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Originally posted by Neilsy:
Another from Game of Thrones Bella Ramsey has landed the main female lead role of Ella in HBO's upcoming The last of Us Tv series alongside Pedro Pascal.

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Originally posted by mykdude:
I wonder what a Pedro Pascal Buffy card would be worth if Inkworks could have gotten him to sign from his single episode?

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Originally posted by Raven:
I'm not sure about Pascal. I liked him in Game of Thrones. You really don't see him much in the Mandalorian and I just watched Wonder Woman 1984, he was terrible. I mean the script was bad, but he just took that part and made him the least charming con man or formidable villain you could find.

It might be that he looks his best in suits of armor.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
In the time I was thinking about the Kirsten Dunst and Julian Glover autographs I was also thinking about an older card but it seemed to have settled into a range it was not going to move out of. It's the rare hologram from the Vampirella Gallery set (Topps, 1995). The front shows a classic rendition of Vampirella by Jose Gonzalez from 1972. The hologram offers the effect of looking at the work through a time portal before it became reprinted at least a few times as a poster and before it inspired a number of artists with their renditions of the character. I see there is at least one collectible statue honoring the work as well.

I remember the card being worth $30-40 out of the box. It was inserted roughly one per 10 boxes. One of my friends pulled one out of a pack and he showed it to me around mid-1996. It's a great card whether as comic book history, vintage horror, or pin-up.

It was in $40-50 range by 2008 but then it dropped in value like a lot of cards by 2015. I saw one offered for as low as $20 around that time. I had bought one by late 1996 and passed on it.

A couple of years ago, I noticed it was selling for $30-40 again and thought it would hold at that value. However, it appears with the interest in the two Vampirella sets released by Dynamite in the past couple of years some collectors are looking to see what was offered in the past. I saw one card sold for $70 in the past couple of months and that got me wondering if that was just an isolated impulse buy or an indicator of a trend.

Jess

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
Since Jessica Alba sold her Honest Brand company for over $100M yesterday, I wonder if she's going to give up acting and pursue "business" full-time. Maybe her old autos will be worth even more $$$?

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Originally posted by Bob Johnson:

I had no idea singers could have rookie cards but the card itself has sold for over $100 several times in the past week or so, sometimes as high as $400. I don't get it. It's not even autographed.

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
Since Jessica Alba sold her Honest Brand company for over $100M yesterday, I wonder if she's going to give up acting and pursue "business" full-time. Maybe her old autos will be worth even more $$$?

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Originally posted by Bob Johnson:
This seems like the right place to mention that I noticed the other day blaster boxes of Panini's 2010 Justin Bieber set selling at absurd prices on eBay. A month ago the blaster boxes were $10. Now they're selling for $40+ and all of the listings mention a possible Drake and Justin Bieber rookie card.

I had no idea singers could have rookie cards but the card itself has sold for over $100 several times in the past week or so, sometimes as high as $400. I don't get it. It's not even autographed.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Bob Johnson:

I had no idea singers could have rookie cards but the card itself has sold for over $100 several times in the past week or so, sometimes as high as $400. I don't get it. It's not even autographed.

They don't have rookie cards, it's a sports card term. The best you could say is first appearance and if it's in a non-sport set, that could apply to multiple cards.

For non-sport cards, even first appearance in an autograph card means essentially nothing. The reason being, while a rookie sports card is often regarded as the player's best card or at least one of the highest priced, even a first non-sport autograph card can be easily surpassed in demand and price by subsequent autograph cards from better titles, or higher priced sets, or in more limited copies. So a first signed card does not automatically translate to a "best" card.

If people are buying Bieber and Drake base cards for hundreds of dollars, its because that's what they are willing to spend on them, whether they believe the terminology or not. It doesn't make it smart, but like the saying goes, "there's a sucker born every minute".

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Originally posted by Bob Johnson:
Anyone buying the Bieber/Drake card for stupid money either knows something the rest of us don't or is sadly misinformed about the value of said card.

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Originally posted by wolfie:
Would a non sports rookie card be the first time they did an autograph card.?

I do not see the first time they appeared on a card as being up to much.