Planet of the Apes #13

This August 1975 issue of Marvel's Planet of the Apes magazine delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Bob Larkin, dominated by a snarling, torch-wielding ape surging toward the viewer against a backdrop of fire and jungle chaos — with a bound human and a woman visible among the mayhem behind him. The cover copy promises "Terror to Ape and Man" in a story called "When the Assimians Strike," plus a continuation of "The People Who Are the Planet of the Apes," making this a packed installment of one of the decade's most ambitious black-and-white comics magazines. Inside, the creative team of writer Doug Moench and artist/inker Mike Ploog bring their distinctive energy to a world where, as the masthead grimly reminds us, man once stood supreme — now rule the apes.