In those days a child with a comic book was a king among his peers. This is because only kids from rich families, or those who could find some way of scraping together some money, could afford to buy comic books.
那時有漫畫的小孩被同伴奉若大王，因為能買漫畫的，不是家裡很有錢，就是得挖空心思找錢。