Councillor Zaius

Councillor Zaius steps onto the Bronze Age comics page courtesy of Brown Watson's Planet of the Apes Annual, debuting in 1975 in a striking photo-illustrated format that gives this figure an immediate, distinctive presence. With only a handful of catalogued appearances, this is a rare and intriguing corner of the Planet of the Apes publishing world — the kind of find that makes a collector's pulse quicken. Sharing those pages with the likes of Urko, Galen, Alan Virdon, and Pete Burke places Councillor Zaius at the heart of the action in a short-lived but memorable run.