PCE2008 lists 17 cel cards under "Coca-Cola Sprint Phone Cards/Cels (Scoreboard, 1996). There are others. In fact, the Jeff Allender's House of Checklists website states that it appears each of the 50 cels from the 1995 set has a promo variant for the 1996 set. I've seen only 6 others outside of the PCE2008 listing. One of the six is shown below. I saw it for the first time only a couple of years ago.

These used to go for $5-10 each but the going-rate seems to have bumped up to $15. You might find one for $10 or you might have to pay $20 for one you want.




Edit: PCE2008 does list a card titled, "Have a Coke and a Smile" like this one, but as I recall, that card shows a bottle and a glass of Coke.

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Here's card #9 of another Personality Comics card set, "X-Babes Vs. Justice Broads." As with many of the sets, it's 37 cards (unnumbered title card plus 36 numbered cards). It's based on two Spoof Comics comic book series, "X-Babes" and "Justice Broads." You could get this card or any other card in the set (except the unnumbered title card) either as part of a complete boxed set or as a random insert in various polybagged Spoof Comics titles.

I have also seen a signed and serial-numbered edition of the card set that includes an exclusive unnumbered card. In fact, I learned too late of an Ebay auction for one and another Personality Comics signed/serial-numbered set that ended at 99 cents. Someone got a great deal on that one.

Meanwhile, another seller wants $100 for just the regular factory set. Yeah.

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Here's another "El Hazard: The Magnificent World" promo. This one was inserted with the VHS tape titled, "El Hazard: The Magnificent World: The World of Beautiful Girls." The artwork on the back of the card shows the same subject as that on the front of the VHS box.

And another Coca-Cola Sprint Phone Cards/Cels promo for the 1996 set. As said in a previous post, the fronts tend to show images of Coke ads from decades ago. Some, like this one, show artwork of everyday life from the late 1800's to early 1900's.

I love collecting the Coke cel promo cards. I have 16 in my collection. It’s hard to believe there are 50 diff out there since it has taken me 20 years to collect the ones I currently have

Yeah, you'd think we would have seen a lot more of them if they were out there. Even if they were sent out all over the country (maybe Canada too), stuff ends up on Ebay or a dealer ends up with a collection and dumps it at a show so collectors get a shot at it either way. I guess a lot of collectors have still hung onto them. The artwork is unlike a lot of the cards we usually see.

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Originally posted by Zane DeVan:
I love collecting the Coke cel promo cards. I have 16 in my collection. It’s hard to believe there are 50 diff out there since it has taken me 20 years to collect the ones I currently have

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
Yeah, I you'd think we would have seen a lot more of them if they were out there. Even if they were sent out all over the country (maybe Canada too), stuff ends up on Ebay or a dealer ends up with a collection and dumps it at a show and collectors get a shot at it. I guess a lot of collectors have still hung onto them. The artwork is unlike a lot of the cards we usually see.

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Originally posted by Zane DeVan:
I love collecting the Coke cel promo cards. I have 16 in my collection. It’s hard to believe there are 50 diff out there since it has taken me 20 years to collect the ones I currently have

Jess

Don't forget at that particular time the collecting of phone cards was huge so quite a few would have circulated in that market place especially for their novelty value.

regards

John

John,

As an aside, there were promo phone cards in the mix but those never seemed to take off with promo card collectors. We all had a few but I don't recall any of them becoming had-to-haves, no bidding shootouts.

Jess

I just got my very first Coca-cola cel promo this week, after 30 years of promo collecting... the happy hunt continues

There are still some promo sets I don't have a card from. Which one did you get?

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Originally posted by cardscout182:
I just got my very first Coca-cola cel promo this week, after 30 years of promo collecting... the happy hunt continues

A "Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition" Hologram 1 of 2 (Topps, 1996). It was inserted only with copies of "Star Wars Galaxy Magazine" issue #11. It's a promotional variant of a hologram-type chase card from the "Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition" set that was released the same year. I thought I had it already but couldn't find it among my "Star Wars" promos - must've missed the issue somehow back then.

