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A series that went through a lot of changes, almost with each new issue:

I love tank covers:

Where's the photo of Strange and Clea?

I don't think Dr. Strange is in either of those issues.

If you have any high grade books from Doug, you better be talking to me

This week: Claw the Unconquered #8 CGC 9.8

Never even heard of Okajima. Or Okijima, for that matter. "Okajima" refers to the family name of the young Japanese girl from California (who apparently spent time in an internment camp) who put together the collection. They were read carefully, wrapped in newspaper, piled in short stacks and stored in a shed until the 90s when they were discovered. From what I've seen, they're nice books Rob, have you ever heard/read who it was that wrote the family name on the books? Was it the little girl, or is this another case like the Larsons where a drugstore was pulling the books for a customer and writing the customer's name on each book? The handwriting is consistent on all the examples I've seen. I've often wondered if they were collected WHILE she was at an internment camp. Seems to me that a Japanese family in California would have been interred when this book was released, or were exceptions made for some families? Internment camps must have had a PX of some kind where items like comics could have been purchased. I've also often wondered what a little Japanese girl living in California thought of Schomburg's depiction of the Japanese on his covers. Okajima certificate of authenticity

Either two Oakland copies, or a bad assignation of one copy by CGC. More likely the former. Interesting, too, that the 9.4 copy has far superior cover registration, and so from the scans looks to be a superior copy to the 9.6. So then you think the rounded corner on the 9.4 copy is far superior to the sharp angled corners of the 9.6.

Pedigreecomics.com article about Pacific Coast books. Direct Website to Pacific Coast books.

At least I was able to pump the bid up.

Thanks for clearing that up. You know what I meant. You could either pay for one GA book or several BA books. If you chose the former, this thread would be a lot shorter.

The problem with Ga pedigree books is that they hardly come up for sale and when they do they go for high dollar amounts. So the SA and BA books are more likely to trade hands and are more affordable.