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Independent · All-Star Comics · #23 · Golden Age · ID-2335741
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Joe Gallagher
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Sheldon Mayer
| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 9.4 | $3,720.00 |
| 9.2 | $1,947.00 |
| 8.0 | $1,497.73 |
| 7.0 | $1,150.00 |
| 6.0 | $802.50 |
| 5.0 | $582.50 |
| 4.0 | $754.56 |
| 3.0 | $450.52 |
| 2.0 | $360.00 |
| Raw | $474.74 |
Single-source econometric valuation across 1 verified monthly observation epochs (0Y runway)
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80% Interval: Unmeasured (Insufficient Volatility Sample)
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| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $529.80 | $883.00 | 40.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| 4.0 | $498.00 | $830.00 | 40.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| Raw | $313.20 | $522.00 | 40.0% | Arnveld Capital |
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The birth of superheroes. Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman debut. Comics became a mass medium.
Extreme scarcity drives value. Condition sensitivity is paramount — even low-grade copies of key issues command five figures.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
Newspaper publisher Rex Morgan summons the Justice Society of America to his offices. When they arrive, Morgan explains that the Psycho-Pirate, a mysterious criminal who exploits emotions in his crimes, has sent letters to his paper daring the Justice Society members to stop six emotional themed crimes he plans to pull off. The JSA accept the challenge and depart on their individual missions. Hawkman gets the crime of love. The Psycho-Pirate's men attempt to extort a ransom from a business tycoon by pretending to kidnap his daughter. Hawkman tracks the gang down and starts roughing them up. To fend him off, they tell him that they've also kidnapped Shiera Sanders. Hawkman rushes off to save Shiera from a trap and returns to eliminate the gang. He learns that the tycoon's daughter was never kidnapped, but was being courted by one of the Pirate's thugs. Starman deals with the crime of hate. The Psycho-Pirate seeds hate in wealthy individuals by spreading lies in newspapers. Once the men hate each other, he solicits them to come to the "Hate Clinic, where they can pay to duel each other with swords. Starman is so disgusted by the idea, that his rage gets the better of him and he loses his Gravity Rod. After calming down, he retrieves his rod, shuts down the clinic, and shows the duelers there was no reason to hate each other in the first place. Doctor Mid-Nite has to face the crime of fear. An entire town's communication lines are cut and the town is surrounded with armed guards. The Psycho-Pirate threatens to unleash a plague virus on the town if the town does not pay a ransom. In a private lab, Dr. Mid-Nite works on a cure for the virus, but is momentarily paralyzed by fear at the thought of becoming infected. Undaunted, he confronts the doctor and his henchmen and secures the virus, which turns out to be a fake anyway. Johnny Thunder confidently handles the crimes of conceit. Two brothers are so confident in their safe-making business, that they willingly open one up for the Psycho-Pirate's bank robbers. When Johnny comes to rescue them, the robbers pretend to be easily defeated and flatter him so much that he doesn't think he needs his Thunderbolt's help and sends him away. But when Johnny attempts to rescue the brothers, the robbers lock the three of them in the safe. Johnny comes to his senses, and the Thunderbolt cleans up the gang and takes them to jail. The Spectre fights deals with the crime of greed. Two art collectors each have identical ivory idols known as the grinning guardians. An agent of the Psycho-Pirate offers each collector the other idol for half a million dollars. Both men agree and give him the money. Later, the agent approaches each collector, pretending he bungled the theft of the other idol. The agent says he needs that man's idol to replace the idol he lost during the theft or the agent will turn the collector over to the cops. Both collectors are cajoled into agreeing. The Spectre follows the agent back to the hideout and breaks up the operation. One of the men offers to give up the Psycho-Pirate, however. Instead of dealing with the men, the Spectre gives into greed and follows the man into a trap. Using the idols, he escapes the trap and takes the gang to jail. The Atom takes on the crime of despair. The Atom remains at Rex Morgan's office, where Rex hears both numerous reports of bad news. A news flash on the radio claims the Psycho-Pirate has captured the rest of the Justice Society. The Atom sets out to rescue them, but the other members tell him it's useless to try to fight at all. The Atom gives in to despair. Before a henchman executes him, the Atom recovers and fights back. He learns that the Justice Society he just spoke with were only actors. He then learns the true identity of the Psycho-Pirate, who shoots him. The Atom struggles back to the paper, trying to warn his friends in time. Reuniting back at the Morgan's office, the rest of the JSA have returned and discuss their cases and try to figure out how to capture the Psycho-Pirate. A weakened Atom tries to get their attention through an air vent. They race to the roof, where the Psycho-Pirate's men have already thrown the Atom off the building. Johnny gets a rare bright idea and has the Thunderbolt catch him before he hits the bottom. The Atom reveals to the Thunderbolt that Charles Halstead, Morgan's best friend at the paper, is the Psycho-Pirate! The Thunderbolt immediately captures Halstead, who goes through an intense emotional reaction before being led away. The Hawkman points out the irony that Halstead's pride led to his undoing.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for All-Star Comics #23.
