Michael G. 'Mike' Ploog is a comic book artist who contributed material to the Planet of the Apes Magazine for Marvel Comics. Ploog illustrated the main original story to appear in the magazine - Terror on the Planet of the Apes - for it's first fourteen chapters, spread through ten issues. One of Ploog's best friends, Mentor Huebner, was a storyboard artists on the original Planet of the Apes movie, and had given him a lot of the old storyboards prior to his being asked to work on the Marvel magazine.[1] The two later worked together as storyboard artists on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).
Bibliography[]
The following bibliography pertains to Mike's body of work as it relates to the Planet of the Apes family of titles.
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #1 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #2 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #3 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #4 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #6 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #8 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #11 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #13 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #14 (1st story)
- Planet of the Apes Magazine #19 (1st story)
External Links[]
- Mike Ploog article at Wikipedia
- Mike Ploog article at the Marvel Comics Database
- Mike Ploog Gallery
- The Man Called Ploog at Comic Book Artist
- Mike Ploog Interview - 'Simian Scrolls' #10 (2005)
References[]
- ↑ Modern Masters Vol 19 - Mike Ploog (2008)