List of Golgo 13 chapters
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Written and illustrated by Takao Saito, Golgo 13 has been serialized in the semimonthly manga magazine Big Comic since its January 1969 issue, published in October 1968.[1] The chapters have been collected into tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan and Leed Publishing, a spinoff of the author's own Saito Production,[2] since June 21, 1973.[3] As of April 2024, 212 volumes of the tankōbon edition have been published,[4] while the bunkoban edition has 171 volumes.[5]
In 2006, Golgo 13 was brought back by Viz as part of their Viz Signature collection. The stories are picked from the forty-year history of the manga, and do not necessarily represent the original's order of publication. A total of thirteen volumes were published, with the thirteenth volume being published on February 19, 2008. Each volume ends with an editorial commentary on Golgo 13 as a cultural phenomenon in Japan.[6]
In 2021, the manga broke the Guinness World Record for "most volumes published for a single manga series". The series was tied with Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which published its 200th and final volume on September 17, 2016.[7]