Auctions: comic books in 'Manga', graded by CGC

Summer 1986 issue. 8" x 10.5", 32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.

Fall 1986. Featuring High Tech Halloween, Conquest of the Command Center- A GoBots Adventrue! Plus, Meet Video Celebrity Max Headroom! Saddle Stitched, Magazine, 24 Pages, Full Color Cover price $1.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kaori Ozaki. A coming of age tale about children coping with families either torn by broken marriages or chattered by disease. The kids in this tale overcome their family hardships to discover youth is full of potential even when we least expect it. It's summer and Natsuru has just turned 11. But everything is going wrong. His mom won't let him keep a pet. His soccer team has changed coaches. The girls in his class are ignoring him. And his single-parent home has become lonesome since his mom is busy with work. His life takes a turn for the better just before summer break, when Suzumura, the tallest girl his grade, suddenly talks to him revealing a world that is way tougher than his, but also much more free and fun. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. He's back! Straight from Japan comes the mightiest film monster of them all! This issue is the first of a six-issue mini-series reprinting the manga adaptation of the original Japanese version of the film Godzilla 1985. In this issue, Godzilla, believed dead for nearly thirty years, suddenly reappears--and he's headed for Tokyo. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $109.95 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #4011712006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. Goro and Professor Hayashida find their job of convincing the world that Godzilla exists much easier after he destroys a nuclear reactor near Tokyo! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. It's all-out war as the full might of the Japanese military is thrown against the prehistoric rage of the King of the Monsters! The battle begins in Tokyo Bay, but soon extends to the city itself, and even to outer space as the Soviets launch an orbiting ICBM in an effort to halt Godzilla's rampage! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

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Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. Tanks and planes can't stop him. Missiles just make him mad. Japan's military is in disarray. Concrete buildings crumble like sand and the streets run red with blood when Godzilla comes to town! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Auction Item: CGC 9.8 View scans Auction opens July 6 Paper: White Label #4185348001

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $132.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4350005012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. Tokyo is in ruins, but the Japanese military refuses to give up. They unleash their "Main Sky Battle Tank"--the armored hover craft Super X! It's a war of futuristic technology versus prehistoric might in a battle to the death--setting the scene for next issue's exciting climax! This is Godzilla and Japanese manga at their best! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Story and art by Kazuhisa Iwata. Cover by Mark A. Nelson. This is it! The climactic confrontation between the forces of mankind and the mightiest force in all of Nature! Cornered at the edge of a raging volcano, Godzilla makes what could be his final stand! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Written by RANDY STRADLEY. Art by BOBBY RUBIO, RICH SUCHY, BRIAN GARVEY & DANIEL RIVERA. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. When special unit G-Force invites Professor Yoshiwara to study a dormant Godzilla, they discover she has more than studies in mind - namely revenge for her parents' death in Tokyo forty years earlier! But can her specially formulated "Killer Bee" missile kill the King of Monsters?! Godzilla returns in a 13-part series from Dark Horse! This special zero issue sets the stage for the mayhem to come, featuring a combination of new artwork recapping old continuity and a reprint of the Godzilla story from Dark Horse Comics (1992) #10 and #11. Cover price $2.50.

Written by KEVIN MAGUIRE. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & KEITH AIKEN. Cover by ART ADAMS. The waters off the North American coast are being plagued by strange occurrences. Irradiated fish are floating to the surface while tankers and freight ships are sinking to the ocean floor, taking their crew to a watery grave. An entire continent holds its breath as they search for the cause to these unnatural disasters, and an entire continent will scream in fear as the answer rises from the depths, howling his battle cry of death! Cover price $2.50.

Written by KEVIN MAGUIRE. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & SCOTT REED. Cover by ART ADAMS. One big monster deserves another! To combat Godzilla, the scientific wizards of G-Force construct Cybersaur, their own giant tool of destruction! He takes to the skies with a single mission: Destroy the King of Monsters! Can technology defeat the ferocity of nature? The fate of America hangs in the balance! Cover price $2.50.

Written by KEVIN MAGUIRE. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & SCOTT REED. Cover by ART ADAMS. As Godzilla battles the manmade Cybersaur, a giant bat-like reptile from outer space overhears the brouhaha and changes its course toward Earth. Its purpose? To feed on whichever Goliath falls first! Watch out, guys - Bagorah the Bat Monster is coming to the party, and he's got a hunger that'll kill! Cover price $2.50.

