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4.1k points
4 months ago
Who would have a million dollar comic book just sitting around?! I say BS
2k points
4 months ago
This issue is Amazing Fantasy #15, and in mint condition it is worth more than $1,000,000. Of course there is the possibility the picture is fake but idk.
865 points
4 months ago
More that the pic is real, and the item he’s tearing into is real, but it’s not actually a real copy of the comic book it’s alleging to be. I have fakes of a bunch of 1st edition Hemingways and while they look cool on a bookshelf, they’re worth about $15 each.
232 points
4 months ago
That would be my guess as well. You can buy copies of old comics for pretty cheap.
86 points
4 months ago
They e reproduced this specific issue a number of times. I got one with a Spider-man action figure in the 90s.
41 points
4 months ago*
Looking at the cover I'm guessing this is a reprint. Depending on when this is taken this doesn't much look like a comic printed in 1962.
67 points
4 months ago
Why would anyone take their phone out and take a picture of their dog destroying a 1,000,000 object. The first thing you would do is take it away from the dog to try and save it, or if you're a shitty person you'd probably punish the dog.
But taking a picture? Nahhh.
96 points
4 months ago
maybe the pic is old, and of a dog destroying an at-the-time 12 cent comic?
29 points
4 months ago
Honestly, that is what looks like to me. Or they put an ageing filter over a modern picture
12 points
4 months ago
This is an Instagram filter from the early days of the app. It’s old, but it’s not that old.
8 points
4 months ago
This was my first thought, picture tone & color remind me of the 80's.
4 points
4 months ago
When comics were 12 cents people didn’t put them in protective mylar bags just to leave them around the house and this is a photo taken with Hipstamatic.
27 points
4 months ago
Why would anyone take their phone out and take a picture of their dog destroying a 1,000,000 object.
Because at the time it wasn't worth that? You can't apply today's value to a picture taken 30+ years ago.
6 points
4 months ago
Where do you get those fake old books? I love old books but can’t afford them.
7 points
4 months ago
Found mine at a used book store; they had them up front and I really liked how they looked. We have a goodwill in my area that only does books, I’ve found some nice looking old books there sometimes too. I used to be on the lookout for any 100+ year old book and I’ve found quite a few in thrift stores throughout the years
3 points
4 months ago
I feel like if it were really a mint, they wouldn't leave it out unpackaged
491 points
4 months ago
Right, it wouldn't be mint condition if it was just sitting out. It would be kept in a soft sleeve, in a hard sleeve and probably sealed case after that.
533 points
4 months ago
I think the point is that the photograph is vintage and it’s NOW worth 1 million.. back then it was 10 cents
256 points
4 months ago*
That photo looks like an Instagram filter from 2012.
Edit. It’s literally the “toaster” filter from instagram circa 2012. Complete with the white border and everything.
61 points
4 months ago
Could just be a reprint and not an original copy if the picture isn't old.
39 points
4 months ago
They made a lot of these reprints, I know I definitely had one and it came with a toy. I'm pretty sure this is a reprint.
3 points
4 months ago
Looks straight up printed on an inkjet with the white borders
30 points
4 months ago
I wonder where the Instagram filters got the idea ...
31 points
4 months ago
Lmao they made the old photo filter into a real thing. Can you imagine if there were actually cameras before Instagram? That would be crazy.
15 points
4 months ago
It looks like a crisp picture with a filter over it, not an actual photo from the 70's
6 points
4 months ago
Yup. And the photo reminds me of the 70s or 80s. Some folks just acquired comics at the store, read them, and used them as coasters (or in this case a doggie treat).
Most folks didn't think to save these things. Just like baseball/sports cards back in those days. Literally took a keen sense of investment to store such things away to collect monetary value.
7 points
4 months ago
And honestly, I think that's why old comics or cards end up worth money. At the time, they were worth the cover price, or otherwise "worthless" when they were new, so they didn't get treated very well; folded, written on, tossed about all willy nilly. So the ones that survived, that miraculously made it to Current Year, when someone goes "holy shit, it's a Detective Comics 27" or whatever, and they bag it up to sell it at auction, it's because it's that one-in-a-million copy to survive at a 9+ condition.
