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Love the Sgt. Fury #103. Great cover!

Very cool!

I hear Verzyl reads his Timelys in the bath tub...

Nice pick up, Eric. Lord knows I was tempted several times to pull the trigger and buy it from Jeff. It's definitely a beauty, much nicer than the 9.4 copy that is up on Heritage. I'll miss it! Bought it, along with #10, from Joe V. many years ago.

Nedor also enlisted early in the war effort. As early as July of 1940, Doc Strange can be seen on the cover of Thrilling Comics #6 stopping a torpedo fired from a non-descript ship off in the distance. A month later in Startling Comics #2, Captain Future stops two non-descript airmen from straifing a farm community. Swastikas begin to appear on the cover of Thrilling Comics #10, and then again in #11 when Doc Strange fights the Nazis right in the trenches in an issue dated a full year before Pearl Harbor...

Glad you like it, Eric. It's a great book! Jeff P.S. The book likes to be talked to. Once a day, you might want to compliment it's white pages, it's razor sharp corners. Maybe let it watch TV with you.

Um...I know I'm the Nedor guy, but I succumbed to temptation and bought a Timely from a board member. Now I find myself searching Metro, PGCMint, and Heritage for others. West, is there a So Cal support group I can join for this, before it gets out of hand? .

Sheesh. That book is just disgusting. Rarehighgrade, where'd you find the time machine?

I've never seen that cover before. I've just started buying a few Marvels on cover appeal alone, and that one is definitely going on my list. Amazing copy!

DL: Thanks for the link. That's a great thread. Although, I'm still curious whether the books collected during the war years were collected while the little girl was in an internment camp. Skybolt: I sold the Supes #29 for two reasons. I'm complete on Supes #10-#20, and this was my only issue outside of that range. I tend to be more partial to the Action war covers because they have...well...more "action" in them. Eventually, I'll probably pick up a Supes #23(great cover), but otherwise, my intention is to work backwards from 10-20, not forwards. The other reason is because Metro got in a Fighting Yank #10 CGC 9.0 that I've wanted for A LONG time. One of my favorite Schomburg covers. If you'd like to take a look, I posted it in both the "Have a Cigar" thread here in General, and in "Jeff's Nedors on Parade" in the Golden Age forum.

Here's another Okajima that I sold on Comiclink just this week...

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.

Just got this from Metro. It's an upgrade from a 4.5 non-pedigree copy that I purchased last year...

Have you called for any grades, or do you like the surprise of opening the box?

Not a dream! Not an illusion! Not an imaginary story! I actually bought a Marvel book. Really liked the composition of the cover...the drama in the foreground and the action in the background. And it's a Western Penn...

Kudos to Donut for 21 Bolland Cover Wonder Womans, leaving me only 6 to find to complete the Bolland run from 63-99. Thanks!

Thanks! That's what I call service!

Maybe my link could go to my website rather than my "eBay items for sale" page? I don't list on eBay very often, and when I do, there is a link on my site to those auctions. I think you suggested this option when I recommended a third column with forum member's websites. This was a great idea, by the way. I hope Arch pins it eventually.

Not a pedigree.

I think we have a winner.

Depends. What does a "Green Ghost" game go for nowadays? Looks like about $50-$60 on eBay. And to be honest, if the comic had survived, it would have been VG at best by now, and worth maybe a buck. So...

I haven't done damage to one of my comics myself. Here's as close as I come... The Summer of '75. I lent my best friend my brand new copy of Richie Rich Gold & Silver #1. The next day I accidently broke his Green Ghost game. He got back at me by ripping the Richie Rich into tiny pieces and depositing them in my mailbox. A few weeks ago, a 9.8 copy sold on eBay for over $500. Should I bill him?