Written by KEVIN MAGUIRE. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & SCOTT REED. Cover by ART ADAMS. Bagorah the Bat Monster and the artificially created Cybersaur are fighting for the crown of the King of Monsters, but Godzilla isn't ready to retire that title just yet! It's a giant-monster megabattle on the coast of North America, and no one's taking bets on who will be left standing! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ART ADAMS. Art by TATSUYA ISHIDA & DANIEL RIVERA. Cover by KEVIN MAGUIRE & ART ADAMS. The U.S. Army wants to blow him off the Earth! A pack of intergalactic big-game hunters wants to take him off to space! But neither side has reckoned with the might and fury of Godzilla! He's scorching his foes with his fiery breath and knocking down mountains with his titanic tail! He's the King of Monsters, and no one's gonna take his title from him! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ART ADAMS. Art by TATSUYA ISHIDA & DANIEL RIVERA. Cover by KEVIN MAGUIRE & ART ADAMS. Bagorah the Bat Monster fought a fierce battle against Godzilla, leaving the giant lizard battered and bruised. But it seems Bagorah was just the beginning! A predatory race of aliens comes to get their felled "pet," and to get their revenge on The King of Monsters! An all-out, no-holds-barred grudge match of giant monster versus predatory aliens rolls into downtown Portland, and no one is safe from the chaos! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ART ADAMS. Art by TATSUYA ISHIDA, DANIEL RIVERA, JUSTIN BLOOMER & JASEN RODRIGUEZ. Cover by KEVIN MAGUIRE & ART ADAMS. A predatory alien race is hunting the biggest trophy in the galaxy - Godzilla's head! They've tagged the injured lizard with a tracking device and are stalking him over land and sea in hopes of electrocuting him with a high-tech net. Will the green Goliath escape the aliens' bloodthirsty ritual, or will G-Force find Godzilla's fricasseed, headless carcass floating on top of Portland's Willamette River?! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ART ADAMS. Art by MIKE WOLFER, DANIEL RIVERA, JUSTIN BLOOMER & BRIAN GARVEY. How much punishment can the King of the Monsters take, anyway? Godzilla has already survived several attacks by a race of fierce, alien hunters. Now he needs a little help from his friends from G-Force, or else it's certain extinction at the hands of the fiercest hunters in the galaxy! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ALEX COX. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY, ANDREW PEPOY & JUSTIN BLOOMER. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. Godzilla's survived being poisoned by an obsessed scientist. He's even survived being hunted by a predatory alien race. But can the King of the Monsters survive the fall of Rome? An evil professor has created a time-traveling device with one sole purpose in mind: world domination! His plan? To capture Godzilla and use him to change the course of history! Will he succeed? Not if G-Force has anything to say about it! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ALEX COX. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & ANDREW PEPOY. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. Professor Mason is a scientist with two very deadly weapons. The first is a time machine, which gives him access to the entire panorama of history. The second is the King of the Monsters, whom Mason is using to terrorize the past! It's now 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada's ill-fated attack on England. Unless G-Force - with a little help from William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Drake - can find Mason and stop Godzilla's rampage, all of history will be altered...and the world we know will cease to exist! Cover price $2.50.

Written by ALEX COX. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & ANDREW PEPOY. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. Every school-child knows that the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake was caused by...Godzilla? That may be how history is rewritten if the unstable Professor Mason puts his two new weapons to use, the first being a time machine and the second being the King of the Monsters! It's up to G-Force to head off Godzilla's destructive historical rampage - but can mere humans repair history once Godzilla has thoroughly trampled it? Cover price $2.50.

Written by ALEX COX. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & ANDREW PEPOY. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. Three hundred years from now there is no war, no conflict - only peace and brotherhood for all mankind. That is, until Professor Mason and his time-traveling army show up with Godzilla in tow! Mason has come to rob the future in order to rule our present, and he's brought the King of the Monsters with him to make sure nobody says different. The current story arc comes to a cataclysmic conclusion as Godzilla goes wild in a world he never made! Cover price $2.95.

Written by RANDY STRADLEY. Art by SCOTT KOLINS & BARB KAALBERG. Cover by BOB EGGLETON. More monster action, more monster fun! Trying to locate Godzilla in the sea off the coast of Peru, G-Force instead runs across a path of destruction left by another gigantic monster, Burtannus! Things go from bad to worse when the Peruvian Air Force gets involved and from worse to horrible when Godzilla himself shows up! It's monster vs. monster with G-Force caught in the middle! Cover price $2.95.

