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Comic Book Index (CMBI)

Comic Book Index (CMBI): a daily market-performance index for the collectible comic book market, built on ALT/FNDATA's dataset of over 45,000 lots since 2001, with 17,000+ realised prices. Daily index values for benchmarking and research.

Lots
45,000+
Realised prices
17,000+
History
2001–present

What this listing delivers

  • Daily market-performance index for the collectible comic book market, built on 45,000+ lots since 2001, with 17,000+ realised prices.
  • Grounded in realised auction and marketplace prices. Delivered in JSON, CSV and SQL formats.
  • Part of a family of ALT/FNDATA rare books and manuscripts indices on AWS Data Exchange. Daily-updated index values.

Coverage & methodology

The Comic Book Index (CMBI) delivers daily index values tracking the collectible comic book market on a consistent methodology, for benchmarking, valuation and research. The index is built on ALT/FNDATA's rare books and manuscripts sales data (over 45,000 Comic Book lots since 2001, with 17,000+ realised prices). Index values come in JSON, CSV and SQL formats and update daily.

Access

This dataset is published on AWS Data Exchange as part of the ALT/FNDATA catalogue. For subscription terms, a data sample, delivery format and enterprise licensing, contact our data team and we will get you set up directly.

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Source: ALT/FNDATA, 19.24M realized auction results across 37 collectible categories, normalized to USD. Featured lot images courtesy of the auction houses named. Methodology · All datasets · Brands · Market statistics