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"Seizing moment like catching fish with bare hands: requires swift action, keen perception, and bit of luck.

But just as the fish slips through the fingers of the unprepared, so too does opportunity slip away from those who hesitate."

Happy T-minus one day to the 80th year anniversary of the signature on this this book.

Fun fact, there are only 112 known "camp era" signed Okajimas, and only 6 of those are known to be at 9.2 or better.

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Whew, what a read.  4 hrs later I'm thinking what a sad, fubar situation.  Strangely enough reminded me a bit of the movie House of Sand and Fog (each bad decision just keeps incrementally leading to worse and worse outcomes) with a bunch of SBF FTX sprinkled in, all while set in comic book land.  I had to go stream watch several episodes of Comic Book Men to regain my faith in humanity again.  Really hope this situation turns itself around for all parties.

....must....resist.....temptation....

On 3/31/2024 at 9:31 AM, D84 said:

My favorite from my collection. The origin of Batman.

 

A Daisy file copy to boot!

Nice books, some of my favs being posted.

On 3/30/2024 at 8:38 AM, miraclemet said:

Would this golden age book get a restored label due to the amateur application of glue at some point in its life? The glue was used to help keep the book attached to the cover since it was pulling away from the lone staple.

 

 

I would say yes.

On 3/1/2024 at 4:52 PM, Action252Kid said:

Not sure if this one is helpful at all to the mystery, but I thought this was a cool one worth sharing that I just came across.  Signed on the front like usual, and also signed (larger) on the back cover too.

 

 

Saw that too...Wink!

On 6/6/2023 at 6:51 PM, CitrusZ28 said:

I too have wondered about the Eldon pedigree, I din't realize that there were possibly 2 different Eldons involved but I was curious as to why some were signed in cursive and some signed with block letters. I bought this 3 Batman books back in 1984 out of an ad in The Comic Buyers Guide from a man named Charles Sawyer who was located in Boulder CO. I still have the box they were shipped in and had a mailing label with "Church" on it which brings to mind the famous Mile High Collection, not that these books were part of that collection but I wonder if there is some connection there. Sorry about the glare on the pictures, on the Batman #9 you can barely see the signature in cursive on the N in Batman.

 

 

 

 

 

That's a great share, one has ELdon and one the Eldon cursive - from the same sale back in the day...  Seems move evidence blocky and cursive Eldon are one and the same (Eldon M. Tuffentsamer)

On 3/2/2024 at 1:03 PM, Pantodude said:

Right about belated CGC correction!  The penmanship angle was my thoughts based on my childhood setting when one's penmanship was more of a substantive thing than today, the result of it being a required class (!) during early years of schooling and less likely to change.  But you make good points.  I was focusing on just the 5 characters in Eldon.  Also, even if two different people signed the script and block versions, that does not mean those books are not properly part of the same pedigree if a parent /relative or book seller signed Tuffy's books when he could not.  Interesting stuff!  

I believe the second Eldon variant signature is “block printed style” with the name ELDON.  This had potentially been associated to collector/artist Eldon Dedini.  However, a strong argument can be made    that both the cursive and block “Eldon” styles being Eldon M. Tuffentsamer.  For example, there is a certified USA #3 with block letters and USA #4 with cursive, both higher grade. Collectors liked to stick with consecutive numbers (runs) of their favorite titles and what are the odds of two different comic signing Eldon’s having saved one high grade copy of each in the series?

On 2/19/2024 at 11:37 AM, TheComicsPreacher said:

Take it!!!!

On 2/19/2024 at 10:33 AM, goldust40 said:

Take

Captain America Comics #41 - I'd say its a 4.5, but centerfold is married.  Cover full attached, $1,400  SOLD

Fight Comics #35 - classic topless woman cover, GCG 2.5  $390  SOLD

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So interesting, I love the research.  I do wonder about the code, that was very neat how it lined up with the alpha letters between the days.  The Okajima signature is still by the same hand/pen as the code.  I think it is the other Okajima family as reasoned in the video, and they still signed their own copies as so many people commonly did back in the day.  Otherwise, they would have had to work in the distribution center/store I assume?

>brittle

Boom?!  Great research and theory, touching the open questions.  How did we all miss this [(including 50 objects)?  I feel like @Karen's Pages may have done it!  Having studied this to some length myself and pondered the dates and Chicago move I was perplexed.  This seems to explain it. Would like to understand more the stamped copies post sig/numbers.  The definitive closure to this would be the household address of the original estate sale and owner name, I presume.

On 10/21/2022 at 6:12 PM, szav said:

No votes for Police Comics #1?  Maybe it’s been trending upward too much recently to call undervalued any longer.  It is sadly officially on the I’ll never get one list now.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/police-comics-1-quality-1941-cgc-vg-40-white-pages/a/7335-88095.s?type=bidnotice-dailystatus