Dragon Ball Vintage Market Watch: October 2026 (Carddass Prices After One Month)

1,800 raw Carddass sales in a month, a flat median card and a rising top: Part 1 #1 Goku up 50% on Yahoo. Vintage Dragon Ball prices, Sep 28 to Oct 27, 2026.

In its first month on Cardlogs, from September 28 to October 27, 2026, the vintage Dragon Ball Carddass market logged 1,800 raw sales that we matched to a card, 1,545 of them on Yahoo! Auctions Japan. The typical card did not move: on Yahoo, the median change was 0.0%. The money went to the flagship cards. The 1988 Carddass Part 1 #1 Son Goku rose from ¥165,000 to ¥248,000 on Yahoo in three weeks.

This is the first monthly market watch for the game. It covers what traded, what moved and why, and which of our own price moves were not market moves at all. The full card-by-card picture is in the Dragon Ball Carddass price guide and the most expensive Carddass cards ranking.

How much vintage Carddass traded in October?

Cardlogs matched 1,800 raw (ungraded) sales and 88 graded sales that closed between September 28 and October 27, 2026. Yahoo! Auctions Japan carried 1,545 of the raw sales and eBay 255. Those sales touched 587 different cards, half of the 1,179 we track.

Yahoo ran at a steady 300 to 380 raw sales a week through the month. The eBay figure is not comparable, and the reason is on our side: our eBay collection has added almost no new sales since October 14. It still reads about 2,640 eBay listings a night, but nearly all of them are sales it already has, so the newest eBay sale in our data closed on October 14. Treat every eBay price below as the price on that date, not a sign that nobody bought on eBay for two weeks.

According to Cardlogs market data, 1,800 raw vintage Dragon Ball Carddass sales closed between September 28 and October 27, 2026, 86% of them on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, across 587 of the 1,179 cards Cardlogs tracks.

Did the typical Carddass card go up?

No. On the 457 cards that sold on Yahoo between October 7 and October 27 and had a Yahoo price on both dates, 199 rose, 161 fell and 97 did not move. The median change was 0.0%. We start this comparison on October 7 rather than September 28 because the first ten days were mostly us collecting older sales, which moved prices for reasons that had nothing to do with October (more on that below).

The one place with a clear direction is the middle of the market. Among the 52 cards worth $50 or more that sold at least twice on Yahoo in those three weeks, 37 rose and 10 fell.

The value of those 457 cards' Yahoo prices, added up, rose 15.4% in yen. One card did a quarter of that: the Part 1 #1 Goku alone accounts for 25% of the yen gained. Without it the rise is 12.5%. A flat median and a rising total mean the same thing here: a handful of expensive cards climbed while the long tail of $5 to $20 prisms went sideways.

The eBay side, which our data only covers to October 14, leans the same way: of 89 cards that sold on eBay after October 7, 50 rose and 23 fell, a median of +5.3%.

Which Carddass cards moved most in October?

These are the cards with the biggest Yahoo moves among those that sold at least twice on Yahoo between October 7 and October 27, 2026, plus the five flagship cards that drove the month's total. Yahoo prices are in yen (¥157.82 per US dollar on October 27). Each card's sales range is wide because condition decides the price of a 30-year-old card.

All five flagship cards at the top show Son Goku, and three of them are the #1 card of their series (Hondan, PP Card and Visual Adventure). That is where October's money went. The Part 1 #1 is still the most valuable card of the regular series, and its price rests on 34 Yahoo and 6 eBay sales inside the Aggregate's 90-day window.

Two rows need a caveat. The Super Saiyan 3 Goku #154 keeps an Aggregate of $138.67 because its eBay price and its Yahoo price now sit more than 3x apart, and in that case the Aggregate keeps eBay alone. Its four October Yahoo sales ($25 to $57) say the eBay price is stale. The Shenron #6 is the most traded card of this group, at 12 Yahoo sales, and its range ($28 to $759) shows how much a clean copy of a 1988 prism is worth over a played one.

According to Cardlogs market data, the Yahoo! Auctions Japan price of the 1988 Carddass Part 1 #1 Son Goku rose 50.3%, from ¥165,000 to ¥248,000, between October 7 and October 27, 2026, on seven raw sales, while the median actively traded vintage Carddass card did not move.

What were the biggest Carddass sales of the month?

The top raw sale was a Carddass Part 1 #1 Son Goku at about $5,382 on Yahoo on October 12, listed as a first print, after 11 bids. The top five raw and graded sales between September 28 and October 27, 2026:

Read the $5,382 and the $3,576 together. Both listings used the same title format ("【初版】 … 【当時物/19xx年製】"), and both cleared far above the rest of their card's month. The #42 laser's other October Yahoo sales were about $44 and $190, and its price did not move: its Yahoo price stayed at ¥73,000 and its Aggregate went from $444.79 to $447.58. That is the point of pricing on a median of recent sales instead of the last one. A single record sale shows up in the ledger and on the card page, but it does not set the price.

Why did some prices move with no new sale?

Because two things besides the market change a price on Cardlogs: older sales we find late, and the way the Aggregate weighs a sale as it ages.

