer swiftly incapacitated them before breaking through the General's defenses and hurling a sharp piece of metal debris that skewered Raker in the right side of his chest. The dying Raker thanked Apeslayer, explaining that he had been liberated from the apes' control. At Apeslayer's request, Raker reviewed how for the past century, mankind had rebelled against the apes as well as Dozer's history with the Apes.

(Planet of the Apes#24 - BTS) - Before dying, Raker noted that he had chosen Apeslayer and that he knew Apeslayer would be ready to face the ape masters on the day Apeslayer breached his defenses. With his final breaths, Raker assured Apeslayer that he had the power and could destroy the ape masters, leaving Apeslayer to wonder what power he had.

(Planet of the Apes#24 - BTS) - As he departed, Apeslayer was ambushed by another ape (or perhaps another of Raker's mutants in ape form), whose neck he broke.ape_masters-7481-pota25-cover

(Planet of the Apes#25 - BTS) - Apeslayer and the Sirens were both surprised to find Apeslayer immune to their power, but the Sirens fled as he was assaulted by a number of "apes" (apparently humans mutated into that form by Raker), whom Apeslayer swiftly subdued. Apeslayer was then joined by Eagle and Mala, who joined him against additional "apes," after which they were then confronted by a tripod ape machine. Fleeing, Apeslayer and his associated encountered a giant, mutated crocodilian to run between the tripod's legs, tripping the tripod atop it, apparently taking out both foes.

(Planet of the Apes#25 - BTS) - Apeslayer and Mala then caught up to Eagle, who found captured and chained humans being herded onto a ferry -- for use in the gladiatorial arena -- by cyborg ape-slavers. Apeslayer led his allies to the attack, overpowering a number of Apes before confronting the ship's human captain, forcing the traitor at swordpoint to surrender control of the ship. When another tripod emerged from the waters and attacked the ship, Apeslayer ordered the crew to reverse the ship's engines, causing it to smash into the tripod's legs, taking it out.

(Planet of the Apes#25 - BTS) - As the monitor from the tripod went blank, Kempleton, another human servant of the Apes (and a research scientist) operating out of a base on a cliff overlooking what had been the Jersey Palisades, ordered that the Generals must be informed.

(Planet of the Apes#26 (fb) - BTS) - After the ferry docked just off Staten Island and its human cargo disembarked, Apeslayer had the ferry set afire to prevent the Apes from using it again in the future.

(Planet of the Apes#26) - Kempleton informed ape Master Twelve of the recent sabotage, and Master Twelve instructed Kempleton to send out a ape-piloted scout flyer to learn more of the rebels.

    After the scout reported the ferry aflame, Master Twelve ordered the Siren (Skarlet) to resolve the situation.

(Planet of the Apes#26 (fb) - BTS) - Skarlet, queen of the Sirens, traveled to the Freemen's base and placed all of the Freemen in a trance.

(Planet of the Apes#26 - BTS) - After Skarlet took control of Eagle and Mala, Apeslayer was ambushed and restrained by one of the Apes' machines (a miniature tripod), and Skarlet informed him that the Generals wanted a living rebel for their games.

    The robot captor carried Apeslayer into the Arena (formerly Madison Square Garden), where he angrily observed the Simian Warlords and was confronted by Slasher, a giant cyborg ape they described as one of their greatest warriors and the first recipients of the prosthetics created for apes. The Apes told Apeslayer that his death would be in place of those slaves he had freed and that Apeslayer would thusly die for their amusement.

    Instead, Apeslayer battered Slasher, perhaps breaking his neck or otherwise slaying him, after which Mala informed him of the ape-masters' flight and of a weapon targeting them. Destroying the weapon, Apeslayer led his allies to escape the arena. Reviewing the Apes' invasion, Apeslayer vowed that they would one day face the Apes on their own world, but until then they would battle them on Earth, eventually stopping them when they would attempt to flee the planet.

