is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai and first serialized from to in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, published by Kodansha. The second ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine, also published by Kodansha, from to , with a few gaps between months. This two serializations of Kodansha were originally published in 7 volumes.

Five years later, the serialization continued this time in the magazine Weekly Manga Goraku, published by Nihonbungeisha, and ran from to . This serialization originally produced 31 volumes in total.

In , three years later after the end of the previous serialization, a special tankōbon called was released by Nihonbungeisha. Seven years later, in a special one-shot story, , was published by Shueisha in a special edition of Weekly Young Jump, Bessatsu Young Jump #14. This story has not been re-printed or compiled yet.

In (cover date 2005-05-13·20) the magazine Weekly Comic Bunch published by Coamix, the most recent serialization started, with . This serialization was irregularly published, stopping in and restarting in to end in in number 17 of Weekly Comic Bunch. It was compiled in tankōbon by Media Factory in 2010.

In the February 2021 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine, it was announced that a new manga series written by Yū Kinutani, titled Violence Jack 20XX, would begin serialization on February 19, 2021. As of September 20th, 2022, Violence Jack 20XX has been compiled into three tankōbon volumes.

Volume list The series has been published in tankōbon format several times. Because of the different serializations, each version is different from the previous. As such, only a few of them have the complete series (excluding Violence Jack: Sengoku Majinden and Shin Violence Jack which haven't been compiled yet).

Violence Jack Original edition Kodansha (Part 1, 1974–1978) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1974-04-20 1 1974-04-20 2 1974-08-15 3 1977-06-20 4 1977-10-30 5 1978-05-25 6 1978-12-15 7 The Golden City Arc is excluded from this edition.

Nihonbungeisha (Part 2, 1984–1990) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1984-05-25 01 1984-08-25 02 1984-11-25 03 1985-01-25 04 1985-06-10 05 1985-07-25 06 1985-10-25 07 1986-01-25 08 1986-03-25 09 1986-06-25 10 1986-08-25 11 1986-11-10 12 1987-01-25 13 1987-04-25 14 1987-08-25 15 1987-11-25 16 1988-04-10 17 1988-04-25 18 1988-07-25 19 1988-11-10 20 1989-01-25 21 1989-04-25 22 1989-07-25 23 1989-11-10 24 1990-01-25 25 1990-05-10 26 1990-05-25 27 1990-06-25 28 1990-07-25 29 1990-08-25 30 1990-09-25 31

Reprints and special editions Kodansha (1984–1985) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1984-10-06 1 1984-10-06 2 1984-11-06 3 1984-12-06 4 1985-01-10 5 1985-02-06 6

Nihonbungeisha (1989) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1989-01-25 Evil Town A special tankōbon which contains the story arc Jigokugai, better known as Evil Town, released to coincide with the OVA release of the same name.

Kodansha (Deluxe edition) (1990–1991) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1990-07-17 1 1990-08-17 2 1990-09-17 3 1990-10-17 4 1990-11-17 5 1990-12-14 6 1991-01-07 7

Chuokouron-sha (Complete edition) (1996) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1996-07-25 01 1996-07-25 02 1996-08-25 03 1996-08-25 04 1996-09-25 05 1996-09-25 06 1996-10-25 07 1996-10-25 08 1996-11-25 09 1996-11-25 10 This was the first edition to have the whole series up to that point, including all previous serializations. Each volume is around 900 pages long.

Kodansha (Deluxe edition) (1998) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1998-03-23 1 1998-03-26 2 1998-03-26 3 1998-04-23 4 1998-04-23 5 1998-04-23 6 1998-04-23 7

Chuokouron-sha (Complete edition) (1998) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 1998-04-18 01 1998-04-18 02 1998-05-18 03 1998-05-18 04 1998-06-18 05 1998-06-18 06 1998-07-18 07 1998-07-18 08 1998-08-18 09 1998-08-18 10 1998-09-18 11 1998-09-18 12 1998-10-18 13 1998-10-18 14 1998-11-18 15 1998-11-18 16 1998-12-18 17 1998-12-18 18 This edition has the whole series up to that point, including all previous serializations. Each volume is around 500 pages long.

Shogakukan (2000) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 2000-07-21 01 2000-07-21 02 2000-08-04 03 2000-08-25 04 2000-09-08 05 2000-09-15 06 2000-09-22 07 2000-10-20 08 2000-10-27 09 2000-11-03 10

Kodansha (Serial reproduction) (2018) Japanese release date Vol. Japanese ISBN 2018-08-30 1 2018-09-27 2 2018-10-31 3 2018-11-29 4 2018-12-27 5

Shin Violence Jack Media Factory (2010)

Violence Jack 20XX Kodansha (2021–2023)

See also Devilman

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