(Kamandi #2) - Canus brought Kamandi and Ben Boxer to the GWB, where Rat-Men were raiding a dirigible that belonged to Ben's people. Tiger soldiers were not keen on seeing two humans running loose, even with Canus' privileged status, and tried to bring Ben and Kamandi to the kennels. Ben fought back, turning into his steel form, and quickly scattered the soldiers. Canus told them that reinforcements would arrive soon, and urged them to leave because he could no longer protect them.

(Kamandi #4) - Tuftan was the prince of the Tiger Empire, and his father Great Caesar sent him on a mission to infiltrate the gorilla city in Nevada. Tuftan and his men encountered Gorilla-Men soldiers, and he allowed himself to be captured. Kamandi, the last boy on Earth, was also a captive of the gorillas, and after escaping fled through side streets until he found a pipe that led to Tuftan's cell. When Tuftan offered him food Kamandi told him he could get his own, and they argued about the contributions of humanity. Tuftan refused to believe humans once kept his people in zoos. Kamandi told him he could escape through the pipe, but Tuftan assured him he had his own plan. Great Caesar led an army against the gorillas, and the remaining guards left to join the fight. Tuftan smashed his way out of his cell, and told Kamandi he had his own business to attend to, but he thought Kamandi was interesting and almost considered him an equal. Kamandi shadowed him and discovered his aim in being captured. The prison was part of an old USAF base, and the Tiger Empire had reports of an intact bomber plane. Tuftan planned to claim the plane and reverse engineer it so Caesar would have a powerful new weapon of war. Kamandi didn't want to see weapons of the past used to repeat the destruction humans caused, so he used a flamethrower to explode the plane. Tuftan promised he'd pay for his treachery.

(Kamandi #5) - Tuftan helped Kamandi navigate his way through the gorilla-tiger battleground, telling him he'd serve as living proof to Caesar as to why he failed. Kamandi told him he had no intention of going before Great Caesar, and Tuftan threatened to crack his skull if he tried to leave his side. They ended up in a home housing human cattle, and Kamandi shot their gorilla guard, hoping to free them. Tuftan told him he was wasting his time, humanity's natural place in the world was servitude to their animal masters. Tiger soldiers arrived, announcing their victory over the gorillas, and took Tuftan with them. Kamandi freed the humans and fled, but was followed by Flower, a beautiful young woman. They were soon recaptured by the tigers, and Caesar staged a gladiatorial contest to celebrate his victory, choosing Kamandi as a combatant for foiling his plan to get aircraft technology. Tuftan pleaded for Kamandi's life, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Kamandi was pitted against a captured gorilla, and almost died before Tuftan jumped into the arena and saved him. Tuftan said he had to be half-mad to deft his father, but Kamandi said he'd never forget that his friend had saved his life. Caesar was disgusted, but at that moment gorilla reinforcements attacked, and a negotiator demanded the tigers leave their land. Caesar's code of honor made surrender impossible, so Kamandi acted as a mediator. Both sides saw the intelligent human as a possible mystic creature, a voice of the spirits, and they agreed to listen to him. He found an old slot machine and suggested that the winner of a slots game would control the territory. Caesar lost, but both sides were grateful there'd be no more bloodshed that day. Caesar told Kamandi he brought him nothing but bad luck, and asked him to go away. Kamandi asked for a vehicle and Flower's freedom, and Caesar granted him his requests.

(Kamandi #11) - Slave trader Sacker sent his Leopard-Men pirates on an expedition, and they captured a number of feral humans, Wolf-Men, Lion-Men, Tiger-Men and Gorilla-Men to be sold at Sacker's Department Store.

(Kamandi #13, 14) - Tiger-Men, Lion-Men, Gorilla-Men, Wolf-Men, Bear-Men and Rat-Men all attended Sacker's Sweeps, a race pitting humans against each other where failure to win meant death. Kamandi was forced by Sacker to race Kliklak, a giant insect, who was wounded during the race. Kamandi tried to tend to his wounds, crying out for a doctor. The crowd taunted him, demanding action, and Kamandi cursed them for their cruelty. Kamandi's rival Bull Bantam, mounted on a gigantic buffalo, lassoed Kamandi. Prince Tuftan was in attendance, and shot the lasso, freeing Kamandi to the boos of the crowd. Kamandi beat Bull to a pulp, winning the race, and was presented with prizes by a group of women, and he realized he was being treated like a thoroughbred. Spirit embraced Kamandi saying she was his, but Kamandi was furious, telling her humans were neither animals nor prizes, and the Leopard-Men silenced him with a rifle butt to the head, and he was dragged away.

