Independent·Winter Soldier·#2·Independent·ID-22762
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 3 of 5 slabs (60.0%) | 3 | SOV | $29.99 | 3 | $89.97 | (5.9x) |
| 9.6 | 2 of 5 slabs (40.0%) | 2 | — | — | — | (40.0% / <0.01%) | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | $16.71 | — | — | (3.3x) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | ~28,810 surviving raw (of ~41,164 printed) | 28,810 | RAW | $5.06 | — | $145,779 | (1.0x Base) |
Empirical cash settlement intelligence, cross-grade elasticity curve, and secondary liquidation velocity.
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Realized turnover cadence and capital absorption depth across certified auction comps.
Autonomous institutional strategies, financial equilibrium, scarcity modeling, and algorithmic risk profiling.
Market operates purely on organic buyer and seller auction discovery. Zero artificial price interventions or emergency liquidity halts on record.
Verified historical transaction line with quarterly equilibrium baseline anchor.
Understand how physical sales, invested dollars, and liquidity friction divide across grades.
Completed market sales by grade
Relative market value allocation
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Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Ed Brubaker
Butch Guice
Butch Guice
Bettie Breitweiser
John Denning, Lauren Sankovitch, Tom Brevoort
Publisher profile coming soon
Outside the Marvel/DC duopoly. Often creator-owned with outsized cultural impact and far greater natural scarcity.
No returnable copies, no overprint buffer. True scarcity with potential for explosive growth on media adaptation news.









Independent publisher — outside the Marvel/DC duopoly. These issues often carry outsized cultural impact with far greater natural scarcity. No returnable copies, no overprint buffer.
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Bucky and Natasha take cover from a talking gorilla firing a .50 caliber machine gun. Bucky throws a smoke grenade for cover, and tells Natasha to take the rooftop. While she cleans out dozens of men, he is knocked almost to the point of unconsciousness by the gorilla. Instead of going in for the kill, the gorilla takes off with a jet-pack. Jasper Sitwell contacts the two and orders them to get to their extraction point, as things "just got a little more complicated." In the Situation Room, Jasper informs Bucky and Natasha that somebody attempted a hit on Doctor Doom at 0800 outside the Latverian Embassy in Manhattan. An image from security in the building across the street shows the shooter taking down a Doombot. His face is recognized by Bucky, who reveals that it is Arkady, one of the three men chosen for the Zephyr Procedure. (From the previous issue, Winter Soldier Vol 1 1, we know that Arkady has been sent by former Latverian Prime Minister Madame Lucia von Bardas and the Red Ghost, Ivan Kragoff). In Bucky's flashback, we find out that the other two agents are called Leo and Dmitri. Jasper, Bucky and Natasha start piecing everything together, but still wonder why anyone would want to kill Doom. They conclude that whoever sent the Zephyr Agent was trying to anger Doom, not kill him. Somewhere in New York City, Kragoff wakes Dmitri. In Prague, an eye-patched man breaks into a building. Holding a man named Milos at gunpoint, he demands Milos to tell him where and when his group's next auction is. Bucky and Natasha go on an infiltration mission, which takes place at Bad Juju Acquisitions Group in Chicago, where high-tech items like the Mandroid Armor and Pym Particles Prototype are being sold at auction illegally. The two break up the auction, and Bucky gets hold of the target, The Auctioneer. He asks whom the Red Ghost was with when he bought the activation codes for the Sleeper Agents of the Zephyr Procedure. The auctioneer replies that Kragoff was with no-one, but seemed to have something against Latveria due to what else he had bid on. Elsewhere, Arkady is with Lucia Von Bardas. In their possession is a dormant Doombot.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.