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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Scanned for the first time- Wanpakku Comics 1986 Super Mario Bros volume 2! There also isn't much about this online so hopefully, now that vol 1&2 are done, someone can add them to Mario Wikis. You can find the whole thing here: archive.org/details/mang...

The cover for a Japanese Super Mario Bros Manga. It has Mario doing a jump kick with Bowser and a koopa behind him and Princess Peach and a Mushroom Kingdom kid below him.

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 14/07/2026

I just uploaded scans of this 1990 book that talks about a ton of Super Famicom games & has a really great speculative manga about what Link to the Past might be like once it's released. Manga by Hiroshi Aizawa 愛沢ひろし who had work in Nintendo Power and Wanpakku Comics. archive.org/details/guid...

Cover for a Japanese Super Famicom book (SNES) with character art for Mario and Bowser on the cover, a picture of a super famicom, and a bunch of screen shots and Japanese text.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just scanned a little children's book featuring a ton of cute art for #Mario and #Doraemon. Called Challenge Riddles 120, it came with Shogaku Magazine's Grade 1 April 1989 issue. Find it here: archive.org/details/grad...

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One more manga from Famicom Hisshoubon...Famicom All Stars Vs Evil Empire - can you spot all the characters?

Intro page by Satoru Sunouchi, showing most obviously Mario on the left with many other Famicom characters lined up below a flying bowser ship

Page 2 and 3 with some lore scroll and go-go-go ship sounds under it with the inside of the ship shown on the right

Page 3 and 4 showing a crying emo bowser

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 08/07/2026

The Miyamoto quotes were on the jacket band! My copy didn't have one still so I found an auction listing that shows it. They *are* hilarious. I added them to the update post about the 4koma here: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2026/07/600d...

Miyamoto quotes about this 4koma:

"I was going to complain because it ruined Mario's image, but...I was foolishly made to laugh before I could." -Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Game Producer

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"Yoshida Sensha's original Mario and Link are a little unusual. They have a different flavor from our licensed characters, but I'm actually a fan myself. There are many jokes in Sensha's humor that those of us involved in game development can relate to, and I'm always curious to see what would happen if he actually made a game. It would be a waste to keep him as just a manga artist." -Miyamoto

A book cover with a quote in Japanese on the jacket band. The machine translated quote is in English on the first image but here is the Japanese text: マリオのイメージが壊れる！ので文句を言おうとしたが………うかつにもそのまえに笑わされてしまっていた。(任天堂ケームプロデューサー宮本茂)

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Chris Warriner @kingdarian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

PSA: this Super Mario Bros. 2 calendar sheet from July/August 1987 scanned by @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social works for 2026! archive.org/details/zine...

A calendar page featuring manga style renditions of Super Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi, King Koopa, Paratroopa, Goomba in a surfing scene. Mario is in a swimsuit riding a cheep-cheep surfboard. Peach has a mermaid tail. Bowser is underwater with goggles. Below are calendars for July and August.

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 22/06/2025

This is me; totally forgetting to actually play games & just gathering material for scanning while everyone else does, lol A quick search & I didn't find this online, so it might be "new" #mario art. It's absolutely new #zelda art. I'm doing the whole book so hopefully it will be up in a few days

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 04/03/2025

This is a really cute #Mario and #Peach from the same guide too. Well, okay, he's fun but she's super cute. #supermariobros

A watercolor drawing of Mario and Peach from an old guide. Peach has blue hair, a pink crown, and is really adorable. Mario is fun looking but kinda super-silly looking too. Everything is just way rounder.

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 20/02/2025

The best panel? Who knows!

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 29/06/2026

I uploaded scans for Famicom 4koma Land: Super Mario & The Legend of Zelda, 1993, Keibunsha. Find it here: archive.org/details/4kom... Hiroshi Aizawa (Moga) 愛沢"モカ"ひろし is the first artist for #Mario #SMB- he's done comics for several Zelda strategy guides.

A cover for a 4koma manga featuring official art for Mario with his raccoon tail and Link from A Link to the Past

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just scanned the 4 pages of a #Sonic the Hedgehog manga from Shogaku Ichinensei, February 1993. Find it here: archive.org/details/zine...

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I just added the scans of the 7 pages of an illustrated #Mario short story from Shogaku Ichinensei, February 1993. It was beautifully illustrated by Junichiro Saito 斎藤純一郎. Find it here: archive.org/details/zine...

An illustration of Mario pulling a go-kart from the back of a dolphin while Yoshi rides his go-kart through the ocean to an island in the distance.

