Buzz Buys: Big Tua ink, Pat McAfee's WWE debut, Shotzi art, old mags, new cards, The Bad News Bears, Wooderson & more

Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... 

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I'M A BELIEVER ... IN BARGAINS
The Item: Tua Tagovailoa autographed and framed 10-by-18 photo (Fanatics Authentic)
The Price: Under $150 (on sale and with a rewards discount)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I started to scour autographed cards for this QB who I think might have a strong year and, well, I was a little surprised at how his stuff can still be pretty pricey despite plenty of available options and despite the negative chatter that oddly still comes with him having a record-breaking receiver last year and then an elite speed guy added into the mix for this year. Sure, it's still the Dolphins, but since I'm an Alabama guy I'm good here either way ... though I would have preferred a quality photo like this in Crimson. But ... the price was right for an oversized and already-framed piece and the photo and crop here was unusual and a little dramatic, too, vs. a lot of other options. I wanted something different that wouldn't break the bank to start a new season and this one hit the spot. (Regular price is around $180 plus shipping, tax, etc. on top of that.)
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A WWE CARD DEBUT
The Cards: Pat McAfee 2022 Panini Instant WWE (/684) ... first WWE card (10-card lot)
The Price: Direct from Panini America during a recent sale weekend (under $5 each shipped)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This beloved blowhard and high-energy guy (who has grown on me) is stepping away from his WWE duties as an announcer on Smackdown to bring his irreverent brand of announcing to college football and ESPN's College GameDay this fall. Will there be a lot more WWE cards to come? I'm not sure. Either way, this was his first and I picked up a 10-pack since there was a sale during the weekend they dropped and then I want to grade one at some point. It's safer to buy a small lot to cherry-pick out your best option if you ask me ... but even then there are no guarantees. (It happens for various reasons.) He's had a handful of matches but didn't make it onto any WWE cards until this one and hasn't made it in-pack in anything yet, either. I bet we see something before the first year is up. 
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A RARER BAD NEWS BEAR
The Card: Tatum O'Neal 2013 Panini Golden Age White parallel 
The Price: $9
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This parallel is a tougher find from Panini's a-little-bit-of-everything release from almost a decade ago and the appearance of The Bad News Bears and their ace pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer is one of the highlights in this one. Beyond a lineup of autos from the team, there are base cards, parallels and minis here. I haven't collected a rainbow but I know I have to be close to having most stuff here but not the rarest minis. This one was a definite need though. 
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JUMBO PATCH POWER
The Card: Nick Swisher 2016 Panini Immaculate Collection Jumbo Patch Blue (/10)
The Price: About $15
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I actually think I completed this rainbow -- or am very, very close -- and I know I already had this one but when there are so few copies and the price gets low enough I'll grab even stuff I already have. Why? There's nothing new coming for my player so the pickings are slim.
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THE CARD LIFE
The Card: Matt Strahm 2017 Topps Gypsy Queen Autographs -- RC-year auto
The Price: Under $2
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This Red Sox relief pitcher is perhaps better known to some collectors for his hosting of The Card Life, a TV show that takes casual fans behind the scenes in the industry and to card shops to give them a taste of collecting. I think I picked this one up back a year ago (maybe more) as that was getting going since this is an on-card auto from his rookie year. GQ has been the home to some well-designed retro-style cards though the years but it seems collectors latch onto other brands more. That helps the prices here.
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NOT A FIRST ... BUT A FAVORITE
The Mag: Wayne Gretzky -- Sports Illustrated, Dec. 27, 1982
The Price: $8
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This hockey icon's first cover of this magazine can command some big money in a high-grade slab but this is not that. This is a nice copy, though, considering its age and the fact that it went through the mail without getting mangled considering all that black ink that will show damage very, very well. It's far from flawless but for the price I bit as that mailing label is perfectly placed (any higher I wouldn't like it) and it still might make for a decent slab. I don't do a lot of anything hockey but this is my favorite of all of his SI covers. I might grade it for the heck of it at some point. 
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ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ...
The Cards: 2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the '90s Week 4 Expansion set (/1,318) ... plus the other parallel I needed and two extra Dazed cards
The Price: About $40 total ($19.99 for the set via Topps)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is one of a couple of these small online-release sets that got me to bite with nods to pop culture. This one's homage to Dazed and Confused and Matthew McConaughey’s breakout role as David Wooderson got me instantly. I landed one of that card's parallels in my set and knew I needed the other ... and then I grabbed two more base cards to have an extra pair. Why? Beyond being alright, alright, alright I will be grading at least one pair and maybe two. The Britney Spears cards are also fun ones here but that's far lower on my pop culture radar but above the rest of them in this set. A few other sets in this weekly run almost got me to bite but I'll probably just do singles for some of them.
