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Bedtime for Bonzo

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Really?  That's what I'm covering? I first saw this film (and last saw this film) at a drive-in, the summer after Ronald Reagan was elected president, because I guess they thought it would be funny.  I was eight years old at the time, and it was the first I had learned our president was once an actor.  It really blew my mind. TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE “THE FAMOUS APE” (SHORT STORY BY CHRIS ROBERSON) Release Date: 2007 (Setting is unknown and questionable) Series: Tales of the Shadowmen Horror Crosses: Island of Doctor Moreau Non-Horror Crosses: Nyoka the Jungle Girl; Babar; Curious George; The Flash; Zembla; A Report to an Academy; Kaspa the Lion Man; Ka-Zar; Jann of the Jungle; Tarzan; Bedtime for Bonzo; His Monkey Wife; Speed Racer; Magilla Gorilla; Grape Ape; Tintin The Story: Dr. Moreau continues his experiments in African jungles. Notes: This story explains several anthropomorphic cartoon characters and seemingly more th...

Jungle Girls

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I'm only covering the more well-known and crossovery ones, but the Jungle Girl is a major trope. For more on the trope and a longer list of Jungle Girls, click here. 1818 to late 19th century--MONSTER IN THE MANSIONS--Frankenstein's Monster in the jungles of Rima. Publisher Tommy Hancock has informed me the novel picks up directly after the events of Mary Shelly's novel, and ends several years before the events of Green Mansions. TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE “THE FAMOUS APE” (SHORT STORY BY CHRIS ROBERSON) Release Date: 2007 (Setting is unknown and questionable) Series: Tales of the Shadowmen Horror Crosses: Island of Doctor Moreau Non-Horror Crosses: Nyoka the Jungle Girl; Babar; Curious George; The Flash; Zembla; A Report to an Academy; Kaspa the Lion Man; Ka-Zar; Jann of the Jungle; Tarzan; Bedtime for Bonzo; His Monkey Wife; Speed Racer; Magilla Gorilla; Grape Ape; Tintin The Story: Dr. Moreau continues his experiments...