A Collection of Nostalgic Showa-Era Ultraman Bonus Items!
Back in the Showa era, bookstores were piled high with boys' magazines and school-grade magazines overflowing with bonus items. Each magazine competed to offer the most extravagant bonus items, and Shogakukan's school-grade magazines, which incorporated the trends and topics of the time into their bonuses, sold like hotcakes. Following the second baby boom, school-grade magazines flourished, and the January 1973 issue of "Shogaku Ichinensei" (First Grade Elementary School) recorded 1.28 million copies sold. This was a remarkable achievement, meaning 70% of all first-grade elementary school students at the time purchased it.
This book comprehensively features the assembly bonus items from the Ultraman series included during the golden age of bonus items. Along with photographs of the assembled bonus items, excerpts from articles in the respective issues, next-issue previews, and bonus item box art are also included, allowing readers to experience the atmosphere of that time firsthand.
* In addition to the freebies included with "Shogaku Ichinensei" (Elementary School Grades 1-6), this issue also includes freebies from children's magazines such as "Mebae," "Yoiko," and "Yochien"!
* Over 200 freebies are included in total (planned)!
* A reproduction of the popular freebie "Ultra Kaiju Grand Panorama" (from "Shogaku Ichinensei," December 1970 issue) is included!
It can be assembled just like the original, on a large scale of approximately 50cm in width!
* The column also includes freebies from Tsuburaya Productions works other than the Ultraman series, as well as mixed freebies from other works!
* A reference list of all Ultraman freebies included from the late 1960s to the early 1980s is included at the end of the book!