Written by ERIC FEIN. Art by GORDON PURCELL & ANDREW PEPOY. Cover by CHRIS SCALF. Dr. Kagaku, the leader of G-Force, has created a device that is sure to stop Godzilla in his tracks. That's the good news. The bad news is, somebody must place the device, with pinpoint accuracy, on Godzilla himself! Ordinarily, this would be a dangerous job. But to attempt it while the King of the Monsters is in the midst of a destructive rampage is suicidal! Grab a rope and strap on your crampons, your mission is "To Climb the Highest Monster!" Cover price $2.95.

Written by RYDER WINDHAM. Art by BRANDON McKINNEY & ANDREW PEPOY. Cover by CHRIS SCALF. If rough water and the threat of shark attack aren't enough to keep Australian bathers out of the water, how about a 300-foot-tall, fire-breathing lizard? Godzilla has taken to sunning himself on one of Australia's most popular beaches, giving the army and G-Force cause for concern. But it's all just a prelude to a battle royal when the mad Dr. Yamazaki's giant crustacean monster sets its sights on the city of Sydney and Godzilla! Cover price $2.95.

Written, pencilled & cover by BOB EGGLETON. Inks by ANDREW PEPOY. When an undersea volcano disturbs Godzilla's slumber, the King of the Monsters awakens to find himself among the dinosaurs and other savage creatures of the Mesozoic era. Godzilla's in monster paradise - until he encounters a marauding monster from space intent on driving the dinosaurs to an early extinction. It's a clash with reverberations that will be felt through the ages! Cover price $2.95.

Auction Item: CGC 9.8 View scans Auction opens July 6 Paper: White Label #4231104010

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With Godzilla approaching an inhabited island, G-Force's attempt to evacuate the islanders proves unsuccessful. Could awakening Gekido-Jin be everyone's only hope? Story & script by Arthur Adams & Randy Stradley. Art by Arthur Adams. Art assist by Gracine Tanaka & Steve Moncuse. Front & back covers by Adams. 40-page tale. No ads. Cover price $3.50.

Auction Item: CGC 9.8 View scans Auction opens July 6 Paper: White Label #4349473017

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Written by Randy Stradley and Steve Bissette. Art by Steve Bissette, Ron Randall, Art Nichols and Tony Salmons. Cover by Steve Bissette. The BIGGEST character of all time is back--like you've never seen him before! Plus, beginning in this issue, a series of full page pin-ups by Giffen, Moore, Vess, Vietch, Yeates, Gulacy, Chadwick, Warner, Eastman & Laird, Salmons and others! B&W. Cover price $1.50.

Godzilla Movie Magazine (1998) is published by Starlog. This magazine features exclusive interveiws with the cast, and a sneek peak at Godzilla's New York rampage. Cover price $5.99.

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Written by Mike Baron and Alan Smithee. Art by Jeff Butler and Keith Aiken. Cover by Dave Dorman. The world's mightiest monster battles earth's greatest athlete in the most outrageous, board-slamming, super-dunking game of hoops in the history of History itself! A clash so huge, only writer Mike Baron and artists Jeff Butler and Keith Aiken can fit it on a page. Bigger than Bigfoot, space aliens, and Elvis combined! Until your last breath, you will remember what you were doing on the fateful day Godzilla met Charles Barkley. FC. Cover price $2.95.

