Dark Horse·Alien Worlds·#3·Bronze Age·ID-2516481
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 38 of 68 slabs (55.9%) | 38 | SOV | $79.50 | 38 | $3,021 | (17.1x) |
| 9.6 | 15 of 68 slabs (22.1%) | 15 | $58.26 | 15 | $873.90 | (12.5x) | |
| 9.4 | 7 of 68 slabs (10.3%) | 7 | — | — | — | (10.3%) | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 68 slabs (1.5%) | 1 | $41.13 | 1 | $41.13 | (8.8x) | |
| 9.0 | 4 of 68 slabs (5.9%) | 4 | $12.50 | 4 | $50.00 | (2.7x) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $4.66 | — | — | (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.
Known for Hellboy, Sin City, and licensed properties.
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.
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.
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.