Asahi Shoes Astro Boy Children's Sneakers 20 cm, 1980s Deadstock In Plastic Case With Header Card
Asahi Shoes Astro Boy Children's Sneakers 20 cm, 1980s Deadstock In Plastic Case With Header Card
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Small feet, big hero
For the Showa goods collector.
Best for: Astro Boy and Tezuka collections
Condition notes
Unused; slight rubs from age.
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A pair of 1980s Astro Boy children's sneakers by Asahi, never worn and still in their plastic case with the header card.
The Piece
The white canvas shoes are printed with Atom and bright comic panels, with Atom on the insoles too, in the cheerful style of the late Showa period. Marked Asahi KC43605.
Size 20 cm. Unused since purchase; slight rubs from age, but the case has not yellowed and the shoes are in very good order.
Atom in the 1980s
Astro Boy, Mighty Atom in Japan, first appeared in 1951 as a side character in Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Atom and was given his own series in April 1952 in Kobunsha's Shonen, where it ran until March 1968. Tezuka Productions describes the 1963 television version as the first commercial animation made by Tezuka's Mushi Production and the first Japanese television animation series, broadcast weekly in thirty minute episodes.
After its success at home and abroad, the series was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, the decade these children's shoes come from. Other pairs are kept in the sneaker vault.
Details
- Maker: Asahi Shoes
- Model: KC43605
- Period: 1980s
- Size: 20 cm (children)
- Status: Deadstock in case
- Character: Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka, 1952
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Condition
- Unused; slight rubs from age.
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Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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Maker, date and completeness are given as described and as the photographs show; nothing has been restored or altered by the house unless stated. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
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