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Auction History Result 6j0108 GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER linen teaser 1sh 1959 cool art of renamed Godzilla breathing flames! Date Sold 11/10/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1959 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Teaser One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Gojira no Gykushu (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "Gigantis, the Fire Monster", also known as "Godzilla Raids Again" and "Godzilla's Counter Attack"), the 1955 Motoyoshi Oda Japanese Toho kaiju battling rubbery monsters destroys Tokyo science fiction (sci-fi) horror thriller ("Nothing like it ever before! The fantastic war of the giant fire monsters!"; "Raging up from hell to destroy each other - but first they'll destroy the world!"; "Gigantis Raging out of the bowels of the earth... A hundred tons of hell and fire to ravage and destroy!"; "Angurus Screaming its challenge of mortal combat... Shooting 10,000 degree jets of flaming devastation!"; "They're both alive! Not one but Two of the most terrifying creatures ever loosed on man"; "The fantastic war of giant fire monsters!"; "Born to destroy each other... But first they'll destroy the world!"; "A cast of thousands!") starring Godzilla (billed as "Gigantis" for the U.S. release), Anguirus (billed as "Angurusa" for the U.S. release; gigantic spiked dinosaur, Angirasu), Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, "and A Cast of Thousands!". Not that this is the second Godzilla movie. Gigantis was actually Gojira/Godzilla, but the group that purchased the American rights to the film renamed him in an attempt to convince audiences that Gigantis was a brand new monster.q If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this teaser, with a great Dayglo image of the monster, is far more rare than the regular one-sheet from this title. We have only auctioned three examples of it, and only one in the last 12 years! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some small paper loss at the crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny bits of paper loss in parts of the folds, with some black smudges in the "AN" of the title. It had a few tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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