I only have one Okajima....not from the Camp period. The handwritten arrival date looks to have a similar handwriting style as the earlier books. I'm wondering if the original owner continued to purchase books from the SAME source after reintegration to regular society ? GOD BLESS...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)
yes, but your non-camp o'jima is THUN'DA 1!!!!!!!!! that will make up for a lot of inadequate coding.
.... I Frazetta, and with the back story of this pedigree, it may very well be my favorite book that I own. GOD BLESS...
#5592701 - 04/11/1201:59 PMRe: post your internment camp-coded okajima books
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I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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But in the case of these books the pedigree is something that I think would interest the average person a great deal. It's ironic enough that any Japanese-American kid would read and collect American comics with costumed heroes mowing down racially-depicted Imperial Japanese soldiers. But to collect them even while you're interned in a camp? Fascinating.
@bluechip: That’s precisely what I was thinking about, and you put it down perfectly. :-) Well, you shouldn’t be so surprised, anyway. We have proof that not only Benito Mussolini’s sons were avid readers of syndicated comic strips (one of the reasons for which the humorous or Disney ones weren’t "prosecuted" and allowed to continue publications more than the others on italian journals), but that the Duce himself used to sing-along some Disney films tunes ("Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", for example).
One of the most fascinating things were the problems strips like Mandrake or Tim Tyler's Luck encountered as their characters started to battle nazism or the Axis powers. We reached the absurd in a story which was re-written in reverse to portray Mandrake – serving the Axis – called in Berlin to locate allied spies.
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vaillant, cgc doesn't recognize harold's books as a pedigree, but we geeks sure do like them.
I see. Well, I’m not particularly interested in CGC books, but I value the pedigree concept. Would love to find an affordable super-hero themed Okajima book. BTW, my Harold pedigreed Daredevil Comics is issue 2.
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harold liked lev gleason books---there are several harold silver streak's, and i'm happy to have a few of myself.
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#5592883 - 04/11/1203:20 PMRe: post your internment camp-coded okajima books
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vaillantvaillant
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harold liked lev gleason books---there are several harold silver streak's, and i'm happy to have a few of myself.
I think I’ve seen yours, they are awesome (a SS #6, right?), but they are too costly for me. Trying not to stray away too much from the topic you started, I am wondering if the Okajima girl had a copy of Daredevil Comics #10: I am still missing it, and I want hers!
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I don't own this one anymore, but it's a good one...
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The owner of the books was interred at a Japanese internment camp during WW2. She continued to collect after the war, so some books were purchased at the camp, while later ones were not.
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Originally Posted By: nearmint
I don't own this one anymore, but it's a good one...
it's great! and somewhere out there is a mystery comics 2, that i wanted very badly when it sold a few years ago. it went crazy tho', and i've never seen it offered since [i broke my run up since then, and a bidding frenzy these days would have to happen without my participation].
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#5593369 - 04/11/1206:36 PMRe: post your internment camp-coded okajima books
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Bid more or post more... tough one...
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Again, so "camp code" just refers to the date?
More of those books might have been purchased in an internment camp than you think, given that depending on what camp she was in she might not have been released until 1946. For example, Tule Lake, where this photo was taken, did not close until March 1946:
Frazetta, and with the back story of this pedigree, it may very well be my favorite book that I own. GOD BLESS...
