There's a listing, "Swamp Thang," under the Spoof Comics heading on page 132. It doesn't list the source. The Swamp Thang card is unnumbered, undated and bears no indication of its origin other than some text describing the subject. It's another one of the random inserts you could get with the serial-numbered (out of 4000) "Trading Card Edition" of the "Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Issue" #5 (Amazing Heroes August, 1993).

This single was poorly cut. I was going to try editing it to make the edges closer to parallel but that's a lot of work.

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PCE2008 lists an unnumbered promo card for the "Bill and Ted's Most Atypical Movie" set (Pro Set, 1991) and it is the only promo card for that set but there is another promo item. Four-card cello packs of base cards were also given out (somewhere) and the packs had different mixes so you might be able to assemble a set if had enough packs. It's a 100-card set so you'd need a lot of them.

Anyway, some collectors would want to keep an unopened pack at least as a curiosity because there was just the one promo and the set didn't have any chase cards.

I had never heard of these packs until recently - came up in an Ebay search while I was looking for something else.

Have you compared this card to the card from packs? Occasionally there are subtle differences.

No, but I know what you're talking about. Sometimes, the text has minor rearrangements but I don't have any cards from the base set for comparison. Pro Set is known for having promo packs with just base cards inside (or there might be an exclusive header card). They did it with SuperStars MusiCards and Yo! MTV Raps cards.

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:
Have you compared this card to the card from packs? Occasionally there are subtle differences.

PCE2008 notes an X-Babes promo with a silver prismatic border but doesn't list the source. It was inserted exclusively with the "Limited Prism Card Edition" of the X-Babes #6 comic (Spoof Comics/Personality Comics, 1992).

Here's another one of those 4-card promo cello packs with just random base cards inside. It's a promo for the Yo! MTV Raps set (Pro Set, 1991). Hey, there's Dr. Dre!

I was at a local flea market yesterday and bought a sealed copy of Wizard #16 (December 1992) which might be the oldest one I've ever bought (wasn't into cards as much back then) and started reading it. One bit of info in the publisher's notes is the note that 1000 Bloodshot chromium promos (Valiant Comics, 1992) were randomly inserted in copies. That's not noted on the baggie nor on the cover. The publisher, Gareb S. Shamus, notes that his brother told him it was selling for $35-40 because it had been a retailer exclusive (available only to dealers who ordered a certain number of copies of the comic, Bloodshot #1). Comic and card collectors were therefore interested in it as it was that limited in distribution.

I didn't know it was ever that valuable. By 2008 it was going for more like $5-10, and today, it goes unsold on Ebay even at two bucks. That extra 1000 cards going into circulation likely hurt its longterm value, more than satisfying the previous demand.

Still, it's actually an interesting card in that the front is a miniature version of the cover of that Bloodshot #1 comic - also chromium-coated. If I didn't already have one or two, I'd pick one up for $2-5.