oh man this kicked soo much ass!!! This book had all kinds of crazy shit in it. Godzilla vs Bigfoot, Godzilla in a cattle caper, Godzilla in vegas... it's too bad this will never get reprinted in color.

If only it were in color.This was a really good series, bringing Godzilla into the Marvel Universe.Substituting the Showa era JDF is S.H.I.E.L.D., and Dum-Dum Dugan is lovably irrasciable.While lacking the ability to use any other Toho creatures, Doug Moench and company were able to craft some interesting kaiju styled monsters, and an enduring menace in Doctor Demonicus.Red Ronin is a worrhy addition: I always wished we could have had Shogun Warriors cross over into this series.In all, an excell...

The King of the Monsters hits comics with a BANG! Marvel did a great job of making Godzilla into a superhero-ish character. nice art and stories make this a fun read. Recommended

In Godzilla King of the monsters, Godzilla is first treated as the enemy to the world but then later on he becomes more of a hero saving everyone from aliens and other monsters. The main conflict is that the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D are chasing Godzilla around the world and trying to stop him from destroying cites. Will the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D find a way to defeat Godzilla? I really like this comic book I like everything about it, the story, the action, and even the drama with the human character...

We Godzilla fans are crossing our fingers and keeping our hopes high that the imminent release of the Warner Bros./Legendary reimagining of the King of the Monsters will actually do him justice...unlike a certain American movie from 1998 that had a giant iguana with a Jay Leno chin, cough! I've followed the Big G most all of my life, and watching him keeps the kid in me alive. What young'un WOULDN'T love the idea of an unstoppable, skyscraper-sized, fire-breathin' dinosaur fighting other, imposs...

This was an amazingly fun, and bizarre, book, collecting the two years' worth of Godzilla comics that Marvel published in the 1970s. The series starts with Godzilla arriving in Alaska and tearing his usual swath of destruction down the Pacific coast before being halted by SHIELD (the Strategic Hazard Intervention and Enforcement Law Division) and a pre-teen boy piloting a giant robot. After that it seems like they weren't too sure of what to do with the character, but the series contiued for ano...

It must be said I thought the comics contained in this essential would ne lousy, but was rather good and just goes to show what can be achieved when a regular artist and writer are allowed to develop a comic book. Although it must be said there were some plot lines that were ridiculous such as this 100's foot tall lizard that had already decimated Tokyo, came as a complete surprise to the Americans(!), and how Godzilla was so hard to track across the mid western plains, but all in all I rather e...

Marvel's take on Big-G; lots of fun, though I wish it were color and omnibus quality.Collected the originals as a kiddo on their first run in the 70s while thrilling to Godzilla's exploits on Saturday afternoon creature feature movie replays on TV. Loved all things big-G and still do! Currently out of print and only available from 3rd party or the auction site, this was a fun collection of somewhat uneven stories as Godzilla romps across the Marvel Universe pursued by Dum Dum Dugan on orders fro...

Conceptually, the book is not terrible, but in practice its kind of cheesy and slow. Godzilla is obviously a strong villain/dangerous persona, being all big and belligerent, blowing up buildings. And there are a lot of cameos from Marvel heavyweights, such as a constant presence from S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. There's even a bizarre time travel one-shot with Devil Dinosaur.And the art is excellent. Jim Mooney inks/draws as great as he always does, Tom Sutton is

Not a bad value for a $5 impulse purchase (24 issues of the Marvel "Godzilla" comic from the 1970s, in B&W rather than color); it's perhaps not quite as much fun as sticking Godzilla into the middle of the Marvel Universe perhaps should have been - he never gets to fight Fing Fang Foom, for example, and they don't dig out the crazy Kirby creations from the days when Marvel really specialized in monster comics.It does, however, feature a couple issues worth of Godzilla going back in time to meet

What happens when you have a capable writer who has to write a comic about a mute lizard? What happens when a hack artist gets assigned a comic based on a (then) not-particularly hot foreign property that is largely ridiculed by adults? You get Marvel's disastrous run of Godzilla comics...and they suck, hard. Can you even imagine if Darrow could get his hands on this character as an artist? Or what about if Grant Morrison took us on a trip into the minds of a Mothra, or a Mechagodzilla? People w...

