Evolution: 50 Years of Shonen Sunday & Shonen Magazine

go inflation go!

from 30yen to 260yen!

Now if only they'd compile ALL those characters into their next JUMP game for the DS...

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/shonen-magazine-shonen-sunday-covers/sunday_2008.jpg

Is that a work from Yabuki Kentaro..?

Awesome

and lol Zetsubou sensei in 2009

cool
so many sports titles on the covers...
btw, anyone know the title of of the SUnday '93?

Haha love hina, conan, kindaichi, devilman, cyborg 009 and a lots lots more. xD

Hmm... great compilation of pictures. O.O

Is it related to magazine that Naruto, Bleach and One Piece manga that being serialized in?

Need help to those who know and could kindly list currently popular magazines (with popular manga) and their usual release date/day. Thanks.

Since i don't live in japan nor i know japanese i can't read those magazine.But i'm kinda of curious what they show in there?
Are these manga-anime magazine?

And still Japan continues to churn out this crap it calls "Shonen". It's as you said Arte, it's a winning formula ($)

Heh, at least now Takahashi has a reaason to go on forever.

The October 11, 1964 cover was funny:

gymnast fail
+
rocket fail

(Oh, was that supposed to the Olympic torch, and not a rocket exhaust cone, or a steel smelter?)

NR 1 : GTO

NR 2 : Hajime No Ippo

NR 3 : Golden Boy

1981 was the best year without a doubt.

Wait, Hajime no Ippo is starting over?!

Unless I'm missing something, there is no Shonen Magazine 2008 cover shown.

What the?!

Is it only me or do the more recent issues of Shounen Magazine look like they have pin-up posters of half-naked 3d girls in them???

Wow these two magazines covered so many good titles, like GTO, Hajime no Ippo, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Psychometer Eiji, Air Gear, etc.

wow 50 years and it has changed a lot

More power to Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine

Wow. ...Look at how much the price has changed. From 30/40 en to 270/260.

Wut cun I say... I LOVE YOU, JAPAN! :3

＼（＾∀＾）メ（＾∀＾）ノ

One positive comparison: the old one had too much men while the one we have now has a good amount of delicous girls.

Yeah!! Kekkaishi, Recca and GS Mikami!

What's with the obsession toward baseball? jeez!

GTO,Rave, Air Gear, KYO.........and Fairy Tail....

Aww, just awesome.

Woo-hoo! 8Man!Cyborg 009 and Touch!No suprise that Japanese loves baseball as their U.S. counterparts do!

Those GTO covers made me wanna go re-read it... *goes to re-read it*

rofl at 1959 Shonen Magazine

i'ts interesting at how the cover evolved along with it's content.....and a little scary that i can name a couple of those old covers..

50 years already...

All those two magazines are weekly?

On 50 years, there's obviously an huge evolution!

So much mangas until now!

Nice to get a bit of a nostalgia bomb being able to recognize some of the mangas in the middles of the lifespans of these magazines.

Fuck yeah Pat Labor!

Thanks God for the evolution.

FUCKING AWESOME

thank you sankaku

Never knew 'Offside' ran on Weekly Shounen Jump previously...

amazing...

Coolest news here up to now. You can see how much manga has changed 50 years to what we know today. That is awesome!

Thanks Artefact for the time travel (at least in my imagination)...

Haha wow, it sure has come a long way.

What manga was on the upper right of the Fairy Tail cover(2006)?

This was really interesting. Very nice article.

Anyone know the names of the mangas on:
Shonen Sunday 1987
Shonen Sunday 1991
Shonen Magazine 1966
All three looks interesting.

Respect.

I approve of this update and gallery: I watch most of this awesomeness adapted into anime on the tube (except disappointing Samurai Deeper Kyo).

Baseball is mostly the national pastime.

Hey, skirt lift in 1985 edition!

"Conservative"?
Not too sure about that xD

Wow, what a trip to the past.

I can't wait until they release that Shounen Sunday X Shounen Magazine crossover fighter for the PSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_x_Magazine:_Shuuketsu!_Choujou_Daikessen!