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INTEREST: Flickr User Collects Covers of Weekly Shonen Jump From the Beginning




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doomydoomdoom



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:54 am Reply with quote
LOL I have actually known about this page for a while; nice to see it get a write-up on ANN. It is quite cool to see a Shonen Jump history told in cover scans.
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lys



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:05 am Reply with quote
It is really fun and fascinating to see the change in styles and characters over the decades with something like this!! A few years back I started my own collection of manga magazine cover scans (more shoujo-focused), gathering images found from online auctions sites and so on. For me it was just a personal collection (I didn't reupload anywhere), but in the process I discovered, and contributed a few of my findings to, this lovely archive for Hana to Yume covers: http://hanacov.angelicvoice.org
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:20 am Reply with quote
That's really cool!
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Veniamin



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:36 am Reply with quote
Would it be wise to buy old issues of SJ from Amazon right now? It's not like I'm wasting bing rewards on anything important.
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Shiyonasan



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:48 pm Reply with quote
Oh hey, I've had this page favorited for a long time on my computer. I believe me and Doomydoomdoom found out about Kami Sama Explorer through the same place (Kanzenshuu). Definitely a good collection of SJ covers in there.
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the-antihero



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:59 pm Reply with quote
Man, the drawing styles are so ancient!

I'd say my favorite is this one

So, what happened to SJ between 1977-1979?
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felipedepalma.kind



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:38 pm Reply with quote
Ring ni kakero happened
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Lord Geo



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:53 pm Reply with quote
felipedepalma.kind wrote:
Ring ni kakero happened


I think the question was more about where 1978's covers are. I guess that's just a big gap that has to get filled.

Honestly some of my favorite covers are the ones early each year where the mangaka themselves grace the covers. I see that it was done up through 1996, but I wonder if Jump still does that now. It's a cool way to see who's actually making the manga people enjoy.

Overall, though, it is an awesome page to check out. I do find it interesting, though, that Ring ni Kakero & Dragon Ball's final chapters (the first two to have full-color final chapters) didn't make their respective magazines covers, but Slam Dunk did in its final chapter (the 3rd, & most recent, full-color FC); RnK & DB had small mentions of their final chapters on the covers. The issue after DB's end, though, is awesome: Shaq vs. Hanamichi!
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1thought



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:01 pm Reply with quote
Well Slam Dunk must be the only series to get a cover for it's final chapter.

Because none of the series that helped make Jump so famous did either

Kinnikuman
Dr Slump
Cat's Eye
Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star)
City Hunter
Sakigake Otokojuku
Kimagure Orange Road
Captain Tsubasa
High School Kimen Gumi
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
Cobra
Rokudenashi Blues
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken
Magical Taruto Kun
Saint Seiya
Yu Yu Hakusho

etc...
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rockman nes



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:38 am Reply with quote
lys wrote:
It is really fun and fascinating to see the change in styles and characters over the decades with something like this!! A few years back I started my own collection of manga magazine cover scans (more shoujo-focused), gathering images found from online auctions sites and so on. For me it was just a personal collection (I didn't reupload anywhere), but in the process I discovered, and contributed a few of my findings to, this lovely archive for Hana to Yume covers: http://hanacov.angelicvoice.org


Great find!
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