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catman76

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    Measuring scarcity

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    There's many threads in the golden age forum about corrections to the gerber scarcity index numbers, but for the most part is still pretty accurate for superhero comics and the more in demand comics. But since Gerber and most collectors don't care about anything else and ignored anything but superhero comics back then and still do, the numbers for anything that's not a superhero comic are way off most of the time. Gerber didn't even bother photographing probably a thousand non superhero comics and just skipped them and it seems just assigned anything non superhero random scarcity numbers, giving them 5's or 4's when there are so many I know should be 7's or 8's or even 9's. There's also so many mistakes in the information for non superhero comics in the Gerber journal just because he didn't care about them.

    Figuring out how many copies exist of pre1960 comics is pretty easy since not many have survived and there's only a couple hundred copies that exist of the most common ones. Anything after that is pretty impossible to calculate because there are thousands and thousands of existing copies.