ONE PIECE Weekly Shonen Jump 1998 No.17 Early Luffy Era Vintage Manga Magazine

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This is a genuine original Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1998, published by Shueisha. One Piece began its serialisation in Weekly Shonen Jump in August 1997 , meaning a 1998 issue from this era captures the very earliest chapters of the series. The story follows Monkey D. Luffy, a young man whose body gains the properties of rubber after eating a supernatural fruit, as he searches for the legendary treasure known as the One Piece in order to become the next Pirate King. Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly shonen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha, and is the best-selling manga magazine of all time, with its first issue released in 1968. The series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to feature action and comedy, with chapters later collected into tankōbon volumes under the Jump Comics imprint; each issue runs to roughly 450-500 pages. A 1998 copy is a sought-after piece of manga history, ideal for collectors and One Piece fans wanting an original artefact from Luffy's earliest adventures.