Sunday, December 31, 2023

New PC Added for 2024

Silver Surfer!

Because why not.
Besides Batman, he is the absolute coolest.
And I grew up in Southern California, used to ride my bike to the beach.
(I know he's a cosmic surfer, but still a surfer, even though I was more of a boogie-board/bodysurfer.

I recently came into a box of comic cards so now I have a lot to trade.

TCDB says there are a mere 366 Silver Surfer cards.
I have 3.
Let the trading begin!


Saturday, December 30, 2023

Haven't Had Cracker Jack In Years

And it's probably a good thing. I'm sure it would tear some fillings loose these days. No more eating Cracker Jack to pull a card, that's another good thing about TCDB. Find some cards you need, request a trade. Easy as that. These came from poorlittlecritter.

I'm needing just the Tris Speaker card to complete this mini set.




TCDB Oldschoolcards

I didn't appreciate those early Topps Kids cards for a long time. I kinda dig them now.

Two more #444 cards.

Nice thumb-to-the-eye, Patriot. When he went to pull the cards, he saw that the Mildren was pretty mangled, so he threw in the '72 OPC below. 

Sweet!


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I used to collect all Team USA cards, but now I'm just collecting those that come in the 2009 Upper Deck set.




Thursday, December 28, 2023

Christmas Blaster

One of my daughter's scored me a blaster of Update for Christmas. Let's see what we get.




PACK1
First special Orange & Black Foil.
Nice Gunnar Henderson insert.


PACK 2
I do like the '88 Topps.


PACK 3
I wanted another Zach Neto, sweet.


PACK 4
Second Orange & Black...meh.


PACK 5
Third Orange & Black...booooorrrring.
But four inserts in the pack so that's not bad, and the Bethancourt is an Advanced Stats.


PACK 6
And then just one insert in this pack.


PACK 7
Nice Griffey.

Always fun ripping a blaster.



Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday 4, 5

 Ripping a random pack of junk wax from the local junk mall.

I found a Ziploc with 8 packs of 1991 Score Football but with a label that said "Mispackaged". That piqued my interest, so I bought it for $5. All the packs are sealed (or resealed probably after searching for the Brett Favre rookie), but some seem to only have a few cards in them. Let's see what we get over the next several weeks.

Pack of 16 cards with no chance to pull an insert.

PACK 4 of 8

Keith Byars, Tebowing, before it was frowned on, but which is now acceptable again.


Only 15/16 cards in this pack.

The cards definitely have a "handled" feeling to them. I'm fairly confident now that these packs have all been searched and resealed. If they are, the perpetrator did a good job at the resealing.


PACK 5 of 8

The Aikman is a nice card.


I'm scanning these cards in pack order. Notice how they've been coming out in color blocks. I'm not so sure an un-tampered pack is collated this way.

Again, 15/16 cards in this pack.


Tuesday, December 26, 2023

You Too Can Be A Superhero In Just 60 Minutes

Or if you're Hourman, you only get to BE a superhero for 60 minutes before the secret sauce wears out. Still building my DC Cosmic set with the help of SaveDaKid, who sent some other needs as well.



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I think now I'm just down to the Shula SP for this set.


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Been setting aside Napoli's for a while now, finally added him to my TCDB wantlist.






Saturday, December 23, 2023

Weather Report: Heavy Fleury's

No snow in the forcast here in Texas, mid-sixties and light rain, but a big trade with Eriqulous brought in a bunch of Theoren Fleury cards for the collection (12 to be exact) as well as a bunch of OPC cards and other stuff from Cananda.






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I don't recall Wally Joyner wearing braces but there you have it.

Two of the Gooden cards because there are two variations.


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Too bad I didn't pull this 28-years ago, could have traded it for a Reggie autograph.


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Angels, set fillers and PC guys here.






Friday, December 22, 2023

Got A BRAG From Bo

BRAG (Blog Return-Appreciation Gift)

Bo Rosny sent a return gift for the Blog Appreciation Gift I recently sent him. Not necessary but definitely appreciated. I hope to be sending more BAGs out in the new year.

Thanks Bo!



Thursday, December 21, 2023

New Blog Alert


Go check out, follow, and add to your blog roll Cardboard Millennial. He'll be busting a couple 1990 Leaf wax boxes and blogging about the results. I'm looking forward to it!

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday 2, 3

 Ripping a random pack of junk wax from the local junk mall.

I found a Ziploc containing 8 packs of 1991 Score Football but with a label that said "Mispackaged". That piqued my interest, so I bought it for $5. All the packs are sealed (or resealed, after probably searching for the Brett Favre rookie), but some seem to only have a few cards in them. Let's see what we get over the next several weeks.

Pack of 16 cards with no chance to pull an insert.

PACK 2 of 8




After only getting 5 cards in the first pack, this one nets me 20!



PACK 3 of 8


Full, but boring, 16-card pack.




Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Shhhh, It's a Secret

Got these from my TCDB Secret Santa.

What an awesome card (It's not blurry trust me, the scan picked up the heavy plastic case instead).

And a few Angels from the wantlist.
Adams made it to the big team last season; I hope to see more of him next year.

First time doing a Secret Santa on TCDB, and I'm very pleased.
Thanks!