Jump Novel

Jump Novel (ジャンプノベル) is a novel magazine that released first released in the Summer of 1991 and was sold by Shueisha. It featured the first iteration of a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure novel chapter on April 1, 1993 in Jump Novel Vol. 4, this first story was written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi (山口 宏) with cover, colored insert art and red part-color illustrations by Hirohiko Araki.

When the light novel released on November 4, 1993 it was given the title "Chapter 2: The Gravestone of Red-Hot Sand".

The magazine also features 5 pages of an interview between Hirohiko Araki and famous Japanese rock musician. Araki even made a drawing that he then gifted to Ohtsuki that was of himself and Araki.

History
With Weekly Shonen Jump's ever-growing success and having exceeded 6 million units magazine sold, 1991's Issues #3 and #4 of WSJ advertised the new brand of a novel magazine and was discreetly announced as a "ghost magazine". The first issue of Jump Novel fully release in Summer of 1991 with the magazine's demographic being aimed at a teenage audience and tried to sell the appeal of itself like Shueisha's other magazine titled, which is notable for its partially suggestive covers of.

Jump Novel had semi-frequent release schedule up until Vol. 16 in 1999 and it isn't known why no further issues were published. The goal of Jump Novel was to create a new book label for novels known as "Jump J Books" which would get a physical release once enough material had been compiled by the manga creators. Jump Novel was to have Weekly Shonen Jump's popular catalog of manga artists, at the time, draw characters from their respective series along with collaborating with novelist author's and physical volume releases were treated like spin-off material.

Other manga artists were also commissioned to draw celebrities or philosophers on the covers much like, the first cover featured famous actor , with following issues having Japanese novelist, and Italian explorer , eventually the magazine would stray away from this business model and try to mix having manga art as well as  on the covers.

Trivia
Ohtsuki's fashion and makeup senses was the main inspiration design for minor antagonist Akira Otoishi in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, Diamond is Unbreakable.