Though the idea of Godzilla being in the Marvel Universe is an interesting idea, the execution is a bit lacking and the design is wanting.

Okay, I feel as though I have to defend my rating of five stars on this book; it's a weird pick.This is a great book, if only for the shear wackyness of the stories. First off, you have Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D, The Champions, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers fighting against Godzilla throughout the course of the book. You also get a twelve-year-old boy piloting a giant robot called Red Ronin (I love alliteration!), Godzilla destroying Las Vegas and a certain crazy gambler's chances, a figh...

What do you get when Marvel and Toho are mixed together? A trippy journey akin to eating giant hallucinatory mushrooms, that's what! Bizarre LSD Toho monsters from test tubes and space, mixed with the Marvel satirical superhero wit, and a large dose of Mel Brooks type humor and pop references. For instance:Read the rest of the review on my blog, and don't forget to listen to my relaxing, dulcet compositions as you read! Read the complete essay here.

This is nothing more and nothing less than cheesy Bronze Age Marvel goodness. I know the plots are preposterous and the dialogue overblown, but the art is dynamic and definitely worth looking at, and besides: it's just so darn fun! I mean, look at it this way: Godzilla vs. The Fantastic Four? Godzilla vs. Devil Dinosaur? Godzilla vs. Dastardly Cowboys? Godzilla AND Devil Dinosaur vs. Angry Cavemen? You won't hear me complaining about hokey dialogue when you have a Pym-particle-miniaturized six-i...

A fun read. Godzilla is moved into the marvel universe and allowed to stomp his way across the USA. Most stories read like a Godzilla movie, just replacing the Japanese army with the agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. and no surprise to anyone, the got their butts kicked just as badly.The new monsters were hit or miss. I liked the giant Bigfoot, Red Ronin, but the aliens seemed pretty generic. The best issues were the ones where they played around with the Godzilla formula and took chances. Godzilla vs the

In 1977, Godzilla joined the Marvel Universe and not as a separate spinoff but in the main 616 Universe. Godzilla makes landfall in Alaska and begins a swath of devastation through Seattle and San Francisco before turning inland towards Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.The first twelve issues chronicling these adventures are okay. Its what you'd expect of any Godzilla story except S.H.I.E.L.D. is the government authority taking charge with Nick Fury handing the Godzilla affair to Dum Dum Dugan after...

Tra il 1977 e il 1979, per due anni e 24 albi mensili, la Marvel acquistò la licenza dalla Toho per un fumetto sul Re dei Mostri. Moench ai testi, e quasi sempre, Herb Trimpe ai disegni. Assistito alle chine da varia gente, princilamente Kida e Green. Questo vuol dire che la parte grafica nel complesso è scarsa, quasi sufficiente al massimo. Non a caso l'unico episodio disegnato da Sutton risulta quello disegnato meglio.Di cosa si tratta: della scorreria di Gojira negli USA, partendo dalle Aleut...

The first series of Godzilla films ended in 1975 (with Terror of Mechagodzilla) and the second began in 1984 with the Godzilla remake. This Marvel series fits neatly into the gap, being published between 1977 and 1979.The story itself was ever so slightly dull, for me; the main interest comes from the unusual decision to integrate Godzilla into the Marvel Universe. (Imagine if Marvel had done the same thing with Star Wars? They did it with Doctor Who, though not to the same extent as this.) Ther...

This one was a big surprise. I really expected it to mediocre tie-in crapola, but it's not. The plotting is clever, the dialogue isn't quite as over-the-top as the rest of the Jr Stan's over at 1970s Marvel usually wrote, and the non-Godzilla characters are 3D and important to the story. Herb Trimpe's pencils get a little lazy in places, but he brings the heat on the splashes. I can't believe it myself, but I fully recommend this collection. This is a great example of what is so awesome about Ma...