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 29/06/2026

We've officially wrapped up cataloguing all 61 volumes of the long-running 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨-𝐤𝐮𝐧 manga series. Great to finally see the full run represented in the library. Love these covers! Dive behind the scenes in this week's Newsletter ☝️ #Mario #Gaming #Booksky #Nintendo #Manga

Collage image showing dozens of Japanese Super Mario-kun manga covers arranged in a grid, spanning volumes 1 through 61. Each cover features colorful cartoon artwork of Mario with characters such as Luigi, Yoshi, Wario, Bowser, Peach, Toad, and other Mario-series enemies and allies, with bold Japanese title text across the top of each volume.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I just added this 2400dpi scan archive.org/details/rand... that I find interesting because I don't think that Chain Chomp for #Mario 3 is in the other publications? Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a huge Mario expert, but I don't recall it in the Yoichi Kotabe art book or the new Nintendo Museum book

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I just added scans of a really cute papercraft Mario and Yoshi from a packet that came with a children's magazine in 1992. #SMB #SuperMarioWorld The leg "wheels" and full sized files are in the download zip: archive.org/details/yosh...

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I just posted the first chapter of the lost #SuperMarioBros3 #SMB3 #Mario #Manga by Yukio Sawada. This has never been online before & was last published in a monthly magazine in 1988. Its been 38 years since anyone who hasn't held the magazine has seen it Find it here: archive.org/details/zine...

A merged together 2 page manga spread of Mario in his raccoon form flying over a mushroom village. It's done in 2 tone riso printing with red and blue colors.

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 26/06/2026

New scans, lol, you're welcome. This 4koma by Yoshida Sensha 吉田戦車 was in various issues of Weekly Famitsu before it was collected into a volume. It has comics for tons of Nintendo games; #zelda #mario etc. Check it out here: archive.org/details/4kom...

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New scans! This is a 1986 game guide in manga form for the first Super #Mario Bros. and oddly there doesn't seem to be much about it online so I guess no one has scanned it before? The artist is Sho Kobayashi こばやし将 who is active on twitter as show_kob Find it here: archive.org/details/mari...

A manga cover for the first Super Mario Bros featuring a very cartoonish Mario with a bunch of the series bad guys behind him.

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 31/08/2025

I've 600dpi ADF scanned (& am currently 2400dpi flatbed scanning the game art) this Nintendo "Word Cards" 2018 company merch. I looked online and couldn't find it so this might be a first? #Nintendo #Mario #Zelda It's a really cool little release Find it here: archive.org/details/merc...

Brown cardboard printed with Mario and the words "Word Cards"

Enemy concept art from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WIld

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 01/12/2025

I cleaned up the small handful of Zelda drawings by Daisuke Shigoto しごと大介 from this little book: archive.org/details/book... & added them to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo... There's actually way more art & comics for early Nintendo Famicom series like Mario & Valkyrie no Bōken though!

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 15/06/2026

I scanned & uploaded these 3 volumes of 1991-92 Super Famicom 4koma manga that feature comics for most of the main Nintendo games like #mario #zelda #fireemblem #mother #eathbound #fzero #simcity Find them here archive.org/details/4kom... archive.org/details/4kom... archive.org/details/4kom...

A cover of a Japanese book for 4koma manga. It features many of the main Nintendo characters from games that were popular on the system in 1991

A cover of a Japanese book for 4koma manga. It features many of the main Nintendo characters from games that were popular on the system in 1991 and 1992

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I need to write Internet Archive and try to figure out why the 1987 calendar was removed, (it's odd because nothing else was so I have to think it was an error,) but until then you can find smaller images of it on the Tumblr page: www.tumblr.com/its-a-me-sca...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 7 · New Scans: I've made full scans of the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. This contains art for The Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy (Z…

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Such a cute little #Mario in the August 1992 issue of Shogaku Ichinensei!

A little Mario drawing, he's happy, wearing a cape, and surrounded by 2 cute mushrooms.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Currently scanning the never-online-before first chapter of the 1988 Super #Mario Bros 3 Manga by Yukio Sawada. Wanpakku, the publisher, closed after the next issue so this never completed & can't be found anywhere else. #Nintendo

Screenshot of a 2 page manga scan in progress. This is a 1988 Super Mario Bros. 3 Mario with a raccoon tail flying above a toadstool village.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I've scanned another lost chapter of the Super Mario Bros 2 manga by Yukio Sawada. The publisher shut down before the last ones were collected into a volume so they haven't been seen outside of the monthlies: archive.org/details/zine... Keep track here: its-a-me-scanio.tumblr.com/wanpakku_saw...

A manga drawing of Mario looking pumped up to fight.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

@pict0dev.bsky.social let me know that these Mother 3 screenshots may not have good quality equivalents online (thanks to their friend too: mother3land.neocities.org ) so I just scanned and uploaded it at 2400dpi. You can find the high0res page in this download folder: archive.org/download/zin...

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I uploaded this page with some cute #Sonic the Hedgehog art from the June 1992 issue of Shogaku Ichinensei: archive.org/details/zine...

