Here are three images of a motion card that promotes the martial arts action movie, "Romeo Must Die," which was released in theaters in 2000. As you flip the card back a little, the month of release flashes in the upper left corner then disappears as the movie's website appears in the upper right corner while the words "If Hope Dies" appear and disappear followed by the words "If Love Dies," and as those words disappear, the words, "If Honor Dies" appear. All that while the man in the scene kicks and swings a sword. The card measures 3 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches. I have been unable to find out the source. It's a well-made motion card so it seems to have been a special giveaway somewhere.

Edit: I don't know why it's cut off at the top and bottom. The image I used is not cut off like that. I resized it considerably, saved it, and reuploaded it, but somehow, it came out the same. I might try again later.

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Here are the two unnumbered cards (Takeshi Mori, 2001) I got from a DVD, "Vandread: The Second Stage "Sacrifice". They promote "Vandread: The Second Stage," the "second stage" meaning "Season 2." Vandread is a Japanese anime TV series that ran for two seasons (2000-2002). The shrinkwrap had a sticker that says "Includes Holographic Foil Cards." These cards have refractor foil (holofoil) fronts and they have the same regular card backs. The foil effect is nice but it just shows as blue in the scan.

Both cards have the same tiny numbers in the upper right corner so they aren't card numbers. They might indicate that they were inserted together in the same DVD.

One Ebay seller says it's a 14-card set but he includes larger cards that weren't inserted with DVD's so those are probably separate. It might be a 6-card set from the DVD's.

There are also cards with DVD's with episodes from the first season. They don't say "Second Stage" on them.

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Here's a card (Mike Aloisi, 1986) I'd like to hear from others about. It's one of 8 different unnumbered Funimals cards that were inserted 1-per issue of Non-Sport Update Volume 4, Number 4 (October-December 1993 issue).

It's an entry in the NSU Promotional cards thread. The card measures 4 x 5 1/2 inches and was packed in its own paper envelope. Is this card a promo (or prototype) or is it a base card sent out as a sample?

It's not listed in PCE2008. Someone might think that either Todd hadn't seen it or he didn't consider it a promo. However, even if he didn't think it was a promo, he usually notes when base cards were distributed as samples.

The copyright info has a 1986 date. Why was a 1986 card inserted into a 1993 magazine?

Must not be too obscure. There is a seller with 3 of these up for auction now.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
Here is a Dark Horse signing card not listed in PCE2008. It's Space Circus by Sergio Aragones. He signed them at the Dark Horse booth and added a sketch on the back.

Yes, a few appeared for sale last year (or the year before) along with some other lesser-seen Dark Horse signing cards (Black Cross: Dirty Work, Blade of the Immortal, at least one of the Groo cards). It seems someone bought somebody's collection.

I wonder if someone is reading these Card Talk posts and putting Dark Horse signing cards on ebay.

Right now, I probably see 20 different ones up or sale. In the past, you would maybe see 2-3 per week, tops.

Someone bought a bunch signing cards from me a year ago. Maybe it is he? I had to sell (I normally do not) to get more money for my site building project.

Regarding the Funimals, I remember those from way back then but I don't recall any details. But I'll go snooping.

I used to watch for these because there were a few I was missing. There were actually more than 2-3 but some sellers didn't what they were and called them "Dark Horse promos" or even just "comic book promos." Even then, it seemed like it was the same 10-15 cards - never one of the ones I didn't have. I think I'm just missing two that you never see: the "Kiss" and the "Empire Strikes Back: Infinities" ones, both from 2001. Todd has an image of the Kiss card and there's an image of the ESB card on Andy Dukes site.

I've always thought those two cards were given out only during one hour of one of the days or they wouldn't have turned out to be so rare. I think "Star Wars: Underworld" was given out during only one hour on only one day but I just happened to be there for that. I've never seen even one of those for sale either.

This Star Wars checklist does not list ESB Infinities, so I guess he is unaware of it:


https://starwarscards.net/chec...cards-various-years/

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
This Star Wars checklist does not list ESB Infinities, so I guess he is unaware of it:


https://starwarscards.net/chec...cards-various-years/

It might not be listed since it’s not really a card. It’s not a postcard either, it’s something in between if this is the promo being discussed.

Thank you, Zane. You have solved a mystery - a mystery to me anyway.

Here's another one of the 5 AC Comics promo stickers that you got 1-per-issue of FemForce Up Close #6. According to the issue, the deciders at AC Comics wanted to given out something other than cards to celebrate 10 years in business so they had these stickers made.

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Here is a lesser-known promo sticker released by AC Comics back in 1993. I read that 5 different stickers, all showing the character, Ms. Victory, were available in the same issue (FemForce Up Close #6) but only one per sealed copy. I've seen two of them.

The guy has been selling them cheap and he seems to have had multiples of several of them. I figured some ex-employee of Dark Horse let go of a pile of stuff.

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Originally posted by pcetodd:
Someone bought a bunch signing cards from me a year ago. Maybe it is he? I had to sell (I normally do not) to get more money for my site building project.

Regarding the Funimals, I remember those from way back then but I don't recall any details. But I'll go snooping.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
Here's another one of the 5 AC Comics promo stickers that you got 1-per-issue of FemForce Up Close #6.

Nice! I count at least six on eBay.

FemForce_UC6.jpg

Here’s a promo card promoting the Kruel movie DVD back in 2015. And who remembers Redbox, was available there as well.