“Moonlight Mask” and the Birth of the TV/Manga Media Mix

A paperback version of the Gekkō Kamen manga. (© Nippon.com)

Children’s magazines battled it out over reader numbers by adapting television series into manga. (© Nakano Haruyuki)

A selection of manga booklets that came attached to children’s magazines. (Courtesy Nakano Haruyuki)

Televisions appeared rapidly in Japanese homes in the 1950s. (© Pixta)