Dragon Ball Carddass Price Guide: What Vintage Prisms Sell For (September 2026)

Vintage Dragon Ball Carddass prices from 8,650 sold listings: Hondan, Super Battle, Visual Adventure, PP Card and Limited cards, on eBay and Yahoo! Auctions.

About two thirds of priced vintage Dragon Ball Carddass cards sell for $5 to $70 raw. As of September 28, 2026, the median Cardlogs Aggregate price is $11.47 for a Carddass Hondan prism, $17.51 for Super Battle, $63.58 for Visual Adventure and $10.29 for PP Card. The top of the market is far higher: the 1988 Hondan Part 1 #1 Son Goku sits at $1,671.67, and the 1989 Limited 3000 prize cards reach $6,300.

Those prices come from 8,650 matched sold listings on eBay and Yahoo! Auctions Japan, covering 1,179 cards in 108 sets from 1988 to 1998. Cardlogs prices every card from those sales, one venue at a time, and shows both venues side by side. The difference between them is large enough to change what a card is "worth", depending on where you sell it.

This guide covers the four series, the special and prize cards, what moves a prism's value, the eBay-versus-Japan gap, grading, and the French cards. For the full ranking, see the most expensive vintage Dragon Ball Carddass cards. Every card and set below links to its live page in Cardlogs' Dragon Ball Vintage tracker.

What are Dragon Ball Carddass cards?

Carddass are Bandai's vending-machine cards. The name covers both the machines and the cards they dispensed, and the first Carddass came out in 1988. Dragon Ball was the line's biggest seller: Bandai had sold 2 billion Dragon Ball Carddass cards by 1998, according to figures collected on Wikipedia.

Each release ("part") mixed common regular cards with a handful of prism cards, the holofoil chase cards collectors call Carddass prisms today. Cardlogs tracks the prisms one by one and prices the regular cards as a complete 36-card set per part. Four series make up almost all of the market, plus a layer of special and prize cards:

Medians cover every priced card in the series, raw, as of September 28, 2026. The Tokubetsudan set (10 cards, median $1.78) completes the 108.

Carddass Hondan is the original run, starting with Part 1 in 1988. Hondan prisms carry a battle power value, which is how collectors tell the two Part 1 Son Goku prisms apart (#1 reads 300, #2 reads 500). The later parts include peelable double-prism stickers.

Super Battle started in 1991 (Part 1). Its cards carry a power level on the front, which is why European sellers often list them as "Power Level" cards, and many prisms are two-layer stickers you could peel. That peel is the single biggest value question in the series (see below).

Visual Adventure (from 1991) used Akira Toriyama's manga illustrations rather than anime frames. Its Special set has laser prisms that are its most valuable cards, and the 1995 Part 95 EX is the most graded Carddass set Cardlogs tracks.

PP Card was made by Amada, not Bandai. Its 35 parts carry the widest range of prism patterns (hard, bubble, line, circle, pixel, gold, laser, pearl), and Cardlogs lists each pattern as its own card.

How much are Carddass cards worth, series by series?

The typical prism is cheap and the median hides a long tail. Each venue gives its own number. Median raw prices as of September 28, 2026:

The venue medians are computed over the cards each venue prices, so they are not always the same cards.

According to Cardlogs market data, the median vintage Dragon Ball Carddass Hondan prism sold for $11.47 raw as of September 28, 2026, while a complete run of one Hondan part's 36 regular cards had a median price of $27.23, under a dollar a card.

The first parts carry the Hondan premium. The six base prisms of Hondan Part 1 have a median of $161.43, led by #1 Son Goku at $1,671.67 and #2 Son Goku at $253.43. By era, Hondan prisms have a median of $25.05 in Parts 1–5, $4.99 in Parts 6–12, $8.00 in Parts 13–20 and $13.75 in Parts 21–30. The middle years are the cheapest place to collect.

Super Battle peaks early and in the middle. Part medians run from $3.82 (Part 10) to $85.58 (Part 3) and $71.77 (Part 7). Part 1's median is only $14.68, but it holds the two most valuable Super Battle cards, #6 Son Goku at $655.14 and #25 Frieza at $376.48.

Visual Adventure is the most expensive regular series at a $63.58 median. Its top regular-part card is Part 3 #85 Shenron/Son Goku at $362.28, and its regular sets also cost the most: the Part 3 set of 36 regular cards is priced at $304.80.

