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Taizo Iwai's handwritten manuscript "Deep Sea Ranger Corps" 2 color illustrations, 31 black and white illustrations

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Condition: Glue traces stained, slightly damaged

Current Price	75,000 yen
Start Price	75,000 yen
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Start Time	2025/02/15 15:00:00
Live Time	2025/03/07 21:23:50 2025/03/07 04:23:50
Item Number	4063z126
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Item's Details

(item number) 4063
(title) Taizo Iwai's handwritten manuscript "Deep Sea Ranger Corps" 2 color illustrations, 31 black and white illustrations
(size) 120×80 mm to 380×265 mm each
(side note) Draw on the illustration board with book and designated tracing paper and for the cover
(Condition Rating) 7
(detailed) Glue traces stained, slightly damaged
(starting bid price) 75,000 yen

(comment) From the latter half of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s, 28 works were published by Kaiseisha in the "SF Masterpiece Series". Regarding the manuscript, it seems that three black and white illustrations are missing. The 1960s was the age of science fiction around the world, and many science fiction series have been published in Japan, without exception. For example, the first thing you see when you look at the manuscript is the submarine, the shape of the submarine capsule called in the manuscript, but this characteristic triangular cone is probably in the image of the Apollo 11 command room. As Masahiro Noda famously said, "SF is a picture," this is an era when visible reality and the artist's imagination nurtured children's sensibilities and created the soil to create science fiction works 10 years and 20 years from now. This is a group of manuscripts that make you feel a piece of the science fiction imagination that has been seeded as children's original experiences. By the way, this item will be accompanied by the published book, but this is the 27th work that has been published sporadically for the last time, one year since the publication of the "SF Masterpiece Series" stopped. Since the book itself is a rare item, it is also recommended to get it to finish the entire collection of the series (Yamaya)

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