(Kamandi #15) - Prince Tuftan and his Tiger-Men guards at the race, and made a deal with Sacker for Kamandi's release. Sacker made final arrangements with Doctor Canus, and Kamandi asked about the trade and where Sacker was sending them, but the snake refused to dignify him with conversation. Kamandi told him snakes used to live beneath humans, but Sacker thought him mad. Tuftan and his men set off with Kamandi, bound for Washington, DC to find the pre-Disaster relics the Watergate Tapes, which Sacker wanted in his possession. Carolina and Virginia were barren wastelands, and Washington appeared the same as they stopped at the ruins of the capitol. Gorilla-Men lived beneath the capitol, having developed a cult around the Watergate Tapes, and they kidnapped Tuftan and Canus. In their underground lair they prepared to execute the duo, accusing them of trying to take the voices of the spirits in the tapes away from them. Kamandi and the Tiger-Men soldiers fought their way to the lair, and the battle left the capitol in flames. The cultists were using the tapes, amplified through a machine to blast Tuftan and Canus with sonics, but Kamandi shot the machine, disabling it. The remaining apes fled, and Kamandi found that most of the tapes were broken, making them useless.

(Kamandi #16, 17) - Kamandi explored more of Washington's ruins and came upon a biological research station where Gorilla-Men were using humans as test subjects. The scientist Professor Hanuman was intrigued by Kamandi's ability to talk, because he was working on recreating cortexin from the instructions in a diary written by Dr. Michael Grant during the Great Disaster. Cortexin was a brain booster, and Grant used it on gorillas, who began displaying human intelligence. His lab was shelled in the Disaster, flooding the basement with cortexin and freeing the gorillas. He theorized they would replace humanity, and other animals would drink from the stream filled with cortexin. The chief resident had little patience with Hanuman's work, and ordered Kamandi locked up with the other humans. Tuftan was anxious when he couldn't find Kamandi, and soon he and his Tiger-Men located the lab, using cannons to war with the gorillas. Cannon blasts wrecked the cages Kamandi and his fellow humans were locked in, and they made their way to the sewer underneath the lab, where leaking barrels of cortexin still remained, and several of the humans ingested it. Hanuman lay dying, but he witnessed the escape and wondered if intelligent humans would be his gift to the world. Kamandi saw fire and rubble all around him, and went searching for Tuftan. The Gorilla-Men army began overwhelming the Tiger-Men, and Tuftan, after consulting with Dr. Canus, decided Kamandi was beyond his help. He couldn't risk more of his soldier's lives, so he called them off and fled.

(Kamandi #31) - Prince Tuftan, his Tiger-Men soldiers and Dr. Canus were out exploring the ocean when Canus spotted a small sandy island. They departed Great Caesar’s flagship on a motorboat and made ground where Canus was the first to run into Kamandi and the giant Ben Boxer. Ben picked up Canus, only releasing him when Kamandi pleaded with him. Ben soon grew restless and released an energy bolt from his eyes. Kamandi and Canus dodged the blast, which turned the sand around them into glass, and watched the mutate Ben, who didn’t seem to be in control of himself any longer, wander off. Kamandi explained how they’d been abducted in a UFO piloted by “Me,” an alien energy being whose strange energy had mutated Ben. He led the eager Dr. Canus to the UFO, and Canus immediately set about exploring the wonder from space when Tuftan and his men encountered Ben, tossing explosives at him before being forced to flee. Tuftan grabbed Kamandi, claiming he was rescuing him, and the sped back to the flagship. Tuftan commanded his mean to ready their arms and bombard the island, but Kamandi didn’t want to see his friend hurt, and warned him that Caesar would be displeased if Canus died due to Tuftan’s hotheadedness. Canus met “Me” in the UFO, and the being showed that it could exist as a single entity or multiple ones, and Canus realized “Me” had fused part of itself to Ben, controlling him. Ben continued to grow larger and walked along the ocean floor until he reached Caesar’s flagship, at which point Tuftan ordered his men to fire. Kamandi thought Tuftan was acting big for his boots for a teenage prince, but Tuftan assured him he’d left childish ways behind, and was no longer a hip teen but his father’s very son. Ben nearly capsized the boat before emanating glowing energy, returning to the island and shrinking to normal size as “Me” left his body. Dr. Canus had convinced “Me” to cease hostilities, and said it had nothing to fear from them.

(Kamandi #32-34) - Canus introduced “Me” and the entity said it wished to return home, turning aggressive and firing bolts of energy and demanding Tuftan and Kamandi find its’ home until Canus calmed it down. Tuftan disliked being disrespected by an lien, but after sharing a laugh with Kamandi he broke his seriousness for a moment to say he missed his former carefree life. He was loyal to his father, the king, but the responsibilities of war and conquest were quite grim to him. A fleet of Gorilla-Men commandos, led by Ramjam, attacked Great Caesar’s flagship. Ramjam and some of his commandos used the distraction to storm the island and fire a concussion grenade that left Tuftan and company unconscious. Ramjam wanted Tuftan taken hostage and told his men to look for Dr. Canus, who’d returned to the UFO. Kamandi revived and began running to warn Canus. One of the commandos tried to catch him, but Ramjam ordered him to back off, saying they weren’t on the island to hunt animals. Kamandi found Canus tinkering with one of the UFO’s machines and Canus used the UFO’s scanner to show Kamandi the galaxy “Me” came from. Canus knew “Me” would help them defeat the gorilla commandos because they’d struck a bargain. Canus had promised to manufacture a physical body for “Me.” Ramjam and his men discovered the UFO and demanded admittance, but Canus was not intimidated. “Me” fused its’ energy with beach sand to create a temporary body. The sand being blasted the gorillas with sand and lightning until Ramjam surrendered. Tuftan and Ben had recovered and made mincemeat of their guards. They took Ramjam and his men prisoner and went to assist the flagship in fighting off the remaining commandos while Kamandi and Canus staid behind to help “Me.” While Kamandi and Dr. Canus created a body for “Me” Tuftan, his soldiers and Ben Boxer fought fiercely against the Gorilla Men. Ben threw a fuel tank at the gorillas, but a gorilla sharpshooter hit it in midair, creating an explosion that rocked Ben and Great Caesar’s flagship. Tuftran warned Ben that there was no time for wild card tactics, and he expected an animal like Ben to know his place, displeasing the mutant to no end. The Gorilla-Men boarded the flagship, but were driven off after a bloody battle. Tuftan told Ben he had no love for sacrificing his men, but he did Caesar’s duty, and Caesar loved war, linking it to the expansion of his great empire. Tuftan’s Tiger-Men dragged Ramjam from the prisoner’s hold and the gorilla promised his men would return, rescue him and massacre them. Tuftan tied Ramjam to a post, put dynamite around his neck, and said that if the Gorilla-Men attacked him again he’d light the explosives and push Ramjam overboard. Ben was horrified with Tuftan’s grisly idea, but Tuftan said he’d do whatever it took to keep more of his men from dying. “Me” admired her new form, that of a red-skinned, blonde-haired female. Kamandi wondered why a superior species would want an Earthly body, and Canus said he had no answer for Kamandi’s question, which worried him, as did the fact that she wouldn’t reveal why she was on Earth in the first place. She struggled to control her new body and tripped. Kamandi remarked to Canus that she was helpless in a corporal body, enraging her. She blasted them with flames which they barely dodged, and Canus named her Pyra for pyromaniac. Pyra demanded they stay put while she went away by herself to master her new body. Kamandi and Canus kept an eye of Caesar’s flagship, wondering if another attack was imminent. Ben Boxer continued to try and talk Tuftan out of his bloody plan, but the prince would not be gainsaid. The gorilla fleet returned with an armored rammer, and threatened to cut the flagship in two and kill every man aboard if Tuftan didn’t surrender. Tuftan presented Ramjam, threatening to blow him sky high. Watching from the shore Kamandi decided to take action. Canus and Kamandi commandeered Pyra’s UFO which they piloted mentally. Pyra saw them flying off, yelling that it was too dangerous for them to fly her spacecraft without her. They buzzed the Gorilla-Men, drawing their fire, and this distraction allowed Ben Boxer to untie Ramjam, who immediately dove overboard, swimming away as Tuftan tried to shoot him. Tuftan was enraged, but Ben stood by his actions. Pyra arrived, melting the armored rammer and raining fire down on the Gorilla-Men, who fled. Pyra took back mental control of her UFO, and after a surge of energy Pyra, the UFO and it’s former pilots vanished into thin air.

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