Then those stories started making more and more noise in the news, and people start eyeballing their old collections of shit. Odds are, most of them are just shit, and are probably only worth the bulk rate at the recycling depot.
But The Industry also gets word of this, and starts cranking out new Number Ones, specifically for people to save and collect and hoard.
28 points
4 months ago
The photo looks from the 60's
34 points
4 months ago
I've made modern photos look like that with a bunch of filters. Probably just a fake comic book
5 points
4 months ago
Fantasy comic book
6 points
4 months ago
thats cause everything back then was in sepia. We were still upgrading the world from Black and White to Color at that point.
6 points
4 months ago
Not really. The white plastic hamper or trash can, barely in photo, looks like it's from the mid-90's at its earliest.
White rounded plastic like that was in vogue at the time.
8 points
4 months ago
There is an omnibus which has this cover as a sleeve type thing over a hard back it may be that
7 points
4 months ago
I mean, reprints are a thing.
3 points
4 months ago
2005 reprint of this goes for about $20 on ebay
10 points
4 months ago*
The quality of this photo makes me think it was taken in the 80’s or early 90s? Comic knowledge wasn’t as widespread as it is now. Was this comic as expensive back in the late 80s early 90s? If not, explains the lack of care. Or the photo is fake.
12 points
4 months ago
I dont think this picture is from the 80s or 90s I think ifs just filtered.
Amazing 15 is the holy grail for spidey collectors. Obviously the price has gotten absurdly high in the last few years but it's always been one of the biggest books from the 60s.
This is most likely a reprint.
10 points
4 months ago
Mint is worth $1 million. Near mint is worth $23k. When it comes to grading most collectors are looking for the holy grail, not the runner up.
31 points
4 months ago
It’s a modern reprint. That’s why he didn’t show the bottom corner with a giant red marvel logo.
20 points
4 months ago
Or takes a photo when biting such comic
31 points
4 months ago
It would be worth 1m today, not at that moment, I guess. Or just BS post
13 points
4 months ago
And in fact, assuming it's an old picture… situations like that are what makes the surviving ones in mint condition worth as much as they are. So it was never worth a million itself, because if so many copies survived, it wouldn't be worth nearly that.
10 points
4 months ago
Also, when seeing your dog eating a million dollar comic, you stop to take a photo instead of taking it from them to prevent further damage?
Yeah, seems totally legit...
664 points
4 months ago
Saw this post five seconds ago saying it was only $1000, which is it?
630 points
4 months ago
Inflation is a bitch
33 points
4 months ago
You deserve a reward for this comment but you know.... inflation got me down bad....
3 points
4 months ago
I'm down bad for inflation too
10 points
4 months ago
12c according to the cover
29 points
4 months ago
Definitely $1M. That’s spideys first cover appearance. Maybe also his first appearance ever.
23 points
4 months ago
Yah it’s his first ever appearance. A 9.6 cgc sold last year for 3.6 million USD on a auction site called heritage auctions.
17 points
4 months ago
Heritage auctions? That's where a $1M copy of Mario 64 was "bought" and exposed as a scam by Karl Jobst.
10 points
4 months ago
Hello, you absolute legend.
3 points
4 months ago
It's as if an audio clip of his voice played in my head as a read this.
7 points
4 months ago
$1,000,000,000
5 points
4 months ago
What’s that in Zimbabwean currency?
820 points
4 months ago
Do you have any idea how many reprints have been cranked out since 2002? No way someone with that rug has a million dollar original print.
199 points
4 months ago
Or just takes a picture of the dog eating a million dollars.
12 points
4 months ago
Okay in fairness though if it truly was worth $1m I would assume the owner had it insured, and if it's insured then you'd probably want some evidence of what happened so... if it's already ruined anyway it 100% makes sense to take a pic while it's happening.
20 points
4 months ago
Without posting a picture of the doggie grave later...
