THE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT PLANET BY W.E. JOHNS

By Leslie Stead

 

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It is interesting to note that La Plančte des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet, the famous French science fiction novel by Pierre Boulle was published in 1963.

That was the novel that inspired the Planet of the Apes film franchise.  Johns came up with this chapter, The Kingdom of the Apes in 1961.

  

 

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