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A comicbook set around Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, following him after he surfaces in USA and rampages through Franchise/MarvelUniverse for twenty-four issues (August, 1977- July, 1979). After the later Showa films of TheSeventies made Godzilla into more of a heroic character, Marvel's comic run portrayed him as an animal AntiHero who's just too danged big for the era he lives in. He smashes lots of stuff but also ends up saving humanity from other monsters. He's been described as a giant lizard version of The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk.
As is generally the case with [[ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} licensed]] [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight properties]] that are set in the MarvelUniverse proper, Marvel still owns the villains and supporting castmembers they invented for this comic, and they still show up from time to time in other Marvel books -- mainly the [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] Red Ronin and the [[MadScientist mad scientist]] Doctor Demonicus.
This version of Godzilla was later {{retcon}}ned into being its own beast known as the Leviathan (and given a new appearance) as a way of WritingAroundTrademarks, ultimately meeting its demise by the hands of the X-Men.
Since this series ran, Creator/{{Toho}} has used its particular logo for Godzilla (shown in the upper-left corner of this page's image) as the basis for the trademark stamp of Godzilla on their own merchandise.
Written by Doug Moench, creator of ComicBook/MoonKnight -- and he clearly had a lot of fun doing it.
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!!This comic has the examples of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite being in a universe filled with superheroes and various other monsters, Dum-Dum Dugan refuses to believe in the Abominable Snowman.
* ArchEnemy: Poor Dum Dum Dugan of SHIELD has to bang his head against Godzilla for 24 issues without any lasting success.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In a Marvel Godzilla book, a time-travel crossover with ComicBook/DevilDinosaur was inevitable. The latter lives in a fun ThemeParkVersion of the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs, so there you go.
* BroadStrokes: The writers used the general storyline of the films which had been released prior to the comic as the backstory for their Godzilla, but the flashbacks shown never actually depict specific events that ever happened in the movies.
* CanonForeigner: Professor Takiguchi, his grandson Robert, Tamara Hashioka and Doctor Demonicus. In fact, aside from Godzilla himself, pretty much none of the characters from the movies appear. The fact that these characters were created by Marvel rather than Toho meant that they were still able to be used after the company lost the ''Godzilla'' license. Case in point, Doctor Demonicus went on to appear in books like ''Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers'', while Takiguchi would later appear in several issues of Creator/MattFraction's ''Comicbook/XMen'' run.
* ChainsawGood: Rhiahn, with his rotating "helicopter blades of buzzsaw death" tail.
* HumongousMecha: Red Ronin, a {{Samurai}}-themed robot constructed to fight Godzilla.
* LastStand: The final two issues have this in New York, both for Godzilla and for the heroes he's facing.
* MuggingTheMonster: Shrunken Godzilla provides a surprise to two muggers as he is led around New York disguised in a coat and a hat.
* NuclearNasty: [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti A yeti]] [[HumanPopsicle encased in ice]] is released from its slumber thanks to nuclear radiation, which also grows it into Godzilla-size.
* OffModel: The big guy is bright green rather than near black and resembles none of the Showa Era versions of Godzilla, instead looking more like a large T-Rex.
* ShrinkRay: Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for several issues. [[CrazyAwesome This results in Godzilla fighting sewer rats, then growing to human-size and beating up hoodlums in New York.]] The 'Big' G even gets a snazzy trenchcoat to rip off!
* TimeTravel: The Comicbook/FantasticFour use their time machine to send temporarily shrunken Godzilla to prehistoric time, where he fights against and alongside the Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The final issue, Godzilla versus the Avengers!
* VivaLasVegas: After breaking a dam, Godzilla wanders into UsefulNotes/LasVegas, ruining one loser's chance to get rich at gambling.
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A comicbook set around Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, following him after he surfaces in USA and rampages through Franchise/MarvelUniverse for twenty-four issues (August, 1977- July, 1979). After the later Showa films of TheSeventies made Godzilla into more of a heroic character, Marvel's comic run portrayed him as an animal AntiHero who's just too danged big for the era he lives in. He smashes lots of stuff but also ends up saving humanity from other monsters. He's been described as a giant lizard version of The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk.
As is generally the case with [[ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} licensed]] [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight properties]] that are set in the MarvelUniverse proper, Marvel still owns the villains and supporting castmembers they invented for this comic, and they still show up from time to time in other Marvel books -- mainly the [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] Red Ronin and the [[MadScientist mad scientist]] Doctor Demonicus.
This version of Godzilla was later {{retcon}}ned into being its own beast known as the Leviathan (and given a new appearance) as a way of WritingAroundTrademarks, ultimately meeting its demise by the hands of the X-Men.
Since this series ran, Creator/{{Toho}} has used its particular logo for Godzilla (shown in the upper-left corner of this page's image) as the basis for the trademark stamp of Godzilla on their own merchandise.
Written by Doug Moench, creator of ComicBook/MoonKnight -- and he clearly had a lot of fun doing it.
----
!!This comic has the examples of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite being in a universe filled with superheroes and various other monsters, Dum-Dum Dugan refuses to believe in the Abominable Snowman.
* ArchEnemy: Poor Dum Dum Dugan of SHIELD has to bang his head against Godzilla for 24 issues without any lasting success.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In a Marvel Godzilla book, a time-travel crossover with ComicBook/DevilDinosaur was inevitable. The latter lives in a fun ThemeParkVersion of the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs, so there you go.
* BroadStrokes: The writers used the general storyline of the films which had been released prior to the comic as the backstory for their Godzilla, but the flashbacks shown never actually depict specific events that ever happened in the movies.