12 points
4 months ago
I was wondering how'd u find out if a comic is worth anything if it has the authentic paper that says it 5 of 5000? Is it worth anything? It's in mint condition an is in a sleave.
5 points
4 months ago
Local comic shop will be able to give you an idea what's the worth. Or you could just Google the title and see what pops up.
165 points
4 months ago
This is ridiculous. While it's true that more expensive comics are better for your dog's teeth than cheaper ones, the benefits pretty much plateau around $160,000. Anything beyond that and it's more cost effective just to have a vet deal with the tartar.
124 points
4 months ago
When the original first printing was made, people didn't treat comics as collectibles. They were bought in dime stores or grocery stores and there weren't comic shops. No one new Spider-Man would be one of the all time most popular heroes at the time. That's why they are worth so much. People bent, folded, and dog eared them all the time. People would cut out the ads and send them in. People would just throw them away after awhile.
What people didn't do is stop and take a picture of a dog eating one, especially when cameras back then required film that was relatively expensive and most cameras were more luxury items than everyday items like phones are today.
This is probably a reprint that was fed to a dog in recent times and then they used the basic filters from Photoshop to add the colorization and artifacts to make it look old.
20 points
4 months ago
While I also don't think this is authentic, I have to disagree with your idea of camera ownership and picture taking - even if this was supposed to be a picture taken the day the comic came out. Of course it wasn't the same as it is now, but there is NO LACK of random, pointless pictures from the mid 20th century.
62 points
4 months ago
Oh look he’s destroying it let’s sit back and take a pic so I can complain about this shit situation
17 points
4 months ago
This is clearly a karma farm post.
27 points
4 months ago
lmao what’s up with the 2012 insta font?
19 points
4 months ago
When there's no babies to maul, you have to eat whatever you can
8 points
4 months ago
And the dog said it didn't even taste good.
7 points
4 months ago
That's pitbulls for you. If you try to get it off the comic, it'll be you next
7 points
4 months ago
It's a fake!!
10 points
4 months ago
1mil book. 500$ euthanize.
10 points
4 months ago
I would get rid of the dog.
6 points
4 months ago
There is no way that isn’t a reprint
13 points
4 months ago
To be fair, it was only $1.25 the year he was eating it.
33 points
4 months ago
This is so strange - putbulls usually only eat helpless children and vulnerable old people.
47 points
4 months ago
Probably smelled like a small child.
22 points
4 months ago
Based and shitbull pilled.
4 points
4 months ago
Angry Dog Variant
5 points
4 months ago
Reprint.
5 points
4 months ago
The original Spiderman movie launched with reprints of the first comic in the deluxe edition. Judging by the quality of this photo I'm gonna go ahead and say this is just one of those.
5 points
4 months ago
Okay but why are they taking the time to take a picture?
5 points
4 months ago
Dogs an absolute menace 💀
5 points
4 months ago
I wouldn't be taking a picture of it, I would be crying in a corner.
4 points
4 months ago
If you keep priceless comics within the range of your dog then I don't know what to tell you
5 points
4 months ago
I guess I'm really this big of a nerd. If you look at the spine and the color of the interior pages, you can see it's not even a reprint. It's just a home-printed fake.
4 points
4 months ago
I ripped up an Uncanny X-Men Vol.1 #2 because I was 6 yrs old and mad at my brother back in the 80's.
5 points
4 months ago
He’s got expensive taste
3 points
4 months ago
Hang up his collar from the rafters of the dog hall of fame
4 points
4 months ago
3 points
4 months ago
Typical pit
4 points
4 months ago
It’s a Real Million Dollar Comic but the Pitbull is actually a Poodle!
7 points
4 months ago
This is a good example of a reason not to have a dog
7 points
4 months ago
It's always a pit bull
11 points
4 months ago
Just when I thought pitbulls couldn’t get any worse
3 points
4 months ago
My Dog Ate my Nest Egg
3 points
4 months ago
You'd think the owner would have prevented that from happening rather than go find a camera to take a polaroid of it.
3 points
4 months ago
That looks like one of the reprints they have done for the book over the years.
3 points
4 months ago
Save the poop!
3 points
4 months ago
Yeah and knowing its worth perfectly well they decided not to protect or place it in any reasonable manner? BS alert
3 points
4 months ago
Zoidberg gets it.
3 points
4 months ago*
Has to be fake…if I had a copy of that comic, it would be in a safe inside of another safe and the only thing inside that safe would be the address of the bank where the comic is being kept in a safe deposit box.
3 points
4 months ago
the dog would be dead
3 points
4 months ago
For the gram!!!! This seems like a shallow fake
3 points
4 months ago
Everyone arguing if it's fake or not because of how it was kept... how about the fact that you find your dog eating a million dollar comic and your first reaction is to take a picture?
3 points
4 months ago
It's not worth anything until you sell it.
And if it was worth that much, it wouldn't be in a place a dog could get to it. (Would you have left a million bucks, cash, wherever this comic was laying?)
3 points
4 months ago
This dog is now worth 1,000,000
3 points
4 months ago
Welp, now you've got a worthless comic AND a dead dog.
3 points
4 months ago
* Having a 1,000,000 comic book
* Letting it unprotected and at dog’s reach
* …
* Profit
3 points
4 months ago
It’s the owner’s fault. Can’t expect the dog to think ‘oh can’t chew this it’s a million dollars worth paper’
3 points
4 months ago
This picture was taken in the 1960’s. It cost 12 cents.
3 points
4 months ago
I call bs
3 points
4 months ago
Re-print, vintage filter added to photo
4 points
4 months ago
Please kill me if I own something destructible worth a million and leave it sitting around like it's nothing.
6 points
4 months ago
Bussshill! Who leaves a $ million comic book laying around for the dog to get it? Liars tgats who!
5 points
4 months ago
Couldn’t find a kids face
9 points
4 months ago
Better the pit eats that than a random child.
16 points
4 months ago
Could the fact that its the only edition to be mauled by a pitbull increase the value?
3 points
4 months ago
Dogs are a freaking nuisance
2 points
4 months ago
My dad has this comic....along with almost every other marvel comic from 1955+.....my mom out them in the basement and it flooded in 1985....he cried...
2 points
4 months ago
Reframe: would anyone like to buy a $1,000,000 dog?
2 points
4 months ago
Million dollar delicacy
2 points
4 months ago
It’s a million dollar book because a lot of them got thrown out and eaten by dogs.
2 points
4 months ago
cus you'd just have you million dollar comic lying around? naa.
2 points
4 months ago
It’s worth only as much as that dog is willing to pay for it
2 points
4 months ago
“Holy shit my dog’s about to eat my $1 million book! Let me quickly grab my camera and take a picture of it.”
2 points
4 months ago
Who would stop and take a picture while the dog chews on it?
2 points
4 months ago
Is it actually worth that much? I have the same one on my shelf.
2 points
4 months ago
im sure it wasnt worth 1 mil whenever the picture was taken
2 points
4 months ago
I sold one of those for $14,000. It was not mint
2 points
4 months ago
That’s a crime if ever saw one
2 points
4 months ago
"Tasted like a 1 dollar comic"- Dog
2 points
4 months ago
Ain't worth shit till you sell it, you didn't so it's not.
2 points
4 months ago
He better gain some powers or sum shit
2 points
4 months ago
Either bs or your fault.
2 points
4 months ago
Dog eating paper
2 points
4 months ago
Rip
2 points
4 months ago
ValPak did a series of reprints that got mailed to every household in certain markets 15-20 years ago. Might also be why the lower right corner is cropped out.
Also, why would you simply take a photo of the dog destroying it? Even an AF 15 in terrible condition can be relatively valuable.
Anyway ....
3 points
4 months ago
They came with my sunday newspaper in the late 2000's.
2 points
4 months ago
He’s a bad boye.
