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Stryzzar wrote: Actually Grodd came first. Gorilla Grodd debuted in comics in 1959, while the original Planet of the Apes novel was published in 1963.

If anything, Planet of the Apes would have knocked off Grodd first as the "super smart talking gorilla" archetype.

What about King Kong? He can't talk as human because he is not dumb.