DC·Detective Comics·#243·Silver Age·ID-2316682
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | $11,311.85 | — | — | (231.6x) | |
| 9.6 | 1 of 60 slabs (1.7%) | 1 | — | — | — | (1.7%) | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 60 slabs (1.7%) | 1 | SOV | $1,510.38 | 1 | $1,510 | (30.9x) |
| 9.0 | 1 of 60 slabs (1.7%) | 1 | — | — | — | (1.7%) | |
| 7.0 | 9 of 60 slabs (15.0%) | 9 | ANC | $292.98 | 9 | $2,637 | (6.0x) |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $48.84 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
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.
Understand how physical sales, invested dollars, and liquidity friction divide across grades.
Completed market sales by grade
Relative market value allocation
Estimated execution friction
Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Edmond Hamilton
Dick Sprang
Charles Paris
Jack Schiff
Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
Marvel revolution. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko create the modern superhero. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men debut.
The sweet spot for collectors — significant enough to be culturally important, scarce enough to be valuable. 9.8 copies are extremely rare.
Silver Age (1956–1970) — the era that redefined the superhero genre. Scientific themes, moral complexity, and Stan Lee's Marvel revolution define this period. High-grade copies command aggressive premiums.
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In illiquid alternative asset markets, sovereign blue-chip holdings trade at an exponential multiple over mid-grade float due to institutional accumulation and inelastic seller reservation prices.
Batman is turned into a thirty-foot giant by a scientist's Maximizer ray, and the Minimizer which can restore him to normal height is stolen by a crook. As Batman starts his hunt for the criminal, he creates too much damage and destruction to Gotham City, and is soon asked to remain outside Gotham to prevent further complications. Batman then decides to lure the criminal to his location on the outskirts of the city, and using the maximizer ray, the crook is turned into another giant to fight Batman. Robin arrives in time to join the battle. Eventually the criminal is subdued, and Robins uses the minimizer ray on the fighting foes, returning them to their normal size. But, with all the recent uses of the two machines, their rare power sources have been exhausted.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.