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Independent · Psycho · #23 · Bronze Age · ID-3346720
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
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| Raw | $22.78 |
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Psycho #23 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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Comics grow darker and more socially aware. Wolverine, Punisher, Swamp Thing debut. Creator-driven storytelling emerges.
Newsstand variants carry meaningful scarcity premiums. First appearances from this era are blue-chip investments.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $7.50 | $24.99 | 70.0% | 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.
In 1923 a gardener named Ernest falls in love with a woman named Angela. Her rich father refuses to let her marry a mere gardener. Shortly thereafter, the garden comes to life and the plants murder the father. Afterwards Ernest and Angela wed in bliss. Decades later in the 1970s, the two now old lovers grow to hate each other. Ernest spends so much time in the garden that, out of spite, Angela plans to sell the house. That night the garden comes to life and the plants kill Angela. Now Ernest has the house to himself and makes it a part of the garden including Angela's corpse as fertilizer.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Psycho #23.
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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A beautiful woman sitting on a throne with monster crocodiles, a severed head, and skulls at her feet.
A drawing of a goblin-like creature holding a knife.
Charles Ogle runs a wax museum. He builds a lifelike wax figure of the Phantom of the Opera. At night during a fierce electric storm, lightning hits the figure and brings it to life. The wax phantom leaves the museum and scares some civilians and police before it starts melting in the hot sun. The Phantom makes it back to the museum and collapses in a heap of melted wax. There Ogle rebuilds it and plans on giving it a human brain so it could live again.
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In Egypt, an expedition uncovers a four thousand year old tomb hidden for centuries of Sarak and the "Cult of the Cobra". Once the tomb is opened, the entire expedition ends up dead. The artifacts are sent to the institute that sponsored the expedition. A secretary puts on one of the necklaces which causes her arms to turn into cobras killing her and revealing the curse that killed the expedition.
A brief writeup on the vampire.
In 1923 a gardener named Ernest falls in love with a woman named Angela. Her rich father refuses to let her marry a mere gardener. Shortly thereafter, the garden comes to life and the plants murder the father. Afterwards Ernest and Angela wed in bliss. Decades later in the 1970s, the two now old lovers grow to hate each other. Ernest spends so much time in the garden that, out of spite, Angela plans to sell the house. That night the garden comes to life and the plants kill Angela. Now Ernest has the house to himself and makes it a part of the garden including Angela's corpse as fertilizer.
The diary of a Circus clown who went mad and murdered an audience member who laughed at him. The clown cut out his heart and boasts he will keep killing.
In 1816, the townspeople storm Dracula's castle and destroy him and his werewolf minions. During all this chaos, Able Lubitz had his throat bitten by a vampiric werewolf.
A man sees a mysterious figure in the crowd and follows him wondering what he's up to.
A woman is married to a hideous scarred man. She hates him but wants his money so she pretends to love him. When it's discovered she has incurable cancer, her husband offers to pay for her to be cryogenically frozen so in the future when a cure for cancer is available she can be saved. In 2272, she is thawed out and cured. She is ecstatic that she is still young looking and healthy and free of her hideous looking husband. She is dismayed to find him still alive waiting for her. Because in the future aging has been cured to.
In 1884 the Mummy Khafre escapes from a traveling sideshow in America. She removes her bandages and realizes only her head is preserved. Her body is skeletal and devoid of organs. She puts on some modern clothing to hide her body and hitches a ride on a freighter back to Egypt. She enters her tomb but is captured by an archaeologist and his crew. She calls for her servants to save her....
A drawing of a gargoyle.
Zombies in a cemetery at night.
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) | $22.78 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $7.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $24.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 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.