The Hunt for the Most Worthless Comic

[@AdahnFlorence]

Funny thing is that Drake could still auction it even as a joke and no doubt he could find a market for people going after "the lowest grades CGC comic."

[@nathanl8622]

And it had an entire video made around it--a fan of the channel might buy it for a few bucks just for the novelty.

[@Wannapineappl3]

Sounds like a great moment to auction for charity or something

[@AdahnFlorence]

I'm definitely getting Semi-Nukie vibes from this. It would be funny if we started making it a joke to send him this particular comic.

[@ComicDrake]

I tried to get Whatnot onboard to sponsor a charity auction for this, but no dice. 😭 Maybe in the future, I'll do a big charity thing and keep that as a giveaway.

[@AdahnFlorence]

@@ComicDrake That would've been amazing

[@justopher8487]

The fact that Drake said "no free feet pics" implies that there's a paid version of this video with no blur on the feet.

[@ComicDrake]

I do need to pay my rent this week 🤔

[@PhsycoRed]

Patreon lol ​@JazelWaseem

[@Therese504]

​@@ComicDrakeSounds like you need to get more $ from Manta Sleep!

[@blackphoenix77]

I'd pay to see 😉

[@Therese504]

@@blackphoenix77 NGL same

[@ComicTropes]

This is a hilarious topic idea that I wish I'd thought up.

[@ComicDrake]

That's high praise, Chris! Thank you! I've been wanting to do this for about five years, but the timing never worked out to get done by April 1st. 😂

[@kingcheerio8558]

When is the Tropes/Drake collab video discussing queer coding in the silver age?

[@73rexben]

Cool to of my favorite KZbinrs

[@1978stevil]

Comic tropes making comments

[@Vonkunken]

Least valuable will always be a paradox, because the moment something becomes the least valuable, it gains value for that trait.

[@grantbaugh2773]

I'm thinking of that copy of the green goblin's first appearance where an angry girlfriend wrote all over it. It ended up becoming legendary BECAUSE of the damage to the book

[@altalia07]

@@grantbaugh2773🤣🤣

[@TK17000]

The actual least valuable comic is likely in a landfill somewhere.

[@thebigdork8030]

The Paradox of the Most Mid.

[@pedrohdalla]

Not always, sometimes the supply is just too high

[@charchar635]

I'm calling it now whatever comic he shows will have a slight boost in value after this video, leading it to stop being the least valuable

[@lucjan1897]

this means this can become a long running series

[@wildste]

This is true, Linkara once did a video on his favourite comic, JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative, and its seen an increase in purchases and he often gets asked to sign copies of it.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

They may be worthless, but I still felt bad for the issues being torn and destroyed.

[@sawkchalk6966]

Same

[@t7plus]

No way man! Which would you prefer when you're older; sitting in a safe, boring nursing home for years on end, with no one ever visiting you, or ending up with a ton of War scars, and people recognizing you as that cool bashed up old dude from KZbin? As a bonus, your family would save on funeral costs as you'd already be in a plastic coffin. This analogy has broken down somewhat.

[@Ace20999]

It hurt me deeply 😢

[@JBTriple8]

yes especially my boy Superman

[@ryancampbell8645]

Hard to watch

[@kingofnerds7693]

When my dude just tossed it on the desk to get graded, the utter disrespect was brutal.

[@puristanime]

Bro nearly had a heart attack

[@pansyconvoy]

this is a classic example of the observer effect where, by conducting this experiment, you have changed the result

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Dude, this came out great! Thanks for inviting me along. It was good to finally get to hang out and hey, the CGC facility and people there being so awesome wasn't bad either. And Ashley, if you're watching, thanks for taking such good care of us!

[@TheWackyWorkbench]

ITS THE GUY FROM THE VIDEO

[@davidnakayama8671]

Hahaha!! I'm totally watching this video, yes! Thanks for the shoutout, you guys! (And thanks for getting that She-Hulk book, Maggie!) Many years ago, I made my own Adam Hughes art book by carefully removing covers from their books and then organizing them in Itoya folders. Felt really odd destroying the books to do so, but that art book wasn't going to make itself! Fun to watch you absolutely obliterate that worthless book tho

[@JDPlaysMoth]

Your She Hulk cover in this video was absolutely gorgeous!! I adore how you drew her!!!

[@davidnakayama8671]

@@JDPlaysMothWow, thanks a lot! Love drawing her :)

[@JDPlaysMoth]

@@davidnakayama8671 She's my favorite superhero ever!! I've been trying to catch up on her comics as much as I can recently, and now I know an artist to keep an eye out for💚💜

[@DennyLeLe]

Love your art work! Currently collecting all of your ASM virgin variant run.

