4koma Gag Battle

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4koma Gag Battle is a series of Japanese comedy manga book anthologies, written and illustrated by various artists, and published by Kobunsha. Kobunsha has published various mangas for various different video games, under the series, Hinotama Game Comic Series, including various books based on Mario titles. The premise of the books is that they are composed of many short, brief stories told exclusively in the format of four panels, a format which is called Yonkoma in Japan. The first few pages of the books are full-color while the next pages are in gray scale. The series ran from 1995 to 2004.

Two different series of books exist with the same premise and similar titles, named 4koma Manga Kingdom (1991-2002) and Super Mario 4koma Manga Theater (1991-1997).

Gallery of Mario-series publications

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  Super Mario: Yossy Island (book one) (1995)

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  Super Mario: Yossy Island (book two) (1996)

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  Donkey Kong Country (1995)

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  Super Mario Daishuugou (1996)

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  Super Mario 64 (1996)

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  Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1997)

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  Mario Kart 64 (1997)

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  Yoshi's Story (1998) (book one)

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  Yoshi's Story (1998) (book two)

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  Diddy Kong Racing (1998)

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  Mario Party (1999)

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  Donkey Kong Country (2001)

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  Super Mario Sunshine (book one) (2002)

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  Super Mario Sunshine (book two) (2003)

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  Mario Party 4 (2003)

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  Mario Party 5 (2004)

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  Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2004)

Gallery

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  Excerpt from Super Mario 64 manga

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  Super Mario 64 manga

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  An ad for the Super Mario Sunshine manga

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  A page from the Super Mario Sunshine manga

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  Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

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  Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga