Independent·Machine Man·#19·Bronze Age·ID-2417629
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 59 of 423 slabs (13.9%) | 59 | SOV | $343.81 | 59 | $20,285 | (52.3x) |
| 9.6 | 97 of 423 slabs (22.9%) | 97 | ANC | $108.72 | 97 | $10,546 | (16.5x) |
| 9.4 | 78 of 423 slabs (18.4%) | 78 | $100.00 | 78 | $7,800 | (15.2x) | |
| 9.2 | 40 of 423 slabs (9.5%) | 40 | $50.42 | 40 | $2,017 | (7.7x) | |
| 9.0 | 42 of 423 slabs (9.9%) | 42 | $45.00 | 42 | $1,890 | (6.8x) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $6.57 | — | — | (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.
Tom DeFalco
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko
Nel Yomtov
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
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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.
Delmar Insurance is sponsoring the construction of a high-tech secure super-embassy. Byron Benjamin assigns Machine Man to safeguard it for its Halloween costume celebration. Machine Man has Gears Garvin repair damaged suffered to his face from last issue before attending the function. The villain known as Jack O'Lantern decides to raid the celebration under the guise of a Halloween guest. Jack O'Lantern and his goons run afoul of Machine Man who easily stomps all of them. Jack prepares to fire his wrist laser at the robot, but Machine Man erects an electrostatic field around Jack O'Lantern forcing the weapon to backfire into the villain's face. Machine Man then leaves, unthanked by the party guests.
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.