The Doraemon comic series was first published in December 1969 in six different magazines.
A total of 1,345 stories were made in the original series, published by Shogakukan under the umbrella of the Tentōmushi comic brand (て ん と う 虫), which expanded to forty-five volumes. Volume was collected at Takaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan, where Fujiko Fujio was born. Turner Broadcasting System bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for the English version in the United States [1], but canceled it without explanation before broadcasting any episodes. In July 2013 Voyager Japan announced the manga will be released digitally in English through the Amazon Kindle e-book service. It is one of the best-selling comics in the world, has sold over 100 million copies
