CBR Market Lexicon · Comic Book Reference
Core Canon BenchmarkEquities & Market Mechanics
Asset Float & Scarcity Velocity
Panel Profits Domain Translation
The percentage of a comic issue's total certified census that actively trades in public auctions each year, versus copies locked in permanent private vaults or institutional collections.
Underlying Financial Principle:
The total number of shares publicly owned and available for trading, excluding restricted shares held by company insiders.
INTEGRATED SOVEREIGN CBR LEXICON BENCHMARK
Canonical Mathematical Formula
Scarcity Velocity (%) = (Annual Public Auction Sales / Total Certified Census Population) × 100Real-World Comic Market Application
Action Comics #1 has only ~78 certified copies known on the CGC/CBCS census. With an average of only 2 public sales per year, its Asset Float Velocity is an ultra-scarce ~2.5%.
Domain Guardrails & Anti-Patterns
Do not treat raw estimated print runs as active circulating float.
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