Sam Simeon (New Earth)

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Sam Simeon
Mainstream Universe‎, 1986‎-2011‎
Real Name	Sam Simeon
Relatives	Gorilla Grodd (grandfather)
Affiliation	Angel O'Day
Base Of Operations	New York City
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Illustrator and Artist, occasional Detective and Adventurer
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5' 9"
Weight	550 lbs (249 kg)
Eyes	Hazel
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	New Earth
First Appearance	Showcase #77 (September, 1968)

History

Originally living in the African jungle Sam Simeon lived as a normal wild gorilla untl he meet Professor Theo O'Day and his daughter Angel who were on holiday traveling in Africa. The O'Days were impressed with the partially talking ape (originally Sam spoke in gorilla then English (Oook eek blog Angel? How's it shakin' Angel?). Invited to accompany the O'days back home to America Sam decided to join them -- partially in attraction to living a better personal life using his drawing talents and partially to stop Angel from pestering him. Arriving in New York City, Sam successfully used his art skills and was employed as an artist for DC Comics. He occasionally joins his friend Angel in her detective agency activities more as a chaperone than an actual partner though Angel rarely needs protection as she is fairly lethal when angered, though is usually portrayed as "bubble-headed" the rest of the time. Sam and Angel in recent history became estranged after a period of time preferring mostly to work together only select occasions for various personal reasons despite their personal friendship which some think will still develop beyond their original levels.

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Angel and Sam in their revamped more realistic Vertigo forms (The Angel and the Ape Vol 3 #01)

Notes

Sam Simeon was originally portrayed as a partially talking, competent ape who lived and worked among human beings. Most of the original adventures were clearly shown with people reacting to the fact that they found out that Sam was in fact an actual large gorilla.

Later on he was retconned to be the grandson of Gorilla Grodd and had actual limited mental powers that he could use to make a limited number of people see him as a human being, however should he break concentration, they would see him as an ape. He once operated a full time detective agency with Angel O'Day which he still occasionally does.

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