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Tuesday, March 25, 2026

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

The Purple Ape on this May 1951 comic book jumped the sales so much that all the DC Comics editors wanted to ape it by putting purple apes on their covers. The publisher was forced to leash the editors in with a monthly purple ape limit!


— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 12:03 am.
Posted in Weird But True | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Monkey See, Monkey Do!”

  1. Michael Burton Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Ruth isn’t buying it — Ralph is right-handed.

    Tragically, changing handedness was the one part of the terrible experiment that worked perfectly.

  2. D. J. David B. Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Wouldn’t it be funny if it wasn’t the ape on the cover that made this issue sell so well, but just the name “Ralph” that attracted comics buyers? Elongated Man would have been DC’s most popular character!

  3. Michael Burton Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    I’m impressed that they paid actor Raymond Bailey to play Panicky Guy in White Hat. (Bailey also played Mr. Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies.)

  4. D. J. David B. Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Bear in mind, this was 1951, eleven years before they made The Beverly Hillbillies. It’s likely that Paul Henning spotted Bailey on this ape cover and created the Drysdale especially role for him.

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