Many of us know that, at first, Dragon Ball was published as a weekly
comic with some pages, and indeed whole chapters, printed in full color,
but the most of the series was published in black and white.
Only later, beginning in September of 1985, the manga chapters were collected
into volumes in grayscale of about 12 chapters each. In this section we
show you how these original japanese volumes were made...
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| Volumes 1/21 | Volumes 22/42 |
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| Vol. 1 - 15/9/1985 | Vol. 2 - 15/1/1986 | Vol. 3 - 15/6/1986 |
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| Vol. 4 - 15/10/1986 | Vol. 5 - 15/1/1987 | Vol. 6 - 15/3/1987 |
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| Vol. 7 - 15/5/1987 | Vol. 8 - 15/7/1987 | Vol. 9 - 15/9/1987 |
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| Vol. 10 - 15/11/1987 | Vol. 11 - 15/2/1988 | Vol. 12 - 15/4/1988 |
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| Vol. 13 - 15/6/1988 | Vol. 14 - 15/8/1988 | Vol. 15 - 11/12/1988 |
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| Vol. 16 - 15/2/1989 | Vol. 17 - 15/5/1989 | Vol. 18 - 15/7/1989 |
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| Vol. 19 - 15/11/1989 | Vol. 20 - 15/1/1990 | Vol. 21 - 15/4/1990 |