Like I said to Bill on tonight's "monster" SWORDcast on Radio Celtica, as prep for the upcoming Godzilla remake, I've recently watched GORGO. One of the original big monster movies, this one's set in Ireland and London, giving us our very own Britzilla. Not only do we get Gorgo Junior but his Mom get's in on the action, all 200 feet of her! Mrs. Gorgo takes out Big Ben, Tower Bridge and most of the Capital looking for her little reptilian tyke. Despite it's obvious rubber suits, I thoroughly enjoyed the flick, especially the special effects, which would have been very watchable on the big screen in 1961.
Watching Gorgo in 2014 got me thinking as to what vintage collectables might be out there for the Gorgo collector?
Well, there's the original cinema poster, which looks just brilliant.
There's a neat paperback by Carson Bingham aka Bruce Cassiday.
and what I assume must be the jewels in the Gorgo collector's crown, the GORGO Charlton comics illustrated by no less than Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man. This series ran for years.
Old Gorgster also got his mug shot on the cover of Forry J Akerman's iconic Famous Monsters of Filmland in 1961. Looks kinda cute don't he?
But my personal favourite and a must if I was to go all-out Gorgo is the Palmer plastic figure, which came in a range of gorgeous colours like this yellow version. I did buy one from the States about 10 years ago on the Bay but he never arrived. He's no doubt chomping through some small model village on Monster Island as we speak! Were Palmer an American company?
Besides. this old stuff, there are tons of modern Gorgo collectables, particularly in Japan, where Kaiju rule supreme. Have you got any readers?
M1 company produced a beautiful 9 inch Gorgo and baby(or Gorgo with mama?)figure in 2002.I bought one from Jim Cirronella,who helped to get the figure made.I might add that a Reptilicus and creature from the movie Angry Red Planet were also made.
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