Last Updated on August 19, 2025 by Angel Melanson
The folks at Monstrous Books have something up their sleeves for kaiju lovers out there. Monstrous Magazine, a black-and-white magazine-format comic book anthology, is getting ready to go big with its next venture, Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue. The oversized issue will celebrate the legendary monsters from Japan, just in time for the ongoing global celebration of Godzilla’s 70th anniversary.
We here at Fango are proud to exclusively reveal the pre-launch page for Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue, which is now live. As well as not one but two different covers for the issue, including one featuring Godzilla, aka the King of the Monsters himself, as well as one that introduces us to MegaSquatch. Not just Sasquatch, but a mega Sasquatch. Check them both out below. Readers can visit the pre-launch page to get an email when the crowdfunding project officially goes live.
Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue features a stacked line-up including:
- “The Colossus From the Crater,” a brand-new sci-fi short story set on a remote moon and featuring a giant alien mummy, penned by novelist Greg Cox, who wrote the official prose adaptations for Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- An all-new Konga vs. Gorgo comic, featuring the creatures from the cult 1960s American International Pictures movies and Charlton Comics, written by James Aquilone and illustrated by Dave Swartz (Confederate Monster)
- Two iconic covers — a Konga vs. Gorgo cover by Larry Tuason (Knightingail: The Legend Begins) and a MegaSquatch cover by EV Cantada and colorist Zac Atkinson.
Just like these creatures themselves, this new magazine will be enlarged to a full-size 8.5-x-11-inch format. It was previously digest size, so this is certainly an upgrade. Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone, who heads up Monstrous Books, had this to say about it:
“When I decided to do a Kaiju issue of Monstrous Magazine I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do a Kaiju-size magazine, so we’re going from 5.5 x 8.5 to 8.5 x 11 inches. And that’s just the beginning. We’re resizing the Monstrous Magazine back issues, too, and now, for a limited time, they will be available in the new collectible, oversized Kaiju format.”
Other rewards for the Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue campaign include the debut issue of Monstrous Presents, a 32-page comic reprinting Rise of the Morlocks and Dead Jack and Oswald Meet Frankenstein, both by James Aquilone and artist J.K. Woodward. Previous issues of Monstrous Magazine, feature a mix of comics, prose stories and articles. The debut issue includes:
- A collectible cover by Colton Worley (Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel, The Shadow)
- An essay by Elvira Mistress of the Dark writer David Avallone about the legacy of his father, pulp legend Michael Avallone
- A reprint of pulp legend Michael Avallone’s first short story The Man Who Walked on Air, originally published in Weird Tales in 1953
- The very first Dead Jack comic, Dead Jack and Oswald Meet Frankenstein, written by James Aquilone and illustrated by J.K. Woodward
- Monster Rally, a comic story by Nancy A. Collins with art by Zac Atkinson
The prelaunch page for Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue is now live at Kickstarteer.com. For more, check out the new official Friday the 13th short film, Sweet Revenge.
