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Independent · Mystery in Space · #63 · Silver Age · ID-2413872
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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.
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $6,754.00 |
| 9.8 | $5,195.06 |
| 9.2 | $738.46 |
| 8.0 | $415.00 |
| 7.0 | $117.51 |
| 6.0 | $142.72 |
| 5.0 | $42.00 |
| 4.0 | $56.71 |
| 3.0 | $45.00 |
| 2.0 | $36.00 |
| Raw | $29.39 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $78.50 | $157.00 | 50.0% |
| 4.0 | $24.80 | $61.99 | 60.0% |
| Raw | $9.60 | $31.99 | 70.0% |
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Traveling to an equatorial jungle in Peru, Adam Strange rockets to ancient Incan ruins in order to intercept the Zeta-Beam that will transport him to Rann. Arriving on his adoptive home world he is greeted once more by Alanna. Adam asks Alanna to show him some ruins of a past civilization. Alanna takes Adam to the ruins of Sumuru. Their exploring is interrupted by a call from Ranagar City asking the two of them to return at once. Arriving there, one of the leaders of the city informs Adam Strange that aliens from another world have arrived and wish to meet a delegation of people, the leaders of Ranagar City have chosen Adam Strange to lead this delegation. Meeting with the aliens, they reveal their intention: to take over Rann. When Adam, Alanna and an army attack the aliens they activate a device called a "vacuumizer" which literally sucks up everybody in their path, including Adam and Alanna. With the army defeated, the aliens deliver their ultimatum: surrender or die. The people of Ranagar City surrender. All is not lost however, when the Zeta-Beam wears off Adam finds himself transported to Earth, alive and intact and begins to consider what to do when he travels next to Rann. Nine days later he transports himself back to Rann via the next Zeta-Beam and finds that the entire planet has been stripped bare. He soon finds Alanna, alive and well, who explains that after their defeat the aliens simply sucked up the cities on Rann and left the people to live like cavemen. Deducing that when the aliens dissolved people their weapons were not dissolved, Adam realizes that the Vacuumizers have to be set on a certain setting in order to dissolve and absorb certain materials. He then begins training the people of Ranagar City in hand to hand combat and make outfits that are composed of different types of metal. They then all attack the aliens who are easily overpowered as they do not know how to fight. Once defeated the aliens surrender and agree to restore the cities they took and leave Rann without their Vaccumizers. After everything is restored, the Zeta-Beam wears off and Adam is returned to Earth once again.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Mystery in Space #63.
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.
Foreign editions (licensed through Panini, Urban Comics, Editorial Novaro, Novedades, Otto Simon, etc.) represent physical tradeable instruments in international secondary markets. Geographic scarcity and currency differentials drive global cross-border arbitrage.
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Special black & white noir printings, facsimile editions, and anthology collections licensed or published domestically.
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Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 2413872. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
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When Adam Strange beams to Rann, Alanna tells him that aliens demand Rann's surrender. At dawn, Adam leads an army against the aliens, but they use their vacuumizers to turn the army into gas. When Adam materializes on Earth, he has nine days to form a plan. Returning to Rann, Adam finds Ranagar gone, but the Ranagarians restored. Realizing the vaccumizers only affect one element at a time, Adam has the Ranagarians cover themselves in several different metals so they can get close enough to the aliens to defeat them in hand-to-hand combat. The aliens surrender and leave without their weapons.
A spaceship captain faces down "mutiny on the high seas".
Two spacemen search for "star-flowers" in an alien temple, but an amphibious monster guards the water lily-like treasures.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $29.39 | — | $45.00 | $56.71 | $42.00 | $142.72 | $117.51 | $415.00 | — | $738.46 | $3,986.00 | $5,195.06 | $6,754.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $9.60 | — | — | $24.80 | — | $78.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $31.99 | — | — | $61.99 | — | $157.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 sold | — |
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