Italian manga was first published by Comic Art, from August 1998 to October 2000, with a division of the chapters not corresponding to the Japanese one: the 22 Italian volumes published correspond to more or less the first 15 Japanese volumes (volume 15 was translated only up to its seventh chapter). The publishing stopped after the 22nd due to the bankruptcy of the publishing house. Some Comic Art volumes offered extra content, such as descriptions of famous mystery writers, but usually not the same ones from the Japanese edition. After the bankruptcy of the Comic Art publishing house, the publishing rights of the Detective Conan manga in Italy passed into the hands of Kabuki Publishing, which only released issue 1 in December 2002. After numerous postponements regarding the publication of subsequent issues, in October 2004 surprisingly Star Comics announced that it had acquired the publishing rights, as the contract that linked Shogakukan and Kabuki Publishing had expired, precisely due to the non-publication of the manga. In February 2005, the first issue of Detective Conan by Star Comics came out, and Kabuki Publishing went bankrupt too, without having published any other book. Star Comics is still publishing the manga, with volumes corresponding to the Japanese ones.
Comic Art
Kabuki Publishing
Star Comics
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References
- "Detective Conan - Koi ha thrill, shock, suspense". Detective Conan - Koi ha thrill, shock, suspense. http://www.meitanteiconan.it/site/articles.php?article_id=233. Retrieved on 2011-07-21.
