Your best comic book upgrades! 1 1

[ADAMANTIUM]

4 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

I don’t have pictures, but about 35 years back, I upgraded my Avengers #1 from an absolute rag to a nice, qualified vg. I say qualified not because it was slabbed so (didn’t exist then), but because it was a vg except for a two inch piece of scotch tape in the middle of the cover. I lived with it until a dealer friend strongly urged me to let a friend of Bob Beerbohm remove the tape for me.

The guy botched it so badly that I cannot quite describe it. He must have used half a bottle of white out. He redrew, free hand, with a sharpie; the date, price and number.

Anyway, my dealer friend felt so bad about it that he took the comic and replaced it with a strong, unqualified, unrestored vg+ Avengers 1. For free.

Wow there are others with similar stories as holly, hopefully if in that situation, either I as seller or the seller to me does the same

 

[Hollywood1892]

18 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:

I bought a copy.

Later, I found a better copy and bought that.

The end.

Captivating story.....

[Lazyboy]

5 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

23 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:

I bought a copy.

Later, I found a better copy and bought that.

The end.

Captivating story.....

Exactly. That will be the entirety of 99.99% of upgrade stories. I'm not sure what you're expecting here.

[Gotham Kid]

39 minutes ago, Bat34 said:

That top one looks familiar...👍

 

Yes it does and so glad a great boardie owns it !

Edited December 14, 2019 by Gotham Kid

[Gotham Kid]

35 minutes ago, Bat34 said:

mic dropped

[MR SigS]

1 hour ago, Lazyboy said:

I bought a copy.

Later, I found a better copy and bought that.

The end.

Yeah, pretty much this.

[Hollywood1892]

1 hour ago, Lazyboy said:

Exactly. That will be the entirety of 99.99% of upgrade stories. I'm not sure what you're expecting here.

The excitement of the hunt

The fun of meeting new people

Completing something 

[MR SigS]

11 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

The excitement of the hunt

The fun of meeting new people

Completing something 

I'm boring. I surf places that sell comics,  and when i see an upgrade, I buy it. I don't necessarily hunt. 

While I make friendly acquaintances, I don't really feel I'm "meeting" anyone. I've met only 2 people from here, but not over sales. 

It's great completing a goal, but not as exciting as it used to be. Sometimes it just feels like a high fever dropping a  degree before rising by 2. Trying to get my list checked off before some spec drives it to silly levels isn't my idea of a fun race. It was better when books got hot because of what happens in the book, not over a film that reinvents the character into something that barely resembles the character in the comic.

All this so my heirs can throw 'em on eBay 

[WolverineX]

Great thread

[SkintDoctor]

4 hours ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Can you guys talk about how your upgrades came about?

Could you talk about why?

[Hollywood1892]

39 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Great thread

Thanks

[Hollywood1892]

1 minute ago, BaronSamedi said:

Could you talk about why?

[lizards2]

14 hours ago, MR SigS said:

I'm boring. I surf places that sell comics,  and when i see an upgrade, I buy it. I don't necessarily hunt. 

While I make friendly acquaintances, I don't really feel I'm "meeting" anyone. I've met only 2 people from here, but not over sales. 

It's great completing a goal, but not as exciting as it used to be. Sometimes it just feels like a high fever dropping a  degree before rising by 2. Trying to get my list checked off before some spec drives it to silly levels isn't my idea of a fun race. It was better when books got hot because of what happens in the book, not over a film that reinvents the character into something that barely resembles the character in the comic.

All this so my heirs can throw 'em on eBay 

This.

[Get Marwood & I]

16 hours ago, Bat34 said:

I like that the colouring is slightly off register on the first copy too 

[batman_fan]

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[MR SigS]

On 12/13/2019 at 2:00 PM, Hollywood1892 said:

I have a few of those.

Great.

It didn't look like Krismusic caught that detail when he posted, so I was pointing it out, not questioning it. 

Edited December 15, 2019 by MR SigS

[1950's war comics]

i'm usually fine with any purchase i make to fill a slot ,  so no need to upgrade, sometimes i have a low grade hole filler and i think i should upgrade it .. but after awhile i get over it ....

[1950's war comics]

i had a PLOD in on of my CGC runs that bummed me out,,,, i was thinking i need to upgrade it ... but i got over it 

[theCapraAegagrus]

That's not really an "upgrade" when you didn't have a comic to begin with, but...

Upgraded all of my Death of Superman run to SS products signed by the artists.