Editor's note: Kreegah!!! Here we go, folks! It's another glorious Chongo Chimp, Primate Eye tale from the gritty streets of Chicago, USA. It's late 1940. The Germans are blitzing England, but America is still not in the war. Big Daddy Malone, the mad musical orangutan, is languishing in a high security jail cell (where he is likely to remain for a few years), and the North Side Gorillas and South Side Baboons are reorganizing in the wake of the collossal shootout down at the docks, which resulted in the siezing of 50 million contraband bananas by the Feds. Chongo Chimp has a new office and a new car, courtesy of the mysterious Laura "M", who sent him a $7,000 check from Spanish Morocco to replace his losses in the last caper. It was probably just a small slice of the money she netted for seven stolen diamonds, but who knows? It's hard to tell with Laura. Chongo has been lovelorn and morose ever since she left, tortured by his forbidden and secret love for the human female. Now he is about to get his tender little apeskin into another major screwup involving...the Manhattan Project!!! Yowsa!

Writers - keep the basics in mind: Chongo is the hero of these stories. He's smart, tough, cynical, hardworking...a typical Primate Eye. He doesn't get killed. Neither does police detective Drecker (Chongo's pal on the force)...and his 1933 banana yellow Cadillac, a gift from the KING (KONG) does NOT get blown up by anyone. Nymbel the Capuchin monkey is a handy sidekick for Chongo in these stories, so don't kill him either. If other people invent an interesting character, try not to kill him/her without at least getting their permission first. Vampy dames are needed in good primate eye stories, so feel free to come up with some here and there.

Useful bits of street-ape patois can be picked up from a google search for Edgar Rice Burroughs' Ape-English dictionary.

Kreegah!!!

- LH