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Independent · Planetary · #1 · Modern Age · ID-2524715
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $113.00 |
| 9.8 | $87.19 |
| 9.2 | $32.33 |
| 8.0 | $24.06 |
| 6.0 | $18.26 |
| 4.0 | $9.42 |
| 3.0 | $8.00 |
| 2.0 | $6.00 |
| Raw | $12.04 |
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| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $5.00 | $19.99 | 75.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| 4.0 | $2.00 | $9.99 | 80.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| Raw | $3.30 | $12.99 | 74.6% | Arnveld Capital |
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Elijah Snow, a man as old as the 20th century, is recruited from a meaningless existence to be the third man of the organization known as Planetary. Joining Jakita Wagner, the lovely and leather-clad, super-strong team leader, and The Drummer, a technophile who can tell machines what to do, Snow learns that Planetary's goals -- funded by a mysterious fourth man -- are to uncover the secret history of the past century, wherever that quest may take them. Snow's first mission is to investigate an artificial cavern hidden in the Adirondacks, where (according to documents recovered from the KGB) it was to be the last known destination of Doctor Axel Brass, an adventurer and extraordinary man. While on the way to the Adirondacks, Jakita explains to Elijah about Doc Brass. He was born on January 1, 1900, who shares the same birth date with several other unusual individuals. By his thirties he was a genuine renaissance man of his time. He dealt with things that no one outside of his group knew about. Things history never recorded. Brass then mysteriously disappeared in 1945. Upon entering the cavern, Elijah and Jakita find a trophy room containing unusual objects such as "The Hull of Charnel Ship" and "The Murder Colonels". They then walk into a room, where to their surprise encounter a crippled Doc Brass still alive, awake, and standing guard over an interdimensional snowflake, a quantum computer created by Brass and six associates near the end of World War Two. Brass explains to the two that he and his allies of his era had taken on the responsibility of protecting the world, and in 1945 they designed a massive quantum computer that performed calculations through the Multiverse, which is represented in the form of a theoretical snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space. Doc Brass and his team had wanted to use the computer to help them build a perfect world as it enabled them to literally code the future of the world. That awesome invention also proved their undoing, as the computer opened a doorway into our reality from a parallel one. Through it came another group of super-beings, their own universe on the verge of destruction, to battle for supremacy in ours. "We saved the world that night," recalls Brass. "Only I survived." Unable to switch off the computer, Brass watches over it to make sure no one else comes through... for more than 50 years. In the end, Brass is escorted away by Planetary's medics as Snow question Wagner if their organization got what they wanted which Jakita simply replies that they did uncover Brass' quantum supercomputer and a secret base, making everything worthwhile.
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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.
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Elijah Snow is hired by Jakita Wagner to join Planetary, a four-man team (3 field agents and one mysterious backer known as "the Fourth Man") looking to uncover the hidden history of the world as “mystery archeologists." Their first mission: to explore a man-made cavern in the Adirondacks, the last known destination of Doc Brass, an adventurer from the 1930s and 1940s.
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Elijah Snow is hired by Jakita Wagner to join Planetary, a four-man team (3 field agents and one mysterious backer known as "the Fourth Man") looking to uncover the hidden history of the world as "mystery archeologists". Their first mission: to explore a man-made cavern in the Adirondacks, the last known destination of Doc Brass, an adventurer from the 1930s and 1940s.
A monster's skeleton attacking Ryu [Master Storyteller] and his men.
Planetary travels to Japan to investigate the unofficial history of Island Zero, a breeding ground for giant radioactive monsters.
Planetary travels to Japan to investigate the unofficial history of Island Zero, a breeding ground for giant radioactive monsters.
A spectral policeman seeking vengeance.
Planetary travels to Hong Kong to investigate the ghost of a slain cop bent on vengeance.
Planetary travels to Hong Kong to investigate the ghost of a slain cop bent on vengeance.
While investigating the destruction of a Hark building, Planetary watches as Jim Wilder -a Hark investigator- steps on a large lightning-bolt shaped rock and disappears. He returns transformed into a superhuman by a sentient ship designed to transverse alternate universes. The ship crash-landed on earth millions of years ago and has asked Wilder for help getting home. Wilder agrees to help and search out the other six superhumans needed to pilot the ship, with Planetary’'s help.
Axel and Elijah spend an afternoon talking and reminiscing about their lives.
Elijah learns about the Four, the first astronauts into space in the early 1960s. Changed during the flight, the Four are the opposite of Planetary, hording advanced technology and knowledge for only a privileged few, and leaving a faint trail of murder and terrorism behind them.
Axel and Elijah spend an afternoon talking and reminiscing about their lives.
Planetary begins investigating an innovative bomb maker who disappeared in an explosion during the 1960s.
Elijah learns about the Four, the first astronauts into space in the early 1960s. Changed during the flight, the Four are the opposite of Planetary, hoarding advanced technology and knowledge for only a privileged few, and leaving a faint trail of murder and terrorism behind them.
Planetary attends the funeral of Jack Carter, a 1980s major magic user and one of Jakita's former lovers.
Planetary is contacted by a woman named Allison, who relates to them the horrors of Science City Zero. City Zero was an experimental base where people disappeared during the height of the “Red Scare” and were subjected to scientific tortures designed to test the limits of the human body.
Planetary follows the recovery of a rocket that crash-lands in Norfolk England in 1997 from a fictional universe. Three astronauts left in the rocket, but four came back. The fourth kills the other astronauts before escaping into Planetary's world.
As the Planetary clean-up team gathers various items from the Four Voyagers Plaza, Elijah looks at 3 artifacts and wonders about their history. The artifacts are a blanket with alien symbols on it, a pair of golden wrist bands, and a blue, alien lantern. The owners of the artifacts were killed by the Four.
Planetary begins investigating an innovative bomb maker who disappeared in an explosion during the 1960s.
Elijah Snow opaquely over various covers and interior pages of the previous 11 issues.
As Elijah deals with his apparent memory loss with Jakita and the Drummer, the identity of the Fourth Man is revealed.
In the early part of the 20th century, a young Elijah Snow tracks down the last of a hidden conspiracy. Its members include John Griffin [Invisible Man], H.G. Wells, Baron Frankenstein and his Monster, Robor, Carnacki, Sherlock Homes, and Dracula, among others. All have been accounted for except two: the detective and the vampire.
The discovery of a stick that turns into a hammer leads Elijah to discover a world that the Four has destroyed to use as a place to store their weapons. This leads to a showdown with the Four, where a captured Elijah is forced to endure memory blocks by Randall Dowling in order to save his team.
After a near chance meeting between the two groups, Planetary decides to break into the Authority's headquarters to download the information stored there. Meanwhile, the Authority investigates the caves of the Adirondacks where Doc Brass' multiverse computer resides. When a corrupt technician turns it on, Earth is invaded by marauding robots. The two groups unknowingly work together to defeat the menace.
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) | $12.04 | — | $8.00 | $9.42 | — | $18.26 | — | $24.06 | — | $32.33 | $77.00 | $87.19 | $113.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $3.30 | — | — | $2.00 | — | $5.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $12.99 | — | — | $9.99 | — | $19.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 sold | — |
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