In 1975, Adventures on the Planet of the Apes offered color versions of the adaptations of the first two films in five- or six-issue arcs, for total of 11 issues.
The stories from the U.S. magazine were edited and released by Marvel UK in a weekly title of the same name, lasting 123 issues from 1974 to 1977.
[6] In 2024, Marc Guggenheim and Alvaro Lopez conceived the next comic book series titled Beware the Planet of the Apes which is a prequel to the 1960s franchise and feature Cornelius, Zira, and the woman that will later be named Nova.
The company also produced an audio-only series on LP that featured the main characters of the television series—Virdon, Burke and Galen—in original stories.
In 1975, Chad Valley, a U.K. toy company, produced 32 short film-based comic strips containing illustrated scenes from various TV series episodes, packaged as part of the slideshow projector playset, named respectively Chad Valley Picture Show: Planet of the Apes Sliderama Projector[10] These strips are extremely rare and difficult to come by, and contain many continuity errors.
Between 1975 and 1977, Brown Watson Books published a trio of UK-published hardcover comic annuals based on the spin-off 1974 television series.
Editorial Mo.Pa.Sa., an Argentine company, published seven Spanish-language Apes comics in the 1970s, featuring original tales about the television series' characters.
In 1981, a Hungarian company published a comic adaptation of Pierre Boulle's original novel, titled A Majmok bolygója (lit.
Between 1990 and 1993, Adventure Comics, a division of Malibu Publishing, produced more original storylines, set after the time of Caesar.
Debuting in 1978, a long-running Filipino parody adaptation called Planet op di Eyps was serialized in Pilipino FUNNY Komiks.
American company Dark Horse published a series written by Ian Edginton, tie-in with Tim Burton's 2001 Apes film.
Mr. Comics had the license until 2005 and released a six-issue mini-series, Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, by Joe O'Brien, Ty Templeton Sam Agro, and other writers, with art by Gabriel Morrissette and additional artists.
Studios launched a new series written by novelist Daryl Gregory, illustrated by Carlos Magno and edited by Ian Brill, with covers by Karl Richardson and Chad Hardin that took place 500 years before the original 1968 Planet of the Apes movie in the continuity of the first five films.
This mini-series is set 20 years before the events of the original film, and features different characters, like Dr. Zaius, than the concurrent ongoing series.
The stories featured Alpha and Bright Eyes, Caesar's parents, and detailed their capture in the wild and the time they spent in the Gen-Sys Laboratories.
started the six-issue series Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, set in the movie continuity of the second reboot film.