Unknown Chinese Comic Book - Anyone?

[divad]

From the context of the collection, I'm guessing this book dates about 1953, printed in Hong Kong by the The Asia Press Ltd. Anyone know anything about this book? It's got an interesting (graphical) story plot - guns and knives, guys tied up, woman in distress, etc.

 

 

[thirdgreenham]

What would you like to know?

[divad]

And here is it's little brother, which has absolutely no information (in English) at all, but has a somewhat surreal cover and a heavy (graphical) propaganda message which ends up with two people being tied up and shot in the back in the very last panel:

 

 

[divad]

What would you like to know?

 

Anything at all.

[Senormac]

And here is it's little brother, which has absolutely no information (in English) at all, but has a somewhat surreal cover and a heavy (graphical) propaganda message which ends up with two people being tied up and shot in the back in the very last panel:

 

 

 

Looks like Transplants avatar pic, Mr. X

 

[bronze_rules]

...some publisher/theme era background.

 

 

From "Hong Kong Comics," Wendy Siuyi Wong

[comeaux]

From the context of the collection, I'm guessing this book dates about 1953, printed in Hong Kong by the The Asia Press Ltd. Anyone know anything about this book? It's got an interesting (graphical) story plot - guns and knives, guys tied up, woman in distress, etc.

 

 

So I asked a friend of mine who is from Guangzhou, China and although there is a little language barrier as she doesn’t speak English very well and my Chinese is nonexistent … here is what she says the cover says:

 

Top writing is “Bad day on a little boat”

 

Bottom writing is “published by Asian Press Limited”

 

She says the book looks Cantonese as it is not traditional Mandarin for sure.

 

[thirdgreenham]

From the context of the collection, I'm guessing this book dates about 1953, printed in Hong Kong by the The Asia Press Ltd. Anyone know anything about this book? It's got an interesting (graphical) story plot - guns and knives, guys tied up, woman in distress, etc.

 

 

 

This one is a story or legend of a single boat that has an accident (and blood is spilled).

[comeaux]

 

This book says "Biography of Lu Zuo Fu"

 

It's an anti-Chinese government book

[Beige]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

[shadroch]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

 

 

Not to hijack the thread, but when I had my shop, a guy came in trying to sell what he claimed was an original newspaper from the day after Pancho Villa led some 1500 banditos on a raid of a town in New Mexico. Claimed it had been passed down several generations. It looked too nice to be 70 something years old so I asked if I could take it out of the yellowing plastic bag. He agreed and when I opened it, it was a menu that was only a few years old. The guys story changed rather quickly.

[divad]

 

This book says "Biography of Lu Zuo Fu"

 

It's an anti-Chinese government book

 

Thanks, that makes sense from the story line. (thumbs u

[divad]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

 

Thanks, but if you're not legging my pull (down-under joke) and with all due respect (and a little research) they are not contemporary.

 

The books were in a collection I bought last year that had a very narrow time range. I have no reason to doubt their shared provenance.

[divad]

...some publisher/theme era background.

 

 

From "Hong Kong Comics," Wendy Siuyi Wong

 

Thanks! (thumbs u

[divad]

So I asked a friend of mine who is from Guangzhou, China and although there is a little language barrier as she doesn’t speak English very well and my Chinese is nonexistent … here is what she says the cover says:

 

Top writing is “Bad day on a little boat”

 

Bottom writing is “published by Asian Press Limited”

 

She says the book looks Cantonese as it is not traditional Mandarin for sure.

 

 

Thanks! Another reason I love this place.

[divad]

This one is a story or legend of a single boat that has an accident (and blood is spilled).

 

Thanks Andy! (thumbs u

[Beige]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

 

Thanks, but if you're not legging my pull (down-under joke) and with all due respect (and a little research) they are not contemporary.

 

The books were in a collection I bought last year that had a very narrow time range. I have no reason to doubt their shared provenance.

 

[comeaux]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

 

I’m not disparaging you at all Andy but I think you could possibly be wrong.

 

I had not showed the back of this book to my Chinese friend but I just did and she said it is an advertisement from the company (Asia Press Limited) that printed the book. The back cover is a list of the other books available and their associated prices.

 

[vhunter]

the one with boat cover should translate:

 

a tale of spilling blood　ｏｎ　ｂｏａｔ

 

ｂａｃｋ　ｃｏｖｅｒ　ｉｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｎａｍｅ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ，　ｔｈｅｉｒ　ｐｈｏｎｅ　ｎｕｍｂｅｒ　ａｎｄ　ａｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ｂｏｏｋｓ　ｔｈｅｙ　ｐｕｂｌｉｓｈｅｄ　ａｎｄ　ｐｒｉｃｅ．

 

 

ｔｈｅ　ｂｏｏｋ　ｉｓ　ｍａｄｅ　ｉｎ　ＨｏｎｇＫｏｎｇ．　

ｔｈｅ　ｐｕｂｌｉｓｈｅｒ　ａｎｄ　ａｒｔｉｓｔ　ｉｓ　ｌｏｎｇ　ｇｏｎｅ．　Ｇｏｏｇｌｅｄ　，　ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ．　

ｔｈｅ　ｐｒｉｃｅ　ｆｏｒ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｂｏｏｋ　ｉｓ　０.６０　ｂａｃｋ　ｔｈｅｎ，　ｔｏｄａｙ　ａｖｒａｇｅ　ｏｆ　ｎｅｗ　ｂｏｏｋ　ｉｓ　ｐｒｉｃｅ　ａｔ　２０－４０．　　ｉｆ　ｙｏｕ　ｐｏｓｔ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｏｔｈｅｒ　ｐａｇｅ，　ｔｈｅｒｅ　ｍａｙｂｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｙｅａｒ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｗｈｅｒｅ．

 

ｔｈｅ　ｐｒｉｎｔ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｔ　ｉｎ　ｓｉｍｐｌｆｉｅｒ　ｃｈｉｎｅｓｅ，　ｔｈａｔ＇ｓ　ｗｈａｔ　ｔｈｅｙ　ｕｓｅ　ｉｎ　ｈｏｎｇｋｏｎｇ．

[Beige]

Its from "The Won-Ton Incident" Restaurant.

The menu is on the back.

We have a couple in Footscray, here in Melbourne.

They are only aged-looking and are for customers to read whilst waiting for their take-away.

 

Honest.

 

I’m not disparaging you at all Andy but I think you could possibly be wrong.

 

I had not showed the back of this book to my Chinese friend but I just did and she said it is an advertisement from the company (Asia Press Limited) that printed the book. The back cover is a list of the other books available and their associated prices.

 

I was kidding guys!

 

Won-Ton is a type of chinese dish! (thumbs u