History
The first issue was published on October 15, 1981. Mobile Suit Gundam was extremely popular at that time. Although the Gundam boom is centered at the higher age group, the fire slowly spread to the lower age group in the form of gunpla and thus it was decided to mainly publish gunpla content. Many popular series were published in Comic BonBon like the SD Gundam series, Rockman series and Medarot series, just to name a few.
Comic BomBom's popularity decline started once the Pokémon Boom began. CoroCoro Comic began to run manga based on popular franchises, such as Mushiking, Pokémon, and Beyblade. Meanwhile, BonBon stuck with Gundam and original manga. BonBon then fell into its Dark Age, with King of Bandit Jing being its most popular manga running.
Comic BomBom then skyrocketed out of nowhere and began to rise to its Golden Age, due to the popularity of BomBom's new Medarot and Cyborg Kuro-chan manga. As years flew by, BonBon began to run more original manga than before. The magazine began to include small prizes in every issue. At one point, Comic BomBom's sales began to increase higher than the sales of CoroCoro Comic. But in 2005, sales and popularity began to decline again.
In the January 2006 issue, Comic BomBom underwent a renewal. It features a revamped logo and a size increase from A5 to B5. The price remains at 480yen.
Due to declining sales, the title ended in late 2007 and was replaced by Shōnen Rival.
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