Shawn Pryor’s (he/him) work includes the middle-grade graphic novel Fast Break (FSG/Macmillan, 2025), the hi/lo reader series The Gamer (Capstone Publishing), the Cash and Carrie series (Action Lab Entertainment), and several books for Capstone’s Jake Maddox Sports and Adventure series, Graphic Library, and the Kids Sports series. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cooking, listening to streaming music playlists, and talking about why Zack from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is the greatest Black superhero of all time. Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia.

• Foreword Introduction STRANGE BEASTSCHAPTER ONE | Beginnings CHAPTER TWO | Godzilla CHAPTER THREE | The Showa Era (1954–1975)CHAPTER FOUR | The Heisei Era (1984–1995)CHAPTER FIVE | A New Millennium CHAPTER SIX | King Kong CHAPTER SEVEN | Kong vs. GodzillaCHAPTER EIGHT | Gamera CHAPTER NINE | Rodan CHAPTER TEN | Mothra CHAPTER ELEVEN | Daimajin CHAPTER TWELVE | Ultraman CHAPTER THIRTEEN | Other Japanese Kaiju GLOBAL DOMINATIONCHAPTER FOURTEEN | International Kaiju Films CHAPTER FIFTEEN | Animated Kaiju CHAPTER SIXTEEN | Comic Books, Manga, and Prose CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | Kaiju in Pop Culture Conclusion Index Sources Image Credits Acknowledgments About the Author

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