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"Comic books can evoke memories of our childhood and let me find inner peace in this noisy society." Yesterday, the famous "Lianyou" Yang, who made a special trip to attend the comic exchange meeting, revealed to reporters his mental journey of collecting comics.
Affinity: a few hundred dollars to buy a "picture book" with twenty cents.
In 2003, Yang worked in a government agency in Beijing. During the weekend break, Yang visited Panjiayuan, Temple and other cultural trading markets.
When he walked into a comic book collection, a comic book named "Xiao He Chasing Han Xin under the Moon" made him shine: the exquisite cover and familiar content made him suddenly find the feeling of reading comics as a child!
However, when he asked the boss the price, he was surprised: 800 yuan! On the back cover of the comic book, the price of this book is only over twenty cents!
Since the monthly salary plus various subsidies was only 3,000 yuan at that time, Yang bargained with his boss many times. However, the boss is not loose on the price.
Half a month later, after many "negotiations", the boss was finally conquered by Yang's stubborn persistence, and he finally agreed to sell the book at the price of 650 yuan.
Because of this book, Yang became attached to comics.
Love: 20 million collection of "old edition books"
In 2005, Yang quit his job and returned to Chongqing to do business.
One weekend, I visited the cultural relics trading market with his friend Yang. As a result, they were surprised to find that there are also many places selling comic books in Chongqing.
Under the introduction of friends, he gradually began to "enter the business": comic books can be roughly divided into three periods, first the old books in the fifties and sixties, then the cultural revolution books, and finally the new books, among which the old books have the highest collection value.
"The painting and printing level of the old books is the highest." Yang said that many illustrations of the old books in the 1950s and 1960s were the works of famous painters, and even the covers were specially created by another painter. In printing, the pigments used at that time made the picture more vivid and clear.
In the next few years, Yang became fascinated with comic books, especially old picture books. At the end of 2007, Yang received a call from a "Lianyou" in Shanghai and immediately contacted the other party. After discussion, he bought more than 30 old books from each other in one breath and spent nearly 200 thousand to buy one! When he was in Beijing, he wrote a book. 650 yuan money has now risen to five or six thousand yuan.
In the comic books collected by Yang since then, the price has been rising again and again: around 2008, his collection of How Steel was Tempered had only two volumes, and the purchase price reached 300,000 yuan; "La Traviata" and "The Brave" cost nearly 200,000 copies! Comics that cost tens of thousands of yuan abound.
"Books cost about 20 million pounds." Yang said that like him, he was not the only one who spent huge sums of money collecting comic books.
Yang said that after he stopped working, his greatest wish was to open an exhibition hall to show his collection to everyone, so that more people could appreciate and share the brilliant comic art of China in the 1950s and 1960s, and carry forward this valuable cultural heritage.