Independent·Emma Frost·#15·Independent·ID-2453881
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 8 of 10 slabs (80.0%) | 8 | SOV | $22.00 | 8 | $176.00 | (5.5x) |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | $19.07 | — | — | (4.8x) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | ~19,177 surviving raw (of ~27,410 printed) | 19,177 | RAW | $3.98 | — | $76,324 | (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.
Karl Bollers
Will Conrad
Will Conrad
Transparency Digital
Mike Marts
Publisher profile coming soon
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.
The recovery of third-party encapsulation and grading expenditures when an asset is acquired at a discount below the physical cost of replacement grading fees, shipping, and insurance.
Emma learns that Astrid is a mutant telepath like herself and the two become friends as Astrid teaches her how to use her powers more effectively. Emma learns for certain that Christie is seeing Ian romantically.
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.