PP Card is the deepest and least liquid. Of 494 PP Card rows, 296 have a price. Most of the unpriced ones are pattern variants that have not sold in two years on either venue.

What makes a Carddass prism valuable?

Five things, roughly in this order: which product it came from, whether it has been peeled, its prism pattern, its condition, and which market you sell it in.

Prize and special cards

The most valuable cards were never in the vending machines. The Limited 3000 set was a 1989 Weekly Shonen Jump lottery prize, and Limited 2000 came from a 1993 Akira Toriyama prize campaign. Their medians, as of September 28, 2026:

Most of these prices rest on one to three sales, which the ranking article flags card by card. Limited 3000 and Limited 2000 are also where reproductions concentrate: eBay carries hundreds of $5 to $125 copies with identical titles and art. Cardlogs treats a raw sale of those two sets under $150 as a probable reproduction and leaves it out.

The Reedition boxes (1995–96) reprinted the first six Hondan parts' prisms. They barely trade: only 5 of their 36 rows have a matched sale in two years. The 1994 Ultimate Expo edition is the exception: its Part 1 #1 reprint has one Yahoo sale at ¥298,234 ($1,892.47), above the original.

Modern Bandai reissues, such as the Carddass Premium Set and Remix boxes, are a different product. Cardlogs drops any listing that says it is a reprint, a Premium Set or a Remix card, so they never enter a vintage price.

Peeled or unpeeled

Many Super Battle prisms and the Hondan double prisms of 1994–97 are two-layer stickers. Once the top layer has been peeled, the card shows a different picture and sells for much less. Cardlogs prices the two states as separate cards.

According to Cardlogs market data, across the 60 Super Battle cards priced both ways as of September 28, 2026, an unpeeled card sells for a median 2.2 times its peeled copy.

The gap widens on the chase cards. Super Battle Part 1 #6 Son Goku is $655.14 unpeeled and $138.07 peeled (4.7x), and #25 Frieza is $376.48 against $95.03 (4.0x). On some mid-priced cards it is larger still: Part 7 #275 Son Gohan sits at $178.45 unpeeled against $7.31 peeled. Only four Hondan cards have both states priced, too few for a Hondan figure.

Japanese listings say 未剥がし (unpeeled) or 剥がし済み (peeled). English listings are less consistent, so read the photo before paying an unpeeled price.

Prism pattern (PP Card)

On PP Card the pattern sets the price. Median raw prices by pattern, September 28, 2026:

Paired card by card, a hard prism sells for a median 2.6 times the regular prism of the same number (54 pairs). The pixel prisms are the outliers. On the five cards priced both ways the pixel version runs about 40 times the regular one: #803 Son Goku/Trunks/Vegeta is $254.78 in pixel against $6.98 regular.

Hondan Parts 12 and 16 also have a version b printing. Cardlogs lists both version-b cards as their own rows, and neither has a matched sale yet.

Laser prisms (Visual Adventure Special)

The Visual Adventure Special set has laser prisms, a wavy holofoil, beside standard prints of the same numbers. The #42 Cell/Son Gohan laser is priced at $532.11 against $275 for the standard #42. The laser #40 ($507.65) and #38 ($406.12) each rest on one Yahoo sale.

Why do Carddass cards sell for less on Yahoo! Auctions Japan than on eBay?

Because the two are different markets. Cardlogs keeps a separate price for each venue, and on almost every card the Japanese one is lower.

According to Cardlogs market data, on the 314 vintage Dragon Ball Carddass cards with at least two raw sales on each venue, the Yahoo! Auctions Japan price was a median 0.50 times the eBay price as of September 28, 2026, and Yahoo was the higher venue on only 47 of them.

The gap barely changes with price: 0.48x on cards under $50 on eBay (240 cards), 0.52x from $50 to $200 (62 cards) and 0.58x from $200 to $1,000 (10 cards).

Graded prize cards show it most clearly, because a slab fixes the condition. A PSA 6 Limited 3000 β sold for $8,000 on eBay on July 17, 2026, and a PSA 6 copy sold for ¥198,000 (about $1,256) on Yahoo on April 14. The Yahoo sale is three months older and converted at today's rate, but a gap that size does not come from timing.

The likeliest reason is supply. These cards were sold in Japan, most surviving copies are still there, and a large share of eBay listings ship from Japan with the seller's export costs and margin on top. For a collector the practical point is simple: a Carddass "price" means little until you know which market it came from. On every Cardlogs card page, eBay and Yahoo! Auctions JP are shown as separate rows.

