Godzilla and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Meet for the First Time in Crossover Comic Series from IDW

Titans of Film and Television Smash Cities and Join Forces In The Five-Issue Miniseries Event of 2022
  
Press release
SAN DIEGO, CA (December 16, 2021) – IDW, under license by Toho International, Inc., and in partnership with BOOM! Studios and Hasbro, announces today an all-new five-issue comic book event, Godzilla Vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, bringing together two titanic franchises for the first time!

Launching in March 2022, this monthly miniseries will be a collaboration between two of the comic industry’s most exciting talents, writer Cullen Bunn (Deadpool, Green Lantern, Godzilla: Cataclysm) and artist Freddie Williams II (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man/ThunderCats).

When Rita Repulsa uses an ancient artifact to transport herself to a universe without Power Rangers, she finds herself in a world with aliens, kaiju, and… Godzilla! Hoping to annihilate this new foe, Rita hurls her own terrible creatures into battle. But she never expects that the Rangers have followed her to this alternate reality, pitting the Dinozords themselves head-to-head with the King of the Monsters!

“I am honored to bring two iconic franchises like Godzilla and the Power Rangers together. I've been a massive Godzilla fan since before I could read, and my love for the King of Monsters has never faded in all those years. Likewise, I've always loved Tokusatsu superheroics, and vividly remember watching the first episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers when it came out. This is a crossover that I suspect will take readers by surprise—but it makes complete sense!” says Bunn. “Writing for these characters is a dream come true for this giant monster-loving kid-at-heart, and when readers pick up this book, I want them to feel that sense of awe and wonder that these characters have inspired for decades!”

“This will be the biggest, most stratospheric crossover I’ve ever drawn!” says Williams. “It’s the combination of so many big genres: Giant Monsters vs. Mechs, martial arts vs. science and magic, with lots of collateral destruction! I’ve been watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episodes and Godzilla films to submerge my brain space, and have been reminded how fantastic and charming these designs are and how much fun prior creators had with their designs. I’m excited to contribute to the long legacies of these franchises!”

“We couldn’t be more thrilled about this latest crossover event at IDW Publishing,” says editor Tom Waltz. “Not just because a story featuring both Godzilla and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers checks off every awesome box on a comic-book crossover list, but also because we’ve got two of the best in the business -- Cullen Bunn and Freddie Williams II -- combining to bring it into being.”

“When BOOM! Studios first stepped into the world of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, we had some big plans and huge dreams, so it’s amazing to be able to bring to life the biggest and most exciting monster mash-up of the century,” says Dafna Pleban, Senior Editor, BOOM! Studios. “It’s been an incredible process to put together this epic series with our friends at IDW, Toho, and Hasbro. We can’t wait to show fans everything they could ever hope to see and more from the King of the Monsters and the Power Rangers universe.”

Godzilla Vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 will be available with multiple cover variants for retailers and fans to enjoy, including Cover A by series artist Freddie Williams II, Cover B by E.J. Su (Transformers), and a special connecting Retailer Incentive edition by Williams II which combines with the RI covers for issues #2-5 to make a glorious panorama of kaiju and Zord conflict!

For information on how to acquire Godzilla comics and graphic novels from IDW, please contact your local comic shop or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you.

About IDW
IDW (NYSE AMERICAN: IDW) is a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories and characters in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms. The award-winning IDW Publishing and IDW Entertainment divisions holistically evaluate and acquire IP for franchise development across comics and graphic novels, television, theatrical, games, merchandise, and other entertainment platforms, in addition to bringing world-renowned storytelling to life with our creative partners.

About Toho
Toho Company, Limited, is a Japanese entertainment studio focused on the development, production, exhibition, and distribution of powerful live action and animated content including motion pictures, television and theater. Founded in 1932, Toho remains a prominent force in bringing brands and original storytelling with versatile talents to audiences worldwide. Its subsidiaries include Toho Cinemas, the highest grossing exhibition company in Japan, and Toho International, Inc., a U.S. established incorporated company that manages and commercializes Toho’s intellectual property portfolio. To learn more about Toho, visit: www.toho.co.jp/en/.
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About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios was founded by Ross Richie in 2005 with the singular focus of creating world-class comic book and graphic novel storytelling for all audiences. Through the development of four distinct imprints—BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia—BOOM! has produced award-winning original work, including Lumberjanes, The Woods, Giant Days, Klaus, and Mouse Guard, while also breaking new ground with established licenses such as WWE, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Cartoon Network, and The Jim Henson Company properties. BOOM! Studios will also bring their original series to life through a first-look relationship with Netflix. Please visit www.boom-studios.com for more information.
 
