Shogun Warriors
Marvel · 1979–1980 · 20 issues
About the series
In the late 1970s, Marvel Comics brought the Japanese giant-robot craze to American newsstands with Shogun Warriors, a 20-issue series that pitted colossal, piloted mecha against monstrous threats. Writers Doug Moench and Steven Grant, alongside artists Herb Trimpe and Mike Vosburg, crafted a sci-fi action epic where these towering machines—licensed from Japanese toys—battled for Earth's survival. The series stands as a colorful, kinetic bridge between the kaiju tradition and the emerging mecha genre, capturing the explosive fun of toys come to life on the comic page.