* CanonForeigner: Professor Takiguchi, his grandson Robert, Tamara Hashioka and Doctor Demonicus. In fact, aside from Godzilla himself, pretty much none of the characters from the movies appear. The fact that these characters were created by Marvel rather than Toho meant that they were still able to be used after the company lost the ''Godzilla'' license. Case in point, Doctor Demonicus went on to appear in books like ''Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers'', while Takiguchi would later appear in several issues of Creator/MattFraction's ''Comicbook/XMen'' run.
* ChainsawGood: Rhiahn, with his rotating "helicopter blades of buzzsaw death" tail.
* HumongousMecha: Red Ronin, a {{Samurai}}-themed robot constructed to fight Godzilla.
* LastStand: The final two issues have this in New York, both for Godzilla and for the heroes he's facing.
* MuggingTheMonster: Shrunken Godzilla provides a surprise to two muggers as he is led around New York disguised in a coat and a hat.
* NuclearNasty: [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti A yeti]] [[HumanPopsicle encased in ice]] is released from its slumber thanks to nuclear radiation, which also grows it into Godzilla-size.
* OffModel: The big guy is bright green rather than near black and resembles none of the Showa Era versions of Godzilla, instead looking more like a large T-Rex.
* ShrinkRay: Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for several issues. [[CrazyAwesome This results in Godzilla fighting sewer rats, then growing to human-size and beating up hoodlums in New York.]] The 'Big' G even gets a snazzy trenchcoat to rip off!
* TimeTravel: The Comicbook/FantasticFour use their time machine to send temporarily shrunken Godzilla to prehistoric time, where he fights against and alongside the Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The final issue, Godzilla versus the Avengers!
* VivaLasVegas: After breaking a dam, Godzilla wanders into UsefulNotes/LasVegas, ruining one loser's chance to get rich at gambling.
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A comicbook set around Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, following him after he surfaces in USA and rampages through Franchise/MarvelUniverse for twenty-four issues (August, 1977- July, 1979). After the later Showa films of TheSeventies made Godzilla into more of a heroic character, Marvel's comic run portrayed him as an animal AntiHero who's just too danged big for the era he lives in. He smashes lots of stuff but also ends up saving humanity from other monsters. He's been described as a giant lizard version of The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk.
As is generally the case with [[ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} licensed]] [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight properties]] that are set in the MarvelUniverse proper, Marvel still owns the villains and supporting castmembers they invented for this comic, and they still show up from time to time in other Marvel books -- mainly the [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] Red Ronin and the [[MadScientist mad scientist]] Doctor Demonicus.
This version of Godzilla was later {{retcon}}ned into being its own beast known as the Leviathan (and given a new appearance) as a way of WritingAroundTrademarks, ultimately meeting its demise by the hands of the X-Men.
Since this series ran, Creator/{{Toho}} has used its particular logo for Godzilla (shown in the upper-left corner of this page's image) as the basis for the trademark stamp of Godzilla on their own merchandise.
Written by Doug Moench, creator of ComicBook/MoonKnight -- and he clearly had a lot of fun doing it.
----
!!This comic has the examples of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite being in a universe filled with superheroes and various other monsters, Dum-Dum Dugan refuses to believe in the Abominable Snowman.
* ArchEnemy: Poor Dum Dum Dugan of SHIELD has to bang his head against Godzilla for 24 issues without any lasting success.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In a Marvel Godzilla book, a time-travel crossover with ComicBook/DevilDinosaur was inevitable. The latter lives in a fun ThemeParkVersion of the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs, so there you go.
* BroadStrokes: The writers used the general storyline of the films which had been released prior to the comic as the backstory for their Godzilla, but the flashbacks shown never actually depict specific events that ever happened in the movies.
* CanonForeigner: Professor Takiguchi, his grandson Robert, Tamara Hashioka and Doctor Demonicus. In fact, aside from Godzilla himself, pretty much none of the characters from the movies appear. The fact that these characters were created by Marvel rather than Toho meant that they were still able to be used after the company lost the ''Godzilla'' license. Case in point, Doctor Demonicus went on to appear in books like ''Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers'', while Takiguchi would later appear in several issues of Creator/MattFraction's ''Comicbook/XMen'' run.
* ChainsawGood: Rhiahn, with his rotating "helicopter blades of buzzsaw death" tail.
* HumongousMecha: Red Ronin, a {{Samurai}}-themed robot constructed to fight Godzilla.
* LastStand: The final two issues have this in New York, both for Godzilla and for the heroes he's facing.
* MuggingTheMonster: Shrunken Godzilla provides a surprise to two muggers as he is led around New York disguised in a coat and a hat.
* NuclearNasty: [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti A yeti]] [[HumanPopsicle encased in ice]] is released from its slumber thanks to nuclear radiation, which also grows it into Godzilla-size.
* OffModel: The big guy is bright green rather than near black and resembles none of the Showa Era versions of Godzilla, instead looking more like a large T-Rex.
* ShrinkRay: Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for several issues. [[CrazyAwesome This results in Godzilla fighting sewer rats, then growing to human-size and beating up hoodlums in New York.]] The 'Big' G even gets a snazzy trenchcoat to rip off!
* TimeTravel: The Comicbook/FantasticFour use their time machine to send temporarily shrunken Godzilla to prehistoric time, where he fights against and alongside the Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The final issue, Godzilla versus the Avengers!
* VivaLasVegas: After breaking a dam, Godzilla wanders into UsefulNotes/LasVegas, ruining one loser's chance to get rich at gambling.
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* OffModel: The big guy is bright green rather than near black and resembles none of the Showa Era versions of Godzilla, instead looking more like a large T-Rex.
* ShrinkRay: Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for severalissues.
**issues. [[CrazyAwesome This results in Godzilla fighting sewer rats, then growing to human-size and beating up hoodlums in New York.]] The 'Big' G even gets a snazzy trenchcoat to rip off!
* ShrinkRay: Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for several
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