DC·Sandman·#1·Bronze Age·ID-2403681
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 166 of 1,379 slabs (12.0%) | 166 | SOV | $241.43 | 166 | $40,077 | (23.1x) |
| 9.6 | 271 of 1,379 slabs (19.7%) | 271 | ANC | $93.40 | 271 | $25,311 | (9.0x) |
| 9.4 | 227 of 1,379 slabs (16.5%) | 227 | $45.00 | 227 | $10,215 | (4.3x) | |
| 9.2 | 137 of 1,379 slabs (9.9%) | 137 | $60.32 | 137 | $8,264 | (5.8x) | |
| 9.0 | 126 of 1,379 slabs (9.1%) | 126 | $55.00 | 126 | $6,930 | (5.3x) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $10.43 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
Market operates purely on organic buyer and seller auction discovery. Zero artificial price interventions or emergency liquidity halts on record.
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Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Mike Royer
Jack Kirby, Steve Sherman
Sandman Mystery Theatre #1 — Golden Age Noir Wesley Dodds
Matt Wagner and Guy Davis's moody Vertigo reboot of Wesley Dodds, rooted in 1930s trench-coat pulps, social inequality, and psychological profiling.
Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
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.
Bronze Age (1970–1984) — comics grew darker and more socially aware. The era of classic runs, creator-driven storytelling, and the birth of serious collecting culture. Newsstand variants carry a meaningful scarcity premium.
Inspectable mathematical proof, blockchain/ledger provenance, data integrity validation, and asset taxonomy.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
When a boy named Jed Walker has a strange dream of a drowning man who appears in reality to give him an evil little doll, it spurs the Sandman to emerge from the Dream Stream into the real world to stop the plans of General Electric.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.