Heibon Punch
{{Short description|Japanese men's magazine}}
{{about|the men's magazine|the manga series|Heibon Punch (manga series)}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Heibon Punch
| image_file = Chunichi1967-01-20-1.jpg
| category = Men's magazine
| frequency = Weekly
| publisher = Heibon Shuppan / Magazine House
| firstdate = 1964
| finaldate = 1988
| country = Japan
| based = Tokyo
| language = Japanese
| issn = }}
{{Nihongo|Heibon Punch|平凡パンチ|Heibon Panchi}} was a weekly Japanese men's magazine published by Heibon Shuppan (currently known as Magazine House). It was first published on April 28, 1964, and continued until 1988. The magazine featured articles on lifestyle, fashion, sports, political issues, and sex,{{Cite web|title=Press ahead - Issue 88 - Magazine|url=https://monocle.com/magazine/issues/88/press-ahead/|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Monocle|language=en}} rivaling with Weekly Playboy, launched two years later.
Heibon Punch was influential in promoting American fashion trends, such as the Ivy look, to Japanese male youth in post-World War II Japan.{{Cite web|title=The Climb of Ivy {{!}} W. David Marx|url=https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fashion/climb-ivy|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Lapham's Quarterly|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Martyn David|date=2016-07-02|title='A MAD age': Heibon Punch, student protest, the media and consumer society in Cold War Japan|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2015.1102162|journal=Japan Forum|volume=28|issue=3|pages=337–359|doi=10.1080/09555803.2015.1102162|s2cid=147167954|issn=0955-5803|url-access=subscription}}
Some of Heibon Punch{{'s}} collaborators were Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki,{{Cite web|last=Dazed|date=2013-01-11|title=Toshio Saeki|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/15373/1/toshio-saeki|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Dazed|language=en}} and Kyoko Okazaki.
Other magazines by the same publisher were Monthly Heibon Punch, the general weekly magazine Weekly Heibon, and the spin-off Heibon Punch for Girls (precursor to an an).