DC·Superman Annual·#2·Silver Age·ID-2449224
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | $164.00 | — | — | (5.1x) | |
| 9.6 | 1 of 124 slabs (0.8%) | 1 | SOV | $2,524.00 | 1 | $2,524 | (78.1x) |
| 9.4 | 2 of 124 slabs (1.6%) | 2 | $4,884.68 | 2 | $9,769 | (151.2x) | |
| 9.2 | 5 of 124 slabs (4.0%) | 5 | $870.01 | 5 | $4,350 | (26.9x) | |
| 9.0 | 10 of 124 slabs (8.1%) | 10 | $395.00 | 10 | $3,950 | (12.2x) | |
| 7.0 | 15 of 124 slabs (12.1%) | 15 | ANC | $144.00 | 15 | $2,160 | (4.5x) |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $32.30 | — | — | (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.
Otto Binder
Wayne Boring
Stan Kaye
Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
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.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
While on an experimental rocket, Clark and Lois encounter the alien Brainiac, who plans to shrink and bottle the great cities of Earth and then use them to repopulate his planet. Superman gets inside Brainiac’s ship when the villain snatches Metropolis and there finds a bottle with the Kryptonian city of Kandor. He enters the bottle and with the help of a scientist there restores the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for his trip home. Because there is not enough power to restore Kandor, Superman places the city in his Fortress, as Brainiac rockets away empty-handed.
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.