Older sales found late. Our sale ledger for the game went from 8,650 sales on September 28 to 22,407 on October 28. Most of that growth is history, not October: of the 12,274 sales added in the first ten days, only 588 had closed after September 28. Over the whole month, 146 eBay prices changed on cards that had no new eBay sale, and 145 of those 146 changed because we had found an older sale of that card. This is why the trend tables above start on October 7, after the deep collection was done. Since then the inflow is nearly all new: 402 of the 429 sales added in the last week closed on or after October 22.

The Aggregate's weights. The Cardlogs Aggregate price is one blended US-dollar price per card: each venue's own price, weighted by how many sales back it in the last 90 days and how recent the newest one is. When a venue has no sale left in that window it keeps a fixed minimum weight. Between October 7 and October 27, 729 of 1,002 Aggregate prices changed; 289 of those changes had no new sale on either venue behind them. About half were under 1%, mostly because Yahoo-only cards convert from yen at each night's rate. But 57 moved 10% or more with no new sale.

The largest in dollars is the Limited 3000 β. Its Aggregate went from $3,854.63 on October 7 to $4,741.53 on October 27, up $886.90, and nobody sold a β in that time. Its newest sale is still the October 4 Yahoo auction at about $4,325. As that sale ages, the Yahoo weight falls, and the July eBay sale at $6,300, now outside the window and on the fixed minimum weight, pulls the blend up.

It works in the other direction too. The Super Battle Part 1 #6 has a stale $300 eBay sale from April on the same minimum weight, so its Aggregate has slipped from $661.90 to $653.38 since October 21 while its Yahoo price held at ¥120,000.

According to Cardlogs, the Aggregate price of the 1989 Limited 3000 β rose 23% between October 7 and October 27, 2026 with no new sale of the card, an effect of how the blend weighs an old eBay sale; the best market read for a raw β remains the October 4 Yahoo sale at about $4,325.

Is the gap between eBay and Yahoo closing?

No. On the 617 cards with at least two raw sales on each venue, the Yahoo price is a median 0.55 times the eBay price as of October 27, 2026, the same 0.55 we measured on October 22. A quarter of those cards sell on Yahoo for 0.35 times the eBay price or less, a quarter for 0.88 times or more, and on 107 of them Yahoo is the dearer venue.

This reading carries the same caveat as every eBay figure in this article: our eBay prices stop at October 14 for now, so a change in the gap over the last two weeks could only have come from the Yahoo side.

What we said on October 22, and what happened

• "Treat the October 4 sale at about $4,325 as the best read of a raw β." It still is. The Aggregate kept rising for the reason above, from $4,648.42 to $4,741.53, and no β sold.
• The Part 1 #1 Goku at $1,593.20 after six October sales. Two more raw Yahoo sales followed, about $1,568 on October 22 and about $588 on October 23 (an auction that started at ¥1 and drew 62 bids). Its Aggregate is now $1,698.32.
• The Limited 3000 α stays unranked. Still true. Its Aggregate reads $158.71, still set by the October 2 eBay sale titled "Overseas Made", a reproduction.
• "Read #10 with care" (the Visual Adventure Part 5 #174 at $400 on one eBay sale). It sold six times on Yahoo between October 7 and 27, between about $54 and $139, and its Aggregate is still $400 because the two venues sit more than 3x apart.

What to watch in November

• The next raw Limited 3000 β sale. Until one happens, its Aggregate will keep drifting on the weighting alone.
• Whether the Part 1 #1 Goku holds above ¥200,000 on Yahoo once the two first-print listings at $5,382 and $3,668 fall out of its newest ten sales.
• Our eBay collection resuming. The eBay columns update once new eBay sales arrive again; we will say in the next edition how many closed between October 14 and the restart.
• The α reproduction sale coming out of its price, which would put the Limited 3000 α back in the ranking.

Where this data comes from

Cardlogs prices every vintage Dragon Ball Carddass card (1988 to 1998) from matched sold listings on two marketplaces: eBay completed sales and Yahoo! Auctions Japan closed auctions. Each sale is matched to one exact card and printing by its title, and expensive or ambiguous matches are confirmed against the listing photo. As of October 28, 2026 the ledger holds 22,407 matched sales (14,412 eBay, 7,995 Yahoo) across 1,179 cards in 108 sets, and 1,020 cards carry a price.

Each venue's price is a recency-weighted median of its newest 10 raw sales within two years. The month-on-month figures in this article compare the same card's venue price on two nightly snapshots (October 7 and October 27, 2026, or September 28 for the composition figures); they never subtract one blended Aggregate from another. Yahoo prices stay in yen; dollar figures use ¥157.82 per US dollar, the ECB reference rate of October 27, 2026, and individual Yahoo sales quoted in dollars were converted when Cardlogs recorded them. Graded sales are listed as sales and never feed a raw price. Population counts come from gemrate.com.

The game also has a Cardlogs Market Cap Index, the chain-linked index of same-card price changes that Cardlogs computes for every game. For vintage Carddass it reads 97.61 on October 27, 2026, against 100 on September 27, a 2.4% decline. We do not lead with it this month: its only leg is eBay, and on eBay the month mixed late-found history with two weeks in which our collection added nothing.

Vintage Carddass trades one auction at a time, and a single sale can move a card overnight. Follow every card in this article, with both venue prices and its full sale history, at cardlogs.com/dragonball-vintage/home, or in the Cardlogs iOS and Android apps.