GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS/RODAN Video Store Retail Flyer (Vestron Video, 1983)

 

You can see this one in our Guide to American Godzilla Home Video volume--which you can download for free at the link--but here is an improved scan of the real thing, which I just acquired.  This one-sided page was just one of hundreds that owners of electronics and video rental stores received in the mail constantly, and it's a wonder it was saved.  It only lists VHS and Beta versions available (eventually these titles would be offered in both laserdisc and CED format too).  Interestingly, the prices are a little weird:  if you buy one, it's $59.95, but you will get the other free if you do that, so the pair are actually $59.95.  Or, you could just buy them "individually" for $29.95....wait, didn't we just say one was $59.95? I mean, two?

Oh well, either way...these releases are extremely important, because, other than a couple of random fly-by-night, semi-legal releases of Godzilla films on home video that claim to come earlier, these are the grandparents of official Godzilla releases, and started a long, long line! The last Godzilla VHS, for example, was released in 2002.  If you are interested in this sort of thing, it's all in the guide! Stay tuned for more Godzilla goodness!