Fandom in the ’90s: Anime, Hong Kong, Godzilla and Power Rangers

The 1990s was an exciting period to enter fan cultures, especially in New York. I plunged heavily into anime in 1992, thanks to a chance encounter at a Star Trek Convention. This soon led to Hong Kong films, the new Heisei-era Godzilla films, and the Japanese superheroes that inspired the Power Rangers. All this was before the internet flourished. What fueled this growing fandom for me was the monthly comics shows and conventions at Manhattan locations where dealers’ rooms offered VHS tapes of all of this material and access to all sorts of knowledgeable fans as well as fanzines and

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