I picked up this mysterious pack out of a repack thing at Walgreen's the other day. I'm mostly familiar with SAGE's "Hit" brand of cards, but apparently this seems to be an attempt to do something a little classier. I have no idea what the heck a micro-printer would be or how it would benefit a sports card manufacturer, but the pack wrapper makes it sound extra-important. 11 - Darrian Beavers - This design definitely has a motivational poster vibe to it. 50 - Hassan Haskins - The cards definitely use photographs with some sort of computer magic applied. I'm not sure if the Artistry ..read more

  Here we have a pack of 1991 Comic Images Frazetta. The set consists of 90 cards.  The card fronts feature prints of the artist Frank Frazetta. Each card showcases a borderless image of the fantasy-themed artwork. Some of the images are definitely adult-oriented and those have been edited for general public consumption. The back of the cards feature a black border styled like a hedge row or old parchment or something. The "FRAZETTA" name dominates the top portion of the back. Below that is the card number and title of the featured piece. That is followed by a paragraph re ..read more

  Today, we have a pack of 1991 Comic Images X-Force cards. The set contains 90 base cards and there is an autograph chase card of Rob Liefield.  The card fronts feature comic-style renditions of X-Force characters. The central image is surrounded in an outline border that resembles the X-Force logo. The outer edge of the cards are color-filled in different colors. Centered at the bottom of each card, in a different color than the filled border, the X-Force character name or caption appears. The backs of the cards feature an uncolored border. Inside this border, a black ..read more

  Here we have a pack of 1993 Skybox Return of Superman cards. The set contains 100 base cards. In addition to those, there are foil cards, an uncut sheet, a silver factory set, a gold factory set, and several promo cards. Each card features a comic-style image surrounded by a Superman logo border. The border is gray/silver with a darker gray/silver Superman "S" emblem. The center image occupies the majority of the front. At the bottom, in white text, the card's caption appears (usually left-justified). In the opposite lower corner, the Superman insignia appears in a stylized metallic ..read more

In this post, we feature a pack of 2001 Dart FlipCards "I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary" cards. There are 72 cards in the base set and a slew of chase sets including stickers, foil cards, holographic cards, box loaders, promos and more. The front of each card features a black and white or sepia-toned scene from the series. In a lower corner, a pink heart with "I Love Lucy" script mimics the show's iconic logo. The backs of the cards feature multiple additional stills, the heart logo, copyright info and the card number also inside a heart logo. The center of th back is dominated ..read more

  Here we have a pack of 1998 DuoCards Happy Days. The set contains 72 regular cards. There are additional cards part of the overall set as well. There are 6 "The Fonz" cards (numbered 1-6), autograph cards from Marion Ross and Henry Winkler, 2 signed unopened boxes, and 2 promo cards. The front of the cards feature full-color, bordeless stills from the show along with publicity stills. The backs of the cards feature a "Category/Subset Name" along the left edge. Next to that, we have a small photo with the card number. Below the picture, the "Happy Days" insignia, the card ca ..read more

Here's a short and sweet pack that I picked up in a Walgreen's repack thing. I typically never open Bowman Platinum stuff because we don't really have Walmarts around here, but I'll pick up a few cards here and there for my team collection. 44 - Trevor Story - This particular Bowman Platinum year features a swirling background of sorts. Story was new to the Red Sox at the time. His offense has really fallen off a cliff since he landed in Boston. TOP-94 - Colby White - Similar to other Bowman products, the set includes a separate Prospects set. White hasn't cracked the Rays regular seas ..read more

Greetings... Happy Opening Day everyone!  Sure the Dodgers and Padres played a couple of games already, but today is the real deal.  Spring hopes eternal and all that.  May your favored team do better than expected! The Target I occasionally work at had a separate display of rack packs in the Toy section.  When I was last there, they didn't have any blaster boxes and they still don't have gravity feeders for loose packs (I wonder if Topps put the kibosh on gravity feeders). There was an empty box in the card aisle, however, so the card vendor did at least put a box of ..read more

How about cuteness overload of gaming cards? I found this at one of random local shops while vacationing. It's obviously a gaming card set. To be honest I never played one before. MetaZoo partner up with Sanrio for this card game. I don't know the rules of this one, but let's out the 12 booster pack cards. 102 - Forest 88 - Chibi Breakfast Aliens 98 - Lightning Aura 10 - MyMelody - hey it's MyMelody. Her LP is 50 and her attack recovers 50 LP. 7 - Chibi Sam Sinclair - a foil card with 50 LP 91 - Chibi Snow Snake 40 - Kuromi - the antagonist of the card game at 40 LP. I wonder if they m ..read more

Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well.  It's Leap Day and APTBNL is 4 for 4 when it comes to posting on this day!  You gotta have goals, right? Yes, 2024 Topps is out, and yes, I found some rack packs after the part time Target gig last week.  But here's a blaster pack of 2023 Topps. Wal-Mart has put blasters of recent product on clearance in recent months.  Obviously some are more popular than others.  I popped in a couple of weeks ago and found a few Series 1 blasters for 15 bucks each.  This leads to a dilemma of immediate gratification.  Do you wan ..read more