http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gorillas
Look at this shit.
Because diversity
>>86762202
Julie Schwartz
Gorillas are stronk bro.
Big evil gorillas on the cover kept selling so they kept making gorillas villains.
>>86762202
HARAMBE FOREVER
>>86762409
>>86762438
These are the correct answers.
In the Silver Age, DC put a gorilla on the cover of Hawkman (I think that was the first) and the sales went up. Clearly this meant gorillas = $$$ so they kept adding more.
Because gorilas are fucking awesome?
>>86762481
Also, the Ultra-Humanite one of, if not the most popular Superman villain during the Golden Age, so gorillas were always in the DC zeitgeist.
>>86762202
and people say dc has no black characters
Mort Weisinger (and the other editors) kept track of what was on the covers of the issues that sold better.
Gorillas on covers sold more, probably because the popularity of Planet of the Apes.