Comic strips are commonly known as villain books, and their value depends on the content and the popularity and availability of the painters painted.
People in the 50s and 60s of the last century had special memories and feelings for comic strips, and they could spend a few cents to buy a villain book and be beautiful. Villain books began to flourish in China in the 1930s, and after 1949, the villain books reached the climax of development, when most of the content was based on land reform, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, marriage law and other major events of the country, and some classical masterpieces such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" were also adapted into comic strips, which were very popular with people.

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After 1950, the creation of comic strips entered a golden period of creation, the content and painting styles of the works were wonderful, and a number of film comic strips appeared. By 1980, there were works with modern themes, and a number of Chinese and foreign masterpieces were reprinted or recreated, and the collection of comic strips began to heat up.
After the 1990s, comic strips gradually withdrew from the book stage, until the late 1990s, when they appeared as collectibles in the hands of collectors, becoming the fifth category of popular collectibles. Now the stock and good quality can preserve the villain book, which is already very valuable, whether it is from the artistic value, historical value, or collection value is very meaningful, because it is a mark of the times, but also a generation of childhood memories.