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In defense of Uncle Forry, I don't think as much was known way back when about all types of fantastic cinema, and especially not about foreign sci-fi. And do we know that it was truly FJA who started that rumor?


Somehow I don't think Forry was doing much personal research on Japanese monster movies - he probably heard it from one of FM's "correspondents" and ran with it.

I think many FM readers found it a reasonable possibility because by the mid to late sixties Godzilla had become a "good" monster - and tend to forget that Godzilla, at the time of KK v G, was still the bad guy and would remain so up to the next movie, Godzilla vs. The Thing (or Mothra, definitely a "good" monster).