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