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Im sure some would, but the fact that doing so would require more intervention than just the autorelist function would probably limit the number of sellers who use the "trick" and even then it would still parse out a ton of listings that never get adjusted (I follow one item that has had it's price adjusted every time it is relisted, down $20, up $15, $down $50, up $70, never gets to my "buy it" price, but it does keep me paying attention, and the guy has to actually do something.

but of those 7000 only about 1300 have a bid, which is how I tell if it's a real auction or not... plenty of sellers list, and relist, and relist their "auction" at a full BIN price (I assume there's some benefit to listing it this way)... I wish there was a way to parse out new listings vs re-listings (and re-listings at same price vs re-listings at new price).

what the heck is going on here... guy lists a low grade GA Cap with an image. Someone calls out that it looks like there's something weird going on (" What's going on the yellow on the "N" and some of the other letters in the title. Is that color touch on the cover or a yellow block added to the pic?") and he's all like "oh good catch" and says that "It was some lettering that was cut out and placed on top. I just removed it, I'll post a new photo shortly of what is underneath." But when I look at the original post it doesnt look like lettering placed over the top, it looks like someone did a bad MS Paint job on covering up the writing and paper loss in those letters, and then he "removed it" (the lettering I guess" and then posted a new photo, which is the same photo, just pre-doctoring or whatever... Plus he hasnt mentioned the other tape on the cover (just the tape down the length of the spine)... the seller isn't new (since 2013) but man this particular listing seems very odd at the least (and to further complicate things he leaves the thread an hour later after posting more books and says that he just found out his grandmother was "not making it out of surgery") I dont know what to make of this...

No offense but this book needs some more explanation.... I know it's only a 1.5 but I see.... ...a piece of vertical tap at the R in the masthead "America" that goes down to cap's head and goes up through the T in captain Any other non obvious things about the condition of the book? And I'm still confused about the original image that you said had "pieces" covering the yellow loss and writing in the "ain" of Captain and in multiple spots on the last A in America? Cause the image doesn't look like paper pieces it looks like some used paint or some other basic drawing program to add some color blocks to the image. So were there physical pieces of paper covering those spots? How was it attached?

If you want to sell here you can mosey over to https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/63-comics-market-forum-only-selling-area/ and sell the books in the marketplace (just take a minute to read the selling rules first to make sure your post follows all the standards and doesnt get deleted) If you are really just looking for pricing help, and not fishing for sales/offers I can say this: 1. there are people on here who offer to do collection assessments for a fee, since time is money and expertise is money, and so on.. .Not sure how big your whole collection is. 2. Your best approach for pricing is to look at SOLD listings on eBay. Most of your stuff should show results, so it's a good way to see what the market is willing to pay for a book. To look at completed sales just do a regular search on eBay and then click on the "advanced" button next to the search button and scroll down and check the box for SOLD listings.

agreed! There's a nice little run of Science Comics, and Startling, and lots of stuff... not high grade, but books that when they come up in ANY grade are worth paying attention to...

*cough* Startling 49 in 9.0 *cough*

wow... now there's a question.... first thing I would think to look at are the Fiction House books, but then I rememeberd Blue Beetle #54 (the lingerie mirror cover) and Phantom Lady #17 AND 23, and there's also Strange Worlds #5 (if you prefer your GGA sci-fi)

My old copy! Which came from cheetah before that I think... Or maybe Gator.... Its was years ago... Glad its back in boardie hands!

in terms of post camp books, they are still a great pedigree in my mind. Late 40s-early 50s, high grade, lots of all white pages, books that anyone would be happy to own. I've had a few, but when I was between jobs for an extended period of time I sold the non-camp Okajimas (one of which is closing on ComicConnect right now for at least twice what I sold it for!) And the post camp books still have noticible marks (date stamps, distributor marks) that give away its pedigree, which is always one of my favorite parts of a pedigree....

I always forget about Maggie! And you are right, the fact that there are any books from the camp era is astonishing.... I should stop typing before i price myself completely out of the market!

First thanks for the compliment. It is easily the best pedigree story, so it is easy to write about it, and to write about it passionately. And you are right it is an achingly sad story. Both in the wide context of the travesty of the internment camps, and the reality of one part of persons life, which we all happen to connect with (collecting comics) and how it was profoundly affected. The idea of. holding a little artifact from that story is profound.

Walclark is correct.The Denver ped wa amassed by a woman who owned a news stand.

