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Quality Comics · Smash Comics · #1 · Golden Age · ID-2517631
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Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Smash Comics #1 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
Ash #0 — Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti's Event Comics
The 1994 independent phenomenon that established Event Comics as a creative powerhouse, serving as the direct springboard to Joe Quesada becoming Marvel's Editor-in-Chief.
Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
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News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
The 1994 independent phenomenon that established Event Comics as a creative powerhouse, serving as the direct springboard to Joe Quesada becoming Marvel's Editor-in-Chief.
| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 9.0 | $2,629.00 |
| 7.0 | $1,035.00 |
| 5.0 | $747.50 |
| 4.0 | $1,497.70 |
| 3.0 | $1,198.00 |
| 2.0 | $655.95 |
| Raw | $441.10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $988.20 | $1,647.00 | 40.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| Raw | $242.50 | $485.00 | 50.0% | Arnveld Capital |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
The birth of superheroes. Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman debut. Comics became a mass medium.
Extreme scarcity drives value. Condition sensitivity is paramount — even low-grade copies of key issues command five figures.
Will Eisner
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Ed Cronin
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
In the mid-1930s, Vlamir Koran, a Hitler look-a-like dictator, conquers first Argentina, then the entirety of South America, sets up his capital in Buenos Aires, and sets his sights on the USA. His banner, trademark, logo, and swastika-substitute is the Black Spot [a green O on a black background]; it's displayed everywhere. All of this happens with great swiftness, giving the U.S. government little chance to stop this rising force. Koran sends his entire air fleet on a successful bombing raid at the Panama Canal; the canal locks are destroyed! His saboteurs blow up machines and equipment in the east coast shipyards, but the U.S.Navy drives away Koran's destroyers. Circa 1938-June: After a brief period of naval skirmishing, the Black Ace is dispatched to deliver a presidential message to Emanuel Hasana, leader of the pro-democracy rebels living under the dictator's yoke. Along the way, via the S.S. Aquaria, he also recovers some Top Secret defense plans from enemy female agent Mara Hani "the famous spy." In Panama, she hooks up with another Koranian agent, and picks up a squad of goons, setting up some ambushes and supply drops, through cities (Calamar Columbia; Matto Grosso on the Guapore River) and jungles. After a lengthy chase there is a shoot-out, in which Black Ace catches a bullet, and Mara Hani gets horribly but nonfatally ripped up by a jaguar. "A few months later," after Black Ace's hospital stay somewhere in northern South America, we learn that Hasana's patriotic forces have almost completely defeated Koran, and that Mara Hani has died of her jaguar-wounds.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Smash Comics #1.
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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Hourman and Doctor Mid-Night face a minion of Stalker on a U.S. Army Base located on a Scottish Isle.
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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.
Total graded population from the stored CGC census snapshot for this title and issue.
King Julius of Slobodka visits Shickshinny and gets kidnapped
Gil O'Teen, has usurped the throne of Pyromania. He captures Archie and tortures him by witholding food but piping aromas towards him. Archie finds an apple in a laboratory and turns invisible when he bites into it.
The Maharajah of Raas is willing to pay a million dollars for the return of a stolen sacred Indian necklace, and Inspector Blake calls in Kent Thurston because of his knowledge of precious gems. Donning a simple disguise, Thurston uses a gas gun to convince a culprit to cooperate as to the location of this necklace.
Clip accepts an invitation to visit the farm owned by his friend Bob. Two crooks are hiding out at the local hotel, and decide to fix the following day's baseball game for profit by kidnapping star player Bob. Clip tracks him down and releases him in time to play the game.
Cook and Kelly investigate a "ghost train" which appears directly in the path of passenger trains belonging to the Continental Railway Company. Cook works out that the headlight and whistle of the "ghost train" actually belong to an airplane being flown low over the tracks, and ambushes the pilot, who is in the pay of a rival railroad company.
Mad scientist Von Thorp sends his metal robot on a rampage through the city, leaving the Police at their wits' end, so they call in Hugh Hazzard, who manages to stow away inside the robot. The robot returns to von Thorp's hideout, whom Hazzard manages to capture. Learning that the Police plan a watery grave for the robot, Hazzard rushes in to save it, naming him Bozo the Iron Man, and using him as his new crime-fighting partner.
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) | $441.10 | — | $1,198.00 | $1,497.70 | $747.50 | — | $1,035.00 | — | $2,629.00 | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $242.50 | — | — | $988.20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $485.00 | — | — | $1,647.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 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.