Godzilla in Hell #1 Preview

Source: IDW Publishing Special Thanks to Kahlil Schweitzer IDW`s latest Godzilla mini-series -- Godzilla in Hell -- will be available from retailers this week. Each issue of the five part series will be by a different creative team to best showcase the onslaught! Writer/artist James Stokoe (Godzilla: Half Century War) returns to his favorite monster in the first chapter. Godzilla meets his greatest adversary of all time -- the impossible tortures of Hell! Each issue of this special miniseries will see Godzilla enter a new level of the underworld to do battle with the impossible. Godzilla in Hell #1 is one of IDW`s "Five Featured First" issues for July, along with Star Trek/Green Lantern #1, Onyx #1, The Shrinking Man #1 and Transformers: Robots in Disguise Animated #1. The issue is also part of EC Comics cover month, with a variant homage cover by Godzilla: Rulers of Earth artist Jeff Zornow! Godzilla in Hell #1 premiered at last week`s San Diego Comic-Con with a Convention Variant edition featuring a new illustration by James Stokoe. The print run was limited to 200 copies. A limited Retailer Exclusive cover variant by Sara Richard (My Little Pony, Vertigo Quarterly) is now being offered exclusively by Comics Dungeon in Seattle.. Godzilla in Hell #1 Writer: James Stokoe Artist: James Stokoe Editor: Bobby Curnow Creative Consultant: Chris Mowry Cover: James Stokoe In-Store Date: July 15, 2015 Pages: 32 Cover Price: $3.99 EC Comics Subscription Variant Cover: Jeff Zornow For subscription customers only... a variant cover from Jeff Zornow! Cover Price: $3.99 Convention Exclusive Variant San Diego Comic-Con edition of Godzilla in Hell #1, featuring an exclusive new hyper-detailed wraparound cover illustration by writer/artist James Stokoe. Cover Price: $10.00 Retailer Exclusive Variant Comics Dungeon exclusive cover variant by Sara Richard. Cover Price: $12.99

To be continued in Godzilla in Hell #1!

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: