{"id":38856,"date":"2026-08-10T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38856"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:16:53","slug":"a-new-benchmark-for-manga-weekly-shonen-jump-51-from-1984-introduced-akira-toriyamas-dragon-ball-with-its-first-chapter-featuring-goku-and-bulma-this-landmark-issue-has-now-earned-a-bgs-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38856","title":{"rendered":"A new benchmark for manga. Weekly Shonen Jump #51 from 1984 introduced Akira Toriyama\u2019s Dragon Ball with its first chapter, featuring Goku and Bulma. This landmark issue has now earned a BGS 9.4, the only copy at this grade and the highest-graded example in the Beckett population report."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new benchmark for manga.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly Shonen Jump #51 from 1984 introduced Akira Toriyama\u2019s Dragon Ball with its first chapter, featuring Goku and Bulma.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark issue has now earned a BGS 9.4, the only copy at this grade and the highest-graded example in the Beckett population report.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/2086934971537612867\">Aug 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new benchmark for manga. Weekly Shonen Jump #51 from 1984 introduced Akira Toriyama\u2019s Dragon Ball with its first chapter, featuring Goku and Bulma. This landmark issue has now earned a BGS 9.4, the only copy at this grade and the highest-graded example in the Beckett population report. \u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) Aug 10, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":38858,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":["post-38856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-beckett","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38857,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38856\/revisions\/38857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}