This listing is for Weekly Shonen Jump 2004 #1. This includes Chapter 1 of Death Note manga, along with chapters from several other manga series. This pre-dated both the tankobon and the anime.
It was graded 3.0 ("Good / Very Good") by Beckett / CBCS with "White Pages". Beckett then sealed the book in a hard plastic case.
We are a US-based seller and do not use stock photos - you will receive the exact book pictured.
About Japanese Manga
Japanese manga (especially Shonen Jump) contains a number of extremely important 1st appearances. However, since these magazines are fairly bulky and very few people perceived them to be a collectible, the vast majority were discarded and the small number that remain tend to be in pretty bad condition. Reprints exist for a few of the keys (like 1st One Piece and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) but are easily identified by differences in the back cover. Fakes are fairly rare, with the exception of 4 books: Shonen Jump 1984 No. 51 (1st Dragon Ball); Shonen Jump 1999 No. 43 (1st Naruto); Shonen Jump 1998 No. 14 (1st Hunter X Hunter); and Shonen Jump 1997 No. 34 (1st One Piece). These fakes are fairly easy to identify if you've been collecting manga for a while, but if not, you need to be careful about buying these books from a reputable source unless they have been authenticated/graded.
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