Description: Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary One-Shot Comic w/ Variants Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary Cover Collection featuring Main Cover A, Variant Cover B, Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover, & SDCC Con Exclusive Variant Cover. Awesome!! Writer: Rich Douek Artist: Andrew Griffith Colorist: Priscilla Tramontano Letterer: Rus Wooton Editor: Jake Williams Main Cover A by: Andrew Griffith Variant Cover B by: James Marsh Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by: Ryan Miller SDCC Con Exclusive Variant Cover by: Edison Neo For 50 years, the King of the Monsters, Godzilla, has gone toe to toe with its robotic doppelgänger, Mechagodzilla! As an intrepid reporter profiles the history of Mechagodzilla and its creator before the launch of the newest model, he finds himself entangled in a much deeper conspiracy. A decades-spanning adventure celebrating the mechanical monster’s milestone! Story/Spoilers: Naito Hiroki, a former rescue worker, recalls finding orphaned Tamotsu Sato in the ruins of Tokyo after Godzilla's first attack on the city. He tells his interviewer, reporter Benjamin Sacks, that he considers saving Sato akin to saving the world, believing that the machines Sato went on to invent prevented Godzilla and the other kaiju from exterminating humanity. Sacks calls his editor after the interview concludes, reluctant to write the desired puff piece and feeling that something is missing from the public perception of Sato. A scientific prodigy, much of his life following his recruitment by the military is classified. His only promising lead is Corporal Kenshin, Sato's co-pilot aboard the Super X, the first of his machines to challenge Godzilla. Its cadmium missiles sent the monster reeling, but when it deployed its energy shield in anticipation of his atomic breath, he leapt into the air to swipe at it instead, destroying it. Sato rescued Kenshin from the craft's wreckage. No longer able to use his legs, Kenshin could only watch Sato's next invention challenge Godzilla on TV. It first took the form of a replica of the Monster King, but when he bathed it in atomic breath, its disguise burned away to reveal a gleaming machine: Mechagodzilla. The mech struck Godzilla first, but he quickly overpowered and decapitated it. Kenshin believes that the battle helped delay Godzilla's next attack, and scoffs when Sacks suggests that Mechagodzilla's construction provoked Godzilla. All of the kaiju, he maintains, have no goal besides humanity's destruction. Sacks returns home to find a mysterious man, Kichiro, waiting inside. He promises to tell him the truth about Sato. Though he passed off the original Mechagodzilla as his invention, Sato had nothing to do with its construction. Following its battle with Godzilla, his team recovered a device from inside its head that contained writing in an alien language. Sato concluded that the aliens in question viewed Godzilla and the other kaiju as the primary threats to their conquest of Earth - meaning that, for the moment, they shared a common goal. He demanded absolute secrecy from his team while he harnessed their advanced technology. He repeatedly rebuilt more advanced versions of Mechagodzilla in the following years, but Godzilla still triumphed over them each time that they clashed. Attaching a Super X successor, the Garuda, to its back seemed like it would allow the mech to finally prevail, interrupting a battle between Godzilla and Rodan with a flurry of lasers and physical blows. But Sato didn't expect Rodan to come to Godzilla's aid, and the two kaiju won the day, then departed the city peacefully. To Kichiro, this proved that the monsters were more intelligent and less blindly destructive than they had originally thought, and he no longer considers them enemies. Sato, however, is more determined than ever to wipe them out. Before Kichiro can explain to Sacks how he plans to do this, a black ops team shoots and kills him and abducts Sacks. Sacks, handcuffed, finally finds himself face-to-face with a smirking Sato. He explains that, contrary to what Kichiro believed, he was involved with the construction of the original Mechagodzilla, building it with the aliens' help. He accepts their rule of Earth as inevitable, and views working with them as facilitating a less violent invasion. He admits that he has thus far failed to defeat Godzilla, but insists that his newest creation, Mechagodzilla Kiryu, will change that. It possesses a gem on its forehead to convert humanity's collective hatred of the kaiju into raw power, and he plans to use Sacks' interviews to help burnish his image as humanity's savior even further. He debuts Kiryu in Tokyo before an adoring crowd, arriving in the rebuilt Garuda, and whips them up into a frenzy. As he promises, Godzilla soon emerges to challenge Kiryu, but finds himself outmatched by the hate-fueled mech. Watching the battle, Sacks persuades his captors to let him go, saying that Sato has decided unilaterally that humanity's freedom is an acceptable price to pay for exacting vengeance against the monster who orphaned him. He then cuts into Sato's broadcast, playing his interview with Kichiro and turning public opinion against him. Kiryu falters, allowing Godzilla to land a staggering punch to it before destroying it with a blast of atomic breath. However, from the wreckage arises another of the aliens' Mechagodzillas, apparently the core of Sato's design. Impatient with Sato's failures, the aliens have Mechagodzilla rain down eye lasers on civilians until Godzilla steps between them, enduring its attacks. Sato is shocked at Godzilla's behavior, and realizes that he's been wrong about the monster. Acknowledging that although he took his family, he did spare his life, he flies the Garuda into Mechagodzilla, destroying them both. Sacks reports on the aftermath of the battle: the aliens' Mechagodzilla is under heavy guard, Sato's associates face trial, and the scientist's legacy now lies in ruins. Humanity can take solace, however, in Godzilla's willingness to protect them from threats both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Comics Lot includes: Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary - Main Cover A Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary - Variant Cover B Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary - Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary - SDCC Con Exclusive Variant Cover {Poly-Bag Sealed} One-Shot Comic w/ Variants are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly. First Printings Publisher: IDW Publishing Publication Date: May 2024 Format: FC, 52 pages, Comic, 10.25" x 6.65" UPC: 827714032857 Collectible Entertainment note: One-Shot Comic w/ Variants are in Very Fine to Very Fine + condition. Beautiful Lot! Please See Scans!! A must have for any serious Godzilla and/or Mechagodzilla collector / enthusiast. A fun & entertaining read. Very Highly Recommended. Please read return policy. Please check out all my other Trading Cards or Action Figures or Record or Robert E. 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Location: Palm Bay, Florida
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Comic Book Lot
Convention/Event: San Diego Comic Con
Variant Type: Cover Variant - B, Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Cover Variant, SDCC Con Exclusive Cover Variant
Artist/Writer: Rich Douek, Andrew Griffith
Character: Godzilla, Gojira, Mechagodzilla, Rodan
Tradition: US Comics
Product Condition: Very Fine to Very Fine +
Cover Artist: Ryan Miller, James Marsh, Andrew Griffith, Edison Neo
Series Title: Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary
UPC: 827714032857
Universe: Godzilla
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Intended Audience: General Audience
Story Title: Godzilla: Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Comic Book
Publication Date: May 2024
Language: English
Product Type: One Shot Comic w/ Variants
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Style: Color
Features: Bagged, Boarded, Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover, One Shot Comic w/ Variants, One-Shot, San Diego Comic Convention Exclusive, Variant Cover
Genre: Horror & Sci-Fi, Movie & TV, Science Fiction, Giant Monsters, Godzilla
Unit Quantity: 4
