Most valuable comic you have damaged

[TSwift25]

An Avengers 4

[Mephisto]

I don't know if everyone will consider it damage but after winning the lotto, I bought the Mile High Copy of Action Comics 1 from The Dentist and had it signed for signature series by Stan Lee.

[Mayor006]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Right now I'm leaning more to the laugh...

 

[Gatsby77]

These are relatively minor, but smart nonetheless:

 

Tape pull, front cover a VG/F Hulk # 104 that I'd just paid $3.50 for.

 

Paid $40 for New Mutants 87 back when it was white hot, took it home and read it, thus taking it from a 9.6 down to a 9.0/9.2 due to some dumb color-breaking spine stress.

 

And the only one that really hurts:

 

Back cover tape pull on a VG+ copy of Exciting Comics # 30 that I'd paid $275 for. At the time there was only one copy on the CGC census. Now there are three.

[chunkybutt]

When my best friend moved away. We decided to trade our most valuable comic to each other and sign them. Don't ask why, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

So there is an X-Men 94 in about 8.0 -9.0 condition with my name on the front.

He gave me an ASM 200 I think. I do not have the book any longer.

[Whizzer]

Avengers 1. Tape pull. Nuff said.

[paperheart]

Iron Man #1 - tape pull BC. Happened 30 years ago so i don't know if the book was that valuable then

[Tsimanga]

 

A few years ago I went on a hoarding spree collecting Iron man #97's at comic shops. I found one tucked in a long box, removed it from the bag to check it out. It was about a 9.4.. really nice and only ten bucks. When I went to put it back in... tape grabbed the cover and rip... tape pull.

 

I felt bad and bought it anyways. Not very valuable, but that's all I can think of.

[gadzukes]

1) In the 1970's I clipped out at least 100 of the "puzzle" versions of "Marvel Value Stamps" because I was a sucker for puzzles and for some reason I had the impression they were valuable.

 

2) About 10 years ago I was selling a raw high grade FF 48 on Ebay. I set the comic on a cushion on the couch and went to get my camera in the other room. When I came back I just about had a heart attack when I saw my Great Dane was laying on the couch with the comic underneath him. I shoo'ed him off the couch and what was left was a very low grade FF 48. His first step onto the couch was right into the comic actually shredding the cover.

 

3) 6 months ago I found someone on Craigslist who had a high grade Strange Tales 110. We met up for the sale. When she handed me the comic it had a huge tape pull on the front cover. She told me it had happened a minute before I pulled up in my car when the tape from the comic bag got stuck on the comic. Arrrgh!

[John Grumbledook]

Last day of school in Junior High I accidentally threw away a folder that I had FF 16 and Watchmen #1 in. That ant man cover was one of my favorite all times too.

 

[Kevin.J]

I have done a few tape pulls in my time and I remember me and a friend shooting a Showcase #43 ( Dr No ) with his air rifle, his book not mine.

But the worst for me was leaving my just bought very high grade, ASM #100 on the arm of the chair while I ate my dinner only to find it gone when I went back in the room, found it in the garden shredded by my dog.

Here is my ASM #17, still don't know who did this but it was probably my sister even though she still denies it.

 

[Anfield Fox]

Here is my ASM #17, still don't know who did this but it was probably my sister even though she still denies it.

 

 

[Kevin.J]

Here is my ASM #17, still don't know who did this but it was probably my sister even though she still denies it.

 

 

 

Oh yeah, thanks for the sympathy Matt.

[Anfield Fox]

Sorry it's just hilarious!

 

You could get a SS slab and have Stan Lee to draw a some cockroaches on it

 

[MR SigS]

Tape pull on the front of an ASM #27

 

My dad cut up either a copy of Action Comics #1 or Superman #1 when he a kid (he just remembers it was with Supes and was issue #1) so he could pin the art on his wall

[oakman29]

When I was around 5 I ripped an AF 15 and several other ASMs to shreds.

[MR SigS]

Yours?

[oakman29]

Yours?

No my big brothers. I got beat up alot after that.

[Unca Ben]

I still have a Marvel Comics Scrapbook I made when I was in sixth grade.

 

While I enjoy looking through it, I cringe when I see all the books I cut up to create the book.

Cap 100, Capt Marvel 1, FF 25, ASM 65, Avengers 56 and Annuals 1 and 2, Astonish 63, Spectacular Spider-Man magazine 1, and dozens more.

 

Even though they were all doubles, I must have chose the nicer issue to destroy since I notice the covers are in great shape, no bends or creases, nice corners, etc.

 

Nice scrapbook, though.

 

 

[WEBHEAD]

Tape pull when I bought a large group of key books (avg 1 and 4, st 110, ff 48, xmen 1, asm 1, ff 4 etc) when I was opening a 6.0 ff 5 the tape caught. The owner screwed up by not using removable tape, and I lost the T in the fantastic four. I sent it in several years back got a 4.5 grade, but it still makes me sick that I had a 6.0