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Independent · Playboy · #3 · Copper Age · ID-2407264
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Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Playboy #3 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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The direct market matures. Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen redefine the medium. Speculator boom begins.
High print runs mean condition is the key differentiator. 9.8 census numbers matter more than total prints.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
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typeset
| 9.2 | $350.00 |
| 8.0 | $220.00 |
| 7.0 | $51.00 |
| Raw | $79.96 |
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)
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 |
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| Raw | $35.20 | $87.99 | 60.0% | 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.
Five alcohol-related cartoons and two illustrations.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Playboy #3.
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.
? (brief intro), ?, ? [as Eli] (signed), ? [as E. Shaffer] (signed)
?, ? [as Eli] (signed), ? [as E. Shaffer] (signed)
?, ? [as Eli] (signed), ? [as E. Shaffer] (signed)
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typeset
Two centaurs see two nymphs and two fillies at a stream and can't decide which pair to pursue.
Five alcohol-related cartoons and two illustrations.
A painter gets dressed after a romantic interlude with his model.
A blonde in a sheer dressing gown holds a copy of Playboy in one hand and glasses in the other.
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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.
Origin recorded for the cover image shown on this page.
A teen girl makes a comment to a male librarian at the desk that could be misinterpreted by the female librarians and the other older adults in the adjoining reading room.
When a wife tells her husband to "put some magic back in our marriage,' he takes her literally and sits in a robe and conical hat, waving a wand over a flaming pot on the coffee table.
A woman in a sheer robe holds love beads with a peace symbol medallion attached.
Eleven ultra-violent cartoons.
A man is reading the newspaper, while his wife comments on the news.
A worker at a sewage treatment plant opens a valve.
A marriage counselor shows an unreasonable couple his final solution—a pair of dueling pistols.
A counterculture father is reading a bedtime story from Evergreen Review to his children.
A policeman's wife complains about his behavior breaking up a demonstration.
Five men are tossed out of a bar, which was apparently a gay bar before it was taken "under new management."
A high-fashion woman asks a small boy why he called her a 'swinger,' while the boy's mother looks on in confusion.
Two men in a bar have a disagreement.
A priest in the pulpit exhorts his flock to support the church's policy on birth control.
A near-hysterical housewife clutches the milkman as he fills her refrigerator to the brim with milk and eggs.
A baby in a back bundle of a hippie couple gives the middle finger to an upper-class couple.
A beggar comes up with a novel approach to get a hand-out.
A man goes to a doctor stooped over with a pain in his back. The doctor has him remove the heavy medallion and beads from his neck and that solves the problem.
Two men watch as three women walk by. They follow them and are joined by a wealthy older man. The three catch up to the women and introduce themselves. All the women walk off with the wealthy man.
An optometrist has a shop with an hanging sign with a single eye and a single eye on his shop window. The optometrist himself is a cyclops.
A mother intends to give her daughter a compliment, but it could be taken a different way.
A producer gives Shakespeare a hard time when he brings him a copy of "Romeo and Juliet."
At a bar, a woman punches a man in the eye when he tries to make a pass at her.
A couple is concerned when the marriage counselor they are seeing is having problems with his divorced wife.
A call girl in stockings and high heels talks on the phone after leaving a bed littered with whips, belts, and a man smoking a cigarette.
A man thinks a trial marriage is too confining.
A policeman grabs a peeping Tom who's watching some unusual activity.
A young sloth is perched on top of a branch, instead of hanging below it like his parents.
A woman changes her look to get men interested in her, but her changes just make women more interested.
At a children's party, a father finds a couple in his bedroom.
A riot policeman gives an interview to a member of the press during a peace demonstration.
A man watches a man leave a night club, accompanied by two women, and wonders why that couldn't be him.
A platoon of soldiers hold a very disciplined protest in a general's office.
A rather depraved-looking doctor tells a nude female patient that he's going to test her reflexes—with a feather.
The boardroom of a distillery company has a large portrait of its founder—a 1920s bootlegger.
A father has a talk with his son on the state of the world.
Male and female chemists are caught making out in the lab by their supervisor.
A writer describes a cynical plot line to his wife.
Jane makes out with an ape, thinking it's Tarzan.
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) | $79.96 | — | — | — | — | — | $51.00 | $220.00 | — | $350.00 | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $35.20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $87.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 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.