Strange Adventures #69 is an issue of the series Strange Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1956.
Synopsis for "The Gorilla Conquest of Earth!"
Edward Smith uses a time machine to travel to the year 5'000'000 BC, but it starts to affect the Timestream, transforming him into an ape. He reverses and travels to 1'500'000 BC, where humans are slaves of gorilla soldiers. The gorilla soldiers capture Edward, thinking he is a spy, but the slaves save him. They all flee into the woods. Edward discovers a metal that deflects the gorilla ray guns' fire. He leads a revolt, with the other human, using shields made out of the metal. Like in the Time machine, the cruel oppressors are defeated. Edward returns home, thinking how things could have happened in reverse.
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- Edward Smith
- Gorillas
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Synopsis for "The Museum From Mars"
Appearing in "The Museum From Mars"
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- Bill Edmonds
- Martians
- Vol Tor
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- Earth
- Mars Museum
- Mars (planet)
- Canals of Mars (model)
- Marsopolis (model)
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Synopsis for "The Man with Four Minds!"
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Synopsis for "The Human Homing Pigeon!"
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Notes
- "The Gorilla Conquest of Earth!":
- featured the story about a society where apes control the humanity, circa 7 years BEFORE the publication of Planet of the Apes, the novel which inspired the franchise.
- There are several logical problems with this story. The story implies that gorillas overpowered Homo sapiens with ray weapons about 1,500,000 years ago. In that time period, Homo sapiens do not appear in the fossil record, only the ancestral Homo erectus. It is possible that Edward Smith went not to the past of our world, but to an alternate universe where such situations actually occurred.
- "The Museum From Mars" infers the Canals of Mars are real. Actually these are only optical illusions.
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