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PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY VOLUME 29 • NO. 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2018 NON-SPORT UPDATE Aug.-Sept. 2018 • u.S. $5.99 • CAN. $6.49 Issue Code: 2018-08 • Display until 10/16/18 PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. 08 0 71486 02957 1 VOLUME 29 • NO. 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2018 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS OUR STAFF 4 CARDBOARD CONVERSATION: 6 PROMO PICKS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR - Mike Payne ROLLING IN DʼOH! “Whatever, Iʼll be at Moeʼs.” 8 NON-SPORT NEIGHBORHOOD: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - Alan Biegel MEET MICHAEL BEAM 10 TRUE LOVE IS NEVER LOST Time to Beam up with this PRODUCTION MANAGER - Harris Toser What if your future was the past? experienced card collector. Find out with Outlander Season 3. ART DIRECTOR - Lindsey Jones 26 NEW & NOTEWORTHY GRAPHIC DESIGN - Eric Knagg, Chris Duncan 16 VINTAGE SPOTLIGHT: LOVE ME DO Classic Mythology III: Goddesses, COLLECTIBLES DATA PUBLISHING Get a ticket to ride with this Beatles beauty. 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VICE PRESIDENT - Kevin Isaacson 2 NON-SPORT UPDATE Cardboard Conversation By Alan Biegel Rolling in D’oh! n April 29, 2018, the animated limited Contest Winner Cards, and a comedy series, The Simpsons, sold separately Krusty Film Viewer. Obecame a television land- 2000 was also the time for Ink- mark. After airing its 636th episode, works to get into the act with The Simpsons surpassed Gunsmoke to Simpsons Anniversary Celebration become the longest-running prime- — Premium, a series commemorat- time scripted series ever. ing the first decade of D’oh! With Kicking off Season 30 September 81 base cards, the set also featured 30th, The Simpsons, with irreverent Die-Cuts, Nuclear Neons, Dioramas, depictions of a working class nuclear and a Greetings from Springfield family, is still one of the smartest shows U.S.A. Case Loader. This assemblage on TV. Loaded with social satire and was also the first Simpsons set with political innuendo, the show is never fabulous cards & 1 lousy sticker. a full range of voice-actor autograph thought of as just a “cartoon.” And while it In 1993 & again in 1994, Skybox continued cards among the chases. Non-Sport Update used remains controversial, in 2010 Pope Benedict the gags with two series of cards built on sub- artwork celebrating this set to commemorate its XVI declared parents should let their children sets and chase cards. Included were categories own 10th Anniversary issue. The cover depicts watch because of its recurrent religious themes. like Characters, Itchy & Scratchy, Radioactive Bart on a skateboard leaping over a stack of NSU Conversely, President George W. Bush was Man, Bartman, Tattoos, Wiggles, Cels, Glow- magazines, with Volume 1 Number 1 on top. quoted as saying American families should in-the-Darks, Smell-O-Rama, Disappearing SimpsonsMania! came next from Inkworks. strive to be more like The Waltons and less like Ink, Arty Arts, a plethora of promos, and the This 2001 release included 72 base cards, The Simpsons. Quite a range for a bunch of little limited-to-400 Art De Bart Cards, featuring SimpsDelic Blacklights, Dr. Marvin Monroe’s yellow people who’s patriarch is an overweight, autographed character sketches by show creator Split Personality Fold ‘Ems, A Silver BoxLoader, donut-loving, beer-swilling nincompoop! Matt Groening. The Art De Barts are the most a Gold Case Loader, with Sketches and Autos There’s no reason for any trading card fan of valuable of all Simpsons trading cards, often sell- rounding out the collection. Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie to have a ing in the $1,000 or above range. Topps returned in 2002 with The Simpsons cow because there are tons of product out there. Artbox threw their hat into the Springfield Bubble Gum & Stickers, a set that included 50 Topps got things rolling in 1990 with the simply ring in 2000 with The Simpsons Collectible Regular Stickers, 50 Shiny (foil) Stickers, 50 Mini titled, The Simpsons, a 88-card set that added 22 Stickers, a product that included 72 stickers and Stickers, and lots and lots of gum. stickers. Cards featured Simpsons art within a 12 Prism chase stickers. They also offered The Even with this many cards to choose TV set border with dialog captured in word bal- Simpsons Collectible FilmCardz, consisting of from, it would still be hard for true fans to loons. 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Wholesale Rates Upon Request Philadelphia, PA 19176-9907 email: [email protected] (08/18) 4 NON-SPORT UPDATE Promo Picks By Chick Veditz Promos Go To The Movies ack in March, card sets issued. my friend Ray, The fronts are Ba fellow dealer exactly the same from Long Island, New except that one set York, called to say he has rounded cor- had purchased a variety ners and the other of unusual non-sport has square sharp promotional items. corners. Night at One of the items was a the Museum 2 is in promo card set called a black box across The Snacking Dead: A the top, and the left Parody In a Cookbook. side has a partial The eleven card set was view of the magical issued in 2013 for a tablet. There is a cookbook with recipes great photo of the to ward off the walking dead. The book/ character, with a lighted hallway behind him card set was issued by Clarkson Potter Pub- and the character’s name in another black lishers. There are six colorful recipe cards box at the bottom of the card front. The back with the food depicted on the front and the of the cards have the same tablet outline with actual recipe on the back. The other five information printed on a dark blue back- cards have a burnt yellow front with “Pro- ground in the interior of the tablet. In both Tip” printed with a zombie between the sets the character’s name is listed with the O and the T. The backs have tips on how The eleven card set for actor’s name in parenthesis where it applies. to fight or ward off the zombies. A very The Snacking Dead was There are four info points about the charac- unusual and comical parody card set. ters: Stats, Historical Significance, Mission, A second promo set I got from Ray was issued in 2013 for a cook- and Notable Quote. for a Broadway play about the famous NFL book with recipes to ward The differences on the back of the rounded football coach Vince Lombardi. The play was off the walking dead. set are that all of the writing is in small, white called Lombardi. The set consisted of seven type, and at the rear bottom it says, “In The- cards: six numbered cards and a title card. It aters May 21.” The differences on the back of was made by Topps in 2010. The title card has was issued in 2000. The 19-card set was pro- the square set are that Stats, etc. are in gold let- a profile of Lombardi and the title. The six duced for the Dreamworks movie, Chicken tering and the type is in larger white lettering, cards depict the six main stars of the play. The Run. It was designed by Futera Platinum. The and the bottom of the card just says, “only in two notable stars are Dan Lauria and Judith front of the first 18 cards are great color scenes cinemas.” I love this movie and this is a excel- Light.