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Independent · Playboy · #1 · Modern Age · ID-2406960
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
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| 10.0 |
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Market-wide signal (top 4) · Issue-specific signal (bottom 2 · tagged ISSUE)
Playboy #1 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
Value-focused accumulation target poised for catalyst breakouts.
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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.
News linked to this book, the Grand Comics Database record, variants and the source of each figure.
typeset
| $328.00 |
| 9.8 | $252.00 |
| Raw | $99.00 |
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)
Relative-value gravitational equilibrium anchored to the foundational genesis instruments of sequential art.
| Grade | Dealer Buy (Bid) | Retail Sell (Ask) | Spread | Underwriting House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $54.50 | $109.00 | 50.0% | Arnveld Capital |
Multi-tier analytical consensus distinguishing public truth, firm posture, desk urgency, and personal exposure
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Playboy #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.
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A man in a business suit is lying down in a pinup pose.
Santa exits a chimney with his sack, but minus his pants.
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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 2406960. 1 dated nightly snapshot on file for this book.
The Three Wise Men confer after seeing the Christ child.
Two night club managers watch a rehearsal of a chorus line, whose breasts are lit up with lights.
A nameless stranger in a poncho comes to clean up Pepperoni, New Mexico, in a parody of spaghetti westerns.
A painter is viewing his flat-chested model through binoculars to get an illusion of depth.
A stork carries a newborn, who surveys an over-crowded, polluted cityscape dominated by military missiles, crime, racism, poverty, and poor schools.
A Senator in his office is swarmed by miniature lobbiests, wanting favors.
A middle-aged man is found in bed with a teen girl by his wife.
Silverstein's observations about Hollywood.
A husband finds a man in his bedroom closet, wearing a Santa beard and holding a charity kettle.
An artist covers his canvas, his studio, and himself in the same abstract pattern of paints.
A boy's parents are shocked at his request for a rhyme.
In his chambers, a judge chases a young woman around a table.
A man comes home loaded with packages. His wife meets him at the apartment door in a negligee and says she's given the elevator operator his gift.
One of Santa's elves is frustrated when he can't get Santa to help with manufacturing problems.
Two men obey when the street crossing signal flashes "Crawl."
A woman is sitting nude in a chair. She just puts on a top to answer the door, which provides enough cover because she only opens the top half of a Dutch door.
A wealthy man is sunning himself on the beach by his home. He spies an attractive woman approaching and runs inside and returns to his chair dressed as Santa Claus, complete with two martinis.
A starlet is startled when the door to a movie producer's office bears the sign "R—Restricted: Underage Starlets enter at own risk."
A businessman and his secretary dance nude on his desk to celebrate a sales increase, to the quizzical gaze of an executive.
A mild-mannered modern-day chemist takes a potion that turns him into Mr. Hyde and also turns his necktie from a drab one into one with the image of a nude woman on it.
Peace Corps members in a Latin American country get caught up on the anti-American side of a revolution.
An Eskimo buys a chastity belt to cover his wife's nose.
Two generals look at a headless soldier, with a cannonball nearby.
A boy's hand is bloodied when he reaches into a box of animal crackers.
A fireman using a fire hose to fight a fire ends up eaten by it.
An optometrist uses an eye chart that tells his political leanings.
At a New Year's party, a woman asks a man about his objectives, apparently not realizing he has maneuvered her into a spare bedroom.
A hard-core union worker insults a dignitary who is using a shovel for a ground-breaking ceremony.
A aide tells a senator an environmental group is here to see him. Both the aide and the senator are wearing gas masks in a room full of fumes.
A sheep thinks a rooster and a bull are telling him a tall tale.
At a brothel, the madam tells a customer that using a cat-o-nine-tails whip on her girls is not allowed.
A man wakes up with a hangover and the woman in bed with him proceeds to tell him of all the dumb things he did the night before.
In the middle of a vast desert, a man is eating a meal by a fire. Behind him another man is sneaking up from the distance, ready to pop a paper bag behind him.
Two cowboys are walking across a desolate desert. One looks back to see that his partner's shadow is partially silhouetted against the horizon.
A teen girl seeks advice from a gift counselor.
A man takes off all his clothes to provide a path for a woman to walk across a wide puddle.
Two Middle East desert tribesmen have a discussion under a palm tree.
After he gets drunk at a Christmas party, Annie's boss Benton Battbarton is a kind and generous man. The next day, with an ad deadline bearing down, he reverts back to his usual mean and selfish self.
The leader of desert tribesmen ties a man to a palm tree, bends it down like a catapult, and prepares to cut the rope.
A dog brings slippers, newspaper, and pipe to an overstuffed chair, then enjoys them himself.
A group of teen girls race from the theatre with their souvenirs, one of which is the singer's head.
In the future, a beat-up old robot complains to a new model robot.
Two elephants touch the ends of their trunks. One elephant blows air into the other one, causing him to float off the ground.
A disheveled girl, holding a "Make Love Not War" protest sign, complains to her college roommate.
A scientist makes excuses after a less-than-exciting romp in bed with his assistant.
A man dressed in flashy mod clothes sits down to watch television. He finds nothing of interest, so he moves the chair in front of a full-length mirror so he can admire himself.
A couple has a memorable New Year's Eve celebration.
A wife tries to get her husband's attention by sitting in a chair with her feet over her head.
Spoof of Masters and Johnson sex research.
The staffer at a college placement office notes that a company looking for help does not support the war.
A boy on a tricycle only stays religious because of Christmas presents.
Spoof of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis.
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) | $99.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $277.00 | $252.00 | $328.00 |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $54.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $109.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 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.