Monster (manga)
Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, "Monster" was published in "Big Comic Original" from December 1994 to December 2001. The 162 chapters were periodically collected into 18 "tankōbon" volumes published by Shogakukan, the first on 30 June 1995 and the last on 28 February 2002. While writing "Monster", Urasawa began the series "20th Century Boys" in 1999, which would continue after "Monster" had finished. "Monster" received a nine-volume "kanzenban" re-release between 30 January and 29 August 2008.
Monster movie
The first feature-length films to include what are regarded as monsters were often classed as horror or science fiction films. The 1915 German silent film "The Golem", directed by Paul Wegener, is one of the earliest examples of film to include a creature. The German Expressionist "Nosferatu" in 1922, and the depiction of a dragon in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen in 1924, followed tradition. In the 1930s, American movie studios began to produce more successful films of this type, usually based on gothic tales such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" in 1931, both heavily influenced by German Expressionism, followed by "The Mummy" (1932) and "The Invisible Man" (1933). Classified as Horror films, they included iconic monsters.