IDW Announces Two New Godzilla Trade Paperbacks for April 2014

: 17 January 2014

Bob Eggleton`s wraparound cover art for Godzilla: History`s Greatest Monster, one of two new Godzilla trade paperback collections coming from IDW this April. Image courtesy of IDW Publishing. © 2014 Toho Co., Ltd.

Source: IDW Publishing Special Thanks to Rosalind Morehead Get more Godzilla action before watching this year’s biggest motion picture! IDW Publishing has revealed two new trade paperback collections of their Godzilla comics will go on sale this April alongside the previously announced Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #11. And last December`s Godzilla: Rulers of Earth Vol. 1 TPB will again be offered to retailers.

Godzilla: Rulers of Earth Vol. 2 TPB Writer: Chris Mowry Artist: Matt Frank, Jeff Zornow Colors: Priscilla Tramontano Editor: Bobby Curnow Cover: Matt Frank As Lucy and her team embark on their first assignment, more monsters are set on the loose, an alien onslaught begins, and the arrival of a mysterious size-changing robot leads to an all-out giant monster battle. Trade paperback collecting Godzilla: Rulers of Earth issues #5-8. Tentative In-Store Date: Late April, 2014 Pages: 104 Cover Price: $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-61377-933-0 Godzilla: History`s Greatest Monster TPB Writer: Duane Swierczynski Artist: Simon Gane, Dave Wachter Colors: Rhonda Pattison Editor: Bobby Curnow Cover: Bob Eggleton As Godzilla continues to destroy cities and lives all over the world, ex-special forces tough guy Boxer is a man with a grudge who vows to end the terror of Godzilla --no matter what! He assembles a top-notch team to take him and the other monsters down at $7 billion a bounty. Collects all 13 issues of the Godzilla series! Tentative In-Store Date: Late April, 2014 Pages: 324 pages Cover Price: $29.99 ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-61377-948-4

About IDW Publishing

IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro`s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount`s Star Trek; HBO`s True Blood; the BBC`s DOCTOR WHO; Toho`s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio. IDW`s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay`s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.

About Toho Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1932 and headquartered in Tokyo, Toho Company, Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of twenty-eight Godzilla motion pictures, based upon a character the company unleashed on the world back in 1954, and masterpiece films directed by Akira Kurosawa. Toho has been the number one distributor of motion pictures in Japan (both domestic and foreign) for eight consecutive years since 2003. The company is also, throughout Japan, the leading producer of theatrical works and one of the largest owners of office buildings and theaters.

For more information on IDW`s Godzilla comics, please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan: