Ape Man Ads is an advertising agency centered around promoting businesses and products supposedly indorsed by the "Lord of the Jungle" Tarzan. It originates from the 1958 humor magazine Cracked, first appearing in their 33rd issue from 1963.
In the wake of Tarzan's renewed and rising popularity, movie producers and merchandising companies wasted no time in taking advantage of the iconic ape man's image to find various new marketing outlets for which to profit of his famous loin-clothed image, resulting in the birth of Ape Man Ads shortly after the release of countless new films which turned the jungle hero into a globe-trotting adventurer after realizing that having him stuck in Africa would leave Tarzan stuck in the box office, leading to the birth of such films as "Tarzan in Tailand", "Tarzan Goes to India" and many more as "Tarzan Goes Around the World in 80 Pictures" which were soon followed by an avalanche of products and ads all bearing the likeness of the Lord of the Jungle himself, switching from the jungle trail to the commercial trail with new lines of "Tarzan Indorsed Products".
The company is an obvious spoof of Tarzan of the Apes by legendary author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
It is also a spoof on the hefty amount of Tarzan-based films, spin-offs, knock-offs, deviations, ads, merchandise, products and more that were becoming increasingly more prevalent during the 1950's and 1960's as Tarzan's popularity continued to find new outlets.
