ComicsOne
company
ComicsOne Corp. was an American distributor of Asian Comics (manga, manhwa, and manhua), established in 1999. ComicsOne was based in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ComicsOne also served as the distributor for videos and merchandise related to its licensed titles.
History
On March 25, 2005, industry website ICv2 reported that DrMaster, ComicsOne's Asian printer, took over the publication of ComicsOne's manga titles, though not the manhwa and manhua titles. It also added that ComicsOne had abandoned its website, "stopped paying its bills and has disappeared."
Manga published by ComicsOne
888
Bass Master Ranmaru
Bride of Deimos
Crayon Shin-chan
Dark Edge
Devil in the Water
Ginga Legend Weed
Goku Midnight Eye
Hamster Club
High School Girls
Infinite Ryvius
Iron Wok Jan!
Jesus
Joan
Junk Force
Karasu Tengu Kabuto
Kazan
Maico 2010
Mourning of Autumn Rain
NaNaNaNa (co-published with Infinity Studios)
Offered
Please Friends series
Please Teacher!
Please Twins!
“ComicsOne” enters the record as company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what ComicsOne and company can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q849240. The Library of Congress control number is no2025073143. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2005 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “ComicsOne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.