Image·Spawn·The Dark Ages·#16·Modern Age·ID-4206152
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 1 of 3 slabs (33.3%) | 1 | SOV | $5.72 | — | $5.72 | (1.0x) |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 1 of 3 slabs (33.3%) | 1 | — | — | — | (33.3%) | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $5.72 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
Market operates purely on organic buyer and seller auction discovery. Zero artificial price interventions or emergency liquidity halts on record.
Understand how physical sales, invested dollars, and liquidity friction divide across grades.
Historical price records
Relative market value allocation
Estimated execution friction
Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Steve Niles
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No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
Creator-owned publisher. Home of Spawn, The Walking Dead, Invincible.
Variant cover era. Trade paperback culture. Independent movement flourishes. Digital distribution begins.
Census-registered copies anchor pricing. First appearances of characters adapted to screen drive the market.
Inspectable mathematical proof, blockchain/ledger provenance, data integrity validation, and asset taxonomy.
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.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.