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NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM ...
The Cards: Bo Bichette 2020 Topps Utz -- Rookie Card
The Price: Around $5-10 each ... 
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card was the bane of my grading existence as I wanted one to slab but kept getting demolished in varying stupid ways every time I bought one. One time I bought a sealed pack -- these three-card packs came in certain packages of Ute snacks -- the cards shuffled and got pressed dinging a corner here. Another time, it was jammed in a semi-rigid with another card and sent the cheap way via USPS and when it was machined the cards pressed together ... this one on the bottom wasn't flush with the other in the case so it got a nice indent from its buddy. The third time? Bad corner somebody didn't mention ... and so on. For months I kept buying these but putting off my misery story because I still wanted to land one of these -- it might be Bichette's most-obscure non-numbered card from his rookie year -- and I even passed on a few slabbed copies with prices that were either too high or grades that I just didn't agree with. After a fifth or sixth recent failure (like I said, they aren't all in the photo above), I finally grabbed a slab that popped up online a second time at a lower price than during the pandemic prime prices. I'll always watch for these as it's a key card from a food issue promotional set ... something that companies should do more of but probably won't as the market and environment continues to evolve.
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JOINING THE PACK OR SOMETIME GOING SOLO?
The Card: Solo Sikoa 2022 Panini Prizm WWE -- Rookie Card
The Price: $2
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The price there reflects how I picked this one up closer to Prizm's release as I took a wait-and-see approach on a brand packed with big stuff ... but as I have said before I think the secret sauce here over the long-term is the deep crop of Rookie Cards. Many of the NXT 2.0 names in this set (as well as NXT UK) had zero previous cards before these. I had this stashed for some time, too, as he's been on the radar but just not enough for me to pop him up here to make my point. WWE did that for me, though, with Sikoa showing up out of nowhere to interfere in the main event of the pay-per-view earlier this month -- literally interrupting what should have been a match-winning three count to save his cousin, Roman Reigns, from losing the WWE Universal Championship. Then his first match was in the main event of a Smackdown show on Friday ... so that's a high-profile debut that injects him into storylines with the WWE's most-dominant star and his older brothers, The Usos. You can find this RC for less than $1 now -- so I'm sure the action is on parallels and rare stuff if people are buying -- but he's definitely one of the RCs who could be of interest in this one going forward. He's had cards in Revolution and in Select so there are other RC options ... but this one was first. Well-centered and clean copies -- note mine is centered (one reason I bit) -- may not always be the easiest finds so slabs here could also do well if you land top marks.
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ALSO BACK ...
The Card: Braun Strowman 2020 Topps WWE Fully Loaded Red Table Relic Autographs (/5)
The Price: $40
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I got my hands on this one back when Fully Loaded arrived for the last time instead of grabbing a box of the newer release late last year. Why? The rarity of this one vs. the cost of new boxes -- this was a good bit less and a guaranteed result. Why was the price soft? Strowman was cut by WWE last year despite some big storylines and despite his big size and surprising mobility (and talking ability). The 6-foot-8 monster recently returned so that brought this card out of hibernation ... I buy too many WWE singles -- the market is more fun and affordable than others in some cases -- so I had this one buried in my photos waiting for the right time to post. Now's that time.
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[INSERT SCREAMING HERE]
The Card: Jon Taffer 2021 Goodwin Champions Platinum Orange Prism (/399)
The Price: Under $1
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I went many years without cable TV so his Bar Rescue show was new to me when I found it on the box in recent years ... an interesting concept but one that I could only enjoy in small doses. (Dude yells too much.) Fast forward to the recent Goodwin Champions release and he's in there on autographs, memorabilia cards and plenty of parallels -- chromed stock stuff this time around -- so I bit on something cheap. I'll grab an auto at some point once they drop. Why? The novelty and oddity of his inclusion ... that's something that can add value over time unless he suddenly starts popping up in other card sets. (Can ... doesn't mean it will.)
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SHE'S BACK, TOO ...
The Cards: Io Shirai 2020 Topps Now WWE (/96), 2020 Topps Finest Blue Refractor (/150), 2020 Topps WWE Road to Wrestlemania Wrestlemania 35 Mat Relics (/199)
The Price: Under $15 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This high-flying Japanese star has a ton -- a ton -- of wrestling cards from before her time in WWE and her cardboard debut in 2019 Topps releases but I picked up a few of her cards here and there in the recent past and these are three examples. The Topps Now card isn't (unfortunately) her first but it looks a lot like it and is comparably rare with fewer than 100 copies made. (A reason I bought.) The others are cards that either have some flash or grading potential and/or seemed cheap so I grabbed them. She's not as high on my radar as others but now that she's on the main roster -- now known as Iyo Sky -- with a high-profile group more people might be looking.
