11 Facts About Congorilla

Congorilla, originally a human character known as Congo Bill, is a superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and Vertigo Comics.

Since the demise of its own series, Congorilla has mainly been seen as a guest star in other titles, including as part of the Forgotten Heroes.

Congorilla returned in the 2009 series Cry for Justice, joining a proactive splinter faction of the Justice League.

Congorilla later became a globe-trotting adventurer, and for a time worked for the Worldwide Insurance Company, protecting policies they had written and saving the company from fraudulent payouts.

Congorilla realized that when his consciousness entered the body of the Golden Gorilla, the creature's consciousness entered his own body.

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Congorilla is later assisted by Janu, a young boy raised in the jungle.

Congorilla becomes the protector of a band of gorillas, and friend of the South African hero Freedom Beast.

Congorilla is part of a much larger makeshift Justice League squad when the return of Batman from a seeming death threatens to destroy time and space.

Congorilla ultimately chooses to resign from the JLA in order to help organize the superheroes of Africa into a more efficient team, as well as to find a worthy successor to carry on Freedom Beast's legacy.

Future version of Congorilla appears in Alan Moore's rejected proposal for the limited series Twilight of the Superheroes.

Now a crime boss in the superhero ghetto that hosts most of the retired or aged Golden Age crime fighters, Congorilla has remained in the body of the Golden Gorilla for decades, since his aging human body became too fragile.