What’s so incredible about the rarity of 1980’s Marvel and DC Canadian price variants is how we’ve got to intersect that 20% fraction with another fraction: the fraction of comics sold in Canada. This would already be an extreme disparity if it was 20% of all 1980’s comics that we were talking about when it came to Canadian price variant rarity… but that’s not what we’re dealing with (20% is just the newsstand rarity alone)… So by McClure’s estimate here, surviving Direct Editions among 1980’s comics at 80% of copies are like males among orange cats… And our Canadian price variant comics as newsstand-exclusives are among the remaining rare 20%. Most VF/NM or better Type 1a Canadian Newsstand Cover Price Variants are 50 to 250 times Scarcer than their US Direct Market counterparts in high grade randomly checking the CGC census will substantiate this for most items.” Most of the Newsstand editions were bought by non-collecting readers, with a much lower survival rate, and most are well read FA/G to FN/VF copies. Canada’s population is about 10% of the US population, thus about 10% of all Print Runs are Canadian copies, however roughly 80% of the surviving copies are Direct Editions, bought in comic shops and saved by collectors. “Type 1a Canadian cover price variants are now routinely selling for 150-400% Guide, and select CGC high grade key issues of popular characters have been bringing 400-2000% of guide such books are at least 10 times scarcer due to low print runs. Here’s the specific quote that came to my mind: And what came to my mind was something I’d just read this past week: I’d read Jon McClure’s market report that touched upon Canadian Price Variants. Sometimes when I’ve gotten a number in my head - like 80% of orange cats being male - it will trigger a related thought. So the underlying facts about what drives the phenomenon (the genetics), leads to the knowledge that roughly 80% of all orange cats should be male, while roughly 20% should be female.Įqually fascinating to me about this explanation, was how the 80% prevalence of males was “overwhelming enough” that it has driven so many people to wonder whether all orange cats are really male… I later started typing a search into Google and after typing the words “are all orange” a suggestion box popped up below the search field, where both the first and the second auto-suggestion show that this truly is a very frequently asked question indeed! Four out of five = eight out of ten = 80% boys. As a result, 4 out of every 5 orange cats are boys. The expert who gave the answer explained that - to paraphrase - there is a gene for orange coat color that a cat can get from its parents, and in the case of boy cats they only need the gene from either parent… but for a girl cat to have an orange coat they’d need that gene from both parents. Taking my family to the zoo is always a fun outing, and during the car ride today we were listening to a podcast answering frequently asked questions about animals - specifically, cats… And one caller asked: “Is it true that all orange cats are male? And if so, why?” This disparity in rarity among cats leads to the frequently asked question: “Are ALL orange cats male?” 80% of orange cats are male 20% are female.
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