I only recently heard about this book, and was pleasantly surprised to stumble across a copy at a local Flea Market.
Godzilla Discovers America is an odd storybook with photographs of Godzilla vacationing in America. The book includes a Toho copyright, though it's hard to believe they would have approved a license for the book.
It does feature two dozen staged photos of Godzilla at a variety of landmarks.
Some are more clever than others, and there's an odd inclusion of Cokra — a giant cockroach.
Cockroaches aside, I give the authors credit for putting effort into the fabricating of each image. They clearly took thought, not to mention time and effort, to realize. It very easily could have been done in a much more slapdash manner, and it's a more worthy product as a result of the effort that went into it.
It makes for an odd yet interesting take on the big G as he travels from New York to San Francisco before returning to Japan.
Be here next week for another item from my Godzilla collection!
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