The Invisible Boy extra on the "Forbidden Planet" 50th Anniversary DVD released in 2006 and on the Blu-ray released in 2010. Even on the Blu-ray, the film is in standard definition. The Invisible Boy The Invisible Boy (aka S.O.S Spaceship) is a 1957 black and white American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Herman Hoffman, and starring Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott. It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, the science fiction character who "stole the show" in "Forbidden Planet" (1956), also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to an implied, subtle back story in "The
Planet of the Apes (comics) Apes". Many fans believe this to be the benchmark in quality writing and art, not usually matched in published works. Set in the Forbidden Zone, lone gorilla Gideon goes on an epic hunt of a savage human and takes shelter in an abandoned relic. The story was originally issued in episodic form with each chapter hosted on a different "Planet of the Apes" website, in an effort to promote co-operation between the online community. A compilation of these pages can be seen at Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive, After unsuccessful attempts at securing a publisher, a re-write was undertaken