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mdo7
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Whoa so last year, Marvel re-licensed and re-printed their sought out/out of print Godzilla comic that was first printed/published in 1977-79:
And now IDW and Boom! Studio has Godzilla team up with Power Rangers, and DC Comics has Monsterverse's Godzilla and Kong to team up with Justice League (I'm not making this up!!!). And now we have Godzilla teaming up with Fantastic Four from Marvel Comics. Speaking of Marvel Comic, they've also released The Rise of Ultraman, and the sequel featuring Ultra-Seven. Does this mean that Toho and Tsuburaya will allow Marvel Comic to have both of them crossover in a comic book/graphic novel? Could that crossover comic/graphic novel work if Marvel has both Godzilla and Ultraman/Ultra series? Is there a possibility/chance a hypothetical crossover comic/graphic novel between Godzilla and Ultraman from Marvel could get a Japanese translation given that there is no manga title equivalent to that crossover? |
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Snomaster1
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A "Godzilla/Fantastic Four" crossover. It sounds like a lot of fun. It doesn't matter if they reprint stuff from the seventies. This seems like a very enjoyable thing and I might go and read it when it comes out.
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Marimer Est
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Guessing the story starts with Reed doing something that pisses the big guy off.
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Jabootu
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The whole thing sounds like a lot of fun, but I think I'll wait for everything to be collected in an omnibus. |
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mdo7
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Did he do anything similar in the original 1977-79 run? |
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Beatdigga
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Actually the scientist SHIELD bought in to deal with Godzilla in that run was Hank Pym, Ant-Man. The Fantastic Four were busy having adventures with the Shogun Warriors during the time, including an issue where they got to pilot Combattler V. Apparently readers two biggest issues with the Godzilla comic, which was fairly popular from what I understand, is he never got to fight Fing Fang Foom, or the Incredible Hulk. Letters pages were full of people begging for Godzilla to fight Hulk. |
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Jabootu
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I remember buying the first issue of that Marvel Godzilla comic off the spinner rack of my local 7/11. I wasn't the hugest fan of artist Herb Trimpe, but he was an old Marvel pro (he drew the old Hulk series way back in the day, so...Marvel's big green monster guy, I guess).
The 7/11 was about half a mile from my house and I'd walk over there each Wednesday to check out the new comics and get a Slurpee (one magical summer they came in Marvel comic character cups). I also, as a I recall, bought the first issue of The Human Fly that day, a weird series about a supposedly real stunt man who Marvel turned into an amateur superhero. That first issue guest starred (inevitably) Spider-Man, and the second issue (inevitably) costarred Ghost Rider, because Johnny Blaze was a motorcycle stunt rider. Each comic set me back 35 cents. I was 14 in 1977, so I can remember as a tot buying comics (well, asking my mom to buy them) off the shelf--well, spinner rack--when they cost 12 cents. They were probably fifteen cents when I bought my first one independently. Man, I'm old. The Fantastic Four *did* appear in the Godzilla series before it ended, as did the Avengers. I remember Thor bopping Godzilla on the nose with Mjolnir, and we were told the Big G had never experienced pain like that before. The Avengers appearance was used to close out the series--I think they lost the rights to the characters--with a big bang. (Briefly constituted team the Champions appeared in issue #3, but I was devastated--after waiting for two months--to find that team member the Ghost Rider wasn't there for some reason. Maybe it was when he was busy with the Human Fly. Surely he was later ragged on by the other members for missing a fight with Godzilla. "No, no," he would have said. "I was busy fighting some dudes who tried to kill other participants in a motorcycle race. I was helped by this stunt guy. It was pretty gnarly, let me tell you.") And...this has nothing to do with anime. Yikes! Sorry, folks. |
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