(item number) 6003
(title) King Kong ･ box included
(author) Tezuka Osamu
(maker) Fuji Shobo
(the date of issue) 1950 (S25) 01.15
(size) Made on B6
(sheets) 114P
(side note) All 2 colors
(condition) Beauty
(detailed) Non- Kashi-hon , the box has damage ( stained and scratched slightly missing ), damage on the edge of the cover ( stained and scratched tears )
(starting bid price) 1,500,000 yen
(comment) Tezuka's first book in a box published in the 20's of the Showa era is
Metropolis (September 15, 1945, Ikuei Publishing)
Mysterious Travel Report (January 15, 1950, Bunsuido Iemura)
Faust (January 15, 1950, Fuji Shobo)
Taihei Hirahara (January 20, 1950, Tokodo), all published by Kansai publishers in just four months. I am. With the exception of Iemura Bunsuido, the representative publishers of Tezuka's early books, Ikuei, Fuji, and Tokodo, each publish one book, so the publishers in Kansai are also costly according to Tezuka's request. Wasn't it a resistance movement for Tezuka's advance into Tokyo? I will infer.
Doing things that major publishers in Tokyo can't do, that spirit gave birth to this box. In addition, the publishers in Kansai have published a total of three boxed books from Tezuka's past works.
Streamlined incident (November 10, 1945, Katsuragi Shobo)
King Kong (January 15, 1950, Fuji Shobo)
Dr. Mars (January 15, 1950, Fuji Shobo)
This Three books are extremely rare without exception. Isn't there any enthusiast who completes 3 books with a box?
You may be worried if you look at it in a row like this. That's right, the three books of Fuji Shobo were released on the same day of the same month.
Of course, "Faust" is also rare, but it is incomparable to "King Kong" and "Dr. Mars", and the difference in appearance rate is about 20 to 1 in terms of experience. Considering the difference, it seems unreasonable to think that the number of copies was small because it was simply resold compared to the first "Faust". As of 1950, Tezuka Osamu had already received an offer from a publisher in Tokyo, so the publishers should have understood that it would definitely sell if it was officially released.
Originally, this box is so rare that it was distributed only to the people involved among the maniacs. Was said.
In order to keep Tezuka together, we released the boxed paper without considering the cost, but it is not unthinkable that the two resale books were only distributed to the people involved in making them to show them to Tezuka, but they were sold in Mandarake. The legendary "Dr. Mars" woodfree paper version (Fuji Shobo), which Tezuka made only 10 copies, is printed a little more than the fact that only one copy is on the market in the world of old book manga. It seems that.
In order to give the impression that most of them are from Kansai, including those without boxes, and that they are reselling to Tezuka, did you make enough copies to put them in circulation only in Matsuyamachi, Kansai? It's just a guess. After that, the efforts of the publishers in Kansai did not bear fruit, and in April 1950, he started "Dr. Tiger's Rare Trip" in the magazine "Manga and Reading", which was first serialized in national miscellaneous papers, and the following year, "Dr. Tiger's Rare Trip". "Atom Ambassador (Astro Boy)" will also start in "Shonen" magazine.
Tezuka will go on the path to becoming a national manga artist, the god of manga. As for the relationship with the publisher in Osaka, about a year later, the last job of Fuji Shobo will be "The Coming World," which will be one of the masterpieces in January 1951. To conclude with a masterpiece, I feel Tezuka's love for Fuji. Immediately after that, Fuji Shobo will be closed.
What is Tokodo? Two books in 1951, "Pinocchio" in 2015, and the last newly written book "Sin and Punishment" in 2016, Tezuka departs for Tokyo. Ironically, the following year, in 1954, Tezuka became the number one taxpayer in the Kansai painter category. One night in 1945, at a meeting of publishers in Kansai, there was a discussion about not being able to take Tezuka to Tokyo, and he tried to fish with Tezuka's favorite prewar-like gorgeous book with a box. , When I look at these books with boxes, I get delusional (Tsujinaka)
109 Tezuka Osamu |
