It is worth collecting more than nine items of the best value for a comic book

The reporter learned from an interview yesterday that the recent sales of comic book series including “Dream of Red Mansions”, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” and “Ghost Story” were active. The collector Xiaoqin Xue told reporters that comic book collections are more value-conscious than ***, and comic books, which usually can be used as collections, should be at least nine items or more, otherwise there would be no great value for collection.

In the collection market, reporters saw that most of the comics were relatively poor and the prices were mostly several yuan and tens of yuan. "The picture book of this type of product is like a show of goods. You can only take a look at it."

"Little Man" big collection

The comic book, commonly known as the "little man book," has spent several generations of childhood time, has now become a popular collection of people's attention, the price has been rising year by year, and some classic comic strips are making millions of dollars.

It is understood that the comic book collection market was relatively sluggish last year, but with the art market warming up, in April of this year Panjiayuan's 8th comic book auction turnover totaled nearly 180,000 yuan, pulling the prices of various collection markets. For example, the current market price of the “Dream of Red Mansions” in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China has reached more than 100,000 yuan, and the well-known “Chi Mao Mao Xin” has two volumes. The current market price has also reached 40,000 yuan. A large number of comic strips published in the 70s and 80s of the last century can be sold for around forty or fifty yuan as long as they are of good quality, and they were not much more than a few cents at the time. “There are many versions of comics, and the comic strips before the founding of the People’s Republic of China were commonly called 'old versions', and their market prices were basically 10,000 yuan. The newly published classic comics in the 70’s and 80’s were called “new versions”, and prices went up. Less, for example, a good new version of "Three Kingdoms" has risen from 300-500 yuan to more than 1,000 yuan." Tibetan said.

The reporter found that the price gap between the comic book online and the market is very different. For example, some people took "Caizhou at Snowy Night" for 18,000 yuan and others sold for 7,000 yuan. The collector Qin Xiaoqin told reporters that the price of a comic book transaction does not mean market value, but is determined by its supply and demand relationship. "For example, the market price of the 1963 version of "The Monkey King Three Dozen Bones" may be 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, but the Wuhan market is rare, and there are buyers who are willing to bid 10,000 yuan. No one can tell."

"Nine products" is the lowest threshold

The nine products in the comic book refer to the recent new product, that is, the cover or back cover of the book has a very slight crease, or a very small amount of stains, and the signature and seal of the person who purchased the book exist.

Xiao Qin Xue told reporters that the same kind of comic book, the old and new product will make the price difference many times. For example, Liu Jiqiu's "The Poor Sticks to Turn the World" (published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House in 1963), the market price of Jiupin is 400 yuan, and the market price of Liupin is less than 10 yuan; another example is Zhao Hongben and Qian Xiaodu's "Summon Monkey King" "(1963 edition)) of the three-phase product of three or five thousand yuan, eight products may be only three or five hundred yuan, and six or seven goods only tens of dollars.

"Nine products is a starting point for the collection of comics screening conditions." Xiaoqin theory: "Nine products to ten products, the price gap is also relatively large, such as in an auction, the nine products of the "Son Monkey King hit three bones," the transaction price is 220 yuan, and the Nine-Five-product up to 1650 yuan, a difference of 7.5 times."

Unfortunately, for the old version of the comic book, comic books with more than nine items have been very few, and thus more than nine items of old comic strips have entered the state of market with no price.

A version of India's most valuable

"One edition, one print" is the original version. In the collection of comics, the value of reprinting and reprinting is far less than that of the original version. The smaller the number of prints, the higher the value.

For example, there is 60 editions of the “Three Kingdoms” in the one edition, and the entire market price has been several tens of thousands of yuan. The new editions of the “Three Kingdoms” in the 70s and 80s had only 48 volumes, and the price was only around one thousand yuan, a difference of several times; The first edition of the "Railway Guerrilla" (a set of 10 volumes) had a market value of 1,000 yuan, while the second edition was only worth more than 20 yuan, a difference of about 50 times; "Captain Grant's Daughter" (3 volumes), first edition auction The transaction price is 620 yuan, while the second edition can be purchased in the market with 6 yuan, a difference of 100 times.

However, in the past two years, even if it is reprinted and reprinted, the prices of the comic strips have also increased substantially. The appreciation of some classic volumes is even larger. For example, Gu Bingxin’s “Dujiang Reconnaissance Notes” is priced at 36 yuan, and the current price has exceeded. 300 yuan. As for the re-version of classical classics, the increase is even more astonishing. For example, the “The Scholars' History” of the Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House is priced at only 37 yuan, and the current market price is as high as 600-800 yuan. The "Journey to the West" issued in 2004, 10 prices less than 100 yuan, the current price has 1,500 yuan / set.

It is worth noting that if the original set of comics were printed with only a large part of them and several copies were not reprinted, then these books would be called "essential" and they are often difficult to find.

As we all know, a lot of comics are not finished in one year, and some even go through a series of years, such as the comic strip "Li Zicheng," and it took eight years to finish. Due to the fact that the publication time is too long, it is inevitable that there will be few individual circulations in a set of books, such as the “Eastern Weekly” comic strips published by Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, a set of 50 volumes, of which one has a maximum circulation of 190 copies. Million, and the smallest one is only 100,000, so in a set of books, there will be a few books that are particularly expensive.

**Appreciation of theme space

In addition to the four criteria of appearance, edition, whether it is painted by a famous artist and whether it is an award, the subject matter is also an important criterion for judging value. Xiao Qinxue said that classical classics, ** subject matter, and war subjects are the most popular, and comic books with the theme of “big **” are the most valuable.

“In the period of **, due to its special political nature, there have been a large number of comic books on the theme of propaganda, such as “Only Mao Zedong in the Heart” and “A Good Fighter of Mao Zedong's Four Prosperous Years,” and comic book reprints on these topics may be possible. Sex is almost zero, so this type of comic book is almost alone, and it naturally becomes a rare scarce product."The only thing in mind" was the price of 5 cents in the early 1968 edition, but the current market price is more than 20,000. A total of 400,000 times has been turned over. The price of "Good Soldiers of Mao Zedong's four prosperous years" was only a dime seven points in the early 1968 editions, but the current market price is far from 5,000 yuan."

In addition, ** theme comic books should also be aimed at famous paintings, selective collection. For example, He Youzhi's "The Life of Guilty of Confucius" in 1974, The Selection of the Characters of the Pre-Qin Family of Legalists, Yan Haihua and Dai Dunbang's "The Harbour" Painted in 1973, Gu Bingxin and Han Heping's "Iron Hands Chuangjiang Shan" Painted in 1966, Dong Chen Sheng's "The Red Lantern" painted in 1971 and so on.