Yes. You are no doubt aware that, in his first appearance, he was a space-going chimp exposed to a collision of kryptonite meteors, causing him to grow and develop kryptonite vision. He looked pretty dorky, with those huge ears, and it was a distinct improvement when they quietly turned him into a gorilla in later stories.
For my part, I like Sam Simian of Angel and the Ape, especially the revival story that Phil Foglio did about ten years ago.
Band name!
Well, not the whole 70 year output. I’m iffy on the Golden age stuff, but from, say 1954 on, at least in DC and Marvel, I’m pretty good. 
Like I said: I’ve got a weird memory for this sort of trivia.
Papermache Prince: You got it! (Really, really horrible story too. Batman learns he has a retarded or brain-damaged brother named Thomas. He eventually gives Thomas’s body to Deadman so Deadman can live again. Obviously this could only be written by Bob “Continuity? What means this word?” Haney.
I’ll leave the rest of the questions hanging for a while. If anyone feels like guessing, have fun and if anyone cares, I’ll give cites later tonight.
Cal: I agree that the early Titano looked pretty dorky in his “ape” mold. But dammit, I’d gladly have him look that way again, if only they’d bring him back. But given the current state of the Superbooks, I’m kind of glad they’re not. < sigh > I miss Superman (the current guy, regardless of the name, ain’t Superman to me)
And I agree; Foglio’s Angel and the Ape was a fantastic take on the characters. Much better than the recent Giffen version for Vertigo.
Fenris
This is because you are (probably) not a 10 year old kid in the year 1955 who lived next door to Mort Weisinger.
Um. Or if you are, I’ve got a list of stuff I’d like you to buy for me:
AT&T stock, International Business Machine stock. invest in a little off-Broadway show that’ll be opening in about 4 years called “The Fantasticks”, oh and I’ll give you a list of comics that I’d like you to buy multiple issues of for me: Action 252, Adventure 247. Amazing Fantasy 15, oh the list’ll go on and on!
Fenris
Incidentally, the post-Crisis Titano didn’t have Kryptonite vision. He was just real big and real nasty. And then he died.
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Speaking of parallel Earth-stuff, I was a regular collector of All-Star Squadron in the eighties, when DC dusted off their 1940s (Earth-2) stable and brought back characters like Liberty Belle and Johnny Quick, along with some altered versions of 1940s characters (the female Firebrand), some characters created much later but whose stories were originally set in the 40s (Commander Steel) and some completely new ones (Amazing-Man). In hindsight, what I find most remarkable was that it was the beginning of DC’s “modern maturity”. The characters said “damn” and “hell” a lot, had off-camera sexual interludes, and I’m pretty sure somebody said “bastard” at one point. Of course, they were allowed to be rough. There was a war on, after all. I have every issue up to the Crisis, at which point the series tanked. Pity, really.
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Anyway, there weren’t any gorillas in that series that I can think of, but don’t overlook Braniac’s pet space monkey, Koko, or the reprehensible Gleek from “Superfriends”.
Regarding the unfortunately acronymed A.S.S., sure they had a gorilla: Remeber the Ultra-Humanite’s albino-big headed gorilla body?
That was more of a Justice Society thing. The A.S.S. Ultra-Humanite was a human woman, and quite a fox. Another sexual element that put this series ahead of the other DC titles of the day in maturity.
Well, now, what about the A. S. S. issues that previewed the Infinity, Inc. characters? Wasn’t the ape-Ultra in some of them? I do remember that the actress-Ultra was in them. Time travel was involved, and I think both of those versions of the Ultra-Humanite were in the story. (There were other versions - a dinosaur and a wasp, for instance, that were not in that story.) I could be confused, however. I know that the ape-Ultra appeared in some issues of Infinity, Inc., as did older versions of many of the A. S. S. characters.
Speaking of maturity, there was an issue of Infinity, Inc. which included a more or less nude Earth-2 Wonder Woman.
As Boris Badenov used to say, “Hoooo boy,” meaning "I’ve put my foot in it again. Humble apologies,cmkeller . I was not intending to dis Space Cabby (except by spelling iit wrong ::smacks self in forehead, Homer style::). I was using him as an example of a character who would be known by someone DEEP into the DC franchise. And by Fenris’ later remarks, I wasn’t even close to the depths of obscurity he’s plumbed. Maybe if I’d tried an off-brand character like The Fly or Captain Atom…
And just FYI, the obscure characters listed were:
Dr Strange (Iron Man bad-guy): He was a bad-guy in Tales of Suspense…um…40? A Russkie, IIRC. And his daughter was a babe.
Black Zero: Space alien who destroyed Krypton, pre-Crisis. One of those very, VERY bad stories that you can’t QUITE pretend is an Earth-B story or an imaginary tale. Everyone ignored it.
The Scarlet Beetle: Fought Ant Man and the Wasp
The Living Eraser, Also fought Ant Man and the Wasp
Thomas Wayne: See upthread a ways.
Maaaad Dr. Doom (no relation) and Chester: Maaaad Dr. Doom was a green-skinned fiend…Imagine Simon from the Underdog cartoons, and make him taller and green. Chester was his flunkey: sort of a greasy beatnik type. Oh yeah: and they fought L’il Archie, back when the book was good.
Baron Von Grabbe: Fought Sugar & Spike and Bernie the Brain.
the almost Earth-3 Legion (correcting a typo): In one issue of Superboy (#117?), Superboy meets a bunch of Legionaires who were super-delinquents! Turns out when he flew through the time barrier he also crossed over into another dimension: there were a couple of reasons it couldn’t be Earth-3 (the most obvious: The Legion of Super Delinquents recognized Superboy: and there was no Superboy on Earth 3), but it was pretty damn close
Fenris
(I promise to stop now)