In Mongolia, the country with only over 3.0 million people, there are two comic series that have sold over 1.8 million copies. Those mentioned two comic series are the ‘Tsondooloi and Tsundeelei’ and the ‘Dinza’. The heroic action figures and their stories read by a whole generation of Mongolian children are republished in 2020, after five years of their last issues in 2015, to be read by the new generation of kids again. ‘Tsondooloi and Tsundeelei’ comic series depicts a young girl Tsondooloi from the capital city and her goat kid Tsundeelei’s adventures in the countryside, and stories provide and educate children with valuable moral and ethical norms of love, respect, interpersonal relationship, and work habits. On the other hand, the ‘Dinza’ comic series depict stories of young boy Jijgee and his little witty dinosaur Dinza and their tales of practical courage, cleverness, knowledge, and unwavering relationship makes them real life heroes, unlike western comic superheroes born with superpower strengths. The comic stories of these normal children, who struggle with real life adventures and problems, find and create themselves as heroes during their hard and good deeds are received BEST BOOK awards from the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia in 2007, Internom’s best- selling book awards in 2009 and 2010, and received the ‘most read books’ award from SBN TV and Dream TV.
In order to overcome and defeat the hardships and challenges of the present time, ‘Dinza’ comic protagonists time travel into the past in order to participate and solve the existing problems in the past and, by doing so, action figures grow in experience and knowledge thus help to create and bring more harmonious and peaceful present time on the earth. The action figures in the comic makes children learn ‘what is good and what is bad’ through their adventurous deeds and action. The readers of these comics generally agreed and critically acclaimed that ‘through the stories in the Dinza comic, they received deep cognition and knowledge about everyday life.’ The new upcoming comic volumes will include adventurous stories depicting known, and the unknown ancient history and life beyond the earth. Nowadays, the author of these comic series Mrs. Delgerjargal Anbat is busy writing and creating new issues of the comic for future print.