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Some days I just don’t have anything to say…

…so here’s a Comic Images card trading card from 1988, featuring Galactus: Somewhere there is fanfic somehow linking this guy to Galactus. …Unless I’m the first, in which case I’m not sure I could live...

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I think I’ve probably featured that Galactica card on the site before, but...

So as a young Mikester in the late ’70s, I found this particular Star Wars trading card to be of interest: …as it gave us one of the few really good glimpses as to what the Jawas looked like under...

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“Scratching off” is a terrible euphemism.

Michael G. suggests: “How about a comic where crucial story-event panels are hidden behind a scratch-off coating like that used on lottery tickets? In fact I can’t believe they didn’t already try that...

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I had one heck of a busy and crazy day at the shop on Tuesday…

…with this being the least of it, so I’m just going to contemplate card #49 from my complete set of Superman III trading cards: …and relax while basking in the glory of Richard Pryor.

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Meanwhile, in Mike’s collection…

…in one of his half-dozen or so binders of trading cards, there sits these two Wizard promo cards for the Dark Horse/Valiant crossover series Predator Vs. Magnus Robot Fighter: …numbered 3 and 4, and I...

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So anyway, have I shown you this Man-Thing sticker from 1975?

That’s the joke you’re going with, 1970s-era Marvel and / or Topps? Well, okay then.

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Well, if you insist.

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Guess I still gotta go to work.

So I recently acquired a whole bunch more boxes of trading cards that I’m in the process of throwing onto the eBay store, including this particular goodie: “Whoa, a whole box of Dark Crystal cards!” I...

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Let us all bask in the soothing glow of this Youngblood trading card...

Ahhhh…just what the doctor ordered.

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For the love of God, I hope they’re not eating the gum.

So I haven’t done a whole lot with trading cards at my store since opening up a tad over three years ago. I think I maybe a box of some Marvel set in 2015 that slowly, eventually sold out. It was a...

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