The Cardlogs Aggregate price is how Cardlogs combines them. The Cardlogs Aggregate price is one blended US-dollar price per card: each marketplace's own price, weighted by how many recent sales back it, and when the two marketplaces sit more than 3x apart it keeps the eBay price alone. A card priced on Yahoo alone therefore tends to read lower than an eBay-priced card of the same real value.

How many Dragon Ball Carddass cards are PSA graded?

Grading is rare and gem mint grades are rarer. PSA has graded 11,813 copies across the 686 vintage Dragon Ball Carddass entries Cardlogs matches, and only 334 are PSA 10 (2.8%), as of September 28, 2026.

According to Cardlogs population data, only 334 of the 11,813 PSA-graded vintage Dragon Ball Carddass cards are PSA 10 as of September 28, 2026, a gem rate of 2.8%, and the 1988 Part 1 #1 Son Goku has one PSA 10 among 220 graded copies.

The most graded card is Visual Adventure Part 95 EX #258 Son Goku & Majin Buu, with 370 PSA copies and 44 PSA 10s. Visual Adventure has the best gem rate, and most of it comes from one set: Part 95 EX holds 159 of the series' 258 PSA 10s. The Hondan double prisms of 1994–97 have no population in Cardlogs: PSA labels peeled and unpeeled copies the same way, so a count would mix two different cards.

Low populations make PSA 10 sales large multiples of the raw price. Two examples from the sale ledger:

The ledger holds 1,217 graded sales at a known grade: 1,024 PSA, 108 CGC, 84 BGS and 1 SGC. BGS Gold Label copies of Visual Adventure sell well in Japan: a BGS 9.5 Part 4 #127 Son Goku sold for ¥1,101,000 (about $6,986) on Yahoo on August 29, 2026.

What are French Carddass cards worth?

The French special cards have their own market, almost entirely on eBay in Europe, and none of them has a Yahoo sale. Cardlogs tracks the two French special sets as of September 28, 2026:

Le Grand Combat was the French edition of Super Battle, and its 13 special cards have a median of $125.84. The Hors Série Part 22 card also exists peeled, at $56.59, so the peel rule applies to the French cards too. Its $1,527 price rests on two sales more than a year old (the other sold for $737.55 in May 2025), and Hors Série Part 3 and Part 8 rest on one sale each, so treat those three as ceilings. The better-traded French cards are cheaper: Spéciale Flash Part 6 sits at $54.44 on 13 sales and Spéciale Flash Part 4 at $29.21 on 15.

The regular French-printed cards are not priced as separate rows yet, and listings that say they are French editions are kept out of the Japanese cards' prices. French collectors searching a "cote carddass" can use the Japanese price of the same card number as a reference, not as the French price.

Where this data comes from

Cardlogs prices every vintage Dragon Ball Carddass card from matched sold listings on two marketplaces: eBay completed sales (three years deep) and Yahoo! Auctions Japan closed auctions. The card list comes from dbzprice.com and the card names and population counts from gemrate.com. Each sale is matched to one exact card and printing (part, number, peeled or unpeeled, prism pattern) from its title, and expensive or ambiguous matches are checked against the listing photo.

As of September 28, 2026, the ledger holds 8,650 matched sales (5,309 eBay, 3,341 Yahoo; 7,342 raw, 1,217 graded at a known grade and 91 slabs whose grade the listing did not state) across 1,179 cards in 108 sets, and 887 cards carry a price. Each venue's price is a recency-weighted median of its newest 10 raw sales within two years. Yahoo prices are kept in yen and converted at ¥157.59 per US dollar, the ECB reference rate of September 25, 2026; older Yahoo sales convert at that same rate. The Cardlogs Aggregate price blends the two venue prices as described above.

Complete-set rows price a full run of one part's 36 regular cards. Graded sales are shown individually and never feed a raw price. Medians in this guide cover every priced card in the group, and the "Yahoo ÷ eBay" figures cover only cards with at least two raw sales on each venue.

Carddass prices move one sale at a time. Track every card in this guide, with the eBay and Yahoo! Auctions JP prices shown separately, the full sale history and PSA population, at cardlogs.com/dragonball-vintage/home, or in the Cardlogs iOS and Android apps. Looking for the modern game instead? See the most expensive Dragon Ball Fusion World cards.