[@jamzee_]

Dude your artwork is immaculate. I love it.

[@Pugaroo85]

An ending worthy of a Greek tragedy

[@StudioUAC]

i love the irony!

[@katzewerfer63]

It is both a greek tragedy and a geek tragedy

[@redrangertom2232]

As soon as I read 'Most Worthless Comic', I immediately thought of the Lara-Su Chronicles.

[@RariYork]

Eh that wouldn't really work since they are at least worth something to Ken Penders and some minority of Sonic fans

[@genericfriend2568]

That is so unhinged but correct.

[@regularshowman3208]

I think the comic has to actually exist to be graded.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

As worthless as it seems, I can think of even worse comics.

[@MrMaxHauser]

I think that would have to come out first

[@TheReubenthegreat]

The mathematics KZbin channel Numberphile had a similar idea about "the first boring number", as in one that could not be described in less than twenty words. They came to the same conclusion as you that by labeling it as "the first boring number", they accidentally made it interesting.

[@FlightInTheEye]

What was the number they came up with?

[@tmmaster6904]

so just name the next one and that's the most boring effectively, linguistically, it's the second most boring number, which makes it the most boring number, but that doesn't then make it interesting because a number before it already did that, it's not special

[@JoaqMan]

The comic I’m writing now.

[@ghostygirl2395]

Give yourself some credit! It might be worthless now, but if you get famous in the future...

[@MaybeMania]

What’s it about?

[@Zane_Is_Insane]

I do not regret stopping production on my original comic, it was gonna be SO bad

[@dreamaexe5006]

Same

[@kuraihikari5785]

My man, let me know when it’s out and I’ll buy it first thing.

[@Ellthom]

Watching you destroy those comics, worthless or not is killing my soul lol. Great video though ;)

[@grantbaugh2773]

When he first held them up folded up I gasped before remembering that's the whole point. Still hurt

[@Keinish79]

Props to the CGC guys for going along with Drake's idea. Also, you could tell they loved comics, I could feel their pain on their first encounters with the item.

[@qwirkt]

Love how the dude immediately says this MIGHT be ONE OF the worst he’s ever seen, there are probably people who bring in rare books they’ve pissed on and ask if they are still worth cash

[@RadikaRules]

As dumb as it may be, the biggest surprise in this video for me was that Yahel and Drake are friends I had no idea, honestly the coolest part. And yeah, this video ironically moved the needle on the value, but hey. At least y'all had fun, and that. Can't ever be taken away or undone, is that sappy? Sure, but also true

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Drake's a good dude. We were exhausted after this but yet found the strength to have a couple adult beverages at lunch

[@ComicDrake]

We were vibing so much that I forgot to get footage of us traveling. 😭

[@RadikaRules]

@@ComicDrake LMAO, I totally get that

[@RadikaRules]

@@WrestlingWithGaming Glad to hear! The age old tradition, drinking with friends. I would say cheers to that but I have nothing to drink rn

[@KenLieck]

I had a Fantastic Four #1 in 0.5 condition (signed by Jack Kirby which didn't help but still...) that was heavily restapled and taped, and the greatest thing about it was that you could throw it really hard at people and it wouldn't make any difference in the world!

[@colinakersakers44]

The little toss onto his table at the grading was comedy gold

[@hartthorn]

Yeah, it now sorta falls into that "misprint" category, where it's valuable BECAUSE it's messed up. Or... I wonder what you might be able to find on "totally irrelevant and inconsequential comics that happened to feature in some other media". Like, someone reading a random comic on Malcolm in the Middle or whatever that IS a real comic but not one of any kind of importance. A nice catalogue of "The most expensive worthless comics".

[@tmmaster6904]

one of my prized possessions is Avengers issue #375, published 1994, it's not a key comic or anything, it doesn't really introduce anyone and nobody remembers it, there's so little demand for it I got it for less than a cent with a stack of other comics, but I love it because in it, the villain Proctor basically does 9/11

[@claudelarose8831]

And here I thought this would be played as a joke, but this is legit interesting!

[@sylph4252]

The chaos really kicks up a notch around the 10 minute mark

[@model40248]

Unironically Matt Nelson has such a relaxing voice. If he ever quits the cgc he should make asmr

[@statmaster1316]

arguably this video now gave these comics more value simply from being the comics featured in this very video

[@pdieraue]

Your destruction of the book really didn't faze me at all because honestly there are so many copies of these books in the world that no one wants, it's really no loss for one copy to be destroyed. I think a lot of people are really unaware of the scale at which worthless mass produced books are thrown away and recycled by book stores, libraries and publishers. I think there's a pretty strong chance that this book would have just been recycled eventually if you hadn't subjected it to this torture, and now instead of being turned into pulp, you turned it into a one-of-a-kind item with a fascinating story behind it! I sincerely think that's something worth celebrating.

