Written and illustrated by Takao Saito, Golgo 13 has been serialized in the semimonthly manga magazine Big Comic since its January 1969 issue, published in October 1968.
[1] The chapters have been collected into tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan and Leed Publishing, a spinoff of the author's own Saito Production,[2] since June 21, 1973.
The stories are picked from the forty-year history of the manga, and do not necessarily represent the original's order of publication.
Each volume ends with an editorial commentary on Golgo 13 as a cultural phenomenon in Japan.
The series was tied with Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which published its 200th and final volume on September 17, 2016.