The manga was materialized during 1971 through its serialization in Kodansha's "Bokura Magazine" from the January issue to the June issue. However, the magazine went defunct and the story ended incomplete. The first collected version of the series was published by Asahi Sonorama in three volumes released between June and July 1973. It would be reprinted twice by the same publisher—in a three-volume edition in 1976 and in a two-volume version in 1984. Chuokoron-Shinsha also republished the manga twice; in a single-volume in 1991 and in a two-volume reprint in 1995. It was also rereleased by Kodansha into two volumes in 1999 and into three volumes in 2002. In 2018, as part of the 50th anniversary of Nagai as an artist, the series was republished into two volumes by Shogakukan as "Maō Dante: The First" in a version meant to be closer to the original "Bokura Magazine" serialization. The first volume was released on August 27, 2018, while the second one was published on September 19, 2018.