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DC · Superman · #3 · Postmodern Age · ID-2366001
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $39.00 |
| 9.8 | $30.00 |
| Raw | $4.49 |
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| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $1.00 | $4.89 | 79.6% | Arnveld Capital |
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Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
Deconstructionist storytelling. Trade-first publishing. Creator prestige over character IP.
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In the office of the Daily Planet, Bill McCoy pitches a documentary that seems to blame Superman for the numerous casualties as a result of recent attacks on Metropolis. He meets resistance from Perry White and Lois Lane. Even so, McCoy hopes that Lois will okay the idea, and that she and Perry can convince Clark Kent to look into one of his leads. There was an apparently homeless man who seemingly kidnapped one of the victims of a fire caused by an alien being encountered by Superman recently. He hopes that Clark's articles about the homeless in Metropolis will give him an advantage in potentially identifying the vagrant. Perry gets a hold on Clark in the Smallville Cemetery, as he is visiting the graves of his parents. Clark realizes that he is late for a video shoot with Heather Kelley, and rushes off, making excuses, and hanging up on Perry. Lois comments that Clark has seemed different lately. Perry agrees, having originally chalked it up to some personal issue he wasn't willing to talk about, but now with Clark's obvious displeasure with the merger with Galaxy Communications, it seems that something else is up. In the Hob's Bay area, Heather, Jimmy, and Miko wait for Clark, annoyed that he left a message to say that he was caught in traffic despite the fact that he had already made them wait three hours. Heather is frustrated, but her obvious romantic feelings for Clark temper her anger. She and the others decide to go ahead with their piece on the City of Tomorrow Renovations and their effect on affordable middle-class housing in Metropolis without him. Meanwhile, Lois oversees her news program as the weather is being presented. Despite announcements that clear skies and warm temperatures will be prevalent, there is a sudden disturbance near Hob's Bay which appears to be the beginnings of a massive ice storm. The news chopper nearby notices that Superman seems to be involved. Superman marvels at the fact that he can actually feel the cold of this storm, just as he felt the last creature's fire and the impact of the invisible monster's punches. The cold of this storm is so much that it turns nearby buildings to ice. Turning his attention to the civilians, Superman tries to get them out of the area, only to discover that they too have been turned to ice - not just frozen, but turned entirely to ice; right down to their skeletons. Looking to the eye of the storm, Superman notices an entity floating high above it speaking in the same alien language that the fire monster spoke in before. He realizes that the storm seems to be centered over his old apartment building, and then recognizes the voice of the entity. It is Heather. Heather is the creature at the centre of this storm. She sends waves of cold across the city, turning everything they touch to ice. Superman barely manages to save the news chopper, but he turns around too late to stop the Daily Planet and everyone inside from being frozen as well. Turning his attention to the base of the storm, he sees Jimmy and Miko down below, but further down Heather is unfrozen, but trapped in some kind of stasis field which is the source of the storm. The voice from the alien above is muttering the name Krypton - a mystery for him to solve later. With little alternative, Superman blasts the stasis field surrounding Heather with his heat vision. Seeing her wincing in pain, he relents, but it's too late. The alien is destroyed, and the storm collapses, unfreezing the city. He wakes in a hole in the ground, with Jimmy and Miko standing over him. Unfortunately, Heather is nowhere to be found. Atop a building elsewhere, Heather stands, still speaking in the alien language. She meets with the mysterious homeless man and the man he abducted from the hospital - both of whom are also speaking the language. They mention Superman and Clark Kent in the same breath.
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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.
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Alternative artistic interpretations, virgin covers, metal foil, and convention exclusives with dedicated collector followings.
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Superman encounters a third creature who speaks the name of his birth planet Krypton, this one turning everything to ice. But this time Superman notices that the creature is connected to a human, his colleague Heather Kelley. By severing the connection between the two, Superman destroys the ice creature, but Heather is nowhere to be found in the aftermath, having gone to meet the other humans connected to the mysterious creatures.
The new superhero dubbed The Ray by the press recalls how his life was suddenly changed.
When Superman saves a runaway boy from being run over by a train, he discovers the child is from an orphanage where the superintendent abuses the children in a variety of ways. So the Man of Tomorrow enlists the aid of the young man to act as an undercover agent to spy on things and report back to Clark Kent.
Superman distracts himself from his problems with Lois by solving a case of apparent vandalism at a Smallville plant.
Superman saves Pete and Lana from a Smallville lake and its water spirit, but that might not be the end of the story.
Dealing with the changes left behind by Brainiac 13, Superman and Steel come into possession of a tesseract.
Six men, gathered in an astrologer's exotic studio, are shocked to hear Emil Brandwan announce that, according to the stars, he is to die that very night at 7pm.
Having returned to his Metropolis routine, Superman is visited by Lana, which causes another fight with Lois. But before Clark can deal with that problem, the Parasite returns. With Wonder Woman's help, Superman stops the Parasite's rampage, but fails to apprehend him. Lois, none to happy to see another one of Superman's female friends in town, seemingly stomps out and right up to Lex Luthor.
Illustrated are several techniques on muscle training that, if practiced, can give someone a crushing hand grip.
Superman and Steel's restoration of the Fortress of Solitude is complicated by Luna and her Cybermoths, who retrieve the Cyborg Superman from the dimensional rift into which Superman had thrown him. The Kandorian Cerizah arrives in time to neutralize the villain so Superman can aid Steel in dealing with Luna and her minions before completing their goal of recreating the Fortress.
Joker causes havoc in Metropolis in retaliation for Luthor's meddling in Gotham City as Superman's health and marriage continue to deteriorate.
When Superman finally confronts Lois about their crumbling marriage, she responds with a super-powered fistfight, which makes Superman realize he isn't dealing with Lois at all, but with the Parasite.
Superman must save Lois' life and stop criminals who are smuggling in jewels for Europeans to escape paying custom duties.
Promotional house advertisement for Superman in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series).
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| 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) | $4.49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $30.00 | $39.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $1.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $4.89 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 sold | — |
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