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About Hasbro
Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a global play and entertainment company committed to making the world a better place for all children, fans and families. Hasbro delivers immersive brand experiences for global audiences through consumer products, including toys and games; entertainment through eOne, its independent studio; and gaming, led by the team at Wizards of the Coast, an award-winning developer of tabletop and digital games best known for fantasy franchises MAGIC: THE GATHERING and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS.
The company’s unparalleled portfolio of approximately 1,500 brands includes MAGIC: THE GATHERING, NERF, MY LITTLE PONY, TRANSFORMERS, PLAY-DOH, MONOPOLY, BABY ALIVE, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, POWER RANGERS, PEPPA PIG and PJ MASKS, as well as premier partner brands. For the past decade, Hasbro has been consistently recognized for its corporate citizenship, including being named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by 3BL Media and one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute. Important business and brand updates are routinely shared on our Investor Relations website, Newsroom and social channels (@Hasbro on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.)
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GODZILLA VS POWER RANGERS #1 (OF 5)
IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Freddie Williams II. E.J. Su
From IDW Publishing and Boom! Studios, two titanic powers collide in a cross-company collaboration event you never expected . . . but makes complete sense!
  
When Rita Repulsa uses an ancient artifact to transport herself to a universe without Power Rangers, she finds herself on a world with aliens, kaiju, and . . . Godzilla! Hoping to annihilate this new foe, Rita hurls her own terrible creatures into battle. But she never expects that the Rangers have followed her to this alternate reality! Now, the Dinozords themselves are going head-to-head with the King of the Monsters!
  
Written by superstar scribe Cullen Bunn (Godzilla: Cataclysm) and illustrated by artist extraordinaire Freddie Williams II (Batman/TMNT)!
In Shops: Mar 23, 2022
SRP: $3.99

Godzilla Rivals Vs. King Ghidorah—SPOTLIGHT
Adam Gorham (w) • Adam Gorham (a) • E.J. Su (c)
When Mars invades Earth, Godzilla surfaces from Tokyo Bay and is pulled into battle. Captured and taken by the Martians, Godzilla is forced to fight in a gladiatorial arena, where he faces his biggest challenge yet—KING GHIDORAH!

Written and illustrated by Adam Gorham (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Savage Avengers). 
FC • 52 pages • $7.99
In Shops: Dec 22, 2021

*Retailer incentives:
Variant cover by Jeff Zornow!

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors—Rise Up!
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)
When Godzilla becomes humanity's judge, life on Earth will hang in the balance in this middle-grade graphic novel adventure!

When a coldly single-minded businessman uses an untested element to create clean energy for a profit, he inadvertently awakens the beast from the deep—Godzilla! Sensing the harm the new energy poses to the planet, Godzilla attacks the heart of the problem—humankind! It will be up to three intrepid middle-school students—with a little magic help from Infant Island—to show Godzilla that not all humans are bad… and that there is still hope for Planet Earth.

By the superstar creative team of Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening, and Luis Antonio Delgado!
TPB • FC • $9.99 • 120 pages • 5.6” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-872-3
 
Bullet points:
Available in February 2022.

GODZILLA RIVALS VS MOTHRA
IDW PUBLISHING
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(W) Mary Kenney (A) SL Gallant (CA) E. J. Su
The Monster in the Lake! Nature can't be contained in this brand-new issue of Godzilla Rivals!
Something is trapped in Lake Ikeda-Mothra, the ancient and beautiful guardian of nature and humanity! But when one kaiju awakens, Godzilla is sure to be close behind...
In Shops: Sep 15, 2021
SRP: $7.99

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #5 (of 5)
Cover A: Dan Schoening
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)
Rise Up, Part 5! The time has come to see if the world is worthy of saving! Can our heroes—with a little help from the Shobijin—show Godzilla that mankind is capable of hope? Or will the Priestesses’ frightening vision of the future come to pass?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #5 (of 5)—Cover B: Photo Cover
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Photo Cover (c)
 
Retailer incentives: variant cover by Philip Murphy!

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #4 (of 5)
Cover A: Dan Schoening
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)
Rise Up, Part 4! The Shobijin twins, with a little help, continue their mission to seek out proof that mankind is worth saving! But they have to work fast as Godzilla and Biollante gear up for another showdown—can Cedric, Anderson, and Emily help convince these kaiju that the world shouldn’t be destroyed?!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #4 (of 5)—Cover B: Photo Cover
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Photo Cover (c)
 
*Retailer incentives: Order 10 copies and get one free variant cover by Christian Gonzalez!

GODZILLA RIVALS VS HEDORAH
(W) Paul Allor (A/CA) E. J. Su
It's the 1970s, and the world's most terrifying Kaiju smash their way through New York City! As Godzilla and Hedorah do battle above, down below Todd Hopkins is racing across Manhattan, in a desperate bid to save the only scientist who can stop the chaos and drive the monsters back into the sea. But before the day is over, secrets will be revealed, and terrible choices made, to save the city from utter destruction!
  
