No, it came to the west(english speaking) because it was licensed by a US company who skipped to what they thought was the most financially viable section. Toei et all just took quick and easy money for the rights, there was no global strategy until much later

Dragon Ball popped off in the west not because they started reading it with Dragon Ball, but because they started with watching Dragon Ball Z AKA the Batman(2011) of the series. Fraud meme