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Independent · Playboy · #2 · Silver Age · ID-2406893
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| Raw | $21.94 |
Single-source econometric valuation across 1 verified monthly observation epochs (0Y runway)
Hedonic age factor + census scarcity weighting.
80% Interval: Unmeasured (Insufficient Volatility Sample)
Wholesale realization (45% haircut · ILLIQUID_SPECIALTY)
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Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Playboy #2 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
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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.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
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Relative-value gravitational equilibrium anchored to the foundational genesis instruments of sequential art.
Rigorous options modeling requires empirical prices for both legs (raw acquisition and target slab FMV). One or both legs currently lack recorded market observations; synthetic assumptions are disabled.
| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $7.20 | $23.99 | 70.0% | Arnveld Capital |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
The recovery of third-party encapsulation and grading expenditures when an asset is acquired at a discount below the physical cost of replacement grading fees, shipping, and insurance.
Neighbors on adjoining apartment buildings have balconies facing each other. The man on one puts partitions around his balcony, leaving just a peephole to see in. The man in the other balcony tries to see in the peephole, but falls off. The first man then takes down the partitions and flirts with the fallen man's wife.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Playboy #2.
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.
Exclusively allocated copies requiring retailer orders of 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, or 1:500 standard copies. Immediate manufactured scarcity.
Unslabbed collector copies inspected under standard Overstreet physical guidelines. The primary pool for grading arbitrage.
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.
Green label copies with significant manufacturing flaws, unwitnessed signatures, or missing coupons that do not affect the main story.
Purple label copies with professional or amateur color touch, tear seals, piece fill, or spine rebuilds.
Blue/Grey label copies treated exclusively with archival preservation techniques (leaf-casting, rice paper tear reinforcement, solvent wash).
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).
Certified printing oddities (missing foil, inverted interior, double covers, foil color error). Unique curiosity pieces.
Advance promotional black-and-white booklets, ashcans created to secure trademark rights, and preview giveaways.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
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A knight gets his reward from an "experienced" princess.
Cartoons with artists and models as subjects.
Nine samples of Caniff's "Male Call" military strip featuring the character Miss Lace. Four of the strips are previously unpublished.
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All prices are current market price based on historic completed sales with a buyer and seller agreeing on price. Calculated via proprietary algorithm tracking end-of-month historical sales. Unsold items are excluded.
A newly-wed bride has a question on her honeymoon.
A hunter, whose walls are covered with trophies of horned beasts, prepares to use his head to butt a woman into bed.
A knight just takes off a small portion of his armor before bedding a damsel in a haystack.
A pilot makes an understatement after landing a huge jet airliner without instruments.
A dungeon-master confronts five prisoners who are singing in their cell.
A well-to-do man sits in a deck chair, noting that his daughter has returned home from college, frolicking naked and accompanied by two guitar-playing hippies.
Tropical natives, sitting on an elevated hut over water, are dismayed when alligators climb up the poles holding the hut up.
A man from New York tries to get his wife to come back from the suburbs.
A fat lady in the circus is caught in bed with the human skeleton by the woman's husband, a very short man.
A third-world dictator escapes from a mob in a helicopter, but might have trouble accessing his stolen wealth.
A man manipulates his hands so they throw a shadow of a couple having sex.
A guru at the top of a mountain advises a man to see Hugh Hefner for the secret of true happiness.
Neighbors on adjoining apartment buildings have balconies facing each other. The man on one puts partitions around his balcony, leaving just a peephole to see in. The man in the other balcony tries to see in the peephole, but falls off. The first man then takes down the partitions and flirts with the fallen man's wife.
A man is in the hospital for a heart transplant, but only wants a Republican one.
A husband finds a friend naked in his bedroom closet. He can't understand why the man didn't wait until the weekend wife-swapping party.
Two scientists do a birth control experiment with rats.
In a Revolutionary War camp, an aide tells the commander he's worried about one of the soldiers.
Two wealthy couples walking their dogs meet on the street. All are wearing expensive fur coats and hats, while talking of their love of animals.
Leda is concerned when her swan lover has wandering eyes for a passing swan.
A man at a bar comes up with a new pick-up line when he approaches two women.
An Eskimo building an igloo hasn't heard of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes.
A fortune teller makes a prediction to a very buxom woman.
A policeman settles in a chair in his apartment, ignored by his wife, who's reading a magazine, and his children, who are watching television.
A man uses a yardstick to measure the height of the grass before starting a love-making session.
A man asks a girl's parents for permission to marry her, but they aren't satisfied with his reason.
Two men stranded on a desert island compose a personals ad for their message in a bottle.
A man in a bar tells a girl she should aim for a more wealthy clientele.
Two boys watching television reflect on their parents' contradictory messages.
A customer keeps complimenting a topless waitress on her breasts.
A redrawing of Édouard Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass" (1863) with the characters playing strip poker.
After a romantic interlude, a woman gets dressed, while the man smokes a cigarette in bed.
A brothel doesn't have any customers.
Leaders from the "League for Moral Uplift" and the "Animal Humane Society" fight to see who gets to make the police shut down a theater featuring an act with a woman and an ape.
Scientists pretend they're planets for an experiment.
A pastor talks to a visitor and laments the loss of value of currencies.
A cowboy makes a play for a reluctant Indian girl.
In a booth at an exclusive restaurant, a man drops his napkin, but accidentally picks up the hem of his date's white dress, pulling it down and leaving her breasts exposed.
Two old men, sitting on a park bench playing checkers, watch an older lady in tight pants walk by.
At a board of director's meeting, one member shows his displeasure with a motion by giving the others a middle finger gesture.
After an outdoor evening love-making session, a woman compliments the man, who is making a mixed drink.
An obviously pregnant and clueless teen girl asks a boy why he's been avoiding her.
A wife is lying nude on the couch, waiting for her husband to come home from work.
A used car salesman has a man out for a test drive in a convertible. He gives a suggestion that could be appropriate for either the car's acceleration or for getting the attention of the attractive blonde walking on the sidewalk beside it.
The "Dirty Old Lady" is sick, but is well enough to grab the doctor's head and force it into her bosom.
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) | $21.94 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $7.20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $23.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 sold | — |
Highest verified price observed. Non-9.8 books never receive a 9.8 price or synthetic valuation.
ComicBase catalog guide reference valuation. Evaluated independently from newsstand cover prices and certified slabs.
Historical cover price stamped on physical newsstand or direct copies at initial publication.
Panel Profits decodes auction transaction feeds into sovereign econometric market valuations and bid-ask spreads. CGC, CBCS, and PSA never carry RAW prices.