CHIMP MAN
Earth-99532

Real Name: Peter Parker

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-99532) human mutate (fringe character)

Occupation: Adventurer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Lion Man, Mr. Zoo Al-ogator, Predator, the Shark

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Spider-Man Magazine I  (#19) (Fall, 1996)

Powers/Abilities: Chimp Man has the proportionate strength, grip and sight of a monkey, as well as unspecific "monkey sense." He also has a prehensile tail capable of grasping and hanging onto to objects.

    Chimp Man also utilized mechanical banana fluid projectors on his wrists and a boomerang weapon known as his Bananarang.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'10")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 167 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (presumably hazel)
Hair: Brown

History:
(Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)) - After being bitten by a radioactive monkey, Peter Parker became the adventuring Chimp Man. At some point, he began utilizing weapons that go with his superheroic motif, including wrist-mounted banana fluid projectors and the boomerang-like Bananarang, and he garnered quite the rogues gallery of villains such as Lion Man, Mr. Zoo Al-ogator, Predator and the Shark.

Comments: Created by Alex Wilcox.

    Earth-99532's Chimp Man was the product of Marvel's Spider-Man Magazine's "What If?" section featured in later issues of the series in which the magazine asked a specific "What If..." question to its young readers and they would mail in drawings in response to the question. In the 19th issue of the magazine, readers were asked to draw images of "What If Peter Parker Had Been Bitten by a Radioactive Monkey, Instead of a Spider?" In this particular case, Chimp Man was created by then-9-year-old Alex Wilcox of Baltimore, Maryland.

    After Spider-Man Magazine I#10, the issues of the magazine were no longer numbered and were only differentiated by the season and year the issue was published (i.e. "Fall, 1996," for example), as the magazine had moved from monthly publication to seasonal. According to the indicias of the Adventures of Spider-Man and Adventures of the X-Men trade paperbacks released a few years ago (which also reprinted some of the exclusive comic strips seen in Spider-Man Magazine), the issue that featured Earth-99532's Chimp Man would have been #19.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-99532's Chimp Man should be distinguished from:

Lion Man

Lion Man was a known enemy of Chimp Man.

--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) - BTS
Mr. Zoo Al-ogator

Mr. Zoo Al-ogator was a known enemy of Chimp Man.

--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) - BTS
Predator

Predator was a known enemy of Chimp Man.

--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) - BTS
The Shark

The Shark was a known enemy of Chimp Man.

--Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) - BTS
images: (without ads)
Spider-Man Magazine I (#19), p30, splash page (Chimp Man, main image)

Appearances:
Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (Fall, 1996) - "What If?: Chimp Man" - Alex Wilcox (writer, art), Amy Weingartner (editor)

First posted: 08/13/2024
Last updated: 08/13/2024

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