In the latest 37th/38th combined issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday released today in Japan, 54-year-old manga artist Gosho Aoyama’s representative mystery manga series Meitantei Conan/Detective Conan (or Case Closed in some countries) reaches its memorial 1,000th chapter.
Aoyama’s most successful and internationally famous series has been serialized in the magazine since January 1994 and has released 93 tankobon volumes in Japan so far.
As reported in April, his manga titles including Conan have printed over 200 million copies worldwide.