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Independent · Tales from the Tomb · #3 · Bronze Age · ID-3393249
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| Raw | $13.12 |
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Tales from the Tomb #3 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.
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No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
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)
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| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $3.50 | $13.99 | 75.0% |
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.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Tales from the Tomb #3.
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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Contents page.
An old man gets news attention by claiming to study death. A man and woman criminal team attempt to rob him only to become part of his experiment. Seems the old man traps crooks and kills them, studying how they die. He traps them, hoping to watch them die from starvation only to suffer a heart attack and die himself.
Three mountain climbers and their guide, Oog get ready to get to the top of Everest, when a storm comes up and they are visited by a ghost warning them that the mountain will kill them if they don't go back. Two of the climbers and Oog meet their deaths and the survivor, Sandra makes it back to base camp only to discover that her face has aged considerably.
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Satan shows up and has optometrist Harry Lenz make a pair of spectacles. Harry tries them on and finds that he can see through walls and read minds. Killing an old miser (who is really Satan), Harry escapes and goes to Europe, changing his name to Herman Greid, extorts and blackmails his way to riches. Prince Natas and Princess Sedah (read them backwards) con Harry/Herman into financing a revolution. All goes wrong and Harry loses all his money and escapes only to have his glasses stolen by Satan and finds out now he is blind.
A gigolo who kills his elderly brides attempts to add another notch to his belt, only to become dinner for a elderly vampiress.
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) | $13.12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $3.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $13.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 sold | — |
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