Gorilla city vs Wakanda - If I were someone who cared about racism this would be a rant on Marvel.
Gorilla City is a city appearing in
American comic books published by
DC Comics. The city, hidden in the jungles of
Africa, is home to a race of super-intelligent
gorillas, that gained their powers from a meteorite.
Gorilla City first appears in
The Flash vol. 1 #106, (April 1959)
Wakanda - In the distant past, a massive
meteorite made up of the sound-absorbing element
vibranium crashed in Wakanda, and is unearthed a generation before the events of the present day.
Wakanda first appeared in
Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966)
The very first appearance of a location identified as Gorilla City occurred four years earlier in
Congo Bill vol. 1 #6 (July 1955), by
George Kashdan and
Nick Cardy.
The name may be inspired by a god called Wakanda, Wakonda or Waconda of
Native Americans from the
Great Plains, or Wakandas, a fictional African tribe of
Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
The Man-Eater, written in 1915 but published posthumously in 1957.
After an alien spacecraft crashes into the jungles of Africa, a local troop of gorillas become hyper-intelligent and acquire
telepathic abilities. These gorillas form Gorilla City. The city, led by
Solovar, quickly creates technology far surpassing that of
humanity and cloaks itself from human society.
Wakandan technology has, until recently, developed entirely independently of that of the rest of the world. As such, the design philosophies and methodologies are different and often incompatible with conventional equipment. Wakanda is the world's most technologically advanced country.