DC·Detective Comics·#251·Silver Age·ID-2316690
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | $12,170.84 | — | — | (243.4x) | |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | $1,640.68 | — | — | (32.8x) | |
| 9.0 | 1 of 39 slabs (2.6%) | 1 | SOV | $1,008.00 | 1 | $1,008 | (20.2x) |
| 5.0 | 6 of 39 slabs (15.4%) | 6 | ANC | $94.00 | 6 | $564.00 | (1.9x) |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $50.00 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
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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
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Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Edmond Hamilton
Sheldon Moldoff
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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Vicki Vale snaps a picture of Batman unmasked as an alien near a spaceship, and further tests seem to confirm that Batman is a being from another world. However, Batman knows that this is a well staged hoax to convince the public that he is an alien. Batman and Robin start investigating the case and despite the little help they get from the people of Gotham, they manage to find the criminals responsible for the hoax. Using their lie against them, Batman pretends to be a real alien and he captures the thugs, who confess their whole plan and Batman's name is finally cleared.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.