Marvel·Tales to Astonish·#18·Silver Age·ID-2388611
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | $11,518.13 | — | — | (95.8x) | |
| 9.6 | 1 of 114 slabs (0.9%) | 1 | — | — | — | (0.9%) | |
| 9.4 | 1 of 114 slabs (0.9%) | 1 | — | — | — | (0.9%) | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | $2,652.00 | — | — | (22.1x) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | $33,600.00 | — | — | (279.5x) | |
| 5.5 | 14 of 114 slabs (12.3%) | 14 | ANC | $1,708.00 | 1 | $23,912 | (14.2x) |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $120.23 | 14 | — | (1.0x Base) |
Empirical cash settlement intelligence, cross-grade elasticity curve, and secondary liquidation velocity.
Empirical step multipliers between adjacent condition tiers. Pinpoints the exponential premium transition and capital efficiency frontier.
Realized turnover cadence and capital absorption depth across certified auction comps.
Autonomous institutional strategies, financial equilibrium, scarcity modeling, and algorithmic risk profiling.
Market operates purely on organic buyer and seller auction discovery. Zero artificial price interventions or emergency liquidity halts on record.
Verified historical transaction line with quarterly equilibrium baseline anchor.
Understand how physical sales, invested dollars, and liquidity friction divide across grades.
Completed market sales by grade
Relative market value allocation
Estimated execution friction
Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Dick Ayers
Stan Goldberg
Home of Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Marvel revolution. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko create the modern superhero. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men debut.
The sweet spot for collectors — significant enough to be culturally important, scarce enough to be valuable. 9.8 copies are extremely rare.
Silver Age (1956–1970) — the era that redefined the superhero genre. Scientific themes, moral complexity, and Stan Lee's Marvel revolution define this period. High-grade copies command aggressive premiums.
Inspectable mathematical proof, blockchain/ledger provenance, data integrity validation, and asset taxonomy.
In illiquid alternative asset markets, sovereign blue-chip holdings trade at an exponential multiple over mid-grade float due to institutional accumulation and inelastic seller reservation prices.
After his last encounter with humans, Gorgilla escapes Borneo and travels to New York where people attack him because they think he's hostile. Escaping into the sewers he stumbles upon a Soviet plot to assassinate an African dignitary. Gorgilla stops them, but not before one escape onto Liberty Island and up th staute of liberty. When he follows the assassin he is shot and seemingly killed just as he catches up to the guy.
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.