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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Non-sports cards?

Do any of you collect non-sports cards?

Personally, I don't. They've never really interested me. It's why Allen & Ginter isn't something I enjoy. Back in the day I definitely got into some of the GI Joe cards for a while. But it was always a pretty quick thing for me.

While making my bookmarks and coasters, I've been doing some eBay searches for wax wrappers, and I was very surprised to see how many non-sports trading cards their used to be. Check out this assortment of wrappers!
Basically, if it was in the theater or on TV, there was a card set, it seems.

What's weird is that at CVS or the grocery store, I never remember seeing anything other than Topps baseball! Or maybe I just never noticed?

The wrappers are cool though.

What are some non-sports sets I should focus on for my bookmarks and coasters? I'm open to suggestions.
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14 comments:

  1. Rod (Padrographs)April 4, 2020 at 10:27 AM

    goonies would be popular at my house

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  2. night owlApril 4, 2020 at 11:07 AM

    If you were a bit older, you would have seen them in stores. Star Wars packs were just as plentiful as baseball and football.

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  3. AnonymousApril 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM

    I collected Garbage Pail kids before I collected sports cards. I might have picked up some Alf cards if I saw them, can't really remember having too many though. I think I had some Gremlins sticker-cards and Little Shop of Horrors for some reason. Definitely had TMNT and Mario Bros. and a couple Wacky Packages here and there. Never really collected The Simpsons cards which seems odd in retrospect. I guess I just lost interest in any non-sports cards after a certain age. But I do collected Stranger Things cards now.

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  4. Collecting CutchApril 4, 2020 at 12:12 PM

    Dick Tracy and Gremlins!!!

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  5. acrackedbatApril 4, 2020 at 12:15 PM

    I love most anything early to mid 70s: Bay City Rollers, Partridge Family, Grease, Kotter, Jaws, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company, Sgt Peppers to name a couple. I'd likely be the only one interested. Good memories for me. Thanks again for the Fleer bookmark. I love it!

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  6. BulldogApril 4, 2020 at 12:34 PM

    Star Wars are always great to chase. I'd also say comics (DC/Marvel) or movies/TV shows that were favorites of yours. I agreed with acrackedbat (Greese, Welcome Back Kotter, Jaws).

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  7. Johnnys Trading SpotApril 4, 2020 at 1:39 PM

    quite positive that there are more non sports sets than there are baseball sets.

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  8. Peter K SteinbergApril 4, 2020 at 1:49 PM

    Not into non-sports cards at all though back in the 80s I collected the Superman II Topps set and am sure I opened Return of the Jedi and some others. But not into it now.

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  9. FujiApril 4, 2020 at 3:39 PM

    The first packs I ever remember opening were purchased at a local Japanese grocery store. They were Star Wars.

    By the way, not sure how much you pay... but thanks to a post by Bo (Baseball Cards Come to Life), I discovered a store that sells vintage Star Wars wrappers for a buck each. I bought some for my own collection. Here are links to the two different ones they have:

    https://www.oldstuffonly.com/items/trading-card-shop/blueueo-grenyolsstaerware-detail.htm

    https://www.oldstuffonly.com/items/trading-card-shop/blueueo-starwrarppap-detail.htm

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    1. FujiApril 4, 2020 at 3:41 PM

      By the way, do you have an Etsy shop or a website... so we can buy your bookmarks?

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    2. The Lost CollectorApril 4, 2020 at 6:18 PM

      Thanks for the tip. Right now it's a bit more economical to buy mixed lots of eBay, which is what I've been doing. I'll probably make an Etsy shop soon, but everything right now has sort of been under the table via email/twitter DM.

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  10. Brett AlanApril 4, 2020 at 4:45 PM

    Definitely remember non-sport cards being readily available when I was a kid. I collected some of them--Star Wars, Charlie's Angels, probably a few others. Later bought the complete sets of MASH and the Sgt. Pepper movie (it was cheap, and I'm a big Beatles fan). Still have most of those, but I don't really buy them anymore--once in a blue moon I'll grab a certain non-sport card from a dime box.

    BTW, walk into a 7-11 in Singapore in recent years, and you'll probably see two kinds of trading cards available--Topps Match Attax soccer cards, and Star Wars cards.

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  11. Jim from DowningtownApril 4, 2020 at 7:15 PM

    The first card I ever collecter were all non-sports cards. from about 1963-66 I collected sets of World War 2, Combat and McHale's Navy TV shows, Beatles, Batman, and Green Berets.

    Then in 1967 I discovered baseball and football cards, and since then I have collected no non-sports cards except the early-1990s Beatles card set.

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  12. MattApril 5, 2020 at 6:40 AM

    I collect a ton of non sport and that's why Allen and Ginter interests me. I am a big TV/Movie fan. I would say other than football, I watch more TV/Movies than I do other sports by a mile. So those cards interest me more than other sports than football

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