Some of the most popular manga series over the years have included titles like Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, and many more. What all of these books have in common is that that they all got started in Weekly Shonen Jump, but did you know about that magazine’s history?

The magazine was launched in July 1968 by Shueisha, and went head to head in the shonen manga (manga aimed at young boys) market against Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine and Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday. For its first several months it was actually a bi-weekly publication, and the Weekly denomination arrived in 1969.

By the 1980s the book had a massive circulation, with more than 6.5 million copies in print; however, the 1990s saw a steep decline for the book. It now sits at about 2.2 million copies in circulation. The brand now has two sister magazines, Jump SQ and Saikyo Jump; Jump SQ is a monthly magazine with many fantasy-based series, while Saikyo Jump is a bimonthly publication that contains spinoffs of already-popular Jump series like Dragon Ball and One Piece.

And while the book exclusively publishes manga aimed at young boys, the female demographic has played heavily into the magazine’s success – multiple polls have shown that a majority of female manga readers regularly read Weekly Shonen Jump.

Viz Media has published Weekly Shonen Jump in America since 2002. The book was originally a monthly physical copy, though since 2012 the company has offered it as a digital subscription service that allows English readers to get the content on an almost simultaneous basis to the Japanese release.

Current Weekly Shonen Jump series include Black Clover, Boruto, My Hero Academia, GinTama, Haikyuu!!, Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, and World Trigger. One Piece is currently the longest-running Jump series, having started serialization in August 1997.