Found this article on Yahoo!, it was their featured article at that. thought you might enjoy


http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/u...cards-232119394.html

Nice to see an article on cards, but I can think of loads of cards worth more money than those they feature there!

Simpsons Matt Groening Sketch
Some of the SW Evolution autographs
Loads of the Harry Potter cards - incentives, Quad card, Triple auto...
Also probably over 1000 sketch cards that have sold for over the $1000 mark :P But that is a bit different and a different kind of card.

Who would have thought Pokemon would be worth that much.

I agree Card Dude, still it was an interesting read. Thanks Zhamlou.

At least it gives a nod to non-sports and gets us some exposure, but the article is poorly researched and gaming cards should never be confused for non-sports cards!

Too bad I gave away my Charizard 1st edition holographic along with the rest of them many years ago...

Not to bash Yahoo but they do write some horrible articles.

Collecting cards could mean anything. Sports, non-sports, gaming, tobacco, postcards...

There are valuable cards in each and every category.

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Originally posted by Batman:
At least it gives a nod to non-sports and gets us some exposure, but the article is poorly researched and gaming cards should never be confused for non-sports cards!

I agree, the research on this is terrible. Seems it was written by someone with little knowledge of the card industry, at least the nonsports side. And while we see a big line between non-sports cards and gaming cards, most don't. But if you're going to write on a subject like that, you should. They'd have been better off to split it into 2 top 10 lists; one for gaming, one for nonsports/entertainment. That'd even been more content.

I do not normally comment on those Yahoo! articles (they are so often inaccurate it is untrue) but as it is about something so dear to me I just had to put them right

Mortified to think I might have had a Pokemon Charizard holographic card - I don't even remember what happened to them lol. Oh gee I was dumb kid to throw away my CCGs when moving on to NS cards

It was a bit of a surprise to find out that I own one of the cards on the list: GPK 1a. That's quite a joke on the price, though, regardless of the "rubber band factor" for any first card in a series aimed at kids. He gave me a heart attack on the Charizard until I saw he meant only the parallel.

They start out with a card that was never released in a set. And that's the trouble, like Card Dude notes -- with the low-numbered and 1/1 cards out there, I could take only an hour and come up with 100 cards that were part of general releases that would displace 8 of his top 10 ...

Oh well, investigative journalism isn't dead. I see the author is now telling us "5 things you didn't know about Silly Putty," probably because his article on the mysteries of Nerf was so successful.