(Planet of the Apes#27) - Apeslayer and Mala fought their way through a number of the Generals' apes, after which Apeslayer led Mala to flee into a museum, where a group of apes or ape-like mutates pursued them. As the Freemen fled, intending to prevent the Apes from learning that the museum was a storehouse of ancient weaponry, Gort directed a group of the apes in pursuit, and Apeslayer dropped a giant statue head on Gort and another ape pursuing them. After Mala took out another of the ape-mutate slaves, Apeslayer subsequently used a silverstar to pin the wrist of an ape-serving human who had been trying to ambush Mala. When Apeslayer questioned the traitor, he replied that the Apes stored their weapons and supplies in the former La Guardia airport (the traitor died while voicing this information, apparently programmed thusly by the Apes).

(Planet of the Apes#28) - As Apeslayer drove across the Verrazano-Narrows (sic; possibly the correct spelling in this reality?) bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island, one of the Ape's tripods rose from the water and blasted away the bridge in front of them. After they hit the water, Apeslayer and Mala used a girder as a lever to unbalance one of the tripod's footpods that stood precariously upon a sandstone shaft. As one of its legs broke off, the tripod crashed into the water. Unheard by the the two Freemen, the Simian pilot trapped within the tripod's control center screeched.

    Meanwhile, the vengeance-seeking Warlord (who had lost an arm and part of his face to Apeslayer in the past), who had set the trap to draw Apeslayer to La Guardia, promised Ape Master 4 that he would deliver them Apeslayer to them that night.

(Planet of the Apes#28 - BTS) - As Apeslayer and his Freemen (Mala, joined by Eagle and Socrates and others unidentified), approached La Guardia, Apeslayer at least claimed that he could smell the simians awaiting them in one of the hangars. Apeslayer led his men into La Guardia, taking out the traitorous human slaves guarding a room filled with weapons.

(Planet of the Apes#28) - As Apeslayer suspected a trap, the Warlord confronted him alongside other ape-warriors. The Warlord ultimately battered Apeslayer unconscious and, with his soldiers' weapons trained on the other Freemen, advised them that they could join their leader in the arena of mutants.

(Planet of the Apes#29 (fb) - BTS) - The Warlord's forces brought Apeslayer, Eagle, Mala, Socrates, etc. to -- presumably the arena of mutants -- in an unrevealed arena location.

ape_masters-7481-pota29-pg2-pan5-krekor&masters(Planet of the Apes#29) - As the Warlord watched alongside Sandra Simian, Apeslayer battled and defeated a number of apes (possibly mutated/enslaved humans), including Kre-Kor. As Apeslayer finished off the last of these slaves, the Warlord assaulted him from behind, knocking him out with four mighty blows.

    As Apeslayer awakened, strapped to a table, advised Apeslayer that -- since he was so tough -- he wouldn't need any anesthetic when the lasers cut into him.

    Sandra Simian subsequently freed the monstrous Zom, who broke out the imprisoned Freemen (including Arrow, Mala, and Socrates).

(Planet of the Apes#30) - Socrates, Mala, and Eagle arrived, alongside Sandra Simian and Zom, and they freed Apeslayer while the Warlord summoned reinforcements. Dodging a strike from Warlord's bionic arm, Apeslayer punched Warlord in the face and joined his allies in fleeing.

(Planet of the Apes#30 - BTS) - Guided by Sandra, they emerged in what was once Yankee Stadium. As Apeslayer led the others to the sole accessible exit, he was confronted by a giant crab-like monstrosity that caught him in its claws, after which the creature's hungry brethren arrived as well. While Mala and the others fought off the other creatures, Sandra sent Zom to aid Apeslayer by hurting the creature holding him. With the creature distracted by pain, Apeslayer finished it off.

