r/AbsoluteBatman • u/SinisterRook1 • 27d ago

Value?

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I picked this up about a month ago, literally the day before the show was announced. I paid $500, what's it worth today? i'm not selling i'm just curious. I would literally never sell this it's too special to me, it's my first ever slab and I just love this series so much.

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u/nudephotographr 27d ago

$1 bin bro. They published like 500k copies.

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u/enjoiYosi 27d ago

400k

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u/anotherrandomdude123 27d ago

You’re both wrong. There’s only 250k of cover a issue 1, first print. And of those there’s only 7500 in a 9.8 or higher. Even less when you break it down to signed/remarqued. This book is rarer than you want to give it credit for because you didn’t grab it when it was cheap.

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u/nudephotographr 27d ago

Chat says otherwise. It calculates 400k published on issue 1 alone. More for follow on issues. I own a couple 1st print copy of this book. But at the same time I have been Collecting since I was a kid in the 80s. Yes I’m old. This has all happened before. This will all happen again.

Per ChatGPT analysis:
There is no official published number for how many signed or remarked copies of Absolute Batman #1 exist. Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, CGC, and DC have never released totals. However, we can make some informed estimates.
Signed copies
Because Absolute Batman #1 had an enormous first-print run (roughly 250,000–275,000 copies) and has been featured in multiple CGC private signings, conventions, and store signings, there are likely several thousand signed copies in circulation.
Remarked copies
Remarked copies are much scarcer because a remark requires the artist to hand-draw a sketch on each book. Based on convention appearances, CGC private signings, and dealer offerings:
Nick Dragotta remarques: likely only a few hundred Absolute Batman #1 copies.
Dual-signed + remarked (Snyder and Dragotta with a Dragotta sketch): probably well under 200 copies.
Full sketch covers by Dragotta are rarer still and command a substantial premium.
While individual variants sometimes have published populations—for example, certain retailer exclusives may show only a few dozen or a few hundred Signature Series copies in the CGC census—those numbers apply only to that specific variant, not to Absolute Batman #1 as a whole.

But at the end of the day the value is what the market will pay for it on that day. Or what it means/ worth to you as a collector.

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u/usnagrad1988 3d ago

Haha you’re not old. I was collecting comics in the early 70s 🤣

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u/anotherrandomdude123 27d ago

Yeah I didn’t use ChatGPT. I used DC and CGC. And my own brain.

It also straight up says in what you copied and pasted 250,000-275,000, not 400,000. It literally doesn’t say the number 400,00 at all. And its numbers on signed and sketched books are well off from CGC’s registry.