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SIMPLE GAMING
The Cards: Frank Robinson 2020 Topps 52-Card Baseball & Ted Williams 2019 Topps 52-Card Baseball
The Price: About $4 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I picked up a couple of these game decks in the past and then picked off a few Hall of Famers who I didn't get in my packs and these are two simple examples. The game, which was created by former ESPN personality Kenny Mayne (see a little more here), is a simple one visually but there's some appeal in that approach. There's just one drawback with these (see the link) -- the way they are cut isn't grading-friendly at all as the card backs/corners are very rough. If they had printed cleanly I'd grade a lot of names here -- both rookies and Hall of Famers I like.
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THE MAN THE AUTHORITIES CAME TO BLAME
The Card: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter 2011 Leaf Ali The Greatest Associates of Ali Silver Autographs (/25)
The Price: $30
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I picked up this auto last year and kind of held off ever putting it in a lineup here as I'm not 100-percent sure about one thing with it. I think this was signed in black ink but that color seems slightly "off" as in it may be slightly fading. Though I have also seen him have autos here in blue ink, too, so I also worried it might be a faded blue sig. (Dumb, I know, but that's why I had it sitting in my files.) I'm pretty sure it's black ink, though, as the thickness of the auto here matches black-ink sigs more than the blues and that's slight fading. (At the same time, there's no yellow residue that is common with black fading, so maybe it was just an odd pen?) All of this may be why the price was right. OK, enough about me ... who is Rubin Carter? He was a championship-contending boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder and spent almost 20 years in prison. Denzel Washington played him in a 1999 film, while Bob Dylan told his story in a 1975 song. He died a few years after this card was released and only had 10 different certified autograph cards from Ringside and then Leaf -- almost all of them are limited to no more than 65 copies. Not an easy certified auto to find ... and asking prices these days for his ink are far steeper than what I paid.
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NEW STRATUSFACTION
The Items: Assorted Trish Stratus cards and magazines (oddball, hits, parallels, imports, WWE mags, an indy mag and even an oversized hometown newspaper/magazine)
The Prices: $5 up to $25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Up until recent years with NXT and the new crop of stars, I think I "collected" Stratus more than any other of the WWE's women's stars -- albeit casually with occasional single buys and then more via wax box finds. Yet, also in recent years as some older boxes have dried up or gotten pricier to the point where good returns aren't as realistic, I have also gone back to picking off singles of certain stars such as her. Then, with my 2022 kick of magazine grading, I've also been tracking down iconic or memorable mags that I intend to grade (at least in some instances). The top row is pretty self-explanatory, the middle row is a run of Animation cards from Italy (more details here) and then the bottom is mostly early WWE mags but not her WWE debut. I did one of those, too, but that one is 100-percent going in a grading sub at some point soon. The oddest one of them is that Richmond Hill Post, which I picked up in a small lot of stuff from a Canadian dealer. It's perfect save for a strip of very slightly discolored paper on one edge. Why do I call it out? Beyond being way more obscure than the others, it's an oversized all-newsprint creation (bigger than a Rolling Stone) that I'm not sure how many actually could exist in clean condition. It's a big-time storage challenge that can't be slabbed by CGC and this copy had to have been stashed away by a serious collector to be in the shape it's in now almost 20 years later.
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A PIECE OF THE 'DEVIL
The Card: 2002 Topps Daredevil Authentic Movie Memorabilia Costume Relic
The Price: $11
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This one is an immensely slab-worthy clean copy -- not the norm with memorabilia cards or even cards in general from some eras of non-sports releases from around this time. Not long after I found this one, I found a high-grade already-slabbed copy (it's in a past Making The Grade here somewhere) so this never got the grading nod. I know a lot of people dogged this movie -- I probably have -- but there's also definitely worse stuff out there in the comics/movie world, too. For the price and its strikingly clean look, I couldn't pass up this card.