(Planet of the Apes#30) - Frustrated at Apeslayer's continued survival, the Warlord leapt down and struck him in the back with his bionic arm. Ultimately Apeslayer held the Warlord's bionic arm in the crustacean's corrosive fluids, dissolving it. Apeslayer uncharacteristically spared the Warlord but warned that if he continued to enslave men and crossed his path again, all of his pleas for mercy would not save him.

    Heeding Mala's advice, Apeslayer led his allies to flee over the bleachers before the Apes could arrive in their tripods. The group considered the time when humanity would exist again in freedom.

Comments: Created/adapted by Marv Wolfman, adapting a story by Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Neal Adams.
    Marvel UK.

    Does this seem familiar? It should.
    See the comments of the Apeslayer profile:

    WHERE ARE THE APES FROM?

    Planet of the Apes#24 has a reference to guards being Martian-trained, and while this may represent an instance of a missed edit, it also might mean the invading apes of Reality-7481 were stationed on Mars.
    Similarly, Planet of the Apes#28 contained a reference to the Martian Masters.

    WHEN

    If his timeline parallels Killraven's, Apeslayer would have been born in late 1999, he would have been captured in 2006, and would have slain Raker in 2018, which was the start of the modern story.
    If not, then...not.

    In Planet of the Apes#23, General Raker notes that mankind had revolted against the Apes for the last century...that would seem to indicate that they were conquered by the Apes over a century ago, which might make the modern stories perhaps 100 or more years from the time of publication (1975), so maybe 2085 or even further into the future?
    Or, perhaps it just paralleled the dialogue of Amazing Adventures II#18, indicating that the Apes had previously attacked Earth back in 1901, just like the Martian Masters had done in Reality-691 (and in Reality-616).
    Planet of the Apes#25 referenced the main story as "untold years after Earth has lost her final war."

    WHICH APES ARE APES?

In Planet of the Apes#27, Gort says, "They ran in here -- I'd swear to the Simians." That would seem to indicate that he, and perhaps those with hime, were humans mutated into ape-form, although this is not 100% confirmed. Apeslayer subsequently refers to them as slaves of the Generals.
    There are similar comments about many of the apes that Apeslayer and his Freemen encountered...we don't really see that much of the actual Ape Masters.
    The only confirmed appearances of the Ape Masters are:

    Beyond that, a lot of those involved in combat, etc. may have been humans mutated into ape-form.
    It also makes sense that not all of the Apes would be Masters/leaders, and that there was a smaller group of leaders and a larger number o soldiers, warriors, guards, etc.
    However, which of the latter groups were of the Ape race vs. human mutates in ape-form is often unclear.

    Sometimes "Generals" was a term used to refer to humans serving the Apes but in a supervisory/leadership role.
    Othertimes, it seemed like "Generals" was another term for the Ape Masters themselves....

    Obviously, in Killraven's Earth-691 timeline, Carmilla Frost became one of Killraven's major allies. Sandra Simian was based on Carmilla, and she obviously liberated the Freemen, but we don't know her true motivations on Earth-7481.

    I think it would be cool if someone wrote an Apeslayer series that fleshed it out and differentiated it from the Killraven stories WITHOUT contradicting the existing stories.

    To clarify, Apeslayer's Reality-7481, despite appearing in the Planet of the Apes magazine, did not occur in any of the "Planet of the Apes" continuities (from the pulps, movies, or comics (US, UK, or otherwise); it is its own distinct reality.

    Thanks to Loki for providing me scans of these stories!

    This profile was completed 12/27/2024 , but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the March, 2025 Mars event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Ape Masters may or may not have any connection to:





Master 4

ape_masters-7481-pota28-pg5pan4-mast4     Having set a trap by having the Ape-loyal human defeated by Apeslayer in the Museum tell him that the Generals were based out of and stored their weapons in what was La Guardia Airport, the Warlord advised Master 4 that he would set an ambush for Apeslayer and then bring him before the Masters as a helpless captive that night.

     Master 4 remained silent as the Warlord ranted about deserving the right to slay Apeslayer himself.

