The Japanese children's manga series Doraemon

Doraemon

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise...

was written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. It was serialized in various children's manga magazines published by Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

. Total of eight-hundred and fifty chapters were collected in tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

 by Shogakukan under imprint

Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

. The first volume was published on July 31, 1974 and the last forty-fifth volume on April 26, 1994.

Volume list