I thought that I had all of the 1992-1994 Wizard magazine cards, the gold, slabbed variants sent to dealers and stores

On Series 2, PCE lists gold versions of BOTH the Youngblood home and away team cards.

I have a bunch of the slabbed away teams, but none of the gold, slabbed HOME team card. Does it really exist ? I have the regular (non gold) home team card only

David, it does exist, I have quite a few over the years.

How come I have seen (and have) a bunch of the gold, slabbed away team, but not the home team ?

Anyone have one they'd like to part with ?

Also, anyone see the Series 3 Ripclaw with the silver stripe, as opposed to the white stripe ?

Some cards in the book listed from the very beginning may have little pieces of mis-info. Since PCE's first issue, I had to retype the thing 3 or 4 times due to changing computers or programs, and not being able to port over the info. I can not say for sure if that one exists or got mixed up in a move. Probably the latter.

I at one point has the silver stripe, but someone must have asked me for it.

Ten years later and speaking of rare Wizard promos...here's one I haven't seen before and it's not listed in PCE2008. It's one from the Wizard Image Series (1992). Todd listed a red foil border card which was the one inserted with the magazine. He also listed a gold foil card that was sealed in a plastic case and sent to dealers. It appears that there's a third one not listed in PCE2008. It's a silver foil card sealed in plastic.

Even after giving away most of my promo cards I still have a bunch left.
Here's my entire collection of Wizard cards.
Ain't they purty?

Yeah, no matter what you do as a promo card collector of any level, you get at least of few of these Wizard cards as extras in trades or lots. I have some from magazine issues and a few of the sealed and slabbed cards picked up over the years but I haven't really tried to track down any of them. There are still collectors who hunt for the rare, odd variants that were little-known in the 90's and the Holly Daye silver foil card is apparently one of those.

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Here's another undocumented Wizard card variant. PCE2008 lists a card, "The Spirit" with red foil lettering which was inserted with "Wizard: The 100 Most Collectible Comics," a special issue of the monthly magazine. It also lists a gold foil variant of the card sealed in a plastic case which was sent to dealers who ordered a certain number of copies. The unlisted one has gold foil but it's also signed by Will Eisner and hand-numbered out of 1000 and sealed in a plastic case. The odd thing about that is the seal is serial numbered like the other sealed gold foil card so the signed cards are apparently not from a separate printing.

It must've been a separate promotion - maybe announced/explained in that magazine issue. Signing and numbering 1000 cards seems like a lot.

I just saw that the silver border "Holly Daze" sealed card shown above did sell today - Best Offer accepted somewhere under $249.99 so I'm figuring maybe $220-225?

I finally found that silver striped Ripclaw a few years ago.

The stripe on the left side is definitely silver, not the WHITE stripe seen here.


https://www.amazon.com/WIZARD-...IPCLAW/dp/B013XJG1ZC

On the Holly Daze, a SIGNED silver one sold for $20. Maybe someone can post the image, please ?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/25663...tkp%3ABk9SR_rZiv7MZA

here

Here's the rarest of 4 variants of the #3 "Youngblood" card (Wizard Press, 1993) made for Wizard Magazine. There's a common "Home Team" card that was inserted with the bagged issue of the #20 issue of the magazine plus one with gold foil lettering and sealed in a plastic holder. That was a bonus card for dealers. There's a less common "Away Team" that could also be found in #20. This is the rare slabbed/sealed "Home Team" (different front) with gold foil lettering in a plastic holder.

Edit: I've corrected the text after hearing from David.

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Jess, thanks for posting this scan.

Just to correct one thing, the scan is of the gold HOME team card. This gold, slabbed version is harder to find than the gold, slabbed AWAY team version.

If you look on ebay now, there are a bunch of the gold AWAY team cards available (shows the guy with the green flame hair)

However, I don't see ANY of these on ebay at the moment.

So, yes, this IS the rare one.

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Corrected.

Here's that Ripclaw card (Wizard Press, 1994) David noted above. It's the less-common variant with a silver stripe on the left side. The common one has a white stripe.

My recent acquisition.

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One of the Wizard variants I do not have is the Vampirella card # 16 with the white back, limited to 1500 and signed by the artist. Where was that distributed ? I only saw a scan of that one for the first time recently.

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One of the Wizard variants I do not have is the Vampirella card # 16 with the white back, limited to 1500 and signed by the artist. Where was that distributed ? I only saw a scan of that one for the first time recently.

This site seems to have info about various Vampirella related trading cards.
https://www.vampilore.co.uk/tc...ds/variouscards.html