I see a Savage Dragon prism promo sold for just 99 cents on June 17.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/17718...tkp%3ABk9SR6yC5I-YZg

I see a complete 36-card set of Kitchen Sink 20th Anniversary cards sold for just $5 on August 21. Another set sold for $14 on August 22.

PCE2008 has it at $2 per card but a lot of complete sets were put together over the years so there have been at least 1 or 2 sets available on Ebay alone at any particular time. The going rate for a set has been roughly $15-30 over the years.

Newer collectors are still working on the set and some older collectors just learning about the set want just the ones that promote their favorite comics so some singles have gone for more than average. A #16 "The Outer Space Spirit" card sold for $4.95 on August 21.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16733...Bk9SR_7G8P2cZg&pfm=0

I see a SpaceShots 9-card promo set still in the cello-pack sold for just $9.99 on July 28. The 1 of 9 Jim Lovell card has sold for $3-15 alone in the past couple of months. The set used to go for about $30 in the late 90's to early 2000's but I think it went for more than that for a while. It's still a relative rarity so ten bucks for that is a great deal. It was a dealer promo but not every dealer got one.

We've talked about these before - the rare DC Bloodlines promos that are unnumbered and they don't have the DC Bloodlines logo on the backs. There's a 4-card pack and also a 2-card pack. I don't remember the 2-card pack. Where did that come from? The 4-card pack was included with a comic.

Anyway, the two packs sold as a lot for less than $60 - so maybe $50? I actually saw this last week and when I went to buy it a couple of days ago, it had sold two hours before. Eh, you can't have everything. I found a couple of other oddball things and did get those.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38893...tkp%3ABk9SR6aR1rOdZw

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I don't remember the 2-card pack. Where did that come from? The 4-card pack was included with a comic.

From my notes:
DC Bloodlines
Adventures of Superman (1987) #500 / Jun 1993 Bloodlines promo card or set (4 cards)
Return of Superman Limited Collector’s Set (1993) #SET 1 / 1993 4 Bloodlines cards
Superman’s Greatest Hits 1994 2 Bloodlines cards

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I see a complete 36-card set of Kitchen Sink 20th Anniversary cards sold for just $5 on August 21. Another set sold for $14 on August 22.

PCE2008 has it at $2 per card but a lot of complete sets were put together over the years so there have been at least 1 or 2 sets available on Ebay alone at any particular time. The going rate for a set has been roughly $15-30 over the years.

Newer collectors are still working on the set and some older collectors just learning about the set want just the ones that promote their favorite comics so some singles have gone for more than average. A #16 "The Outer Space Spirit" card sold for $4.95 on August 21.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16733...Bk9SR_7G8P2cZg&pfm=0

I missed this post before, but I remember the set fondly, and still have my original set. It was a comic shop freebie at 4 cards per week for 9 weeks, if I'm remembering right. I lived in the middle of nowhere, but I could order them from my mail-order comic subscription company so I picked up the ones I wanted most, but not nearly all of them. Luckily, Kitchen Sink offered retailers complete sets at the end for very cheap, so lots more full sets resulted from that than would have had it been here-and-there distribution of single cards or 4-packs, as it seemed it would be at the start.
They are gorgeous cards, but unfortunately, oversized, which has certainly hurt their collectibility, value-wise.

Yeah, I understand to a point about collectors frowning at cards that are even a little larger than standard size (9-card page, 9-card page, it has to fit in a 9-card page). It hasn't bothered me that much and it has meant less over the years. A lot of great cards are larger than 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches: Dark Horse signing cards, Coors Nature Series, many of those DVD exclusives (Batman), various widevision, various Pioneer anime VHS/DVD inserts, etc. Yeah, those Kitchen Sink cards are great. I have a set too. Kitchen Sink had pins too though I don't remember if they sold or gave away those - probably sold some, gave away others.