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[jdandns]

Originally Posted by cmixer

I attended the FLIP trading card show in Huntsville. Highlight was a guy dropping off a signed Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Frank Oz trading card with JSA. Someone accidentally found the non-sports holy grails.

The Uma Thurman and the Yoda are oversized "widevision" cards, so more edges for edge wear, I guess. I remember in the early 90's, it was actually hard to find protective materials for that size of card, and I'm not sure that widevision size-specific card storage boxes were ever produced.

Here's my own Frank Oz. I got it from the Topps No Purchase Necessary offer and it may have sat outside in my mailbox for a few days. It was in a card sized widevision manila envelope and that was in a slightly larger padded envelope, but with no other protection. Its seems to have made it through OK. I'm still fairly amazed Topps sent out cards like this as NPN prizes.

[jdandns]

Here's a few of the non-sport subjects from the just released Allen & Ginter set, which is mostly baseball cards:



I only got one box, and I missed getting a Seth Meyers card, but I'm glad to have the Kenan and the LD. Also got a Bryan Cranston, but he's in a Dodgers uniform so he's in my scan of Dodger cards in the Dodger thread.

[CicadaMound]

Originally Posted by cmixer

I attended the FLIP trading card show in Huntsville. Highlight was a guy dropping off a signed Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Frank Oz trading card with JSA. Someone accidentally found the non-sports holy grails.

And the owner of those cards posted on Facebook that that 1997 Skybox Batman & Robin Schwarzenegger auto (and 2003 the Comic Images Terminator 3 auto) got rejected as secretarial. Both PSA/DNA and CGC/JSA think that now.

[DynaEtch]

Picked up this tri-way display on eBay…wasnt much.





Why? I have no idea lol. I just really liked Fleer/Skybox as a company and I view what they did in the 90s as one of the best/most creative periods of trading cards, especially with marvel. A company like Topps making marvel cards currently could take a few lessons from them honestly in terms of how to make quality non-generic looking sets (but who cares I guess since they’re bringing in the $$$$). This can remind me of the glory days

[cmixer]

^ Display stuff is rad.
Great pickup.

[jdandns]

Anybody know the story behind this 1973 Topps Creature Feature card?



They've obviously pasted another woman's face (and hair) over that of Elsa Lanchester who played the Bride of Frankenstein. I don't recognize the woman in question, but given the funny caption on this one, perhaps she was a famous psychic of the day?

[CicadaMound]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Anybody know the story behind this 1973 Topps Creature Feature card?



They've obviously pasted another woman's face (and hair) over that of Elsa Lanchester who played the Bride of Frankenstein. I don't recognize the woman in question, but given the funny caption on this one, perhaps she was a famous psychic of the day?

She's a Topps employee.

In Volume 1 of The Card King Chronicles, longtime Topps non-sport impresario Gary Gerani's memoir of his career in the card business, he recounts the events of his first day working for the company -

Publishing photos of monstrously-made up actors playing werewolves and mummies certainly wasn't a problem. But neither Universal nor Topps had cleared the legal rights to use the recognizable non-creature performers who appeared in these photos. So, if the rubber-faced Creature from the Black Lagoon was carrying Julie Adams in his scaly arms, a photo of a different woman's face would have to be superimposed over Julie's.

I learned that day that this was one of the key differences between licensed movie items utilizing photographs, and newspaper or magazine usage of promotional images. The Topps cards were considered a "product." The same 1954 Creature photo with Ms. Adams as we know and crave her, could be printed endlessly in monster magazines with zero concern about legal repercussions, because this kind of use fell under publicity.

As a result...

...i wound up standing in for Boris Karloff (playing Dr. Jekyll in Abbot and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) in one trading card, veteran character actor Onslow Stevens as crazy Dr. Edeleman from House of Dracula in another. Len marched me into a back room with cameras already set up, and I actually signed a likeness release for the use of my face. I tried earnestly to imitate the manic expressions of these movie characters, got my photos taken, and was finally allowed to go home after an eventful few hours. "But come back tomorrow, we'll have more things for you to do!" were a smiling Len Brown's parting words to me.

We just printed what they gave us, substituted the heads of Topps workers over recognizable human actors, and put the product out.

[jdandns]

Nice, thanks!

[cmixer]

Brayton Laster (racing driver) just dropped a cool video about signing stickers for Panini trading cards. I love this kind of insider detail.

[jdandns]

I wonder how many have returned the stickers sheets having written "Sign Here" on all of them.

[lklopfenstein]

Lamest last episode to a lame season that was part of a show that should have been great. Ending of stranger things sucked by ballz.

[Brobocop]

Originally Posted by lklopfenstein

Lamest last episode to a lame season that was part of a show that should have been great. Ending of stranger things sucked by ballz.

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by lklopfenstein

Lamest last episode to a lame season that was part of a show that should have been great. Ending of stranger things sucked by ballz.

Try watching it a few more times, just to be sure.

[cmixer]

I know this is sports (Steph Curry), but he posted a video of him doing an at-home signing.
I like that the cards are signed on-card,
and I assume he signs the uncut sheet to guarantee "mint condition" corners once cut;
but why so many different cards? I would have assumed all the same card on a sheet.
And what is this set/company?
Is this a micro limited-edition set like GAS Trading Cards, where there's only 25 total signed cards?

[hanes1111]

Had this made a good bit of time ago from a gentleman on here. Just found it in the back of my safe.

James Harrison Custom Autograph by Lucky Larrys, on Flickr

[cmixer]

^ Oh, wow.
I'd love more context about this piece.

[hanes1111]

Originally Posted by cmixer

^ Oh, wow.
I'd love more context about this piece.

https://youtu.be/cIB76BXKw3c?si=t5a1M19Wz2YbG9jz

[cmixer]

It's interesting that Topps sends both cards for on-card autographs,
AND sticker autographs at the same time.
I guess this is because the on-cards have been designed and printed, and the stickers can be used for future products?
Featured below is Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

[glorbgorb]

Yeah, I'm sure it is just so they can use them for future sets.

I wonder why the one 4x5 sheet has the black Xs on it. The signatures are in blue, so if he messed up I would expect the X to be blue or something. Weird.

[cmixer]

^ My only guess is quantity.
For example, they contracted 250 signatures, and sheets are 47 stickers each (because of the red sticker replacing a signed sticker), and to get to an even number (250) they had to remove some stickers from his sheets.

[finfangfan]

Total conjecture… He could have still used black ink to make the X’s himself. Signers are told to keep the sharpie point “sharp” and to swap out when the tip gets warn or ink starts to fade. They could be instructed to use black ink for X’s to not wear down the blue tip.

[cmixer]

This dude has listed this same card 10x (with an unmet reserve) on eBay.
Does eBay still charge you if an auction doesn't meet reserve?
How many times does he have to relist to finally determine a fair selling price?