Independent·Ragman·#5·Bronze Age·ID-22748
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 16 of 25 slabs (64.0%) | 16 | SOV | $153.67 | 16 | $2,459 | (29.4x) |
| 9.6 | 4 of 25 slabs (16.0%) | 4 | — | — | — | (16.0%) | |
| 9.4 | 1 of 25 slabs (4.0%) | 1 | — | — | — | (4.0%) | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 25 slabs (4.0%) | 1 | $53.32 | 1 | $53.32 | (10.2x) | |
| 9.0 | 1 of 25 slabs (4.0%) | 1 | — | — | — | (4.0%) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $5.23 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
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.
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.
Robert Kanigher
Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert
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Comics grow darker and more socially aware. Wolverine, Punisher, Swamp Thing debut. Creator-driven storytelling emerges.
Newsstand variants carry meaningful scarcity premiums. First appearances from this era are blue-chip investments.
Bronze Age (1970–1984) — comics grew darker and more socially aware. The era of classic runs, creator-driven storytelling, and the birth of serious collecting culture. Newsstand variants carry a meaningful scarcity premium.
Inspectable mathematical proof, blockchain/ledger provenance, data integrity validation, and asset taxonomy.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
Rory Regan continues to run his pawn shop and helping various people with small loans. Meanwhile a meeting takes place in a meat packing plant in which a crime boss hires a henchman to recover the million dollars in cash which is hidden away in Rory's junkyard. The hired thug develops a plan whereby he will kidnap Opal. When Ragman comes to Opal's rescue he will eliminate Ragman and recover the million dollars in cash. The thugs kidnap Opal as she comes out of a club. Ragman comes to the rescue but Opal is shot in the process. He subdues the thugs but it seems that Opal passes away in his arms. Meanwhile back at the junkyard an old man lays on the ground trying to stay warm. He has a small fire going and he asks Teddy to bring him some more paper to feed the fire. Teddy who is blind feels around a stack of mattresses and discovers the wads of paper money. The boy heaps the piles of money into the fire unaware that he is burning a fortune. The hired thug witnesses the burning but Ragman apprehends him before he can hurt anyone else.
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.