     Master 4 was presumably present as Apeslayer fought the Warlord his agents and Sandra Simian's troops...in the arena to which the Warlord's forces brought him.

--Planet of the Apes#28 (29

Note: Master 4 may or may not have been present with the group of Ape Masters watching Apeslayer battle Slasher in Planet of the Apes#26.




Master Twelve

ape_masters-7481-pota26-pg1-master12     After Apeslayer commandeered a slaver-ferry and used it destroy a tripod, the scientist Kempleton, who willingly served the Apes, traveled to the Grand Ape Chamber, where he contacted Master Twelve via viewscreen to report the event.

     Master Twelve spoke first, noting that the scientists were important to the Apes as often their loyalty was to their work rather than to their fellow man. He continued that those of the Ape race found this trait to be admirable, and that it was one of the few things about humans that they understood.

     When Master Twelve asked him what it was he "scurried here to report," Kempleton told him that the Generals appeared to be engaged in some sabotage (see comments), noting the destruction of two drone tripods as well as the abduction of a cargo of arena slaves.

     Kempleton asked what they should do, and Master Twelve told him that he should obviously send out a scout flyer as they must learn more about the "rebels." Master Twelve continued that if the scout learned what he thought it must, that it would be time for the Siren.

     Immediately thereafter, an air force scout departed the base, flew to the ferry's location off the Staten Island shore and found the ship in flames. The pilot, either a member of the Ape race or one of the humans mutated into ape-form, reported this back to Master Twelve (or possibly to Kempleton) and requested orders. He was instructed to proceed back to the Jersey base, that the Siren had already been notified, and that from this moment forward, this was her assignment.

--Planet of the Apes#26

Note: At the end of the Planet of the Apes#25, Kempleton noted that it was the rebels who were destroying the tripods and seemed to be more trouble than they had assumed them to be. He considered that the General must be informed.
     Then in #26, he told Master Twelve that the Generals seemed to be engaged in some sabotage.
     The term Generals was unfortunately sometimes used to refer to the humans serving the Apes but acting in a leadership role in performing certain tasks, and sometimes it was used to refer to the Ape race, itself.
     In this case, it seemed as if Kempleton was blaming the ship's captain for destroying the tripod.
     The text/scene was derived from Amazing Adventures I#19, in which Kempleton informed one of the Martian Masters that the rebels were engaged in some sabotage.
     It would seem likely that is was just a typo, and Kempleton-7481 meant to say "rebels" rather than "Generals," especially as Master Twelve refers to these "rebels" in his response to Kempleton...but perhaps Kempleton was trying to sow seeds of distrust within the Ape Masters for their Generals for whatever reason...and perhaps Master Twelve could read his mind.
     I don't think Kempleton shows up again, so presumably we'll never know.

     The Siren was Skarlet. She'll get her own profile in time.

     Master Twelve
may or may not have been present with the group of Ape Masters watching Apeslayer battle Slasher in Planet of the Apes#26; and/or with the group Apeslayer fought the Warlord his agents and Sandra Simian's troops...in the arena to which the Warlord's forces brought him in Planet of the Apes#29.




Simian Master

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     General Raker brought the young Jonathon Dozer, alongside other youths, before the Simian Master and then left him.

     The Simian Master remained silent as humans serving the Apes explained to the youths that they would be trained as gladiators, fighting and killing for the pleasure of their masters.

--Planet of the Apes#24

Note: "The Simian Master" would seem to imply that he was the head of the Apes, but it could also just refer to one of the Ape Masters.

     The Simian Master may or may not be the same as Master 4 or Master Twelve (I would prefer that he were Master One!), and he may or may not have been present with the group of Ape Masters watching Apeslayer battle Slasher in Planet of the Apes#26; and/or with the group Apeslayer fought the Warlord his agents and Sandra Simian's troops...in the arena to which the Warlord's forces brought him in Planet of the Apes#29.



