Non-sports trading card

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A non-sports trading card is a trading card featuring entertainment content on some subject of popular interest other than sports, designed for collecting. Produced in series, such cards could involve licensed properties from films or television. Other cards could be original creations, such as Topps humor cards or scenes from history.

In recent years, editorial cards have overlapped with the newer phenomenon of collectible card games. For example, the Pokémon craze yielded both a trading card game, produced by Wizards of the Coast, as well as regular trading cards by Topps and others that were not designed for gameplay.

Contents

[edit] Trading card series

[edit] Humor

[edit] Movies

[edit] Television

    ((WWE ))

[edit] Factual/historical

[edit] Comics

[edit] Games

The most well known are listed below, for additional, see List of collectible card games.

[edit] Music

  • KISS
    • 1978 Donruss Series 1
    • 1978 Donruss Series 2
    • 1980 Donruss Series (re-release of the 1978 series 1 exclusively in Australia for the 1980 Unmasked tour)
    • 1997 Cornerstone Series 1
    • 1998 Cornerstone Series 2
    • 2001 NECA Alive! series
    • 2008 Presspass Ikons series
    • 2009 Presspass 360 degrees series
    • 2010 Presspass Legends series
  • Rolling Stones (Whosontour Entertainment, 2007)

[edit] Science fiction

[edit] Cars

[edit] Sketch cards

A sketch card displays original artwork on a standard-size trading card, usually measuring 2.5" (65mm) x 3.5" (90mm). These cards, with black-and-white or color original art, have been randomly inserted into various trading card sets since the 1990s. One of the first sets to include this type of chase card insert was the 1993 Simpsons set by SkyBox International that had 400 redemptions for an "Art DeBart Card."[citation needed]

The sketch card insert has been most common in non-sport trading card sets like Lord of the Rings: Evolution, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Scooby Doo: Mysteries & Monsters.[citation needed] A few sport sets have also adopted the idea like the 2005 Topps Gallery Baseball.[citation needed] One of the all-time most popular sets was the 1998 Marvel Creator's Collection by Fleer.[citation needed] They called their sketch cards "sketchagraph" cards. The set was popular because it used the artistic skills of hundreds of different artists who were allowed to draw any character in the Marvel Comics universe.[citation needed]

Sketch card inserts have usually come one-per-box of trading cards, but some sets like Hulk by Topps came one in 12 boxes, and Lord of the Rings: Masterpieces by Topps come two per box.[citation needed] Some companies even offer oversize (3x5 inch) sketch cards as case premiums like Fathom by Dynamic Forces.[citation needed]

Sketch cards were originally created by comic book artist and writer, Rusty Gilligan, for the Clubhouse Diamonds "Series 2" 1993 set. A mature-adult trading card issue that featured topless dancers and strippers from competitions all over the world. Gilligan did a total of 50 sketch cards, and was joined by legendary comic book artist Rich Buckler, and local artists. Gilligan and Buckler also provided art for an exclusive 8-card insert set called "Painted Ladies" that also featured Larry Welch, Bruce Patterson, and the late Grey Morrow among others.

A few of the titles that sketch cards go by include:

  • sketchagraph (Fleer/Skybox)
  • sketchafex (Rittenhouse Archives)
  • art de bart" (Fleer/Skybox)
  • sketchers" (Clubhouse Diamonds)

[edit] Autograph cards

Although earlier sets contained autograph cards, cards hand signed by celebrities related to the set in question, they started to become more common when Skybox inserted original series signatures, at a ratio of one per box, in the Star Trek: The Original Series set issues in 1997. Other companies, including Topps, Rittenhouse Archive and Inkworks, started to add autograph cards to their sets and now, many collectors routinely expect to find at least one autograph per box. Cards are signed by cast members, behind-the-scenes creatives and in the case of a set based on TV series Lexx, by artists contributing art for the set.

Some manufacturers have used such variations as dual autographs, triple autograph (and more!), autographed memorabilia cards and cut autographs, where a signature from a check or other document is secured into a specially produced card. Topps, Inkworks and others have used holographic or foil stickers, which are signed then affixed to the card. Collector opinions on these sticker cards has been mixed.

[edit] Memorabilia, costume and prop cards

Some manufacturers, notably Topps, Inkworks and Rittenhouse Archive, have included memorabilia or costume cards, each card containing a small piece of costume or other clothing worn in a TV series or film. As with autograph cards, these have become increasingly common. Some manufacturers insert them at the ratio of one or two per box and have tried such innovations as autographed memorabilia cards, dual memorabilia cards (containing two related pieces of material) and prop cards, containing fragments of props used in the production of a particular film or TV series. One set, for the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, issued by Inkworks, had pieces of the stake used by Buffy to kill vampires.

Most are pack-inserted, though some of the thicker cards are only available by redemption.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Popular Science Sep 1978, p. 33
  2. ^ http://www.atlaspicturecards.com/Auto_Rally_cards.html

3. http://adulttradingcards.com/?page_id=404

[edit] Sources

  • Fleer Corp. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., 501 F.Supp. 485 (E.D. Pa. 1980).
  • Benjamin, Christopher et al. (1988). "The Sport Americana price guide to the non-sports cards". Edgewater Book Co.-Cleveland, Ohio ISBN 0-937424-36-6
  • "The Story Of How A Late Night Strategy Started A Massive Movement". Adult Trading Cards.com - http://adulttradingcards.com/?page_id=404

[edit] External links

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