Monkey Business: Beware the Octi-Ape!

Name: Octi-Ape

First Appearance: Blackhawk #152 (1960)

History: As a sort of interstellar Noah, an alien named Kar Han escaped his world's destruction in a giant "artificial asteroid" filled with two of every life form from the doomed planet. Arriving on Earth, they met the Blackhawks, who then helped Kar Han find a plot of land for his family and their alien zoo (which wasn't appreciated by their bigoted "anti-greenie" neighbors). However, their stay was short-lived, since an element in Earth's atmosphere began causing Kar Han's bizarre animals to rampage across the countryside, including the Octi-Ape. After immobilizing the eight-limbed primate with giant tractor tires and capturing the other beasts, the Blackhawks calm the tensions between the angry townsfolk and Kar Han. Realizing Earth's atmosphere would soon affect the minds of not only their animals but also themselves, Kar Han loaded up the space ark and resumed his search for a new world.

Powers and Abilities: Able to hurl twice the feces of an earth-born primate.

Comments

[Ralph C.]

Octi-Ape's movie title: "Eight Arms To Kill You".

BUKOOOM!

[John Nowak]

The Blackhawks sure came a long way from being a group of aviators from countries occupied by Nazis and Japanese, didn't they?

[Pat Curley]

John, the SA Blackhawk has its moments, but it was edited for the most part by Jack Schiff, who never tired of putting another alien or monster or monster alien or weird creature or weird alien monster creature on the cover. He reportedly was a good assistant editor back in the day, but when he took over titles they promptly nose-dived in quality and did not recover unless somebody else took them over.