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Independent · Alpha Flight · #2 · Copper Age · ID-5961022
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 10.0 | $53.00 |
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Alpha Flight #2 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.
John Byrne
Steve Seagle
| 9.8 | $41.00 |
| 9.6 | $16.27 |
| 9.2 | $26.58 |
| 8.0 | $17.70 |
| 6.0 | $10.72 |
| 4.0 | $3.50 |
| 3.0 | $3.00 |
| 2.0 | $2.00 |
| Raw | $3.73 |
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 (30% haircut · THIN_AUCTION_FLOAT)
Relative-value gravitational equilibrium anchored to the foundational genesis instruments of sequential art.
| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $3.00 | $11.99 | 75.0% | Khamsin Custodial |
| 4.0 | $0.80 | $3.89 | 79.4% | Khamsin Custodial |
| Raw | $0.80 | $4.09 | 80.4% | Arnveld Capital |
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Speculative micro-allocation with high-beta risk/reward characteristics.
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The direct market matures. Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen redefine the medium. Speculator boom begins.
High print runs mean condition is the key differentiator. 9.8 census numbers matter more than total prints.
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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 Alpha Flight #2.
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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Stored PriceCharting 9.8 price for product 5961022. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
The Master shows up at the Department H headquarters and Alpha Flight runs him off. Later, several versions of the Master appear and battle each member of Alpha Flight separately. It turns out that these are "semi-organic synthoids" designed to test Alpha Flight and not the Master after all.
Alpha Flight discovers that by going back in time and convincing Jimmy Hudson not to confront Jerry Jaxon in New York, they have changed the timeline and find themselves facing an army of Box robots created by Jaxon. Sasquatch does the math and decides to send Centennial back in time again, this time to convince Hudson to make the trip to face off with Jaxon hoping this will fix the time conundrum. This works to an extent as the Box robots in the present disappear but they are replaced by a corrosive acid rain that threatens to melt all of Canada.
After convincing Guardian to go to New York and defeat Jerry Jaxon, Alpha Flight discovers that this new divergent timeline results in the destruction of Canada by Plodex aliens and nuclear fire. Nemesis sends Zuzha back in time to convince Guardian to return to Canada instead of calling the old Alpha Flight to New York where they were destined to become hugely popular and remain in the U.S., thus causing Canada to go kaput. In the future, the new timeline created by her instructions have Nemesis being confronted by the Canadian Militia for a Super-Hero Free Country.
Nemesis creates a future in which Guardian decides to take over the world. As new Alpha Flight battles old Alpha Flight, Sasquatch asks Shaman to fix the timeline by using his magic powers as Walter's solutions haven't worked. Shaman traps the old team in his medicine pouch and the new team returns to the "real" present right before they decided to muck about with the time stream. Sasquatch opens Shaman's pouch up and the old Alpha Flight comes tumbling out. So now with time unaltered, the old and new Alpha Flights are united as one.
Vindicator and Shaman rush Puck to the hospital. Shaman uses his Sarcee magic powders to stabilize his condition, but it is his skills as a surgeon that ultimately saves his life.
While Shaman labors to save Puck, Vindicator ruminates over the circumstances that brought Marrina into Alpha Flight's fold.
Flashback:<br> :Eighteen years ago, fisherman Tom Smallwood) fell from the deck of his trawler during a massive rainstorm. Mired down by his fishing nets, he began to sink to the bottom of the sea. However, his attention caught sight of a glowing green egg, and he was able to snatch it up and use it to buoy himself to the water’s surface.
:Taking the egg home with him, he showed it to his wife, Gladys). The egg hatched, bringing forth an infant aquatic life form. Naming her, Marrina, the Smallwoods took the child into their home and raised her as one of their own.
:By age sixteen, Marrina's aquatic super-powers fully developed. The Smallwoods found that she could not only survive indefinitely underwater, but could swim at speeds in excess of 800 knots per hour.
:Within a short time, the administrators of Department H) discovered Marrina's existence and James Hudson personally recruited her into the Beta Flight) program. Marrina excelled as a member of Beta Flight and within a span of four months was ready to become a full-fledged Alphan.
The rest of Alpha Flight gathers together aboard the Omnijet and begins tracking Marrina's path via the signal device located in her locket. She swims to the North Pole where she arrives at a frozen glacier facility. Rising up out of the water, Marrina finds herself in the presence of a costumed man who calls himself the Master).
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) | $3.73 | — | $3.00 | $3.50 | — | $10.72 | — | $17.70 | — | $26.58 | $16.27 | $41.00 | $53.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $0.80 | — | — | $0.80 | — | $3.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $4.09 | — | — | $3.89 | — | $11.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 sold | — |
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Historical cover price stamped on physical newsstand or direct copies at initial publication.
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