Godzilla Calendars

5.3.2024 (Rev 6.16)

Often overlooked and undervalued in our Godzilla collections are the calendars. From what I can determine Godzilla calendars have been around since I was born. As you know they come in all styles, shapes and sizes to fit our needs. There are Godzilla wall calendars, flip calendars, desk calendars, diorama calendars, oversized calendars, one-page calendars, 365-day daily calendar, artist calendars and more. I’ve been grabbing up Godzilla calendars over the years. They not only keep our days but also bring into our spaces some of our favorite Godzilla movie scenes, art and illustrations. Godzilla calendars are not just for pictures but for organizing our days, weeks, months and years around important dates such as movie releases, births and deaths, events and more. The volume of posts commemorating and memorializing these dates on our social media timelines evidences the shared calendar in the Godzilla community.

Godzilla 16-Month 2025 Calendar

Before the advent of electronic and social media, print calendars were all around our homes, on our walls, sitting on our desks and pinned to our kitchen refrigerators. We had miniature calendars for our pockets too. There were daily planners and executive day planners. In September, new calendars popped in the bookstore and malls featuring music, movies, TV and pop stars and more. Soon after the new year their prices were slashed and they were placed into the discount bins. That was a great time to pick up calendars.

Godzilla 1985 Calendar on the wall of Rocketships & Accessories (Philadelphia, 1984)

Godzilla calendars were available in Japan, but they were few and far between here in the U.S., so they were not on my shopping radar. The first Godzilla calendar I saw was the Godzilla 1984 calendar on the wall at the the Rocketships & Accessories Godzilla 30th Birthday Party in 1984. I eventually got it three decades later. My first was the Japanese Godzilla 1996 bi-monthly wall calendar by Try-X featuring Godzilla vs Destoroyah movie scenes. The last spread has the movie poster painted by Noriyoshi Ohrai (生頼 範義) with a year-at-a-glance calendar below. My second calendar was the Godzilla 2000 calendar that remains mint sealed in its store packaging marked down by 20%.

My first Godzilla calendar (1996) on display (top left side) during my Channel 29 interview in 1998.

Since that turn of the millennium, I bought Godzilla calendars when and where I found them in shops or online. I have treated them as treasures rarely put on display keeping them out of harm’s way. I love Godzilla books and print material and calendars go right along with them. They are time capsules preserving a sense of the days and years of our lives. They capture the sense of times, needs, style and design of those who made them. Their format, paper, print, art, illustrations, photography, design and typography archive our evolving cultures, lifestyles, technologies, resources and needs. They trigger my senses and take me back to the year in a wonderful sense of nostalgia reminding me of not only when I was but where I was and how I was.

Godzilla 365 Day (ゴジラ365日) > Sample content

The release of Shin Godzilla in 2016 seems to have triggered an avalanche of calendars. Maybe I’m just paying more attention. Electronic calendars synced across our desktop computers, phones and other electronic devices take care of keeping time, calendars and our schedules. Although I don’t need to print calendars like we used to, I want them for their art, photography and design. I prefer large formats rather than smaller calendars. Regardless of their condition, I love and collect calendars from the Showa era for significance and preservation of their historical art and photography. I’ve been snatching up a calendar to fill in missing years. One of my favorites is the Godzilla 365 Day (ゴジラ365日, 383 pages) calendar, where “Every Day is Godzilla Day” (毎日がゴジラの日) published by Yosensha in 2016. It chronicles each day of the year from January 1 to December 31 with Godzilla movies, events, facts, merch releases and more. Here are some of my growing collection of Godzilla calendars.

1) Toho Kaiju Calendar 1968, 2) Toho Kaiju Monster Art Collection (1960s), 3) Toho Godzilla 1972 Calendar, 4) Jet Jaguar Calendar (1973?), 5) King of the Monsters, 6) Godzilla 1984 Calendar, 7) Godzilla ’85 Oversized Calendar, 8) Godzilla 1994 Poster Calendar, 9) Godzilla 1995 JOMO Poster Calendar, 10) Godzilla 1996 Wall Calendar, 11) Godzilla 1996 Desk Calendar, 12) Godzilla 2000 Wall Calendar, 13) Godzilla 2002 Wall Calendar, 14) Godzilla Toho Special Effects 2011 Calendar, 15) Anguirus 2015 Poster Calendar, 16) Hyper Hobby Cigarette Card Godzilla 2023 Calendar, 17) Godzilla Generations Returns 2025 Calendar, 18) Godzilla -1.0 2025 Desk Calendar, 19) Godzilla 16-Month 2025 Wall Calendar, 20) Godzilla 70th Anniversary 2025 Wall Calendar and 21) 70th Anniversary Godzilla Calendar (2025)

Do you have a Godzilla calendar collection? What are your favorites? Do you find them hard to find? Would you like more? Unlike posters, you can flip through them like books and read the days of your life gone by. Godzilla calendars can be found online on Amazon Japan, Buyee Japan, eBay and other sites. For several years I produced MyKaiju toy photography calendars but now I provide a calendar on MyKaiju.com and on monthly The Daily posts. G-Fan Magazine prints an annual calendar. The value of Godzilla calendars cannot be overstated. Today, we have many ways to keep track of all the special days on the Godzilla calendar.