[@AjayESharma]

I remember years ago in a stream you said you'd do an April Fools video on Sonichu, and I will hold you to that until the end of time

[@Darcnova1]

I'm not a comic guy and I still winced at the destruction of those comics...

[@MaybeAnnatar]

This is unironically the single best April Fools video this year. Like it's actually interesting but also

[@LotkaVolterra]

Haven't finished it, but what a clever idea for a video. It's somewhat paradoxical. What is the most "random" number between 1 and 20? The most common answer is 17, but wouldn't that make it the *least* random number? If word ever got out that there is a "most worthless" comic, its value would immediately shoot up as a necessary collectable.

[@hairgod996]

11:08 as a comic collector this filled me with a level of pain I was not ready for. I unintentionally started going ahhhh when it was folded

[@RobertJW]

The fire got me, I'm telling you.

[@SONICgokuverine]

Truly this comic lived long enough the become the villain.

[@nekokicker]

I need to know. Were those chairs comfortable? They look so fancy and comfy.

[@ComicDrake]

Extraordinarily 🤤

[@crowzur6055]

Watching the comic book destruction physically hurt me

[@MrMaxHauser]

My immediate thought when seeing the title was 'its gonna be something from the 90s'. I was right on that front but thought it be something either made or inspired by Liefeld like an issue of Deathmate. Which was crossover between Valiant and Image (the parts own by Silvesti, Lee, and of course Liefeld) that burst the bubble. But then realized that give it a form of value since it technically would be a key issue. Not for the world comics, but the real world

[@DeyaViews]

"When the second grader finished his assessment [...]" still very impressed and appreciative of all the work that second graders do. Much more than I did at that age.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I had to put this into podcast mode as soon as the destruction began, because I began feeling unwell watching it. I mean, that COULD be the pepperoni pizza dinner talking, or I just have more love for physical media than I thought.

[@redtutel]

Very impressive look at Comic collecting and preserving...by going for the exact opposite goal most would

[@mattiesavannahpahl9934]

2:44 Bro, not the disrespect on Dwayne McDuffie's Deathlok 😭😭 I understand the intent, but I just read that run and it's so good that I'm feigning offense! 😤😤

[@BrianVonDoom]

I know they're probably not worth the paper they're printed on but it feels wrong seeing someone tear up a comic

[@bokrugthewaterserpent3012]

I didn't know Billiam was a Florida Man, but his channel makes more sense now

[@Derekivery]

If you put effort into finding something worthless, that effort you put creates value in it, Moral nothing you want to find can be deemed worthless... even worthlessness.

[@danielwalker8133]

I love how everyone at the CGC took this so seriously

[@coolgreenbug7551]

Well I mean if they didn't it would "de-value" the worthlessness of the comic

[@MelodicQuest]

"You have become the very thing you swore to destroy!"

[@Tazer_Silverscar]

Hahah, I was not expecting Billiam in this video X'D

[@djpegao]

Most worthless comic? _Any Spider-Man with Paul on it, or any comic with Punchline on it ..._

[@Droorogers]

I want another DC and Marvel crossover just so they can kill off both Paul and Punchline, preferably at the exact same time, and then they cut to characters from both universes shrugging and moving on without a tear or a second thought.

[@TheCinematicPackrat1]

11:23: This is physically painful for me to watch. Each rip of paper is like a gut punch.

[@WhovianBuilder]

The destruction actually made me upset. Good Job! :D

[@reds.3873]

A wild Billiam appears

[@balturimcaludaar6916]

How did I know Vegansuperkick would be in this video as soon as you started talking about grading

[@RobM-og7lb]

I love the irony of sealing a comic in plastic in such a way that u can only if the cover is in good shape and can't tell what its like inside. For all anyone knows someone drew mustaches on all the characters inside.

[@gummygrenade]

No way! I’ve SOLD to Toy Headquarters!! That’s awesome!

[@mattwo7]

7:07 Oh that's the guy who did the art for City of Heroes!

[@kellercorrield7733]

The gasp I gusped at exactly 11:10

[@Droorogers]

I made a sound like I had been punched in the gut.

