Beppo is a monkey superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily those featuring Superman.

Publication history

Created by Otto Binder and George Papp, he first appeared in Superboy #76 (October 1959). He made sixteen appearances in Superman comics during the Silver Age of Comic Books.

Fictional character biography

Despite his resemblance to an Earth monkey, due to convergent evolution producing analogous species to fill similar ecological niches, Beppo is from the planet Krypton. He was originally one of Jor-El's test animals. Luckily for him, Beppo decided to stow away aboard baby Kal-El's rocket to Earth and was thus saved from its destruction. Upon landing, Beppo hopped out unseen and went off on his own for some months. Beppo lived in a jungle and handled himself quite well, since as a Kryptonian monkey he had the usual array of super-powers. Beppo later encounters Superman and Supergirl and joins the Legion of Super-Pets. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity reboot, Beppo appears in Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, and the 2024 one-shot Ape-Ril Special.

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