dragon ball is Akira Toriyama's masterpiece that contributed to the worldwide popularity of Weekly Shonen Jump, the Shueisha magazine that currently publishes the manga of Eiichiro Oda (ONE PIECE) and Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia) weekly.
With a good reputation and an important tradition behind it, there is unfortunately no shortage of unpleasant counterfeits and scams against enthusiasts, who are often fooled by the rarity of some issues of the publisher's weekly magazine mentioned at the beginning. One involved a 30-year-old from Tokyo who was said to be able to track down the trail 51st issue of 1984 of Weekly Shonen Jumpthe same one that contains the first Dragon Ball chapter ever released.
Convinced they had struck a bargain, the user went home to compare the issue of the magazine to another identical issue, only to find bitterly, to have been cheated. Due to the copyright law, the sanctions related to these phenomena were tightened to the extent that the police would have immediately arrested the suspected fraudster, a 50-year-old from Tokyo, who explained that according to him, the magazine bought was purely original.
And you on the other hand, what do you think about the value of some of those jump numbers that are over 1000 euros on the market today? As usual, let us know with a comment below.
