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Combat Comic
Combat Comic (jap. コンバットコミック, Kombatto Komikku) was a Japanese manga magazine dedicated to stories about war and the military. It was published by Nippon Shuppansha from 1984 to 2001 and was the only pure war manga magazine for a long time. It cost around 600 yen and had 225 pages. The paid circulation in the 1990s was around 100,000 copies. According to editor-in-chief Tetsuya Kurosawa, the readership consisted mainly of weapons (technology) enthusiasts, fans of firearms, survival games or mecha. Most of them were around 20 years old, but some were significantly older and many were members of the Japanese armed forces.
Article summary
Combat Comic (jap. コンバットコミック, Kombatto Komikku) was a Japanese manga magazine dedicated to stories about war and the military. It was published by Nippon Shuppansha from 1984 to 2001 and was the only pure war manga magazine for a long time. It cost around 600 yen and had 225 pages. The paid circulation in the 1990s was around 100,000 copies. According to editor-in-chief Tetsuya Kurosawa, the readership consisted mainly of weapons (technology) enthusiasts, fans of firearms, survival games or mecha. Most of them were around 20 years old, but some were significantly older and many were members of the Japanese armed forces.
Key claims
- publication date: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the publication date is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344545041
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