Image·Paper Girls·#8·Independent·ID-2421064
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 6 of 12 slabs (50.0%) | 6 | SOV | $750.00 | 6 | $4,500 | (124.4x) |
| 9.6 | 5 of 12 slabs (41.7%) | 5 | — | — | — | (41.7% / 0.01%) | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 12 slabs (8.3%) | 1 | — | — | — | (8.3% / <0.01%) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | ~23,600 surviving raw (of ~33,731 printed) | 23,600 | RAW | $6.03 | — | $142,308 | (1.0x Base) |
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.
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
Creator-owned publisher. Home of Spawn, The Walking Dead, Invincible.
Outside the Marvel/DC duopoly. Often creator-owned with outsized cultural impact and far greater natural scarcity.
No returnable copies, no overprint buffer. True scarcity with potential for explosive growth on media adaptation news.
Independent publisher — outside the Marvel/DC duopoly. These issues often carry outsized cultural impact with far greater natural scarcity. No returnable copies, no overprint buffer.
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.
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.