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Independent · JLA · #8 · Modern Age · ID-2434595
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JLA #8 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
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Oscar Jimenez
Chip Wallace
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $52.00 |
| 9.8 | $40.00 |
| 9.2 | $18.71 |
| 8.0 | $12.88 |
| 6.0 | $7.58 |
| 4.0 | $1.77 |
| 3.0 | $1.00 |
| 2.0 | $1.00 |
| Raw | $2.13 |
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.
| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $1.70 | $8.29 | 79.5% | Khamsin Custodial |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
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Variant cover era. Trade paperback culture. Independent movement flourishes. Digital distribution begins.
Census-registered copies anchor pricing. First appearances of characters adapted to screen drive the market.
Ruben Diaz
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Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) teleports to the JLA Satellite for possible membership in the League and finds no one there. Elsewhere in the Satellite, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman have all been captured by The Key and are being administered a neural virus one by one that causes them to live alternate lives in their minds. Green Arrow spots a Key Man and shoots it through the head with an arrow. He runs and more Key Men give chase. He takes out several more Key Men and the Key shoots at him with some type of energy weapon. He misses but manages to take Connor's weapons away. Connor gets away. Connor patches himself up and raids the JLA trophy room for his father's bow and trick arrows. Armed, he heads off to confront the Key.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for JLA #8.
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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Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 2434595. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
[inside front] The Ultimate Batman Collection (VHS); [5] War Gods; [8] Coca-Cola; [13] Batman & Robin Skybox Premium Trading Cards; [16-17] Kool-Aid; [20] Apple Jacks; [25] Comic Book Champions; [28] Fighters Megamix; [31] Mello Yello; [inside back] Mr. Freeze Freezer Bars; [back] Batman & Robin (movie)
When a woman opens an ancient book, she releases the Queen of Fables, who immediately sets off in search of "the fairest of them all" -- Wonder Woman -- turning Manhattan in the dark forest of fairy tales. As soon as the JLA enters the forest, the Queen separates Wonder Woman from her teammates, and the remaining members split up into pairs to search for her. While Plastic Man and Martian Manhunter find themselves trapped in the gingerbread cottage from Hansel and Gretel, Green Lantern and Flash find Wonder Woman asleep in a glass coffin.
Aquaman and Superman join Flash and Green Lantern, and Aquaman's kiss revives the sleeping beauty Wonder Woman. After they all rescue Plastic Man and Martian Manhunter, Batman surprises the gathered heroes and sends the JLA into the book containing the Queen's land of fables. There they meet the Huntsman who tells how years ago sorcerers banished the Queen and her minions to Earth, where she tortured the commonfolk until her stepdaughter Snow White turned the Queen into fiction by mystically trapping her in a book. With this knowledge, the JLA return to Manhattan to re-imprison the Queen.
The JLA plan to force the Queen back into the book in which she was previously trapped, but find Manhattan overrun with storybook creatures and the Queen occupying Wonder Woman's Wonderdome. Using her lasso of truth, Wonder Woman forces the Queen to see the world as it is, a world of technology and discovery, not the land of fantasy she once knew. Shattered, the Queen tries to return to the realm of fairy tales in the mystical book, where she can retain some semblance of power, but Flash tricks her, and traps her in a book completely lacking in imagination.
Superman tells Batman about the effect the distrust he brought into the JLA had on a recent case. The members split up to handle three emergencies and all met Dr. Destiny. When they realized that they faced Destiny’s dream self who had brought dream logic to the waking world, the Manhunter put them to sleep and as a team they forced Dr. Destiny to wake up and swap places with his dream self. Convinced, Batman summons the JLA and he and Superman greet them in their civilian guises to restore their trust. As the other JLAers with secret identities change to theirs, the Batman enters the cave.
All six JLAers with secret identities come face to face with people who are apparently them in their civilian IDs. When J'onn J'onzz verifies that they are in fact who they believe they are, the civilians return to their lives while the heroes deal with a homeless man with god-like powers. Though the heroes easily handle the situation, their other identities are not as easily adjusting to life without super-powers.
As the heroes and their alter egos drift further apart, a horrific version of Metamorpho comes to life to reunite with his son Joey Stagg. While trying to protect the Stagg family, the JLA encounter The Cathexis who inform them that a sentient energy from their dimension called ID is loose in the JLA's dimension and has granted Joey's wish for his father's return. Once Joey wishes his father away, The Cathexis suggest that not only is ID responsible for many of the strange occurrences around the globe but that it is also responsible for separating their private selves from their hero selves.
As Eel O'Brian gathers their secret identities, the heroes work with the Cathexis to subdue ID. But once the Cathexis have regained control of ID, they reveal their true nature, putting the entire JLA out of commission. Only the human halves of the Leaguers now stand against them.
Eel O'Brian tries to use the ID to reunify the Leaguers, but he is only partially successful. The Cathexis turn Aquaman into a real fish-man and separate Wonder Woman's soul from her clay body, but when they do they unleash the spirit of truth that is her essence, by which she makes the partially merged Leaguers acknowledge that they are only parts of a whole, and they become unified again. Flash uses ID to restore Aquaman and convert The Cathexis into something the League can easily handle.
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) | $2.13 | — | $1.00 | $1.77 | — | $7.58 | — | $12.88 | — | $18.71 | $44.00 | $40.00 | $52.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | — | — | — | — | — | $1.70 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $2.99 | — | — | — | — | $8.29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 sold | — |
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