There is a legend among DC Comics fans, one that is based on factual events. It’s simply this — “apes sell comics”. Say this phrase to any DC fan and a wistful smile will come over their face. Once ...

Detective Chimp is one of the stranger characters in DC Comics. Despite this, even Batman acknowledges him as the true “World’s Greatest Detective.” However, to help out his old Justice League Dark ...

Detective Chimp was introduced in the early 1950s, a darker era for DC Comics. Once the ’80s rolled around, Detective Chimp was resurrected and began intersecting with the larger DC Comics lore and ...

So we may well get an Absolute Detective Chimp coming book down the line. He continued, clarifying Absolute plans to come. "I want to be clear to everybody out there what my relationship is to DC ...

Forget your Batmen, your Green Lanterns, all those muscle-bound, brooding types. There's an intellectual powerhouse in the DC Universe you've been sleeping on, and he's a chimpanzee. Detective Chimp.

The "women in refrigerators" trope as coined by Gail Simone, with "fridging" now a ubiquitous term, sees the partner or loved one of a protagonist murdered or maimed, often in a cruel and unusual ...