I'm guessing Hologram 2 of 2 was inserted in the same issue but you had to buy 2 copies to get both. You could see which one you were getting through the plastic baggie.

Here's another Coca-Cola Sprint Phone Cards/Cels promo. This one features a grittier subject than the others I've seen - no one in fancy clothes or a clean uniform enjoying a Coke.

Here's a set, "New Crew" that Todd might have listed under the "Personality Comics" heading in PCE or he might've given it its own separate entry. However, it's another one of those sets of which you could find many of the singles separately in Star Trek-related Personality or Spoof Comics issues (Spoof Comics being a division of Personality Comics) or you could just buy it as a boxed factory set.

It follows the formula of Spoof Comics sets having an unnumbered title card with a checklist back plus 36 numbered cards. The fronts feature uncredited artwork of the stars of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and backs provide biographical information.

This is one of the signed & numbered editions, numbered out of 750. When you got one of these, you also found an unnumbered bonus card at the bottom of the box.

And here's the bonus card (Personality Comics, 1993) available only with the signed & numbered edition of the "New Crew: trading card set.

I think it's a good likeness of Colm Meaney who played the transporter chief on the show but I don't remember the episode in which he got a black eye.

I see a Limited Prism Card edition of a WILD C.H.I.C.K.S #1 comic (Spoof Comics) sold for $29.99 on August 16. That's more than I would pay for that though I don't have one of those. I might pay that for one of the Star Trek ones or some oddball one at some point but I've been able to get prism card editions in the past several months for just below $10 to about $15.

Anyway, I haven't seen that prism card before. If you look at the provided image of the back of the comic, you see another apparent exclusive card. A card from the Spoof Comics Month regular boxed set is also showing on the front and back.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/14671...tkp%3ABk9SR7CC5I-YZg

PCE2008 contains an entry for "Strange Sports Stories" (1992) with listings for two 2-card strips said to be inbound in unknoown comic issues. I can say that the listed strip with cards #1 and #2 was stapled to the "Strange Sports Stories" #1 comic.

I have a 2-card strip that is not listed. It has cards #3 "Hall O. Fame" and #4 "Bob the Blob" and it was bound to "Strange Sports Stories" #2. Card strips stapled to comics were not unusual at the time but the strips with these comics are stapled to the outside of the covers rather than being the middle of the book.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I see a Limited Prism Card edition of a WILD C.H.I.C.K.S #1 comic (Spoof Comics) sold for $29.99 on August 16. That's more than I would pay for that though I don't have one of those. I might pay that for one of the Star Trek ones or some oddball one at some point but I've been able to get prism card editions in the past several months for just below $10 to about $15.

Anyway, I haven't seen that prism card before. If you look at the provided image of the back of the comic, you see another apparent exclusive card. A card from the Spoof Comics Month regular boxed set is also showing on the front and back.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/14671...tkp%3ABk9SR7CC5I-YZg

Jess

Perhaps the buyer wanted the comic as well as the card.

John

That's possible but you can usually find the comic alone much cheaper and the cards can be found as singles. It's also possible that there are more people like Wolverine who collect sealed copies of particular comic and magazine issues. If that issue hasn't come up for sale in a while, someone might splurge, even willing to pay double whatever seems to be the going-rate.

That'd be nice. I have a stack of various comics from that line, all sealed with the cards. The legendary Adam Hughes drew a few covers, but the rest of the art (and all of the writing) is essentially garbage. I think I also have a boxed set of the cards that was, for some reason, missing one card.

Yeah, sellers often say "Adam Hughes" in the title as a selling point, but as you said, he didn't work on the pages between the covers. Longtime Adam Hughes fans might want an example or two from the Spoof/Personality Comics line just for the cover but I don't think there are as many collectors now who feel like they "need" one.

When you look at the cards, you get a sample of the quality of the artwork in the comics. You can see good likenesses of celebrities and you can get "who is that supposed to be" reactions too as you more bluntly observed. There seems to be a misunderstanding of the human body sometimes.