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REVIEW OF TIMELINE OF tv shows that never made it to the APE CHRONICLES big or small screen. THE PLANET OF THE APES By Elaine N Robinson International [email protected] All in all, Timeline of the Planet of PLANET OF THE APES the apes is a complete reference Rich Handley’s "Timeline of the book in addition to being just an Fan Club Planet of the Apes", The Definitive enjoyable read. I highly recommend Unauthorized Chronology, is a must this book for any avid apes fan. [email protected] for any apes fan or sci-fi fanatic. Mr Timeline of the Planet of the Apes PlanetOfTheApesFanClub.com Handley has written a Thorough work on everything related to the Rich Handley - Hasslein Books Issue #46 apes saga. This includes movies, Order at Amazon.com television show, comics, books, and June 2009 even the re-imagination Planet of the Apes 2001. President of the International POTA Fan Club The book begins with the prehistory Publisher / Editor / Writer of apes and ends with winter 5041. Terry Hoknes What I find particularly helpful in this 739 Taylor Street East book is the listing of the Marvel, Saskatoon, SK Canada Dark Horse and foreign comics. As S7H 1W1 (306) 270-9387 a collector of pota memorabilia, this gives one a reference for Issues #40 onwards $9.99 US funds per issue Those comics not that are missing includes Free shipping from a personal collection. It is an HOUSE OF THADE expansion of the pota universe that anywhere worldwide By Elaine N Robinson fans of the comics can enjoy and I [email protected] now know what is missing from my Back Issues #1-39 collection. $4.99 US funds per issue Thade, General of Chimps, Buy 3 or more issues and get This book also answers questions leader of apes, Free Shipping Anywhere that are not explained in the movies. not a primate for wimps. worldwide Novels, comics and audio tales add to the storyline of apes ruling the His house has slaves, planet. Issues like apes acquiring they cook, clean and OR buy a complete run of back issues speech, life after the ape rebellion, do his bidding. #1-45 for $135.00 shipping included mutant conflicts in the Forbidden Zone and other parts of the pota When he captured me, Payments made by either: saga are answered here. I find I said "you have got PAYPAL.COM at myself rereading this book and to be kidding!" [email protected] picking it upwhen a question pops international money orders / checks / into my mind.It is awesome to just I am an anthropolgist cash in US funds reach for this book and look up the with a Ph.d. answer. This book fleshes out the All back issues of Ape Chronicles pota universe for those of us who You are a simian and Ape Crazy are still available want more. just like me. Ape Chronicles is the bi-monthly magazine for the International Planet Of The Apes Fan Unlike Star Trek, Star Wars and We share DNA, Club formed to promote POTA other sci-fi universes, pota is not and are excellent available on book shelves in tool users, All materials contained in Ape Chronicles are massive quantities. The fans are he growled at me, copyright 2009 of each writer and may not and stated I was be copied without permission limited to the few novels of the movie and tv show, cartoon series a loser. Planet Of The Apes is copyright Twentieth and the occasional fanfic. Mr. Century Fox Film Corporation. Handley’s book gives us more and So now I live and This fanzine is non-profit to promote the work in the House POTA Franchise for this I am grateful. of Thade, servant to the master, The appendice at the back of the Information reprinted from Internet sites book is helpful listing the movies, tv I am his slave. such as www.IMDB.com and series and cartoon www.Wikipedia. org series along with those movies and CHANOC #833 In the 'POTA' issue they end up in a time with MEXICAN 1975 cavemen and mistakenly think they are on a planet PLANET OF THE APES of apes for some reason (bit hard to be sure without being able to read Spanish or whatever it COMIC BOOK EDITION is) at the start of the story 2 cavemen are watching By Neil T. Foster TV (!) and they are watching Planet of the Apes I'd say it is pretty rare as I've only ever seen the 2 somehow. copies on ebay but is probably easier to get in the country it was released in. This page is the only one in the whole comic that features POTA as far as I can recall (the comic is I did a bit of research