Akira Toriyama created Dragon Ball in 1980.
His next series , Dragon Ball , would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world .	Dragon Ball	Dragon Ball	manga	Mangaka
The initial manga , written and illustrated by Toriyama , was serialized in Weekly Shnen Jump from 1984 to 1995 , with the 519 individual chapters collected into 42 tankbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha .	Shueisha	Shueisha	manga	manga	Weekly Shnen Jump	Weekly Shnen Jump	tankbon	tankbon
