Bone #1
- Maker
- Cartoon Books
- Year
- 1991
- Rank
- 31 of 100
Bone #1
Bone #1 by Cartoon Books (1991) is ranked 31 in the FLOAT 100 for Comics. It sold for $15,000. First issue of Jeff Smith's Bone; a landmark self-published indie and a five-figure modern key in top grade.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
First issue of Jeff Smith's Bone; a landmark self-published indie and a five-figure modern key in top grade.
Bone #1 (1st printing), CGC 9.8
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $15,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
CGC 9.8 first printing record of $15,000 — the first 9.8 to break five figures. Exact venue/date not published in the sources found; figure is the documented record.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08