User blog comment:Tinni/Bleach Spines/@comment-1454424-20100518082911

That Shonen Jump is going to be publishing Bleach characters on the spine all year?

Well the news was announced end of last year. Seems Jump does this every year or so with one of their series. Last year was One Piece year if I understand correctly. The year before was Naruto Year as far as I know.

Anyway, the spine pictures have been coming out since Jump issue #1 at the start of the year. Unless I have botched my calculations, we are upto issue #24.

Edit: Just to be clear, there will be 48 spines pictures because there are exactly 48 Jump magazines released per year. Four of those issues are "double issue". As such the last Jump issue of the year is still #52, even though in actual magazine terms, it is magazine release no. 48.