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.
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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.
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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).
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The Courier issues a challenge to the JSA re an individual called the Psycho-Pirate, who has been committing crimes based on emotions, whom the paper has spoken out against. The JSA visits Editor Morgan to inform him that they will help. Morgan shows a letter of challenge to them from the Psycho-Pirate just as Morgan's Secretary brings in telegrams addressed to the JSA members individually, challenging them to stop his crimes of emotions. Morgan is relived as the only person before that to give encouragement and support in the fight was one of his his linotypers, Charley Halstead.
Psycho-Pirate is using "love" as a weapon, Hawkman hurries over to see Heywood Carlson, who has been falsely notified that his daughter is being held for ransom. His love for his daughter is going to be his downfall until Hawk bursts in and over-powers the thugs. But one tells Hawkman to lay off or something will happen to Shiera. Hawk and Shiera finally escape a room with the walls closing in on them, and Hawkman rounds up the thugs involved. He returns to Carlson's home to find out that the kidnapping of Betty was a ruse, so he decides to return to the Courier.
Hate figures in to the relationship between Augustus Hemsley and Hank Cannon, and both decide to enroll in "The Hate Clinic" to learn championship fencing, then duel it out. Starman enters the picture and convinces the men that only the Hate Clinic will come out this richer, to say the least. The Astral Avenger then cleans house at the clinic, suddenly feeling hate towards his opponents. That leads to Starman falling into a trap, but he escapes and then settles the argument between Carlson and Cannon.
The emotion of fear sends Dr. Mid-Nite to Carse City, a wealthy suburb where he runs into a few residents who are crying with fear, and they tell him that the entire city has been kidnapped! Visiting local officials, Mid-Nite is told that the Psycho-Pirate's men are going to drop living disease germs on the city. The Man of Night heads out to the address from where the ransom note was issued, dispatches a sharpshooter, and is ready to enter the premises when a sudden fear comes over him. But he overcomes that and wraps up the thugs inside, learning that the germ threat was only a hoax.
Johnny's problem, conceit, is rather unusual since Johnny is rather conceited himself. The Martin brothers manufacture safes that are burglar-proof, and they get a call from a lighting company that they can't open one of their safes and want them to open it for them. Once done, the thieves enter and rob the safe, and even flatter Johnny not to resist. John and the officials are locked in the safe, but are saved by the T-Bolt. Johnny then rounds up the gang...with a little help from Thunderbolt.
Greed plays a role in this saga of two wealthy collectors who each possess one of two known Grinning Guardians. Both are visited by a mysterious person who asks each if they'd like to own both. The Spectre arrives and tells Mason what that guy is trying to do, so a trap is set. But the mysterious visitor tells Mason that, unless he forks over his Guardian, then he'll tell the Police that Mason bribed him to steal Smith's statue. Mason gives him the statue, but Spectre follows, falls into a trap and is gassed, but escapes and recovers the Guardian and returns it to Mason.
Left behind to protect Mr. Morgan, Atom must face despair on a grand scale: Morgan's home foreclosed on, newsboys are on strike, Morgan's staff is quitting, the newspaper guild wants to kick him out of the Union, and Charley Halstead tells that his wife is suing for divorce. Then the radio says the JSA have failed and have been captured, but Halstead says to go to Psycho-Pirate's lair and try to free the captured members. Atom later finds out that the supposed JSA members are actually the Psycho-Pirate's thugs in disguise, so he mops them up, but is shot in the process!
The JSA returns to the offices of the Courier, much to the surprise of Morgan, who tells them about the radio announcement and the Atom taking off to save the day. Suddenly, the voice of the Atom is heard through the ventilation ducts that he knows who the Psycho-Pirate is. But thugs find the Mighty Mite on the roof and toss him off to his doom. Fortunately, Johnny sees what is happening and orders the Thunderbolt to save Atom, which he does, and he brings Atom into Morgan's office, then grabs Charley Halstead! He protests and soon becomes the victim of his own emotions.
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 |
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Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $474.74 | — | $450.52 | $754.56 | $582.50 | $802.50 | $1,150.00 | $1,497.73 | — | $1,947.00 | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $313.20 | — | — | $498.00 | — | $529.80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $522.00 | — | — | $830.00 | — | $883.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 sold | — |
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