The official Dragon Ball website’s sixty-second entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the color title page for the debut chapter of Sand Land (“Setting Out”) in the 2000 No. 23 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 09 May 2000:

In his accompanying author comment that issue, Toriyama noted the work being put into the new series:

The art was grayscaled and used as an inside title page in the collected edition released later that year on 02 November 2000:

Sand Land made its English language debut in Viz’s January 2003 premiere issue of their Shonen Jump print magazine, and ran through to completion that year. A collected edition was released in December that same year.

Other than Cowa! — and the obvious example of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (including Jaco the Galactic Patrolman) — it remains one of the few Toriyama series officially licensed and released in English.

The official Dragon Ball website’s sixtieth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a Son Goku telephone card commemorating the start of the Dragon Ball television series.

The card’s design was originally shown off in the 1986 No. 12 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (released 18 February 1986), where it was displayed as a possible prize for respondents who sent in the answers to a quiz provided alongside that issue’s “Chasing the 7 Secrets of Anime Dragon Ball!!” feature.

The Dragon Ball television series went on to debut on 26 February 1986.

The official Dragon Ball website’s fifty-ninth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the title page to chapter 63 of Dr. Slump (“Peasuke’s First Love”) from the 1981 #17 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 24 March 1981.

[NOTE: The official website’s write-up notes this as being released “February 10”, but the issue released on that date was 1981 #11 containing chapter 57, “Kinoko, Cut Loose”.]

This particular title page was selected for today because it mentions the Dr. Slump television series, which first aired 08 April 1981 (Wednesday), 37 years ago this Sunday; other than to correspond with April Fool’s, these entries are exclusively updated on the official website Monday through Friday, making today the closest to the Dr. Slump television series’ anniversary without passing it.

The 1981 #17 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump also contained Pola & Roid, Toriyama’s entry in the Jump Readers’ Award contest for that year, which won him the prize. Toriyama mentioned this work in his corresponding author comment that issue:

Toriyama further commented on producing Pola & Roid in 1983 in the third Akira Toriyama’s ____piece Theatre Vol. 1 cartoon.

The official Dragon Ball website’s fifty-eighth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is Toriyama’s illustration and message from his March 1985 Bird Land Press fan newsletter in celebration of his 30th birthday:

This old geezer has finally turned 30.

Well it doesn’t really matter to me, but I plan on giving it my all like I’m even younger!

*Thank you very much to everyone who sent me presents!

Akira Toriyama turned 63 years old yesterday.

The official Dragon Ball website’s fifty-seventh entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the cover of the “Special Elite Version” of the Jaco the Galactic Patrolman collected edition, released four years ago today on 04 April 2014 (mistakenly noted in the website’s official write-up as 2012).

The kanzenban-sized “Super Elite Version” — released alongside a smaller, traditional, tankōbon-sized version with different cover artwork — came with an “augmented reality” postcard, a Jaco key holder, and a Galactic Patrol badge.

The collected edition compiled all eleven chapters as serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2013, along with “Dragon Ball Minus“, a bonus chapter featuring Bardock and the debut of Gine, Goku’s mother.

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman — promoted by Shueisha as the “shocking revival of Dragon Ball!!” — originally ran from the 2013 #33–44 issues of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan, and also saw a simultaneous digital release in English by Viz, who released their English-language collected edition of the series in January 2015. The character of Jaco has since gone on to appear in the 2015 theatrical film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ as well as the Dragon Ball Super television series.

The official Dragon Ball website’s fifty-sixth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the logo for the “Dragon Ball Damashii” column in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, which debuted 21 April 2004 in the magazine’s June 2004 issue.

The write-up notes that Toriyama drew the logo with, “…the fiery spirit of new readers” in mind. The “Dragon Ball Damashii” (or “Dragon Ball Spirit”) column ran for several years following its debut, and would include various Q&As along with fanart sent in from readers:

The official Dragon Ball website’s fifty-fifth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is his second cover illustration for the “World of Akira Toriyama” exhibition book.

This exhibition — not to be confused with a prior art book series a few years earlier — was held in eight locations from 1993 to 1995. The cover of the books sold in 1993 and 1994 were initially a new Son Goku illustration, but the cover was swapped to this original illustration for the book of the 1995 Hyōgo exhibition.