6
ape_masters-7481-pota25-6     Possessing a simian head, 6 otherwise looked to have a purely bionic/robotic body, with something akin to a crossbow in place of its right arm.

(
Planet of the Apes#25 - BTS) - A cyborg, the being apparently designated "6" was part of the crew that was herding captured and chained human onto a ferry where they would be taken for use in the gladiatorial arena.

(Planet of the Apes#25) - The Freeman known as Eagle observed this herding and led his allies Apeslayer and Mala to interfere. Apeslayer apparently directed his allies to ignore the "robots" as they weren't programmed for the unexpected.

(Planet of the Apes#25) - Apeslayer led his allies overpowered a number of Apes before confronting the ship's human captain, forcing the traitor at swordpoint to surrender control of the ship. When another tripod emerged from the waters and attacked the ship, Apeslayer ordered the crew to reverse the ship's engines, causing it to smash into the tripod's legs, taking it out.

(Planet of the Apes#26 (fb) - BTS) - After the ferry docked just off Staten Island and its human cargo disembarked, Apeslayer had the ferry set afire to prevent the Apes from using it again in the future.

--Planet of the Apes#25

Note: Given the discussion about bionics experimentation by the Warlord, I think it quite likely that 6 was a human mutated into ape-form who received multiple bionic parts via experimentation.

     Apeslayer apparently dismissed 6 as a robot, but he appeared to have an organic ape-head. Perhaps it was a robot given a mask or artificial outer covering to appear like one of the Apes to inspire fear in the captives. Or perhaps it was partially lobotomized and/or under the control of its bionic systems. While Warlord was a willing agent of the Apes, many others serving the Apes were slaves, and perhaps 6 was one of those?

     One would have to think that, regardless of its true nature, 6 was either destroyed in the process of the human captives' liberation or left aboard the ship and destroyed when Apeslayer set the ship aflame. Or perhaps it was cast overboard at some point...

     Ultimately, we see 6 in the one panel, and its fate was never revealed.





Elric & prison guard partner

ape_masters-7481-pota29-elric-upperape_masters-7481-pota29-elric-zomgrabbed     Elric was a prison guard within the facility to which the Warlord referred as the "arena of mutants." He watched over the dungeon containing the cell holding the Freemen (notably Eagle, Mala and Socrates).

     San Simian sent her agent Zom to free the Freemen, which involved subduing the guard watching over their cell.

     As Elric patrolled the region, Zom ambushed him, grabbing him around the head with his large, suction cup-tipped fingers, and then either smashing him into something or perhaps suffocating him.

     However, before being subdued Elric made some sort of sound, either crying out or from the physical struggle, which alerted his prison guard partner...



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ape_masters-7481-pota29-elric-partner     Hearing something of the conflict as Zom subdued Elric, his fellow prison guard called out to Elric, asking if he had made that noise and what had happened.

     This other guard then turned to see Zom and realized that this was not Elric.

     Zom's suction-cupped fingers swiftly clamped this guard's flesh, and then Zom apparently threw him against a wall, subduing him as well.

--Planet of the Apes#29





Kre-Kor

ape_masters-7481-pota29-pg1-krekor     Kre-Kor was one of the Apes or human-mutates in Ape form who was part of the group who engaged Apeslayer in the "arena of mutants" to which he had been brought from La Guardia.
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     Kre-Kor and his associates futilely battled Apeslayer, who easily tossed them about.

     Notably, Apeslayer kicked Kre-Kor in the chest, to the shock of the other Apes-or-mutates.

     After Sandra Simian's forces failed to subdue Apeslayer, the Warlord ambushed him, battering him into submission.

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--Planet of the Apes#29

Note: As mentioned above, it is uncertain whether Kre-Kor was a member of the Ape race or one of the humans mutated into ape-form.

     Additionally, it is unrevealed whether Kre-Kor and/or any of his associates were present at La Guardia when the Warlord subdued Apeslayer and captured the Freemen and then transported the group to wherever the "arena of mutants" was.

