Captain's Library & Theatre: GODZILLA VS MEGALON

The first Godzilla comic in America wasn't from Marvel Comics...

...and it wasn't a comic book, either!

It was a four-page magazine-sized brochure printed on newsprint and distributed free to theaters in 1975 to promote the upcoming movie Godzilla vs Megalon!

Oddly, a couple of creatures are misnamed.

Heroic giant robot Jet Jaguar is called RobotMan.

Alien monster Gigan (who had appeared in the earlier film Godzilla vs Gigan) is named Borodan.

And, since the brochure is both an unusual size and extremely-fragile, few survive today.

To console the vast majority of you who will never possess this rarest of Godzilla comics, here's a few video goodies...

The original Japanese trailer

The American trailer

And, koolest of all, a condensed version of the now-forbidden MST3K episode spoofing the film!
Don't tell Toho!

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Captain's Theatre: GORGO

You've read the comic adaptation HERE and HERE...

...now see the movie itself!

(After the trailer, that is!

This is, after all, the Captain's Theatre, and you always have trailers in theaters!)

Now, here's the film itself... Plus, a "Making of" feature... Finally, since you've been such a lovely audience, the never-rerun Gorgo episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 with guest star Leonard Maltin!

We hope you've enjoyed our contribution to the

(which you can find details about HERE)

 and hope you stop by again.

(We have some really kool stuff coming up in October to celebrate Halloween!)