Latest sale · click to enlarge
DC · Plastic Man · #1 · Postmodern Age · ID-3848162
Stored prices by grade and source, exactly as recorded. A source with no price for a grade shows a dash.
Your cost basis next to the stored PriceCharting price for the grade you hold
Track your holding in your portfolio. Record your grade (0.5–10.0 or Raw), grading authority (CGC, CBCS, PSA, or Raw), acquisition cost basis, and purchase date to activate real-time equity valuation, unrealized ROI, and capital gains tracking.
Dated PriceCharting snapshots and recorded sales. Nothing is drawn where no dated price exists.
AI-scored · tracking Plastic Man · refreshes every 2 min
RSI needs 15 dated prices; 1 on file for 9.8.
BB20 is waiting for 20 dated prices for 9.8; no shorter window is substituted.
Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Plastic Man #1 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
Gail Simone
Adriana Melo
Adriana Melo
Kelly Fitzpatrick
Simon Bowland
Kristy Quinn
| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $78.00 |
| 9.8 | $60.00 |
| 9.2 | $17.88 |
| 8.0 | $13.12 |
| 6.0 | $9.17 |
| 4.0 | $3.69 |
| 3.0 | $3.00 |
| 2.0 | $2.00 |
| Raw | $5.71 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $2.00 | $9.99 | 80.0% |
| 4.0 | $0.80 | $4.09 | 80.4% |
| Raw | $1.30 | $6.29 | 79.3% |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
Deconstructionist storytelling. Trade-first publishing. Creator prestige over character IP.
Value driven by creator reputation and adaptation potential rather than print scarcity.
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.
Gangster Sammy Mizzola beats up fellow gangster "Eel" O'Brian in an alley way with the help of goons "Brutal" Benny Turlin and "Dizzy" Darren Fitzroy, interrupting his date with an actress named Janet. Leaving him to bleed out, a child named Pado comes by and comments on how badly he was beaten before wandering off. O'Brian stands up and leaps into action as Plastic Man, having gotten a lead in a case he is looking to investigate while allowing his former partners in crime to bludgeon him. As he bounces through the air in the shape of a ball, he remembers having done a heist at a chemical factory with the gangsters and one of them shot him as well as a guard. Plas catches up with Benny and confronts him, transforming into Wonder Woman as a joke and intimidating him into confessing who killed the guard and Benny says that it was Eel. He goes to his regular job as night shift manager at a superhero-themed strip club and fishes for a date with a dancer but is rejected. Afterward, he heads to his mouse-ridden apartment and thinks back to the night of the heist. This time, we flash back to the guard interrupting them breaking into a safe and Darren has a shootout with the guard, killing him and spraying chemicals over Eel, whose flesh starts melting. They drive away but throw Eel out the window of the car, where he is haunted by the ghost of the guard and awakens suddenly to find someone in his apartment. The woman introduces herself as Obscura of Spyral, and she has come to abduct him. She knows his secret identity and informs him that a vast conspiracy has compromised governments, militaries, and superhero groups across multiple dimensions and she needs his help to bring down the conspirators. He is to infiltrate them to gather data. He gets a call from Benny, who begs him to come quickly, saying that Darren and Sammy are missing and he is scared that someone is trying to get him as well. Eel transforms into a rocket and leaps away with Obscura saying that she will follow behind. He morphs into a car to drive himself to Benny's only to find his former partner dying. Plas asks who killed him and he writes, "JLA" in his blood. Just then, dozens of police arrive and a woman identifies Plastic Man as the killer.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Plastic Man #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.
Special black & white noir printings, facsimile editions, and anthology collections licensed or published domestically.
? [as your Mole in 1700]
?
?
?
typeset
Eel O'Brian is accused of murder, and Plastic Man is assigned to bring him in.
Inspect underlying sources, timestamps, and confidence factors for any market claim
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.
Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 3848162. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
“| Speaker =”
— | StoryTitle1 = Plastic Man: "The Game of Death
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) | $5.71 | — | $3.00 | $3.69 | — | $9.17 | — | $13.12 | — | $17.88 | $66.00 | $60.00 | $78.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $1.30 | — | — | $0.80 | — | $2.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $6.29 | — | — | $4.09 | — | $9.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 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.