Dark Horse·Aliens·Colonial Marines·#1·Modern Age·ID-5551617
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 130 of 162 slabs (80.2%) | 130 | SOV | $50.00 | 130 | $6,500 | (11.1x) |
| 9.6 | 18 of 162 slabs (11.1%) | 18 | $35.87 | 18 | $645.66 | (8.0x) | |
| 9.4 | 9 of 162 slabs (5.6%) | 9 | $16.77 | 9 | $150.93 | (3.7x) | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 162 slabs (0.6%) | 1 | $23.00 | 1 | $23.00 | (5.1x) | |
| 9.0 | 2 of 162 slabs (1.2%) | 2 | — | — | — | (1.2%) | |
| RAW | Raw Uncertified Copies | — | RAW | $4.49 | — | — | (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.
Chris Warner
Tony Akins
Paul Guinan
Matt Hollingsworth
Dan Thorsland
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
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.
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.
Built on an asteroid, the Javelin Kinetics Alphatech Sungun, fires casks containing hazardous waste from all corners of the solar system into the Sun to be consumed. The crew is trying to catch up on an apparent backlog of materials. They are expecting a visit from company bigwig, Mister Beliveau, who is travelling aboard the Melville. An unexpected transport shows up with a load for the station. The ship, Laing, is docked automatically. The station crew hops to unloading the Laing, where they discover a Xenomorph hive. The hive quickly decimates the Sunggun crew. Except for a few souls locked in the control room. On the USCM Dover, Lt. Henry is taking a video call from his father. Later Henry get his orders From Petrovic to take the Melville and haul a replacement labor crew to an under construction deep communications array. Along the way he is also going to dock at the Sungun station to drop some toxics and a special passenger, Mister Believeau.
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.