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Artists Celebrate 45 Years of Golgo 13

The Takao Saitō, it is the oldest manga still in publication, with 170 volumes and counting.

To honor the event, Big Comic, where the manga is serialized, featured a caricature of Takao Saitō on the cover. Inside, they published artwork of main character and professional hitman Duke Togo drawn by 51 different manga artists.

The list is long and impressive: Utsurun Desu).

Shogakukan posted three of the illustrations, drawn by Rumiko Takahashi, Yarō Abe, and Kenshi Hirokane, respectively.

We were able to snag a copy of the magazine, so here are thumbnails of the art for a taste of the contributors' homages.