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THREE OF A KIND
The Sets: Four 1990 Classic Update Pink Travel Edition sets 
The Price: Under $10 here (from a bulk lot)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: These small "packs" are how Classic released almost all of its small MLB sets in the late 1980s and early 1990s as these were clamshelled with other components of a game where the cards were one element. I picked up a nice affordable lot with several releases and a few copies of each set with an eye on possible grading of iconic or quirky cards like the Nolan Ryan card here where he's holding a 1987 Classic Bo Jackson card that meshed his two-sport ways back when he played for Auburn. The packing is not really grading-friendly -- I might only do a couple -- so that experiment was a bit of a bummer, but I figured I'd drop these here as a reminder that some interesting and still off-the-radar stuff exists from back in the day that you may not see often. (And it can be cheap, too.)
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FIRST COVER
The Item: John Elway -- Sports Illustrated Nov. 8, 1982 (first cover)
The Price: Around $8
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: If this was in a high-grade slab, this is a nice mag that's gonna get a lot more than $8 ... but this one is here because even if it's not in tip-top shape it's still a significant cover for a Hall of Famer. It's Elway's first and it comes back when he was still at Stanford ... he had a lot more cover appearances after this with his memorable orange Broncos jerseys in their full obnoxious glory. This one is in very respectable shape for sure -- and I might grade it if speeds get a little better. Right now, though, magazines are among the slowest-serviced things at CGC. (I get it ... comics are the No. 1 priority.) Once I get some other stuff back soon then more mags will be heading on down.
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SOME ORIGINAL ARTWORK ...
The Item: Shotzi Blackheart original 8-by-10 graphite drawing by artist Steve Baier 
The Price: Less than a new WWE hobby box 
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I used the teaser photo here from the artist instead of trying to take a photo of my own outside of a storage bag (think comics) because I didn't want to risk touching/damaging the art. This popped up in a search of stuff for the WWE's high-energy star and it struck me right away as it's a quite nice take on this photo -- click on it at left for a better look -- so I watched it and then moved on as the price was a little high for my tastes. (That or I made a low offer that was declined.) I wanted it but figured I'd wait as I don't have a lot of original art pieces beyond the occasional sketch card or works that ended up on trading cards in my stash. Not long after watching it, though, I got an offer with a decent discount from the artist and I bit. It actually looks crisper and sharper than the image above ... it's nice and you should check out his work -- Google his name or search on Instagram -- it includes a lot of memorable icons from the past as well as stars from today.
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A BUZZ BREAK I NEVER POSTED ...
The Cards: Superman III Topps wax box
The Price: Less than $1 a pack
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: These pack photos have been playing the waiting game for some time ... and I decided today's the day to put them out of their misery but still use them. Probably a year ago, I found a sealed box of these for a solid price -- and a price way better than what people are trying to get now -- and took my pics of the packs before ripping it all ... and then finding out it was a bummer. I had visions of a couple of fun cards or stickers in this one in slabs but, wow, the oldschool print quality here was brutal between the inks used (every card has black borders) or the stock. All of my stickers here had discolored back edges ... like the adhesive was causing "rust" on the paper ... and then the cards had all kinds of issues despite the packs being pretty clean. Pretty much anything that could go wrong did to a small degree -- I didn't get anything catastrophically bad like a 1985 Cyndi Lauper box where the oils from the gum had seeped out into every single card making the whole box trash -- but it wasn't a break worth showing off. I doubt I'll grade anything, either, despite there being some classic Superman and Clark Kent images here as well as a number of Richard Pryor cards. A couple would make for epic high-grade funny slabs but I doubt I landed anything here that would grade above an 8.
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A RARE STAMPED VERSION
The Card: David Robertson 2015 Panini Prizm National Convention Limited Edition (/5)
The Price: Under $3
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is just a stamped base card for the National card show -- crimped on the front left and serial-numbered on the back right -- but with him being a player with school ties for me I figured I'd grab it. I figured I'd probably never see another again with so few made and it was so cheap, anyway. I don't really chase a lot of the stamped show/event stuff but will bite from time to time if it's priced like this. Not much else to say on this one.
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THE CHAMP IS HERE
The Items: Thunder Rosa (and Jade Cargill) -- Pro Wrestling Illustrated, October 2022 & signed promo & Raw Deal Indy Card cards (last two via her website)
The Price: About $45
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The AEW women's champ is out injured right now but that's a change to look back at what she's done the last few years and pop a few items up here that I have picked up in recent months. The PWI cover is a first main-cover appearance for both of them (other issues might have some smaller inset images among busy packages), while the autograph and the gaming cards are both from her personal website. She's a self-made wrestler and show promoter who worked through the indy ranks after a career as a social worker and she brings some frenetic energy to the ring along with her unique look. She will appear on cards in the next AEW releases but right now only has e-Pack stuff, some international cards (Stardom) in packs and then cards in a few smaller and very obscure indy sets. There's not much out there so that's why I did these. It will be interesting to see how her AEW stuff sells.