An illustration showing a Sonic the Hedgehog family along with some art of them in a diner in the bottom corner.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This "Where's Waldo" style #Mario art that's inside Shogaku Ichinensei's 1992 June issue is SO CUTE! I just got this one today and fixed this spread up while I was making 2400dpi scans of other art. I'll try to get the large scans uploaded to archive.org/details/@its... soon. #Nintendo

A "Where's Waldo" style fold out from a children's magazine that features hidden Super Mario Bros. characters in an open-air zoo and science park.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Super Mario Bros. Anime art I cleaned from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... #mario #luigi #nintendo #SMB #anime #bowser #princesspeach

This is an underwater band scene. The Koopa and other "bad guy" characters play instruments. Mario and Luigi dance on a giant pearl. Peach sings from a clamshell behind them while Bowser stands behind it. There is aquatic life watching them from every angle.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Mysterious Murasame Castle art I cleaned from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... #nintendo #murasame #takamaru

The Mysterious Murasame Castle art with Takamaru surrounded by enemies. There are 3 bosses and multiple ninjas. The sky is stormy and there is a dark castle in the background.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Legend of Zelda art I cleaned from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... This piece can be found in Art & Artifacts (mislabel as done in 1994) but this is bigger than the digital download. #nintendo #zelda #link

Link and Zelda run through a dungeon, they are surrounded by enemies and Ganon is phasing through the wall, or is the back wall, and is reaching out to grab them.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Metroid art I cleaned of Samus Aran from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... #metroid #samus #nintendo

Samus Aran from Metroid stands in her armor in the center, in front of her are line drawings of her running and jumping.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Art I cleaned of Mario Golf from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... #mario #luigi #nintendo #princesspeach

Mario hits a koopa into the air with a golf club. Toad, Luigi, and Princess Peach look on from the green.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Art I cleaned of Super Mario Bros. from the 1987 Suntory Ade Orange Nintendo Famicom Calendar. Full 2400dpi scans can be found here: archive.org/details/1987... #mario #luigi #nintendo #SMB

Mario jumps and hits blocks. Coins fall from them and Luigi is picking them up. A lot of bad guys are around. Everything looks really cute.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

And here's the Super #Mario Bros. 2 (The Lost Levels) Wanpakku Comics June 1988 issue by Yukio Sawada! archive.org/details/zine... The company closed before the final chapters could be collected into an volume 4 so the only place to find them is in the original monthlies.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Here's the new-to-the-internet Super #Mario Bros. 2 (The Lost Levels) Wanpakku Comics July 1988 issue by Yukio Sawada. The company closed before the final chapters could be collected into an actual volume so the only place to find them is in the original monthlies: archive.org/details/zine...

Double page manga spread with Mario on one side and Bowser on the other.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

From 1985-89 Wanpakku Comics was a major producer of #Nintendo manga & game guides. While much of the manga was later released in volumes, they closed & the last issues can only be found in the original monthlies It was requested I scan the #Mario chapters. May 1988: archive.org/details/zine...

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Chris Warriner @kingdarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

a little photoshop magic and I’ve got a fun calendar for the rest of the year

The Super Mario Bros 2 calendar page adjusted to fit 2025’s dates for November and December hanging on a cubicle wall

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I just finished 2400dpi scanning and repairing this mini-calendar from the 1987 Wanpakku Comics December issue that features Yukio Sawada's / 沢田ユキオ absolutely adorable Super Mario Bros. 2 art. Find it here: archive.org/details/zine... #Mario #Famicom #Nintendo

A magazine poster for Super Mario Bros 2 for the Famicom, also known as The Lost Levels. Its a holiday scene to cover November and December and features all the main Mario characters, and bad guys, excited about having a party. Mario is bouncing into the foreground with a cake. Bowser is sitting at a table smiling. Luigi, Peach, and Toad are cheering in the background.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I finally uploaded the 2400dpi scans I just made a little while ago of a mini playing card set that was an insert in Wanpakku Comic's 1987 February issue. It features art from most of their series, including #Mario #Zelda #MursameCastle #Metroid #Layla and more: archive.org/details/zine...

A small card insert from a Japanese comic book magazine. It has little rectangles, each with a playing card symbol, and all of them contain a different character from various manga series. Many of them are based on video games for the Nintendo Famicom.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Your 3D scanned keshi figure today is this board game pawn depicting Mario jumping, from Super Mario World. This comes from Play Figure 20: Super Mario World Game (プレイフィギュア20 スーパーマリオワールドゲーム) a 1991 board game by Bandai. Grab it here: archive.org/details/kesh...

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I've uploaded 2400dpi scans of a never before seen Super Mario Bros. 2 mini game with art by Yukio Sawada / 沢田ユキオ from Wanpakku Comic's 1987 April issue: archive.org/details/zine... #mario #nintendo #bowser #princesspeach #luigi #famicom #supermariobros

A small colorful magazine card insert. It's a mini game that features illustrated Mario Bros 2 characters and enemies. There are 4 circles with different characters in them and a rectangular "point sheet" to the side.

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It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I'll be uploading to IA shortly! Just prepping pages Also, if a game historian is like a bard, then I'm like a bruiser: I simply scan. I don't know things so you can absolutely help me out by making sure I have the correct information. Japanese & English names, character names, tagging info, etc

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