{"id":27988,"date":"2025-11-29T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:16:16","slug":"published-in-april-1952-by-kobunsha-shonen-4-is-one-of-the-oldest-manga-magazines-ever-graded-and-a-cornerstone-artifact-from-the-early-post-war-explosion-of-japanese-comics-while-atom-appeared-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=27988","title":{"rendered":"Published in April 1952 by Kobunsha, Shonen #4 is one of the oldest manga magazines ever graded and a cornerstone artifact from the early post-war explosion of Japanese comics. While Atom appeared earlier in Atom Taishi, this is the first time he appears in the main continuity with the classic design fans recognize today \u2014 the version that would go on to define Osamu Tezuka\u2019s global legacy as the \u201cGod of Manga.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Published in April 1952 by Kobunsha, Shonen #4 is one of the oldest manga magazines ever graded and a cornerstone artifact from the early post-war explosion of Japanese comics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Atom appeared earlier in Atom Taishi, this is the first time he appears in the main continuity with the classic design fans recognize today \u2014 the version that would go on to define Osamu Tezuka\u2019s global legacy as the \u201cGod of Manga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/1994782957563777447\">Nov 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in April 1952 by Kobunsha, Shonen #4 is one of the oldest manga magazines ever graded and a cornerstone artifact from the early post-war explosion of Japanese comics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While Atom appeared earlier in Atom Taishi, this is the first time he appears in the main continuity with the classic design fans recognize today \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":27990,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-27988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-beckett","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27989,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions\/27989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}