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...

| Volume Covers | Cover Images |

| Cover Flap Images | Volume Spine Images |

| Colored Manga | The End |

| Volumes 1/21 | Volumes 22/42 |

Vol. 22 - 15/7/1990 Vol. 23 - 15/10/1990 Vol. 24 - 15/1/1991
Vol. 25 - 15/3/1991 Vol. 26 - 15/6/1991 Vol. 27 - 12/8/1991
Vol. 28 - 15/11/1991 Vol. 29 - 15/3/1992 Vol. 30 - 15/6/1992
Vol. 31 - 9/8/1992 Vol. 32 - 7/10/1992 Vol. 33 - 31/12/1992
Vol. 34 - 9/6/1993 Vol. 35 - 8/9/1993 Vol. 36 - 9/11/1993
Vol. 37 - 9/4/1994 Vol. 38 - 9/8/1994 Vol. 39 - 7/12/1994
Vol. 40 - 8/3/1995 Vol. 41 - 7/6/1995 Vol. 42 - 9/8/1995