at the time on the net and stored away and I haven't had time to hunt it down found out that the comic series was actually about just yet) The cover has nothing at all to do with the two men who somehow could end up anywhere story inside really but the girl on the cover is in the and have wacky adventures and was very popular story. at the time apparently. They could end up anywhere and any year as far as I could find out. I bought my copy for much less than a recent copy on eBay. I was lucky then as no one else bid on it. STRATIGRAPHY ON THE Ground ONE: roughly 1,300 years BP (Before Present), where he found "traces" of an early ape PLANET OF THE APES creature at a stage of Primitive Barbarism... a By Patrick Michael Tilton mere century before the writing of the Sacred Scrolls, if we are to believe Zaius' dating of the In the Cave scene in PLANET, Zaius says, Lawgiver (which I do). "Present your evidence, Cornelius." Ground TWO: cutting tools... quartz arrowheads.. We see Cornelius on the topmost level of the . carnivorous gorillas. Cave's floor (let's call it "Ground Zero" to indicate Ground THREE: the "more advanced" society that "zero" time has elapsed since it became the with Metallurgy.. the world dominated by Man ground level of the Present Day from their at the time when he destroyed his own standpoint in the latter half of the 40th Century). civilization. Cornelius then steps down onto the next-to-the- First off, let's examine Cornelius' dating of the top level (let's call this "Ground One" in that it is deepest level (Ground THREE) as dating "back one "time period" removed from Ground Zero's 700 years earlier"... Earlier than When? He must present time, dating back to a Past era), and he be referring to the artifacts TWO LEVELS UP says: "It was at this level that I discovered traces (i.e. what I call Ground ONE), which he had dated of an early ape creature... a stage of primitive back "1300 years, roughly" from the Present. He barbarism, really, dating back some thirteen isn't and cannot be dating Ground THREE back hundred years, roughly." seven hundred years from the level in-between the Cornelius then steps down another level (let's call two, since we know that the general dating this "Ground Two" in that it is two "time periods" scheme -- no matter what Zaius might think of it -- removed from the Present "Ground Zero" level he is accurate: the 1300 years added to the 700 years began at) and he says: "It was at this level... I equals the "roughly" 2,000 years separating the discovered cutting tools and arrowheads of quartz, end of the 20th Century (and the human-waged and the fossilized bones of carnivorous gorillas." Nuclear War) from the end of the 40th Century... Cornelius then steps down towards where Taylor's the "twenty centuries" Taylor nags Landon about. standing and proceeds over to a tarp on the But, at first glance, it seems as if Cornelius was "Ground Zero" level. He says, "But the artifacts dating the deepest level to a period 700 years lying here..." -- and he pulls the tarp up to reveal earlier from the next level up, rather than the level the objects that had been hidden beneath it -- "... two steps up from it (and one step down from the were found..." -- and he then steps down to an Present level). Since Cornelius never gave a time even deeper level adjacent to where Zaius is interval separating Ground TWO from Ground standing. Let's call this level "Ground Three" in ONE (or from Ground TWO to Ground THREE that it represents a stratigraphic level three "time either, for that matter), then it seems reasonable to periods" removed from the Present time. He say that Ground TWO represents an intermediate continues: "... at this level, and date back, uh, era, somewhere between 1,300 years BP and seven hundred years earlier. That's the paradox... 2,000 BP, since it lies between those two levels of for the more ancient culture is the more advanced. stratigraphical ground. Thus, the "carnivorous Now, admittedly, many of these objects are gorillas" would be dated to somewhere between -- unidentified; but clearly they were fashioned by halfway? -- 1300 BP and 2000 BP... let's say, beings with a knowledge of metallurgy. Indeed, splitting the difference just for fun, about 1,650 the fact that many of these tools are unknown to BP, or to around the beginning of the 24th us suggests a culture which, in certain ways, Century (i.e.