Kashgar wrote: As this strand began by discussing Gorilla Island/Planet of the Apes I was only including those stories where the apes were sentient beings that had developed humanoid intelligence. Therefore I can't see how robots could be included or indeed 'trained' apes like the one in the Poe story.
I'd just brought up Mytek in the context of what the book 'Comics Gone Ape' would have featured had UK characters been included, and thought you were suggesting he wouldn't have got in there due to being a robot. But obviously you were just bringing him up again in reference to your own point about the history of educated apes in our comics.
Now, where does Mickey the Monkey fit into all this?