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Cyborg 009's Shotaro Ishinomori Sets Guinness Record
posted on by Mikhail Koulikov
Kamen Rider creator enters record book for "most comics published by one author"
Guinness World Records, which publishes the annual book of the same name, has named the late Kamen Rider live-action television series and its dozens of sequels, spinoffs, and successors.
In February 2006, publisher releasing the complete edition of Ishinomori's works. The Ishinomori Shotaro Complete Comic Works (pictured at right) is being brought out in 12 sets of 41 or 42 volumes each, that could only be bought online. The final set is scheduled to be available this November. Ishinomori's total lifetime output will have reached 128,000 pages that retails for 617,000 yen ($5,800).
Source: Kanaloco