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GODZILLA

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STORY BY CHRIS MOW RY AND MATT FRANK

WRITTEN BY

CHRIS MOW RY

ART BY

MATT FRANK AND JEFF ZORNOW

COLORS BY

PRISCILLA TRAMONTANO

LETTERS BY

SHAWN LEE AND TOM B. LONG

SERIES EDITS BY

BOBBY CURNOW

COVER ART BY JEFF ZORNOW

COLLECTION EDITS BY JUSTIN EISINGER AND ALONZO SIMONCOLLECTION DESIGN BY CHRIS MOWRY

GODZILLA: RULERS OF EARTH, VOLUME 3. JUNE 2014. FIRST PRINTING. © 2014 Toho Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA ®, Gojira, the related characters and the Character Designs are trademarks of Toho Co., Ltd. ©2014 Idea and Design Works, LLC. The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe St., San Diego, CA 92109. Anysimilarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works,LLC. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork. Printed in Korea.

Originally published as GODZILLA: RULERS OF EARTH issues #9-12.

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Special thanks to Yoshiko Fukuda and everyone at Toho for their invaluable assistance. ISBN: 978-1-63140-009-417 16 15 14 1 2 3 4

THE STORY SO FAR

When the sinister aliens known as the Cryog pair the monsters Orgaand Gigan against Godzilla in Las Vegas, their plan fails as themysterious robot named Jet Jaguar teams up with Godzilla and winsthe fight. Jet Jaguar relocates him far out into the Pacific Ocean,unfortunately close to where the Cyrog planned to meet theircohorts, the undersea creatures called the Devonians.

At a remote chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Devoniansspring a trap on the Cryog and the giant monster Biollante destroystheir ship. When Godzilla intervenes and defeats Biollante, theDevonians are forced to retaliate using the sea monsters Manda,Titanosaurus, and Gezora in an attempt to not only wipe out Godzilla,but the human forces gathered at the surface as well.

Caught in the middle of the attack is young scientist Lucy Casprelland her team of researchers. Having been rescued in China afterdiscovering a captive monster known as Gaira, Lucy and her teamare now reunited with Commander Woods and the Counter KaijuReaction team (CKRs) aboard a small fleet surrounding the islands.

As the human forces are attacked, their only hope may lie in thebattle-worn and unpredictable monster... GODZILLA.