Writer Paul Allor (TMNT, G.I. Joe) and artist E.J. Su (Transformers, Godzilla: Legends) join forces to bring the premiere Godzilla Versus quarterly one-shot series in explosively shocking fashion! And each stand-alone issue features special wrestling poster-themed retailer incentive variants by fan-favorite artist Jeffrey Veregge (Transformers, Judge Dredd).
In Shops: Jun 30, 2021
SRP: $7.99

GODZILLA MONSTERS & PROTECTORS #3
(W) Erik Burnham (A/CA) Dan Schoening/Photo
While the Shobijin seek out proof that mankind is worth saving, the Linival Corporation, upset that their plans to help mankind with a new energy source have been interrupted by Godzilla, have come up with a plan to fight back against the King of the Monsters... and that plan is a kaiju of their own: BIOLLANTE. The will titans tussle here in the third chapter, and no matter which monster wins, it could spell trouble!
In Shops: Jun 16, 2021
SRP: $3.99

GODZILLA WORLD OF MONSTERS TP
(W) John Layman, Cullen Bunn, Joshua Hale Fialkov (A) Alberto Ponticelli, Dave Wachter, Brian Churilla (CA) James Stokoe
The King of Monsters reigns supreme, no matter the timeline or world, in this compendium collecting three graphic novels-Gangsters & Goliaths by John Layman and Alberto Ponticelli, Cataclysm by Cullen Bunn and Dave Wachter, and Oblivion by Joshua Fialkov and Brian Churilla!

First, in Gangsters & Goliaths, monster recognizes monster, which quickly becomes obvious when Godzilla collides head on with the Yakuza-dominated Tokyo underworld. In Cataclysm, does any hope remain for humanity in an apocalyptic future devastated by never-ending kaiju attacks? And, when a reckless scientist opens a portal to an alternate dimension ruled by Godzilla and his brethren, a single baby kaiju stowaway could spell disaster for our monster-free world, in Oblivion.
In Shops: Aug 04, 2021
SRP: $29.99

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #2—Cover A: Dan Schoening—SPOTLIGHT
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Dan Schoening (c)
 
Godzilla roars back into comics!
“Rise Up!” Part 2: The world knows that the King of the Monsters has been riled up by the Linival energy plants, whose output sent Godzilla on a pan-Pacific destructive spree the likes of which the world has never seen--but the danger is greater than anyone knows. Godzilla is sitting in judgment on humanity, and the verdict could spell doom for life on Earth! The Shobijin become aware of this and know they could ask Mothra to intervene... but does humanity deserve Mothra's help? Reuniting the blockbuster creative team of writer Erik Burnham, artist Dan Schoening, and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado (Ghostbusters), “Rise Up” continues here!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99
Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #2—Cover B: Photo Cover

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #1 (of 5)
Cover A: Dan Schoening
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Dan Schoening (c)
 
Godzilla roars back into comics with a giant-sized first issue! Extra story and extra content mark the King of Monsters’ triumphant return!
 
“Rise Up!” Part 1: When a coldly single-minded businessman uses an untested element to create clean energy for a profit, he inadvertently awakens the beast from the deep--Godzilla! Sensing the harm the new energy poses to the planet, Godzilla attacks the heart of the problem--humankind! It will be up to three intrepid middle-school students—with a little magic help from Infant Island—to show Godzilla that not all humans are bad… and that there is still hope for Planet Earth. Reuniting the blockbuster creative team of writer Erik Burnham, artist Dan Schoening, and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado (Ghostbusters), Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors promises to romp and stomp fans--old and new--of the greatest kaiju ever like never before!

FC • 36 pages • $4.99
Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #1—Cover B: Photo Cover
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Photo (c)
 
 *Retailer incentives: Order 15 copies and get one free variant cover by Vic Hollins!

Godzilla: Unnatural Disasters
Stories by James Stokoe, Chris Mowry, Ulises Farinas, and others, art by Simon Gane, Dave Wachter, Matt Frank, and others.
The King of the Monsters is back in this compendium collecting three series: Legends, In Hell, and Rage Across Time!
In a world where monsters roam freely, some stories have been lost to time... until NOW! In Legends, the kaiju of Godzilla's fearsome rogues gallery gets the spotlight featuring Anguirus, Rodan, Titanosaurus, Hedorah, and Kumonga!
Then, meet Godzilla's greatest adversary of all time--the impossible tortures of Hell! It's a monster battle that takes you through the depths of the underworld.
Move over dinosaurs... monsters used to rule the planet! In Rage Across Time, travel to different time periods to examine the origin of myths that fueled nightmares: Feudal Japan, ancient Greece, medieval England, and classic Rome!
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (May 11, 2021)
Retail price: $29.99

Note: these all look to be re-releases of these books, we don't believe there is additional content.