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Marvel · Tales to Astonish · #13 · ID-2388606
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Tales to Astonish #13 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $226,549.00 |
| 9.8 | $174,268.46 |
| 9.2 | $19,899.00 |
| 8.0 | $12,200.00 |
| 7.0 | $7,880.00 |
| 6.0 | $3,840.00 |
| 5.0 | $2,999.99 |
| 4.0 | $2,258.73 |
| 3.0 | $1,949.86 |
| 2.0 | $1,497.50 |
| Raw | $1,020.15 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $2,534.40 | $4,224.00 | 40.0% |
| 4.0 | $1,491.00 | $2,485.00 | 40.0% |
| Raw | $673.20 | $1,122.00 | 40.0% |
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In the Autumn of 1960, scientist Leslie Evans and wife Alice witnessed a blinding object falling from the sky. When Evans went to investigate the next day, he not only found the object, but discovered it was alive. Evans looked on as the alien creature, Groot, grew larger by the minute as he absorbed wooden objects into his own body. There in the woods, Groot announced his presence to the nearby community. Claiming to be the Monarch of Planet X, Groot announced that he had come to Earth to take a small Terran town back to his home world for its scientists to study. While the humans resisted, no gunfire, or even conventional fire could penetrate Groot's hide. Seeing the futility of trying to fight Groot directly, Evans abandoned the townspeople and raced back to his laboratory, for which he was labeled a coward. Over the next three days, Groot used his ability to control trees and plants to turn the forest into a make-shift army. His announced intention was to use Earth's native vegetation to create a net of roots to allow him to lift the town into space whole. When Groot entered the town, Evans snuck up behind him and unleashed the fruits of his frantic work: a specially bred colony of termites. The insects voraciously ate through Groot's hide, and into his core. Groot collapsed in a a state of shock, and was believed dead by the townsfolk.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Tales to Astonish #13.
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.
Foreign editions (licensed through Panini, Urban Comics, Editorial Novaro, Novedades, Otto Simon, etc.) represent physical tradeable instruments in international secondary markets. Geographic scarcity and currency differentials drive global cross-border arbitrage.
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Special black & white noir printings, facsimile editions, and anthology collections licensed or published domestically.
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The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero defeats Groot with termites.
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Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 2388606. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
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When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph, which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.
A misogynist woodcarver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.
An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.
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) | $1,020.15 | — | $1,949.86 | $2,258.73 | $2,999.99 | $3,840.00 | $7,880.00 | $12,200.00 | — | $19,899.00 | $159,168.00 | $174,268.46 | $226,549.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $673.20 | — | — | $1,491.00 | — | $2,534.40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $1,122.00 | — | — | $2,485.00 | — | $4,224.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 sold | — |
Highest verified price observed. Non-9.8 books never receive a 9.8 price or synthetic valuation.
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Historical cover price stamped on physical newsstand or direct copies at initial publication.
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“Behold! I am Groot, the invincible! Who dares defy me??”
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