Buzz 12 in 12: Busting a 2008 Topps Heroes box (Hour 5)

Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 5.

The box: 2008 Topps Heroes trading cards (hobby)
The cost: Click here (when available)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 166
Base set completion: 
90 of 90 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 67

Notables on base cards – Zachary Quinto, Hayden Panettiere, Ali Larter, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Adrian Pasdar, George Takei, Malcolm McDowell, Eric Roberts, James Kyson, Missy Peregrym, Jayma Mays

Inserts: 8 (all inserts and some base in gallery below)
Foil cards (8) – Claire Bennet, Niki Sanders, Hiro Nakamura, Peter Petrelli, Nathan Petrelli, Isaac Mendez, Molinder Suresh, Matt Parkman

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Costume Relics (1) – Matt Parkman police uniform

What's Buzz-worthy: Buzz found this box for basically $1 a pack -- that's relatively underpriced -- and had hoped it would deliver an autograph, sketch or Relic and it did just that -- a Relic. The odds don't guarantee anything per box statistically (one in 135 for autos, one in 86 for sketches and one in 44 for Relics), but having busted a case of this about a decade ago it's very possible to get more than one hit per box and I think you do get one of something every time. The basic set here includes character cards, episode cards, art cards from Tim Sale, which were part of the story in the show, some Special FX cards and other basics to round out the set. The only inserts in hobby boxes are 10 foil cards, which we nearly got all of in this box. The auto set includes Zachary Quinto, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar among others, while the Relic lineup includes just five cards and four subjects -- Claire, Hiro, Isaac and Matt -- with her card having two different versions. Some of the sketch cards can be quite stunning in this one and, while the show may not be as popular now as it was then just like these boxes, they're still impressive if you can pull them from a box when it's this cheap.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: B
Fun Grade: B

What's next? Be back in an hour ...

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