Marvel·Iron Man Annual·#3·Bronze Age·ID-2453540
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 14 of 93 slabs (15.1%) | 14 | SOV | $440.00 | 14 | $6,160 | (40.7x) |
| 9.6 | 23 of 93 slabs (24.7%) | 23 | ANC | $100.00 | 23 | $2,300 | (9.3x) |
| 9.4 | 20 of 93 slabs (21.5%) | 20 | $80.00 | 20 | $1,600 | (7.4x) | |
| 9.2 | 6 of 93 slabs (6.5%) | 6 | $96.49 | 6 | $578.94 | (8.9x) | |
| 9.0 | 7 of 93 slabs (7.5%) | 7 | $39.00 | 7 | $273.00 | (3.6x) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $10.80 | — | — | (1.0x Base) |
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Understand how physical sales, invested dollars, and liquidity friction divide across grades.
Completed market sales by grade
Relative market value allocation
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Bibliographic provenance, creator credits, historical significance, and multimedia documentation.
Steve Gerber
Sal Buscema
Jack Abel
Janice Cohen
Marv Wolfman
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
Home of Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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.
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A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
Using Molecule Man's apparently non-functioning wand given to him at random by the Thing (Ben Grimm), Sanford pretends to be Molecule Man with his friends Cynthia (Iron Girl) and Boyd. The wand is accidentally activated, and when Cynthia touches it, she becomes a fully-grown woman with Molecule Man's facial markings, and a mentality combining the two personalities.
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.