Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Seems like a desperation bid to attempt some sort of Marvel cloning, only with a mere handful of characters from a 50+ year old came-and-went comic label no one remembers and that died out in less than a year... so what's the point?? However, with that said I would pay to see this:



I cannot remember exactly how I acquired this lone issue of IJ #4 decades ago (seems like it was in a mixed box purchase at a garage sale?). The book is almost mint, beautifully drawn, with a particularly gruesome origin which would probably play well with the R-rated gore / Conan crowd. But once again, no one knows these characters except for, like, five guys. So why bother? Just because they're comicbook characters?!? Well, yeah, but with ZERO fanbase. Sounds like a DOA scheme to me, and I'll wager that the 'first-look' deal will also be a last-look - if the suits at Paramount have any brains. Even so, I'm always up for something different, so what the hey?

Ultraman and Kamen Rider just chilling in the wings while Hollywood producers struggle to make the Gold Key cinematic universe.

^ When you're not a nerd and you're approaching this stuff it all looks the same. You never developed the eye to separate the wheat from the chaff.

If they knew what was truly popular here and around the world we'd be a dozen films in to the Sailor Moon (to name one globally popular property) Cinematic Universe.

My guess is that someone found a source of super hero stories that they could pick up on the cheap. And I say this as one of the five guys who fondly remember Atlas from the 70's. I still have the ones I bought boxed up somewhere in my collection. They had some real talent working there, Howard Chaykin, Rich Buckler, Larry Hama are three I remember off the top of my head. I'd be interested is seeing something made from the ideas that spawned from there, but probably not enough to pay for a theater ticket. There's too much competition from sources I know I'll enjoy for that.

OK, thinking about it, if someone was going to do the 1930's pulp version of Chaykin's Scorpion I'd probably seriously consider seeing it in the theater.