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Independent · Ragman · #5 · Bronze Age · ID-22748
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Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Ragman #5 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $200.00 |
| 9.8 | $153.67 |
| 9.2 | $53.32 |
| 8.0 | $31.54 |
| 6.0 | $18.08 |
| 4.0 | $7.05 |
| 3.0 | $6.00 |
| 2.0 | $5.00 |
| Raw | $5.23 |
Single-source econometric valuation across 1 verified monthly observation epochs (0Y runway)
Hedonic age factor + census scarcity weighting.
80% Interval: Unmeasured (Insufficient Volatility Sample)
Wholesale realization (45% haircut · ILLIQUID_SPECIALTY)
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $5.00 | $19.99 | 75.0% |
| 4.0 | $1.60 | $7.79 | 79.5% |
| Raw | $1.20 | $5.79 | 79.3% |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
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Comics grow darker and more socially aware. Wolverine, Punisher, Swamp Thing debut. Creator-driven storytelling emerges.
Newsstand variants carry meaningful scarcity premiums. First appearances from this era are blue-chip investments.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
Rory Regan continues to run his pawn shop and helping various people with small loans. Meanwhile a meeting takes place in a meat packing plant in which a crime boss hires a henchman to recover the million dollars in cash which is hidden away in Rory's junkyard. The hired thug develops a plan whereby he will kidnap Opal. When Ragman comes to Opal's rescue he will eliminate Ragman and recover the million dollars in cash. The thugs kidnap Opal as she comes out of a club. Ragman comes to the rescue but Opal is shot in the process. He subdues the thugs but it seems that Opal passes away in his arms. Meanwhile back at the junkyard an old man lays on the ground trying to stay warm. He has a small fire going and he asks Teddy to bring him some more paper to feed the fire. Teddy who is blind feels around a stack of mattresses and discovers the wads of paper money. The boy heaps the piles of money into the fire unaware that he is burning a fortune. The hired thug witnesses the burning but Ragman apprehends him before he can hurt anyone else.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Ragman #5.
CGC, CBCS, PSA Universal certified high-grade specimens (9.8 / 9.6 / 9.4). The gold standard for institutional alternative investment.
Official witnessed creator-signed slabs (Yellow label). Valued based on creator historical stature and inscription provenance.
Certified specimens from landmark historical collections (Edgar Church / Mile High, White Mountain, Kansas City, Pacific Coast).
Original newsstand barcode distribution copies. Extremely scarce in high grade due to newsstand rack wear and unsold return pulping.
Regional price test market copies (Canadian 75¢/95¢ variants, Marvel 30¢/35¢ test variants). Highly coveted micro-population rarities.
Exclusively allocated copies requiring retailer orders of 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, or 1:500 standard copies. Immediate manufactured scarcity.
Unslabbed collector copies inspected under standard Overstreet physical guidelines. The primary pool for grading arbitrage.
Alternative artistic interpretations, virgin covers, metal foil, and convention exclusives with dedicated collector followings.
Standard specialty comic shop printings sold through non-returnable distribution. The baseline circulation foundation.
Green label copies with significant manufacturing flaws, unwitnessed signatures, or missing coupons that do not affect the main story.
Purple label copies with professional or amateur color touch, tear seals, piece fill, or spine rebuilds.
Blue/Grey label copies treated exclusively with archival preservation techniques (leaf-casting, rice paper tear reinforcement, solvent wash).
Official second, third, or later printings released to satisfy secondary market sellouts. Distinct cover art and trade dress.
International editions licensed by La Prensa (Mexico), Editora Abril (Brazil), Panini (Europe), or Titan (UK).
Certified printing oddities (missing foil, inverted interior, double covers, foil color error). Unique curiosity pieces.
Advance promotional black-and-white booklets, ashcans created to secure trademark rights, and preview giveaways.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
Foreign editions (licensed through Panini, Urban Comics, Editorial Novaro, Novedades, Otto Simon, etc.) represent physical tradeable instruments in international secondary markets. Geographic scarcity and currency differentials drive global cross-border arbitrage.
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Special black & white noir printings, facsimile editions, and anthology collections licensed or published domestically.
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All prices are current market price based on historic completed sales with a buyer and seller agreeing on price. Calculated via proprietary algorithm tracking end-of-month historical sales. Unsold items are excluded.
Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 22748. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
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“Rory)-- Why don't you marry me? We can take Teddy out of the orphanage for good-- Instead of just visits! We'll adopt him!”
— Bette Berg)
Recorded price evidence by source and grade tier. Ungraded / RAW pricing represents loose physical copies; certified grading authorities record authenticated slabbed grades only. Unpriced grades remain unpriced.
| Authority Source / Metric | RAWUNGRADED | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 9.8ANCHOR | 10.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $5.23 | — | $6.00 | $7.05 | — | $18.08 | — | $31.54 | — | $53.32 | $187.00 | $153.67 | $200.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $1.20 | — | — | $1.60 | — | $5.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $5.79 | — | — | $7.79 | — | $19.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 sold | — |
Highest verified price observed. Non-9.8 books never receive a 9.8 price or synthetic valuation.
ComicBase catalog guide reference valuation. Evaluated independently from newsstand cover prices and certified slabs.
Historical cover price stamped on physical newsstand or direct copies at initial publication.
Panel Profits decodes auction transaction feeds into sovereign econometric market valuations and bid-ask spreads. CGC, CBCS, and PSA never carry RAW prices.