Written by MICHAEL EURY. Art by TATSUYA ISHIDA & MIKE MILLER. Cover by ART ADAMS. It's a monster-size megabattle of butt-kicking, rampaging, thermonuclear proportions! The size-changing superhero Hero Zero heads down to San Diego in his alter ego as young David MacRae. He's looking for monster deals at the biggest comic book event of the year, the San Diego Comic Convention, but what he winds up with is a monster of a different color, that atomic fire-breathing lizard lovingly referred to as Godzilla! Hero Zero learns a hard lesson, San Diego takes a pounding...and Godzilla shows why he's King of the Monsters. Cover price $2.50.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art by Yutaka Koudo. Cover by Alan Nepomuceno. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. Strange creatures start appearing in Japans capital Edo, and while some of them look human, others are clearly monstrous. Could this be the first wave of an invasion from beyond the stars? 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. Edo, the largest city on 18th-century Earth, is being infiltrated by otherworldly creatures. To stop them, the Shogunate appoints the Scientific Warriors: Papillon the tomboy, Keiraku the crazy old man, Torebei the big guy, and Teru the kid. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. The Scientific Warriors realize that ancient Japan is unprepared for the alien invasion. Luckily, they have access to the Dutch sciences of Europe, which in this alternate world include such technology such as helicopters, Gatling guns and rocket-propelled grenades 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. Even science fails to halt the invading aliens that can change into gigantic monsters. But luckily for Japan, it has another hero: Gojin, who can transform into an Ultraman-like gigantic armored humanoid and battle the monsters at their own level. Cover mistakenly listed as #3. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art by Yutaka Koudo. Cover by Patrick Thornton. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. The creators continue to show off their knowledge of Japanese history and folklore, as Gojin and the Scientific Warriors are aided by real-life Tokugawa-era mad scientist Hiraga Gennai. With aliens and giant monsters on the loose, a mad scientist can come in handy…. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. The common people are so in awe of Gojin, they have formed a cult that worships him; not even the Scientific Warriors suspect that he is actually a mild-mannered aristocrat, in the best superhero tradition. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. As the war against the alien invasion draws to a close, Gojin shows that he still has powers to use, including the three magical dragons on his armor that he can bring to life. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story by Kazuho Takizawa. Art and cover by Yutaka Koudo. A manga tribute to superheroes and kaiju monsters, set in a steampunk Japan in the year 1780. Gojin and the Scientific Warriors face down the alien invasion in a final battle for the fate of the Earth. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yuto Sano. Translated by David Evelyn. There's never a shortage of crime around town, and a young boy searching for his beastman friend is just another entry on a long list of missing persons reports. However, Tao and Alma realize that they're the only ones able to solve this case-and destroy the vicious monsters waiting around every street corner. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 184 pages, B&W. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yuto Sano. Translated by David Evelyn. While investigating the case of the serial hanging murders around the temple where he and Tao previously fought a horde of maga, Alma runs into a mysterious young man. He's so timid and quiet that Alma graciously surrenders one of his beloved snacks to the stranger, but there's a reason Tao says to be careful with the quiet ones... Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $11.99.

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Story, art and cover by Fred Perry. Archaeologist Gina Diggers and her adopted were-cheetah sister Britanny get their first miniseries, after their popular appearances in Mangazine #11-14. Exploring El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold, Gina and Brittany find a different kind of adventure entirely when its prince falls in love with Brittany. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Story, art and cover by Fred Perry. Archaeologist Gina Diggers and her adopted were-cheetah sister Britanny get their own miniseries, after their popular appearances in Mangazine #11-14. Penny, Stripe, and the rest of the Gold Digger gang join the sisters for an exploration of the Lost City of Atlantis, but the evil wizard Gyphon makes them feel unwelcome. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Story, art and cover by Fred Perry. Archaeologist Gina Diggers and her adopted were-cheetah sister Britanny get their own miniseries after their popular appearances in Mangazine #11-14. In the long-lost legendary city of Shangri-La, Gina finds vast knowledge, as well as romance…and the wrath of a jealous empress. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Story, art and cover by Fred Perry. Archaeologist Gina Diggers and her adopted were-cheetah sister Britanny get their own miniseries, after their popular appearances in Mangazine #11-14. Gina, Britanny, Penny, and Ace must find the Garden of Eden to stop Armageddon. In the process, they learn that Adam and Eve were not what we think…. Final issue of the series; followed by Gold Digger (1993 2nd Series) #1. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Curse: Part 1 of 4 - Story, Art and Cover by Fred Perry. Gina Diggers and her trusty pal Cheetah find the tomb to the world's first ruler and the home to the world's worst curse! Slam bang action and cute babes. Who could ask for more? Now a regular monthly series because you demanded it! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Curse: Part 2 of 4 - Story, Art and Cover by Fred Perry. The curse of the world's first leader continues to plague Gina and Cheetah as they try to escape ancient death traps, trigger-happy Iranians and the world's worst bad luck! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Curse: Part 3 of 4 - Story, Art and Cover by Fred Perry. Gina makes plans to rid herself and Cheetah of the horrible bad luck curse by tricking the mystical energies into leaving with the help of a bio-electric protoplasm that emulates their life forces! However, the plan backfires when the energy from the curse merges with the protoplasm, forming a new, evil entity! Half Gina, half Cheetah...all bad: Gravedigger! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.

Curse: Part 4 of 4 - Story, Art and Cover by Fred Perry. The spine-shattering showdown between Gold Digger and Grave Digger concludes! Grave Digger hunts Gina using weapons from Gina's own armory! Gina's survival depends only on her tool-kit and her wits! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.