     It is not 100% certain that Kre-Kor is even in either of the images in this profile, but these images are of the group of which Kre-Kor was a part. The only image were Kre-Kor was unidentified also included one of the few images of the Ape Masters, and so it is included in the main profile here.



Scout ship/pilot

ape_masters-7481-pota26-pg2pan2-scoutship(Planet of the Apes#26) - After Kempleton informed Master Twelve of the destruction of tripods and abduction of human cargo from one of their ferries, Master Twelve instructed Kempleton to send out a scout flyer as they must learn more about the "rebels." Master Twelve continued that if the scout learned what he thought it must, that it would be time for the Siren. ape_masters-7481-pota26-pg2pan3-scoutshipilot

     Immediately thereafter, an air force scout departed the base, flew to the ferry's location off the Staten Island shore and found the ship in flames.

     The pilot reported this back to Master Twelve (or possibly to Kempleton) and requested orders. He was instructed to proceed back to the Jersey base, that the Siren had already been notified, and that from this moment forward, this was her assignment.


--Planet of the Apes#26

Note: The Siren was Skarlet. She'll get her own profile in time.

     I don't think there is evidence to support whether the pilot was a member of the Ape race or rather one of the humans mutated into ape-form who served the Apes.


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Planet of the Apes#23 cover (C'mon, you lousy Apes);
       pg. 3, panel 1 (former Grand Central Station);
    #25, pg. 7, panel 4 (6/cyborg ape-slaver)
    #26, pg. 1, panel 1 (Master Twelve; face on screen);
       pg. 2, panel 2 (scout ship);
          panel 3 (scout pilot);
       pg. 5 (Masters observing gladiatorial combat against Slasher);
    #28, pg. 5, panel 2 (Master 4);
    #29 cover (Warlord and other Apes taunting Apeslayer on laser dissection table);
       pg. 1 (Kre-Kor and others battling Apeslayer in Madison Square Garden);
       pg. 2, panel 3 (Apeslayer throwing Kre-Kor or another);
          panel 5 (Ape Masters watching as Apeslayer kicks Kre-Kor);
       pg. 8, panel 1-2 (Elric; upper & face smashed by Zom);
          panel 4-6 (Elric's partner responding to Elric's cry, seeing Zom and getting smashed by him)


Appearances:
Planet of the Apes (UK) #23 (March 29, 1975) - Roy Thomas (plot/concept), Marv Wolfman (editor, adapted/modified said plot concept), Gerry Conway (original script), Neal Adams (penciler), Frank Monte (inker)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #24 (April 5, 1975) - Roy Thomas (plot/concept), Marv Wolfman (editor, adapted/modified said plot concept), Gerry Conway (original script), Howard Chaykin (penciler), Frank Monte (inker)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #25 (April 12, 1975) - Marv Wolfman (editor, adapted/modified said plot concept), Gerry Conway (original script), Howard Chaykin (penciler), Frank McLaughlin (inker)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #26 (April 19, 1975) - Marv Wolfman (editor, adapted/modified said plot concept), Gerry Conway (original script), Howard Chaykin (penciler), Frank McLaughlin (inker)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #27 (April 25, 1975; yes, I know that's only six days, so probably an error, but that's what it says) Marv Wolfman (story, adapted/modified said plot concept), Herb Trimpe (original penciler), Frank Giacoia (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #28 (May 3, 1975; see..) - Marv Wolfman (story, adapted/modified said plot concept), Herb Trimpe (original penciler), Frank Giacoia (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #29 (May 10, 1975) - Don McGregor (plot/concept), Herb Trimpe (original penciler), Yolanda Pijcke (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Planet of the Apes (UK) #30 (May 17, 1975) - Don McGregor (writer), Herb Trimpe (original penciler), Yolanda Pijcke (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)


First posted: 03/01/2025
Last updated: 03/05/2025

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