[@Wannapineappl3]

This was such a neat experiment and I love the way it turned out, especially the way Matt handled it, that's awesome

[@DaisyMcKinneyGTLfan]

You could pay someone to take it off you 😂

[@moongloomable]

I have a whole box of Image Comics that get my vote

[@blackphoenix77]

Probably NFL Superpro #1 or whatever comic book I eventually crap out

[@Jabroniville]

Superpro #10 or whatever would probably be even worse since it's not a #1. There's also one that might be worth something because it depicted a Native American group poorly and drew complaints, lol.

[@blackphoenix77]

@@Jabroniville man that comic book just keeps on losing 😅

[@shadowvash07]

Legitimately the trolly-est thing ive seen today, given that its april fools day, and i love it. Thanks drake for taking time to do all this, ya got some chuckles out of me today.

[@meganegan5992]

I think some of the issue with your methodology is that like, by actively destroying the comic, you kind of remove the value. "Most worthless comic in good condition" feels like a more worthwhile question.

[@ziveisenstodt2477]

The destruction part hurts my soul

[@BluBoyscout]

I realize it’s not important but hearing Action Comics #1 referred to as “a Superman comic” kinda melts my brain haha

[@ComicDrake]

Because it's a copy of Superman #1 that sold for that high, not Action Comics. That Supes issue has an INSANELY high grade for a classic book, outdoing the quality of every Action #1 out there.

[@BluBoyscout]

@@ComicDrake My mistake, I’ve been out of the rare book circuit for a while!

[@TitularTypeWriter]

I don't really care for comics myself but seeing anyone destroy something like that for no real reason aside from "to lower its value" just hurts to see. In my opinion I think purposely destroying it is cheating sense your looking for the most worthless comic book aka which comic outside of its visual quality is the lest valuable not "destroy a book not many people talk about and call it a day".

[@madhukarg8052]

guy literally destroyed a random 90's Comic Book for it to be graded

[@lukesittenauer4109]

There's a way you could have done this that didn't involve destroying comics. Even if they aren't worth any money that's still super disrespectful to everyone who worked on it.

[@NegativeLegend]

This hurts my soul. Great video.

[@mattwo7]

My most valuable comic would probably be a Power Rangers comic signed by David Yost I got from him at Power Morphicon because he liked my Q&A question the best but to be honest, I completely failed at keeping it in good quality... It's probably still more valuable than any of the rare few others I own though (which includes Megaman NT Warrior vol 1, Future 5 #1 (even if Linkara reviewed it, it's even labeled as a free comic, along with the fact that it's a PSA not tied to literally any publisher (No publisher is credited as EdFund and the other origination credited are not publishers) , Shonen Jump September 2003 and uh... Gundam Wing Blind Target I borrowed from a public library for reasons unknown (I'm not a fan of Gundam Wing in particular) and never returned). My least valuable would probably be any of the ones I got at a Free Comic Book Day event.

[@ahira17]

Is there a PETA for comics. I want to report this IMMEDIATELY.

[@Numbuh1NerdX]

An item is worth what one is willing to pay for it, so I think you could still successfully have the least valuable comic of all time by subverting that. Have a legal purchase agreement made that would require the owner to pay a regular fee for owning the comic (preferably to a third party) that completely outweighs the selling price. Legally curse your comic book, Drake.

[@AbiyBattleSpell]

Technically it be all the napkin comics we all drawn one time or another 🐱

[@dude_thats_rowin]

and by making this video, the worth of this comic rockets up

[@N3wman2992]

Did anyone’s sole get crushed when he started destroying the comic?

[@mghc7]

I thought it would have been x men 1 90s version,but yi7 have idiots spending 100 for 9.8 I’m blown away on this

[@MikeFinnell]

May I suggest "Nolan Ryan #1" from Personality Comics that came bundled in a dollar store 3 for $1 pack in the mid-90s. Alternatively "The Chromium Man" from Triumphant comics from the same kind of bundle. Funny enough, my copy of Spawn #1 came in one of these bundles I horded as a pre-teen collector at the peak of the 90s craze.

[@NickMichalak]

Loved the whole damn thing! This was fantastic and hilarious!

[@spectacularlysentimental]

DUUUDE, this is one of the most fun videos I've watched from your channel! Hoping this gets some success.

[@whoissabal]

found your channel recently and really love it. i’m in Florida so this was really cool haha. can’t wait to continue watching your content 🫶🏼🏝️ also as a queer and Puerto Rican person i just really admire the way you discuss a lot of diverse topics, something we definitely need. thank you for what you do man

[@topcat59]

I guess the Superman comics aren’t as sturdy as a kryptonian.🐱

[@Literally_SpiderMan616]

When you were destroying the comic, you should have poored strawberry milkshake on it, then the pages would get stuck together, and you'd have to rip them off each other and have pieces of the paper rip off (based on personal tragic events)

[@lamarhenderson8058]

Around here, it might be X-Men 1 (1991). A comic book store I owned a bit of got several thousand copies as back issues and everyone who had any interest at all bought one, or the entire variant cover run.

