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| The Jump Museum '92 Dragon Ball Special Carddass |
During Golden Week (a Japanese week with many holidays) of 1992 Weekly Shonen Jump organized a special event in Tokyo (at Mecca Harajuku) called the Jump Museum (ジャンプミュージアム). According to people who attended, this was not a huge venue compared to the size of events that would be organized later on. A lot of Dragon Ball related merchandise were for sale, such as shitajiki, soundtrack CD's, posters, and so forth.
Guests were also given the opportunity to win one of 19 Special Carddass cards. They had one for each of the most popular Jump published manga at the time (such as Dragon Quest Dai's Adventure, Yuyu Hakusho, Video Girl Ai, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Slam Dunk, etc). Obviously one of them was for Dragon Ball.
The Dragon Ball card features Super Saiyajin Son Goku during the climax of his fight with Freeza. Surprisingly this is the only limited gift card that was made representing the Freeza arc of Dragon Ball. The earlier Limited 3000 cards represented the Saiyajin arc of early Dragon Ball Z (arrival of Raditz, Nappa and Vegeta), and the following limited gift cards such as the Mechanko Project and 1993 Multi World gift cards would represent the Cell arc.
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| The Jump Museum '92 Dragon Ball Special Carddass back |
This card has a special holographic "Weekly Jump" logo stamped in the bottom left corner. Possibly the biggest protection the card has from being accurately copied as reproduction cards. Jumbo cards aside, this is one of only three non prism limited gift cards that were made (the only other two were the last two made, the two Tokubetsudan limited gift cards).
It is not a numbered limited card, but since it was only distributed at this event, and only for a few days, it's likely there were no more than a few of thousands made.
Personally I really like this card. Not just because it's the first limited card featuring Super Saiyajin Son Goku, or because it's the only Freeza arc limited gift card, but because I just find it really majestic. The illustration used is so classic!