Hey Foley, I hope you go back and read the thread it's a nice mix of investigation, people sharing their books and documentation of Okajima pedigree (at least for the boards here). The Okajima pedigree starts in 1943 and stretches into the 50s. The pedigree spans three parts of the original owners life. First the time when she was interned in a camp due to her Japanese heritage and WWII. In '44 she notated all of her books with her name (signed at the top of the cover) the date she bought the book, and with a number-letter code (2K, or 3F, etc). After release from camp she continued collecting but changed her notations, going away from the signature and the date and code and instead there's a period with distributor marks in pencil, and a period with inked date stamps (whether these were by her or bathe news stand I'm not sure). The camp books refer to those books from 43-44 that show the camp style markings (there's some variation at the beginning in 43 andlate in 44 where they might not have the signature, or maybe no code) the coding was sequential. I assume it started with 1A then went to 1B the next time she bought books, then 1C. After 1Z she went to 2A and so on. I've seen two books from the "1" code and only a dozen of the "2" code books. All of this adds to the story. Which is part of what makes the pedigree, and especially they camp years so special. She signed her name, to claim ownership of these books because keeping possessions in camp was hard. Guards tossed the housing, confiscated and sometimes just stole things from the interred people. Did she have a hiding place for her Books? Did she sign her very Japanese name so the ownership would be obvious if a soldier took them? I wonder about her collection that she lost. The pedigree starts in 43 when she was probably early 20s. She surely collected comics when she was younger right? Most families were taken suddenly to internment camps and people only had a few minutes to pack a suitcase. Her comics left behind, likely tossed by the landlord of their house. What did that collection look like? Was there a Captain America 1? It's gone. But what we have in this pedigree of a collector who, when life was at its worst, she kept reading and collecting. It represents that escape that comics are for so many of us, and it also represents normalcy. Even in this unjust camp she was still able to walk to the Px on the baseband using the money she probably earned working in the camp and she would still buy comics. You can look at the purchase dates she wrote on them. Some trips to buy were just a few days apart, this was a passion for her. In the end pedigrees have value either because of the collector or because of the collection. Most are because the collection is vast, or high grade, or both (Looking at you Church), but this collection is about the collector, and what the collection represents, and no part of it More so than those books she held tight to from '43-44 when the world probably made the least sense, and collecting gave her some respite.

You are right, it is an "O". Which lines up with the dates and the code. The original Barr inventory note is wrong. Thanks for taking the picture

Yep. And we even had Alan drop by and share some of his interactins with the family when he was doing his own research years ago when he bought part of the collection.

scarcity is really affecting the market. The Target on eBay and the one on CLink are the first two camp books I've seen on the open market in a while, maybe one last year?

So a 7.0 Okajima #41 goes for $6300 vs a 9.0 going for $3800 back in 2012.... An 8.0 of #40 went for $2900, so a regular A 7.5 of #39 went for $2500 So yeah it looks like a 7.0 on the market would go for maybe a little north of $2k, and the Okajima went for triple market (of a similarly graded book), which seems to fall in line with the 2-5x multiplier for books vs non ped versions (outliers exist of course) Considering that target went for over $400 in the open market (where all the value is in the pedigree, considering a raw copy of that book can be had for cheap), that's a pretty strong established "floor"for a camp book.

started to expand from my Sci-FI focus... APC 33 and Intimate Confessions 1, must be something about blondes in red...

Won this one last night, it's been on my want list for so long, but man they dont come up often! Roughest of rough shape (spine split, cover detached, but all pages there)

Nice! I totally missed this auction. Rare to see an Okajima in an open ebay auction.. especially a camp book!

Thanks for sharing this! We didn't have any record of the cover notations on this issue! (We knew it existed in the pedigree, but had not seen images to get the date and code). Can you tell us what the alpha numeric code is on the book? It looks like 3D, but I wanted to check. I'll update the camp census to include the notes All-American Comics #59 "Okajima""5-9-44" "3D"

210 Is just so dynamic and fluid (which is funny since it's underwater) I feel like colorwise it's a little washed out (hah!) and nothing pops in terms of the colors, but the action and motion cant be denied...

And I've expressed my reservations about EC books (Rick that WS20 is in GREAT shape with some super deep colors!) Letting the title consume 40% of the comic cover is a disgrace considering the quality of artists they had drawing those covers! Thus no EC books in my collection so far... (though from time to time I do get tempted...

Rick, I've always been partial to FF213, it just feels a little Kirby tech, or Woods maybe along with the Frazetta sweetness... and some awesome composition elements... (followed by 210 and 214, though I think 214 suffers from the scale of that giant red planet)