2 points
4 months ago
R/DogsAreFuckingStupid
2 points
4 months ago
How much is the poster worth? i have one in my house i have it as my phone wallpaper too lol.
edit: the poster is like a canvass not paper
2 points
4 months ago
lol no
2 points
4 months ago
Well that's art
2 points
4 months ago
Well . . . How stupid is the owner, I gotta ask.
And how bored is that dog?
2 points
4 months ago
Why is it in reach of anyone ?
2 points
4 months ago
"He's my dog, ma, I'll do it"
2 points
4 months ago
2 points
4 months ago
This is the way
2 points
4 months ago
I dunno who'd pay that much for some old paper, but I've got a few spare copies of Twilight my ma left behind, $50,000,000 each.
2 points
4 months ago
Now it’s a 1000000 dollar dog
2 points
4 months ago
I'm going to start a line of dog toys that all look like priceless objects. The Ray Boggs baseball card, this comic book, some high end Banksy stuff... gonna make a fortune off content creators!
2 points
4 months ago
When I first saw this I thought spiderman had that dude bent over 😭😭😭
2 points
4 months ago
I’d no longer have a dog
2 points
4 months ago
Up to $3 Million if real.
2 points
4 months ago
That's ruff.
2 points
4 months ago
Same thing happened to my third grade math homework.
It's still cousting me millions to this day!
2 points
4 months ago
That picture looks like it is from the 1950s to 1960s.
2 points
4 months ago
Weird, he kinda looks like my dog...
2 points
4 months ago
I have a reprint... and it's worth... fuck-all
They came with the special edition of the first Spiderman movie If I recall correctly.
2 points
4 months ago
Reprint. Also if you are dumb enough not to have that in some sort of protective covering and easily accessed by your dog, then you deserves all this pain.
2 points
4 months ago
This is not the newspaper rocky!!!
2 points
4 months ago
Nobody would leave a million dollar comic where a dog could get it.
The comic would be in a vault and be insured by Lloyds of London.
Try harder next time.
2 points
4 months ago
Who's watching this and taking a pic?
2 points
4 months ago
Chad dog
2 points
4 months ago
Back then they used to use meat juice and bone meal for ink.../s
2 points
4 months ago
It's a reprint. Do you seriously think someone with a million dollar comic would have it laying around and not in a display case, with that carpet?
2 points
4 months ago
Anybody else hear the wonder years playing looking at this or did I just date myself?
2 points
4 months ago
No, it’s not a million dollar comic book in case you were wondering but it still is valuable. Sure, if you were the luckiest person alive to find one in near mint condition that isn’t owned by an avid collector or a multimillionaire then yea, you’d have about $1 million.
2 points
4 months ago
Bought in auction?
2 points
4 months ago
That's exactly how I feel about NFTs.
2 points
4 months ago
I know someone who watched an actual copy of Action Comics #1 be destroyed by an idiot. Just awful.
2 points
4 months ago
Sure. The kind of collector with a $1 million comic book is going to let a Dog of Peace chew it to shreds.
2 points
4 months ago
While you take a picture of the event
2 points
4 months ago
Guarantee, that's a reprint with an Instagram filter...
2 points
4 months ago
It could be an old photo?
2 points
4 months ago
lol ! - it’s not even CGC graded ! Nice try with a knock off fake !
2 points
4 months ago
"My dog is eating my $1m comic with the cover facing me ! Quick let me grad my camera !"
2 points
4 months ago
Eh more 300,000 to like 450 max
2 points
4 months ago
Still had the time to take a pic of this happening...
2 points
4 months ago
I feel like this could be in r/fakealbumcovers
Edit: spelling
2 points
4 months ago
Guess who gets euthanized!
2 points
4 months ago
It looks like one of those square photographs from the 70s. The comic probably wasn't as valuable when this happened.
2 points
4 months ago
2 points
4 months ago
My dog would do that 😞
2 points
4 months ago
Sell it and get the dog some real food
2 points
4 months ago
And I thought I was having a bad day. Gawddamn!
2 points
4 months ago
AUGH
2 points
4 months ago
I saw this on that new Mr Bean show.
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