What started out as a two cent magazine to sell
knickknacks in 1930 is now a global comic phenomenon worth
over$7 billion. When two chains heard Dinesh Shamdasani
had some early editions of his favorite characters. He
couldn't resist jumping into the action. All right,
what's going on? They tell me you are the
man with the magazines, not just magazine comics.
I'm, I'm a, I'm a, a man
child, a grown man that is obsessed with childish
things when I was coming up. You know,
not too long ago, I too enjoy looking at
certain comics. Tell me a little bit about where
your passion came from to collect. They teach you
about life. I'm gonna sound so silly here.
But they do. They teach you about life,
they teach you lessons. You see allegories for the
, for the world for how you should behave as
you grow up and you learn different things and you
get to different stages of your life. You see
different things in the characters they've existed for so long
, so many great writers and artists have been involved
, they imprint their souls onto the books and the
stories. I mean, it's just, it's amazing
. Is it a huge market for comic and collecting
comics? I mean, the comic book market for
reading is, is, I mean, global,
the movies obviously help the video games, the toys
et cetera and collecting is becoming more and more and
more of a, a huge component of it.
Got it. Now, I see you have a
Men of Turtles. Yes. Construction made comic.
Now, I know about the Men Turtles fan.
I know you know what this is NGI is number
one. It's the first comic book. The way
you make comics is you, you look at a
proof, a very early draft printed and you check
all the spelling that says, you check it looks
right. Two copies has existed. This is the
printer's proof. They approve. That's why the cover
looks janky like that. They draw the art,
they send it to the printer, the printer sends
them this and says, does it look the way
you thought it would look? And they say yes
or they say no, no, the blacks aren't
printing, right? You missed a page printing wrong
. So they prove that and then would they mass
produce it? So this is a printer's proof.
Printer's proof of the first. Yeah, it feels
special and it looks special. On the outside.
You really can't tell it's my favorite part but on
the inside it has so many details and and drawings
and art work. How much would something like this
cost somebody if they wanted to buy it from me
. I've been offered about 300 to 350,000. I
can't remember exactly. It was in that range.
I was going crazy over paper. What year is
this? 1986? 80? Something like that?
Damn. All right. What else you got up
here, man? This is my favorite comic of
all time. Amazing Fantasy. 15. That Spider
Man overseas is the first appearance of Spider Man.
You're gonna see a lot of these books. The
characters first appear in a book that isn't their own
book. This book is about$300,000 350,000 dollars.
I mean, she's got one of the greatest covers
of all time. Most people don't know this.
Jack Kirby drew this cover. He drew almost every
major marvel character's appearance including this one here, Captain
America. Number one, let me see, Joe
Simon and he drew this artwork. He along with
Jack Jack, her Joe Simon drew that book.
He's punching Hitler in the in America is punching Hitler
in the face. This is before America entered the
war as well. This is their protest for we
should be doing something as Jews, we should be
that they were thinking we should, the whole country
should be doing something. Get involved in World War
Two. Yeah, they take all the way down
to the comic books. People were, were 1941
. No. How much I mean, this one
, this is about$400,000. Now, what about
Spider Man? My son used to love Spiderman.
Now he's turning seven years old. He's shying away
from Spider Man. What would this cover? The
, the first Spider Man? So you say he
was introduced on his own? So, Stan Lee
was running Marvel and it wasn't doing well because they
weren't superheroes yet. They were about to go to
business And his wife said to him just tell one
story the way you want, forget what they you
they want. And he wrote this story, Mason
Fancy 15 1st Prince of Spider Man with a moral
, a morality tale and it blew up. And
then immediately after this Spider Man, number one comes
out and fantastic. Four X Men changes the world
. This is an invisible comic book. The staples
are not invisible. They couldn't figure out the technology
what I love about this. This is like Warhol
. So many people will say, well, yes
, this is the first Spider Man. You can't
read it, you can't open it and read it
. Yes. This one is for show. You
can only see the front and back and many people
will buy just the grade, just the look of
the cover. It doesn't matter what it looks like
. This is like Warhol saying, ok, we
just buy the the slab, then don't worry about
the rest of it. But of course, confines
are crazy. So this thing should be worthless.
This is 5$10,000. Just this. It's just
collectors are able to show off to each other.
Do you have the Invisible Comic book? It's just
a joke. This is a book called Motion Picture
Funny Weekly. Number one, there's five copies in
the world. This is a book that's so rare
. Most collectors don't believe it exists. It took
me forever to convince someone to sell me this copy
. When I got it, most of my friends
were like, you've got to send me a photo
of you holding it because I've never seen a photo
in human hands. I've been so tempted to open
this because we're not entirely sure what's inside. What
we do know is that this book Marvel Comics number
one, which is often considered the first Marvel book
back when they were called Timely Comics. That book
named the company is the first appearance of the human
torture. You know, the guy that gets on
fire from, from four and for a long time
was thought to be the first person to name more
of the Sub Mariner. Then they find this book
in an estate sale for the editor Lloyd Jaquet who
also edited the first DC comic. And this book
here, the first Marvel comic and they open it
up and they go, wait a minute. It
predates Marvel Comics in one and it's got the same
story, they reprinted the story to change its history
. These both have the same story, same story
with a couple extra pages there because this book was
given away at movie theaters. So they would say
come to the movies, we got air conditioning,
we got cheap movies and we're gonna give your kid
a little, a little comic to read. But
of course everyone throws it away. This one's only
five in the world. There's very few pictures of
the inside. The whole book is not available to
look at it digitally. No one really knows exactly
what's in there. I wanna know what's inside this
thing so bad. So this is probably the most
expensive comic book I brought today. This is like
Amazing Fancy 15. This is not Batman's own title
, but it's the first appearance of Batman detective comics
. 27 from 1939. That's crazy. This is
first appearance of Batman and that is an easy million
dollars. Amazing. Really, bro. Easy million
. 64 pages of action. Yeah. What's that
four page? Uh This is May 1939 1st appearance
of Batman Bruce Wayne. Now Superman had come out
right before that. So you're looking at this,
this is worth$1 million bro. It's worth a
little over a million. Yeah, there's only 35
40 copies that have ever been graded the collectors that
have them, they don't want to let them go
. They're never gonna find another copy. Do they
know? Well, I'm sure after seeing the show
that. If you do have one, you should
let it go. It's worth a million dollars.
Like, imagine you not having a million dollars,
not living up to some of the standards and you
have this and you're at it. Redefine spring cleaning
. I enjoy Batman because his car, the little
dungeon he was in when he used to punch people
to look stuff like that. So I'm with you
a million dollars, man. The best on this
table. How, how much do you think we
have on this table? All together? Roughly how
much did you bring out the house? You're gonna
embarrass me. This is probably five or$6 million
on the table here. Damn. What, what
kind of car you got? I have a minivan
. Oh OK. You have a lot of kids
. I got three kids. Shout out, I
have three kids. Shout out to the kids.
$6 million on my table. If you brought 56
million in the collection, crazy. The collection,
all the comics and a huge comic book art collector
as well. So if you look at all that
15, 15 million. Damn. What, what
is wrong? Here's the thing. Here's why I
feel OK about that. I made my money in
comics. I lived the American dream. I ran
my favorite company of all time. The characters I
loved, I built it up. I made it
amazing. I got a movie made. Then they
fired me. That's the American dream. It gave
me a lot of money I had, it was
called Comics. I have a valiant shaped hole in
my heart and I try to fill it with all
the stuff I loved as a kid. That's,
that's one of the best stories I heard on the
show. Thanks, man. But now you're up
here with me. Yeah. So you're a winner --> .