I was looking at some Personality/Spoof Comics listings and noticed a card set I hadn't seen before, "Hobo: Patricide," and it has black-bordered cards including the one I posted. The regular set has 37 cards, and strangely, all unnumbered though the checklist card assigns numbers to them.

As with other sets, there's an autographed and serial-numbered edition (out of 100) and it includes an exclusive card. I haven't seen that card. The only signed set I've seen didn't have that card with it.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
This is that unnumbered, black-bordered card reported in the previous post. It was a surprise because I'd never seen a black-bordered Spoof Comics card before though a vague memory of someone (Todd?) mentioning its existence sometime ago came to me after thinking about it. I'm assuming it's an exclusive like the prism card. I know it's not inserted with the regular issue nor was it inserted with the Wolverbroad factory set as those cards are numbered. There is an exclusive card with the autographed edition of that set but that's a different (and full-bleed) card.

Like the prism card, you don't get an idea that this one is actually rather uncommon. You get both only with a comic that has packaging with a sticker serial-numbered out of 950.

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 to late of an Ebay auction for one and another Personality Comics signed/serial-numbered set that ended at 99 cents. That was a good one.

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

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, 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

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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