[@cjfhotshot2838]

The Torn up Man of Steel issue reminds me of Scott the Woz's Sonic 2 with the line

[@antamationz700]

I'm now a big fan of learning more about comics and the inner workings of them and what happens in the background hope to see more like this great work 😁👍

[@prime7213]

My first ever comic book was Batman: The Dark Knight #4 from 2012. The mailman left it on top of the mailbox and it got rained on so there’s tons of water damage. Probably a 0.5 or 1 in quality. But man this is really making me want to preserve it because even though it’s a pretty terrible issue it was my first step on a hobby I’m still invested in today.

[@kronos3129]

the montage of him destroying the comic books was so painful

[@luigiboi4244]

This entire video's premise hurts my soul. You know that feeling where you see something (say a UCS LEGO Star Destroyer) gets absolutely demolished and it hurts every fiber of your being? It's that.

[@ExMachinawful]

What a fantastic video. Using the framing of “least valuable” to explore the grading process is such a great idea. Short of comics thrown in the trash, you may have gotten at least valuable although if you’re paying to grade any comic then it’s got some value to you.

[@JamesLawner]

I had to skip ahead, because I hate seeing comics get destroyed like that. Interesting video tho 👍🏼

[@Droorogers]

The entire intentional destruction sequence starting at 11:08 made me wince as a comic fan, regardless of how "worthless" a particular issue may be. I just would not have it in me to destroy a comic like that. I gasped out loud several times.

[@darklanternstudios7691]

I'm in the same boat, those tearing sounds made my skin crawl.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

7:30 Oh, that's so funny! I have the Danish translated version of that comic, Dæmonen issue 8! Even this version goes for between $65-799 according to one of the most respected comic book stores in Denmark, Faraos Cigarer. Anyway, I got my somewhat beat up copy for a buck fifty. I guess my local used comic book store had the intern handle the price gun that day.

[@SleepySkullhead]

This is probably the best April Fool's video I've seen in years.

[@niccage6375]

Every copy of Isom

[@shamra1245]

I think it might be worth a little now but my first comic that really got me invested in comics was Archie Sonic the Hedgehog issue 138 from 2004. I'm not entirely sure if it has any significant characters showing up or not but it is the start of a four-issue arc that has art by a penciller I'm a big fan of so it means a lot to me even if my issue's pretty beat up 20 years later 🥺 The mention of that nostalgic Cable comic really reminded me of how much joy that comic's brought me.

[@zlink88]

Man, I don't collect comics but it still hirt to watch you set that on fire then douse with water lol

[@notorioustampaton]

The most worthless is either Cyberfrog or Isom.

[@robertweikel5796]

I could put those exact issues in that condition in my quarter bin and still sell them faster than Turok the Dinosaur Hunter #1

[@somegoodtimes1341]

Billiam cameo was crazy

[@alexanderstrauch5531]

Glad someone is acknowledging that

[@jameskiely2788]

The biggest problem with least valuable is you can only go so far. It can't be worth less than $0.01 so it gets tied with possibly hundreds of others out there. Unless you can find someone who will offer you say... a can of soup for $1.00 but only $0.50 with this book can you go into negative value... intriguing prospect.

[@hund7458]

but! monetary worth may be tied, yes, but that does not mean it would be equal in people's eyes. say i was selling two cakes, both for $0.01. one of them was the absolute worst cake you have ever seen, disgusting flavour, rubbish texture. but the other one was the same, except i took a shit on it too. both might sell for the lowest possible price, but if you're choosing between them you know exactly which one you're picking. the least valuable comic is the one that is not only worth the lowest possible price, but *also* would never be picked over other, equally priced comics

[@borben7220]

"and it was in your pocket too?" "yes" "thats incredible"

[@smollmoth6376]

I actually live in kentucky and I hope to see the toyvomit location! I hope they stock jazzware sonic figures, I've been looking for those things for so long

[@Magmafrost13]

Am I understanding correctly that things like significant first appearances affect the grade given to the book? Wouldnt that make the grades subject to change over time? Like if a gimmick character from the 90s that no one ever cared about suddenly becomes a fan favourite in a new MCU movie or something, their first apeparance would suddenly go from meaningless to very meaningful.

[@ComicDrake]

No, grade is just for condition.

[@blobfischli]

Im a bit late, but i would love to watch more of these Videos, maybe one where you try to find the comic with the ugliest font, smallest cover, wierdest name or most undetailed cover❤