Dark Horse·Aliens·Colonial Marines·#3·Modern Age·ID-5551615
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 16 of 20 slabs (80.0%) | 16 | SOV | $120.00 | 16 | $1,920 | (48.0x) |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 2 of 20 slabs (10.0%) | 2 | — | — | — | (10.0%) | |
| 9.2 | 2 of 20 slabs (10.0%) | 2 | $20.97 | 2 | $41.94 | (8.4x) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $2.50 | — | — | (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.
Chris Warner
Tony Akins
Paul Guinan
Matt Hollingsworth
Dan Thorsland
Known for Hellboy, Sin City, and licensed properties.
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.
A pricing discrepancy between an auction listing and the prevailing cleared consensus value across organized exchanges, allowing rapid liquidity capture before market equilibrium reconverges.
The Colonial Marines open fire on a nest of Xenomorphs on the Sungun station. Sgt. Nyland puts in a call to the Melville to come pick them up, but their chances of survival looks slim. Several marines get hit with alien acid spatter and burn to death, but on the whole, they end up cleaning out the corridor of infestation. Grabbing a lowly tech worker named Dinkel, the marines ask him where the greater concentration of aliens are. He tells them to go to the Tox Bay through the gravity well. The marines space walk outside the station until they can cut a hole leading directly into the Tox Bay. They blast away a few more aliens and manage to get their hands on a strange humanoid who seems to actually worship the Xenomorph as angels. They bring the worshiper back to the Melville for interrogation. The only information he manages to yield is a long string of pseudo-intellectual religious rambling.
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.