Alright. I dug out the tub of Jumps. About 25 issues I’ve accumulated between 1998-2013 (mostly in the first few years of the 00’s)
This thread will prob just document the basics of each issue (year, #, featured series), then if anyone wants me to dig deeper we’ll go from there
This thread will prob just document the basics of each issue (year, #, featured series), then if anyone wants me to dig deeper we’ll go from there
Just as a little background... most of these were brought back when my dad would take business trips to Japan. There’s a 4 issue run I have from when I lived in Japan for about a month as a short student exchange, and then maybe one or two issues I picked up elsewhere
So, totally purchased arbitrarily depending on what was on newsstands at the time. That said, I ended up with a few really interesting issues. Some of these I haven’t really looked at in a decade+ so I’m curious to see what I’ve got!
1998 No. 6
A kinda unique issue. It’s a group cover and ONE PIECE gets lead color pages, including color comic pages which is a rarity for the series! It’s an extra long chapter too, the Gaimon chapter
A kinda unique issue. It’s a group cover and ONE PIECE gets lead color pages, including color comic pages which is a rarity for the series! It’s an extra long chapter too, the Gaimon chapter

It has this cool fold-out with ONE PIECE character profiles as well as some ads that certainly date it
Several series gave color pages in this issue — HANASAKU TENSHI TENTEN-KUN, I”S, and SEKIMATSU LEADER-DEN TAKESHI!
Not a color page but I think it’s really cool that there’s a chapter of COWA! in here. iirc it took me a long time before I realized that it was Toriyama
Not a color page but I think it’s really cool that there’s a chapter of COWA! in here. iirc it took me a long time before I realized that it was Toriyama

And finally, a couple of what I’m pretty sure are just one shots ALSO get color pages. So many color pages!!
ETO by SEXY COMMANDO’s Kyosuke Usuta and SALANDRA NO TSUBO by OUTER ZONE’s Shin Mitsuhara
ETO by SEXY COMMANDO’s Kyosuke Usuta and SALANDRA NO TSUBO by OUTER ZONE’s Shin Mitsuhara
1999 No. 33
Cover / Lead Color - CHILDRAGON (Debut Chapter)
Center Color - SHAMAN KING
Features a fumetti advertisement for the Catherine Zeta Jones butt laser movie
Cover / Lead Color - CHILDRAGON (Debut Chapter)
Center Color - SHAMAN KING
Features a fumetti advertisement for the Catherine Zeta Jones butt laser movie
1999 No. 37-38
Cover / Lead Color - Kinda legendary ONE PIECE cover with teases for future characters. Chapter
with another color comic page and the TV anime announcement
Center Color - coincidentally more CHILDRAGON
Cover / Lead Color - Kinda legendary ONE PIECE cover with teases for future characters. Chapter


Center Color - coincidentally more CHILDRAGON
1999 No. 40
Cover / Lead Color - HIKARU NO GO
Center Color - HUNTER X HUNTER (character poll results) and ROOKIES
Cover / Lead Color - HIKARU NO GO
Center Color - HUNTER X HUNTER (character poll results) and ROOKIES
Ok now we’re entering the month I was in Japan during a short high school exchange. SAND LAND was serializing at the time! I had good luck with Toriyama in these...
2000 No. 27
Cover / Lead Color - SEIKIMATSU LEADER-DEN TAKESHI!
Center Color - WHISTLE! (Character poll results) and SANJUSHI
Cover / Lead Color - SEIKIMATSU LEADER-DEN TAKESHI!
Center Color - WHISTLE! (Character poll results) and SANJUSHI
I kinda knew ONE PIECE from the previous issues, but being in Japan at this time it became very clear to me that it was
Hot Stuff
Here’s a big ad block in the issue. There was already merch *EVERYWHERE*


2000 No. 28
Color / Lead Color - HOSHIN ENGI
Center Color - ROOKIES
Big ONE PIECE reveal! Jango’s eyes!! Oh, also the introduction of a plump reindeer bear thing
Color / Lead Color - HOSHIN ENGI
Center Color - ROOKIES
Big ONE PIECE reveal! Jango’s eyes!! Oh, also the introduction of a plump reindeer bear thing
2000 No. 29
This is an interesting case...
Cover - RISING IMPACT (which gets no color pages and is fairly far back in the magazine)
Lead Color - ONE PIECE
Center Color - HIKARU NO GO (fold-out poster) and BREMEN
This is an interesting case...
Cover - RISING IMPACT (which gets no color pages and is fairly far back in the magazine)
Lead Color - ONE PIECE
Center Color - HIKARU NO GO (fold-out poster) and BREMEN
2000 No. 30
Cover - PRINCE OF TENNIS (again, no color pages, but it’s the 3rd series in the magazine)
Lead Color - NARUTO (fold-out poster and color comics pages featuring the best NARUTO character)
Center Color - JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 6: STONE OCEAN
And a cute ad
Cover - PRINCE OF TENNIS (again, no color pages, but it’s the 3rd series in the magazine)
Lead Color - NARUTO (fold-out poster and color comics pages featuring the best NARUTO character)
Center Color - JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 6: STONE OCEAN
And a cute ad

2001 No. 2
Real whopper of a problematic power duo featured in this one...
Cover / Lead Color - GUN BLAZE WEST (Debut chapter of Watsuki’s follow-up to RURONI KENSHIN)
Center Color - SEIKIMATSU LEADER-DEN TAKESHI!
Also a several page color JUMP FESTA feature
Real whopper of a problematic power duo featured in this one...
Cover / Lead Color - GUN BLAZE WEST (Debut chapter of Watsuki’s follow-up to RURONI KENSHIN)
Center Color - SEIKIMATSU LEADER-DEN TAKESHI!
Also a several page color JUMP FESTA feature
2001 No. 5-6
Cover - Group cover with metallic silver circles & logo trim
Lead Color - NARUTO (color comic pages and character poll results)
Cover - Group cover with metallic silver circles & logo trim
Lead Color - NARUTO (color comic pages and character poll results)
A few center color series this issue - GUN BLAZE WEST, HOSHIN ENGI, SHAMAN KING (not a fan of this drawing of Hao, but a nice n handy tournament bracket is printed on the opposite side)
2001 No. 14
Cover - NARUTO (more silver metallic on some of the text)
Lead Color - BLACK CAT
Center Color - BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO (...character poll??
)
Ads in Jump: Very Good
Cover - NARUTO (more silver metallic on some of the text)
Lead Color - BLACK CAT
Center Color - BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO (...character poll??

Ads in Jump: Very Good

2001 No. 29
Cover / Lead Color - BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO (with huge fold-out feature. Man, BO-BOBO rules)
Center Color - RISING IMPACT (very uncharacteristic art for this series. There’s an example of what RISING IMPACT looks like previously in this thread)
Cover / Lead Color - BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO (with huge fold-out feature. Man, BO-BOBO rules)
Center Color - RISING IMPACT (very uncharacteristic art for this series. There’s an example of what RISING IMPACT looks like previously in this thread)