Weekly Shōnen Big Comic

Weekly Shōnen Big Comic (週刊少年ビッグコミック, Shūkan Shōnen Biggu Komikku) was a bi-weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan from 1979 to 1987. From 1976 to 1979, the magazine was titled Manga-kun (マンガくん) before being renamed Shōnen Big Comics in 1979.

Shōnen Big Comic
Cover of Weekly Shōnen Big Comic 1985 issue 18.
CategoriesShōnen manga
FrequencyBi-weekly
First issueDecember 1976 as Manga-kun
1979
Final issue1987
CompanyShogakukan
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

In 1987, the magazine changed format and was renamed Weekly Young Sunday. The magazine was aimed at teenagers generally older than the readers of Weekly Shōnen Sunday, another one of Shogakukan's manga magazines.

Several of the series appearing in Weekly Shōnen Big Comic have been adapted into anime, including Esper Mami, Area 88, and Miyuki.

Works

Manga-kun era

Series marked with a ♣ appeared in the first issue.

Cover of the first issue of Manga-kun, released in December 1976.

The magazine also featured a non-manga column titled Moving Toys Craft (ムービング・トイズ・クラフト, Mūbingu Toizu Kurafuto), which discussed construction of motorized toys such as radio controlled cars. The column was sponsored by Mabuchi Motor and Tamiya Corporation.

Shōnen Big Comic era
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