On the Blue Angels I have #2,4,8,10,12,16 and 17 with the large text. The others I have just the small text

The funny thing about putting this set together is that I didn't go after this one until finding a card for a buck at a flea market maybe 11-12 years ago. I picked up 2-3 others in an Ebay lot not long after that and then found a few more cards as I got more in the habit of regularly searching for them.

I thought it was going to take me longer to assemble this one.

Sort of reminds me of the 1991 Impel Nightmare on Elm Street promos. In the 1990s and 2000s they were impossible to find. Then suddenly in the past 10 years a ton of them showed up on Ebay and they pretty much go unsold even with a $ 5 asking price

Yes, it is like that. There was one seller who appeared with a bunch of Nightmare on Elm Street promos but he had fewer of one of them and those sold fast. He still sold some of the rest but some collectors must've lost interest when they couldn't complete their sets and/or there just weren't as many collectors who still wanted them as there used to be.

Here are the two versions of "Harpy: Prize of the Overlord" Promo Card #1 (Ground Zero Comics/Dan Parsons, 1996). They promote the comic of the same name.

The first one is the "regular" version; the second one is the rarer show promo version with the printed "Pittsburgh Comicon Exclusive" stamp on the front - given out at the 1997 Pittsburgh Comicon.

The print runs are unknown, and while the show promo is harder to find, the regular one isn't too easy to find these days either. PCE2008 has the regular one valued at $3 and that is what I paid for it back in 1997-1998. PCE2008 has the show promo at $10. I would say the regular one is in that $5-10 range. One sold recently for $10.

The show promo would be in the $10-15 range - maybe $20. I haven't been watching that one nor the other Ground Zero promos for a while.

In 30 years of collecting cards, I have never seen the Blackball P01 or P02 show up on ebay or for sale anywhere.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I was sent scans of the two Blackball Comics prototypes, P01 and P02 (Skybox, 1994). Skybox ended up cancelling the set. It was reported in one of the card magazines at the time that 2500 of each of the prototypes were given out during a tour but few have appeared for sale since. They've been mentioned here and there on Card Talk but it appears no one has shown scans here before.

Terrific art from Keith Giffen and Kev O'Neill, instantly recognizable to comic fans thanks to their unique styles. Sadly, O'Neill passed away in late 2022 and Giffen about a year later, both too young.

Regarding the Blackballs, back in the early 2000s I somehow found Keith Giffen's personal email address on a website that he maintained. This was before Facebook existed. I contacted him and he actually responded.

At the time I was still looking for the 2 promos. He said that he no longer had them, but he sent me a scan of a sheet of a bunch of different Blackball cards for the SkyBox set. Keith said that they were only images, as nothing was ever printed. So they did not exist in physical form, just as computer graphics.

I wish that I had saved his email and the scans. Unfortunately, we corresponded using an old Yahoo email which I stopped using back in the 2000s, which is long gone.

Back then pictures were downloaded in order to see the image, is it possible you have it on the hard drive somewhere?

(Fingers crossed)

David