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Okajima pedigree
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miraclemet

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3 hours ago, Hoarder said:

Hi all,  I won this one.  Very excited.  I love these camp-era books.  I think it is an amazing pedigree and find the story behind them incredibly poignant.

Congrats!

It's a very cool book for sure. It's one of the most "flourish" examples of her signature (look at how big she goes with the "k"!)

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4 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Surprised that it didn't go even higher.  Did the seller emphasize that it was the Okajima copy?

6.5x the price of a nonpedigree copy, seems within recent performance  range for the lower grade copies or the copies with just ok subject material on the cover. A more visual WWII battle scene and this would have sold for more like 10x (Like the Fightin' Yank did on Ha recently.)

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4 hours ago, Hoarder said:

Hi all,  I won this one.  Very excited.  I love these camp-era books.  I think it is an amazing pedigree and find the story behind them incredibly poignant.

Nice win:) I was one of the underbidders as well.  I think I was high bidder for most of the week, then I had company and got distracted, so I'm glad a boarder won it.

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I think the market seems to have settled on... 

Mid-grade camp era books: 5-7x market for non-ped copy (example the Captain Midnight)

High grade, classic cover, or military cover camp era books: 10x market for non-ped copy (example Yank on HA) 

Non-camp era books: 2x market for non-ped copy (but this can swell to 4x market if the market has been okajima dry for a while) (example Firehair on CC a few months back)

 

I have to go back and look to see if my sense lines up with more of the recent past results...

(why did I star this thread if I wanted to collect these books!?!?!? I should have kept my darn mouth shut... would have saved some money and had more sweet Okajimas...)

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3 hours ago, miraclemet said:

I think the market seems to have settled on... 

Mid-grade camp era books: 5-7x market for non-ped copy (example the Captain Midnight)

High grade, classic cover, or military cover camp era books: 10x market for non-ped copy (example Yank on HA) 

Non-camp era books: 2x market for non-ped copy (but this can swell to 4x market if the market has been okajima dry for a while) (example Firehair on CC a few months back)

 

I have to go back and look to see if my sense lines up with more of the recent past results...

(why did I star this thread if I wanted to collect these books!?!?!? I should have kept my darn mouth shut... would have saved some money and had more sweet Okajimas...)

I'm glad you did, I never would have known about these wonderful books!  I've got two in my collection now (1 camp, 1 post camp), and hope to add many more. (thumbsu

Congrats @Hoarder on a great example!

 

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On 7/9/2017 at 11:19 PM, Hoarder said:

Hi all,  I won this one.  Very excited.  I love these camp-era books.  I think it is an amazing pedigree and find the story behind them incredibly poignant.

Congrats I was an underbidder bidding from the phone that told me I was the top bidder. 

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15 hours ago, deadleg said:

This one came in the mail today. Glad to finally own another Okajima and it's another camp book for my collection. 

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Great one! Not many Action comics in her collection, so that's a good one. Can you look and share what the code is written on the upper right side of the cover is? It looks like a "k" but I can't tell if it's 2k or 3k....

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57 minutes ago, miraclemet said:

Great one! Not many Action comics in her collection, so that's a good one. Can you look and share what the code is written on the upper right side of the cover is? It looks like a "k" but I can't tell if it's 2k or 3k....

5-24-44 and the code is 3R

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4 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

http://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2017sept%26session%3D2%26pg%3D4%23Item_1200052&id=1200052&itemType=0

I saw that one. I think I'm gonna have to pass on this one sadly :sorry:. There's just so many other books I want from Comiclink's upcoming September Focused auction. I am curious to see where this one ends. 

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36 minutes ago, miraclemet said:

Yonkers.

 

Overstreet value for the book around $125...final hammer for the camp Oklahoma... $1150.

Anyone here win it? The cool things out this book (besides the camp per), it was bought on leap year day, Feb 29th 1944.

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Interested in who won it as well, my last bid was 1010. 

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