Would a return to this list improve comic sales?
>Gorillas at the top were people that fucking excited over Gorillas back then
>>155145643Do you think DC has like five gorilla villains for no reason?
>>155145588This is like the '70s version of how to create a clickbait YouTube thumbnail.
>>155145660I mean to be fair anon I'd be excited over Gorillas now
>>155145660Gorillas are cool, anon. So are dinosaurs.
>>155145660IIRC the story behind that is DC had a comic book that sold well and decided that it was because the cover had a gorilla on it. The company legitimately had an internal mandate to add more gorillas.
>>1551455882 to 5 yes. 1 not necessarily, 6 definitely not with how bad panic attack protags have become.7 only if it's clever or amusing.
>>1551455887 is just the oldschool version of lorebaiting
>>155145660There is evidence to support that, yes.
Only one way to find out.
>>155145588>The Hero crying Based
>>155145588Move dinosaurs up over gorillas and you've got something
>>155145696
>>155145588you tell me
>>155146059Oh my god! A T-Rex is humping the Statue of Liberty!
>>155145711I have gorilla fatigue, to be honest.
>>155146196I think the question is meant to have something to do with the story, anon.
>>155146181Kino
>>155145887The story is that Strange Adventures #8 featured a cover that was about a gorilla, promising a story about a man who was trapped as a gorilla. Irwin Donenfeld noticed the sales of that issue were stronger than any other so Julius Schwartz did a few more gorilla stories and every gorilla cover sold better than the non-gorilla issues. Realistically it was because a.) gorillas are cool and b.) they were usually paired up with some kind of sci-fi theme at a time where sci-fi was taking off. So gorilla on the cover equated to cool sci-fi story in the minds of kids.
>>155145588>>155146059>>155146196The purple background is one of those things that seems random until you think about it and realize it's an easy visual shorthand to convey a sense of oddness and danger because it can be equated to night when odd and dangerous things occur.
>>155146252>gorilla fatigueImpossible, gorillas are fucking awesome to all people. You must be an alien.
>>155146481No, anon, I live on this Earth.
>>155146830>THIS earth
>>155145660Cultural milestones lasted longer back then, King Kong was THAT big. Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and Forrest Ackerman became friends though loving King Kong. Eiji Tsuburaya used to tell kids King Kong stories during WWII to distract them from the war going on, and it inspired his SFX work. That alone has so many ripples in pop culture.
>>155146196I'm genuinely intrigued
>>155145660Yeah? Imagine you're flipping through comics on the rack and there's an issue of Punisher or whatever with Frank and also a gorilla featured on the cover. You'd be a little intrigued, right?
>>155145588Chat, would you buy this comic?
>>155147526Looks like the last 100 pages of pynchon’s shadow ticket
>>155146059Ah, I miss Ape Escape
>>155147526I'm not buying AI slop, thank you.
>>155147620Slop implies it’s bad, that shit looks sick
>>155146059I unironically want to know more
>>155146059Well I know you're trying to prove a point but I'd buy that, it looks cool as fuck
>>155146320i have long wondered if that bump in sales still happens
>>155145660>not thinking gorillas are the coolest ever ngmi
>>155146255I think the hero's mom died, and that's why he's crying. I would buy the comic to find out.
>>155147526Kill yourself.
>>155146181Pure charisma
