Independent·Martian Manhunter·#24·Modern Age·ID-3370452
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 2 of 6 slabs (33.3%) | 2 | SOV | $79.35 | 2 | $158.70 | (7.1x) |
| 9.6 | 1 of 6 slabs (16.7%) | 1 | — | — | — | (16.7% / <0.01%) | |
| 9.4 | 2 of 6 slabs (33.3%) | 2 | — | — | — | (33.3% / 0.01%) | |
| 9.2 | 0 slabs | 0 | $30.43 | — | — | (2.7x) | |
| 9.0 | 1 of 6 slabs (16.7%) | 1 | — | — | — | (16.7% / <0.01%) | |
| RAW | ~13,436 surviving raw (of ~19,203 printed) | 13,436 | RAW | $11.14 | — | $149,677 | (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.
John Ostrander
Doug Mahnke
Patrick Gleason
Carla Feeny
L.A. Williams, Peter Tomasi, Mike Carlin
Publisher profile coming soon
Variant cover era. Trade paperback culture. Independent movement flourishes. Digital distribution begins.
Census-registered copies anchor pricing. First appearances of characters adapted to screen drive the market.
Modern Age (1992–present) — foil cover era, variant proliferation, and the independent movement. Strong narrative significance drives key issue demand. Census-registered copies anchor pricing.
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.
The Past Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are at the Justice League Embassy and decide to play a prank on the Martian Manhunter. Aware of his fondness for Chocos cookies, they decide to steal J'onn's stash of snacks. Further, they buy up all of the Chocos in the city, leaving J'onn with absolutely no outlet to purchase more Chocos. J'onn goes into the city in an effort to find more Chocos, but naturally cannot find any. Growing desparate, he flies into a rage, and his size begins to increase in proportion to his anger. Further, his mind devolves to a state of brute savagery, and he begins growling, "Kooo-kieees!" as he tears through the streets of New York. Booster and Beetle realize that their seemingly harmless prank has grown far out of control and they try to calm the Manhunter down. This meets with little success, until they bait him to the warehouse where they have stockpiled all of their previously-purchased Chocos. His hunger abated, J'onn resumes a more normal form and sense of clarity. Later, they bring him back to the embassy, where Max Lord and the others hold an intervention. Batman performs a test on J'onn's DNA and determines that a chemical ingredient used in Chocos has caused a strong physical addiction in J'onn's body chemistry. The Martian Manhunter uses his shape-shifting skills to physically exorcise the addiction from his body. This former aspect of himself acquires partial sentience and attacks other members of the League. The addiction draws upon the craving of each of their targets, and succeeds in revealing embarrassing facets of each victim (ie, Max Lord's lustful desire for Wonder Woman, Ice's craving for baby seals, etc). J'onn uses his Martian Vision to destroy the manifestation and everything returns to normal.
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.