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What was the first manga magazine? And what manga are published in there? I'm
curious about this, I'm only familiar with Shonen Jump and it [published in
Japan by Shueisha from
1970](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump)

I was wondering if there are any other manga magazines that have been
published before Shonen Jump?


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What was the first manga magazine?


There are quite a few manga magazines that started before Shonen Jump. Going
off of [this list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_magazines), the
earliest published manga magazine was Monthly Manga Shounen (Gekkan Manga
Shounen), which started in 1947.

There are manga magazine publishing companies that predate 1947, such as
[Shogakukan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogakukan), which was founded in
1922; [Kodansha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha), which was formally
founded in 1938; and [Kadokawa
Shoten](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadokawa_Shoten), which was founded in
1945. As far as I can tell, though, none of these companies published manga
magazines before 1947.

[Toward the Terra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_terra) was one
manga published in Monthly Manga Shounen.


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