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SIGNED, SLABBED & DELIVERED ...
The Item: Joe Sewell autographed check (BAS authentic/slabbed)
The Price: Around $25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This Baseball Hall of Famer isn't a tough auto at all but I have picked up a couple of signed and slabbed checks and even had one done myself. Why? Well, the one I had graded was written to another MLB player -- another with school ties for me just like him -- and then the others were just cheap and they present well in slabs. These slabs aren't small but they still make a simple item look nicer than they do in just a toploader or photo page.
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A GLOBAL STAR
The Mag: Sadaharu Oh -- Sports Illustrated, Aug. 15, 1977 (first cover)
The Price: About $8
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Japan's home run king Sadaharu Oh hit 868 longballs in a career that spanned from age 19 to 40 all with the Yomiuri Giants and it's a mark that still hasn't been seriously challenged by anybody in any league. He only hit 50 or more homers three times so he was remarkably consistent just like Hank Aaron, though he never hit more than 47 in a season. When working through old cover lists, this one came to mind as a unique option and one that looks pretty good with a big and bold portrait and no text obscuring anything. This copy won't be any kind of 9.6 or 9.8 contender but it looked really good for the price.
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PROMO POWER
The Card: Mickey Mantle 2000 Upper Deck Yankee Legends sample card
The Price: Under $1
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card isn't anything dramatically rare or really all that visually different than much stuff out there, it's simply a card that's marked "sample" on the back as it's a promo for the set. I scouted some cheap offerings (virtually) and picked off what I thought was the best copy for potential grading only to have this one have a major surface indent like it got caught on the top of a binder ring when it was closed. So much for that slabbing idea.
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PROMO POWER II
The Card: Barry Bonds 1995 Classic Phone Cards -- $10 promo card
The Price: Pocket change
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: If you don't remember pre-paid phone cards from the 1990s, consider yourself lucky. For a time, these cards good for $X of long-distance calls were a thing inside card packs until they suddenly weren't. I was popping around online for promo cards and this one jumped out at me as a reminder of times that came and went rather quickly.
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IT'S KATE HUDSON'S MOM!
The Mag: Goldie Hawn -- People Weekly, May 17, 1976
The Price: Under $10
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I don't know why I grabbed this one other than it was from a dealer who had a run of really clean-looking and cheap copies of 1970s mags with big names from the past that all looked (because they are) very slab-worthy. Not necessarily for dollars but because they do look like high-grade contenders ... and that might translate into dollars with the right combo of name/grade. The first issue of People arrived in 1974, so they offer a good selection of covers from an era that might be a little overlooked vs. the decades before and after this one when it comes to pop culture. That's probably another reason they jumped out at me a bit. Open closer inspection this one has some discoloring on a couple edges from the paper aging or it being stacked so some edges got a little more light than others ... still not a bad mag considering its older than I am and most got read and thrown away.
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SEEING GOLD
The Cards: Randall Cunningham 1994 Action Packed 24K Gold & 1993 Action Packed All-Star Gallery Series 2 Gold (/1,000)
The Price: Under $5 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This brand of embossed cards from the late-1980s and mostly from the early 1990s are memorable to me in that they were really different and not the easiest creations to make in their time. Each card had to be embossed, have two panels folded to make the back and then have it all glued shut and then put into packs. The only real chases in most releases (a few hand long-shot autographs) for the most part were 24K gold cards where the foil used on the fronts was gold leaf. They were fun finds back in the day and could be expensive at first with big names attached but in the big picture they're not that rare. Doesn't stop me from looking for favorites from time to time (Cunningham) or cheap options that do have announced production volumes. Finding Action Packed boxes from some years is a lot tougher than more standard brand like Topps or Score, too.
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A ROCKIN' FINALE ...
The Mag: Guns N' Roses The Complete Story ... Classic Rock Special Edition (2017)
The Price: About $8 (under cover price)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Axl Rose and/or Guns N' Roses was a subject from the past -- an icon of the 1980s/1990s -- that I thought would be cool to find something to get graded. Older stuff from that time can get very pricey fast if in elite condition when found -- they're most-often not clean as stuff within the genre often got read and pitched unlike, say, sports mags or comic books -- and I was being picky. I found a dealer with a lot of bulk new stuff like this with deep discounts so I bit as it's a cleanly made magazine-book showing the whole original band in an appealing way as one would expect to see. One problem? This mag is about 1/8 of an inch too tall to fit in a CGC slab. Doh! And ... it happened more than once. My bad ... but at least it looks pretty cool.
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