Check it out! A reissue?

http://www.hlj.com/product/SGK20334

Yeah, I got a copy on ebay a few months ago. Highly recommended for kaiju collectors, illustrators, and biologists. I get the impression there might be more in the series, as the gamera below is in the same style, but not in this book. This book is all Ultraman/Seven monsters. Was surprised to see the style used in Shigeru Mizuki 1st Gegege no kitaro comic from the 60s!

Back in the day, there were a number of publishers who put out similar books--most compiled from illustrated pictorials from the popular children's magazines of the day--the Gamera dates back to the 1960s (from an Asahi Sonorama publication, a couple of which were reissued in the 1990s), while the book currently available from HLJ is a reissue of the1972 Shogakukan publication, 「怪獣図解入門」(Kaiju Zukai Nyumon or "Introduction to Monster Anatomy")--I have an original I got from a pen-pal in 1976. Many of these books were available at San Francisco's Japantown back in the early-to-mid 1970s at both the now-defunct Goshado and still-in-business Books Kinokuniya.

(BTW, "Introduction to Monster Anatomy" contains creatures from ULTRA Q through ULTRAMAN ACE.)

This book was only 1680 yen shipped via surface.

Does anyone else know where to obtain this? Checked amazon and kinokuniya but zip Please send me a message if you do. (Doesn't have to be a private message)
Thanks

I'll post the ISBN when I get it. With that you should be able to get it through Amazon Japan.

Kinokuniya doesn't have it? Try calling them direct. I ordered one of the Ma.K books from them, no extra charge, but they had to special order it. I got my copy of the Ultraseven book on ebay though.

I bypass them and go to Asahiya books. Much nicer and quicker.

60 Madison Ave, New York - (212) 883-0011

there's also one here 52 Vanderbilt Ave, New York - (212) 883-0011 but I haven't been there.

When I ordered through them they didn't charge any shipping, handling or jacking the fee - just straight yen cover price

and Roger - can't wait for that ISBN!

Looks like a neat book. I love the Kanegon drawing on HLJ.

Anybody know if the book the Gamera is from, An Anatomical Guide to Monsters, is still available? I couldn't dig anything up. I would love to locate a copy of that book.
Not to derail or anything but for anyone interested I stumbled upon other examples from it here:http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/10/kaiju-anatomical-drawings/

The Gamera illustrations come from a book published in the 1960s by Asahi Sonorama, while the Godzilla, Mothra and Angilas come from a book published in the late 1980s/early 1990s from a totally different publisher.

Thank you for the help. Cheers

Got the book today, it's phenomenal. Over 150 pages and kaiju from every Ultra series are covered. Even Beacon is in there!

ISBN is 978-4-09-220334-1, price is 1100 yen. Amazon JP has it in stock. It's well worth it.

Just a slight correction; the book features many prominent, but not all, monsters from ULTRA Q (1966) through the early episodes of ULTRAMAN ACE (1972), as the book was published as the series premiered. Glad you enjoy the book, because they are very cool!