Japanese Giants

[kinggoji]

From Ed G:

Now printing!
Japanese Giants #10
Commemorative Issue for the 50th Anniversary of Godzilla (1954)
64 pages printed on high-quality slick paper with color cover

Featuring:
Color wraparound cover illustrated by Hugo Award winning artist Bob Eggleton
Godzilla (1954)
* Making of Godzilla by Ed Godziszewski
* Staff biographies by August Ragone and Ed Godziszewski
* Original story by Shigeru Kayama - synopsis
* Who was Gojira? by Richard Pusateri
* Deleted/Altered Scenes
* Godzilla-The Radio Drama
* Japanese Film Industry circa 1954 by Stuart Galbraith
* Haruo Nakajima interview by Steve Ryfle and Oki Miyano
* Godzilla-The Score by Jim Figurski
* Akira Takarada interview by Steve Ryfle and Oki Miyano
* Rialto Pictures-The Uncut Japanese Original by Keith Aiken
* Oxygen Destroyer Blueprints by Bill Gudmundson
Acting in Tokyo SOS by Norman England
50 Years of Movie Making and Movie Watching by Neil Riebe
Profile of Toho Production Designer Yasukyuki Inoue by Oki Miyano
Toho Production Design Roundtable Discussion by Oki Myano
Mini Reviews
* Onmyoji by Bob Johnson
* Giant Robo by Jim Walsh
* When You Sing of Love by Andre Dubois

Featuring several rare and unpublished photos, design sketches, and quotations.

Order by sending check or money order for $10 ($8 plus $2 postage), payable to Ed
Godziszewski:

Japanese Giants
PO Box 30078
Chicago, IL 60030

For more information on this issue as well as back issues, please contact:
edgoji@yahoo.com

[kpa]

For nearly 30 years, the fanzine JAPANESE GIANTS has been one of the best and most higly-regarded sources for information on Godzilla and other Japanese fantasy film stars. Writer/editor Ed Godziszewski was the first American fan ever invited to Toho Studios and is the author of the valuable book THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GODZILLA. He has brought together several of the top experts in fandom-- including JAPAN'S FAVORITE MON-STAR author Steve Ryfle, Fant-Asia organizer Andre Dubois, MONSTERS ARE ATTACKING TOKYO writer Stuart Galbraith, FANGORIA writer and occasional Toho employee Norman England, and most of the crew from Henshin! Online-- for a special issue devoted to the 50th Anniversary of the original GODZILLA. JAPANESE GIANTS # 10 is packed with in-depth info, interviews, photos, and production art you won't find anywhere else... so order your copy now!

Full contents and ordering info below.

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Now printing!
Japanese Giants #10
Commemorative Issue for the 50th Anniversary of Godzilla (1954)
64 pages printed on high-quality slick paper with color cover

Featuring:
Color wraparound cover illustrated by Hugo Award winning artist Bob
Eggleton
Godzilla (1954)
* Making of Godzilla by Ed Godziszewski
* Staff biographies by August Ragone and Ed Godziszewski
* Original story by Shigeru Kayama - synopsis
* Who was Gojira? by Richard Pusateri
* Deleted/Altered Scenes
* Godzilla-The Radio Drama
* Japanese Film Industry circa 1954 by Stuart Galbraith
* Haruo Nakajima interview by Steve Ryfle and Oki Miyano
* Godzilla-The Score by Jim Figurski
* Akira Takarada interview by Steve Ryfle and Oki Miyano
* Rialto Pictures-The Uncut Japanese Original by Keith Aiken
* Oxygen Destroyer Blueprints by Bill Gudmundson
Acting in Tokyo SOS by Norman England
50 Years of Movie Making and Movie Watching by Neil Riebe
Profile of Toho Production Designer Yasukyuki Inoue by Oki Miyano
Toho Production Design Roundtable Discussion by Oki Myano
Mini Reviews
* Onmyoji by Bob Johnson
* Giant Robo by Jim Walsh
* When You Sing of Love by Andre Dubois

Featuring several rare and unpublished photos, design sketches, and
quotations.

Order by sending check or money order for $10 ($8 plus $2 postage),
payable to Ed Godziszewski:

Japanese Giants
PO Box 30078
Chicago, IL 60630

For more information on this issue as well as back issues, please
contact: edgoji@yahoo.com

[Rodan, Messenger of the Skies]

That sounds great! But - and I mean this with all due respect, kpa - who's going to buy a magazine for eight dollars?

[kpa]

Originally Posted by Rodan, Messenger of the Skies

That sounds great! But - and I mean this with all due respect, kpa - who's going to buy a magazine for eight dollars?

Have you been to a newsstand lately? Tons of magazines cost between $7 and $10 and people buy them all the time.

Ed's not getting rich off JG (not even close). He's delivering 64 high-quality pages of heavily researched and highly informative articles by (IMO) the best and most knowledgeable writers on the subject in North America. In addition, there are exclusive production photos and artwork-- some of which are several decades old and have never been printed in Japan (let alone the US). You get what you pay for.. and I'll take the contents of JG for $8 over fan fics, fan comics, and filler for $5 any day of the week.

[monsterslayers]

Bloody hell, kiddo. JAPANESE GIANTS is worth twenty bucks even! So detailed, so interesting, so informative, this magazine ROCKS, and is the supreme Japanese monster/Sci-Fi related magazine out there now, despite it's irregularly publishing schedule. I was astonished by Ed's amazing amount of info and retrospective of GMK in issue #9, I went out and got seven and eight. At G-FEST XI, I pre-ordered issue #10, so, bloody hell, I can't wait!!!!

BTW, I find it funny that Ed posted the announcment only a hour or so after I asked such a question at the Monster Zero Forums. Funny.

Er, anyone know Ed's daughter's name?

Peace,
MN

[kpa]

Just a reminder: JAPANESE GIANTS starts shipping this week. Check out Henshin! Online http://www.henshinonline.com/ for full details and a look at Bob Eggleton's amazing cover illustration of Godzilla '54.

[Gorgozilla]

I fired off a check today. Thanks for the info, kpa.

[Zillamon51]

Both Japanese Giants #10 and G-Fan #69 arrived today!

Awesome!!!

[kpa]

I got my copy earlier this week and it's even better than I expected. I think I know this stuff pretty well and there's so much info in here I've never read before... I love it!

Some of the info and illustrations that I don't recall ever seeing before include:

*Photos of Serizawa and Emiko as a young couple before he lost is eye in the war.
* Previously unpublished design sketches and photos of the miniature sets being constructed.
* Publicity photos of Emiko and Ogata in Hawaiian-style clothes posing with Godzilla who is playing a guitar!
*A synopsis of author Shigeru Kayama's original story for GODZILLA.
* Cast and crew list for the 1954 GODZILLA radio play.
* New interviews with Akira Takarada, Haruo Nakajima, and 5 members of Toho's fx crew from the 1950-80s.
* Production art from HEDORAH, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, SON OF GODZILLA, and GODZILLA 1985.
* An on the set report about the foreign actors in TOKYO SOS.

JAPANESE GIANTS #10 is worth every penny... I can't recommend it strongly enough.