Any card collectors on the boards?

[jrsharp21]

Any card collectors on the board? I was a big baseball card collector in my youth. I still have my entire collection at my parent's house. I was also a big Garbage Pail Kids collector back then also. Still have all of those too. My son has collected some type of cards through out his life. Baseball cards, Pokemon, etc. Like a lot of people, he really got back into collecting cards during the first year of the pandemic and I got into it with him as well. Something to do during that shut down time. We got really into collecting Pokemon and also some baseball. Recently interest in cards has picked up with both of us. Him heavy on the baseball cards side. With Garbage Pail Kids making a comeback, start down that hole again. But also into other sports cards like WWE and UFC. Been pretty fun to go card hunting together. Checking to see if any other collectors on the board and what do you collect.

 

[1420Elexismc]

Not myself, but my husband and son(10yo) are really into it. Same thing with them, the shutdown got my husband back into it and my son started to show interest. They do football, soccer, some Pokémon, he did have some garbage pail kids last time I saw as well. My basement has turned into a car collector's headquarters. I don't know a ton about a lot of it, but he's been great about grabbing some soccer ones from players I love. He even has some Serena Williams cards. They really seem to love it

 

[gatorlisa]

I haven't actively collected in a long time, but in the 90s and early 2000s I collected a lot of the Disney cards put out by Skybox, Panini and others. Still have them. I keep my full sets in notebooks and then have a bunch of boxes of dupes. Most of the sets were movie based (Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, Pocahontas, etc., but there were also some sets around history of Mickey and other random Disney stuff. I had Garbage Pail Kids in the 80s, but not sure what happened to them. If I remember correctly, my mom wasn't a fan of those

 

[BrianL]

I used to get a lot of Marvel & DC superhero cards abck in the day - I still have several full sets. I bought G.I. Joe trading card game cards and completed a set as well as having several to play with. I never did finish my Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom set, but it's discontinued now! Most cards theses days are jsut way too expensive and you don't even get gum!

 

[jrsharp21]

I used to get a lot of Marvel & DC superhero cards abck in the day - I still have several full sets. I bought G.I. Joe trading card game cards and completed a set as well as having several to play with. I never did finish my Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom set, but it's discontinued now! Most cards theses days are jsut way too expensive and you don't even get gum!

Oh the stale chalky gum was the best. LOL.

Prices of cards these days are definitely much more than what they used to be. I used to complain about that also. But now that I have gotten into it a little bit more with my son, I see why. Alot of the cards are no longer printed on that flimsy thing cardboard that they used to be back in the 90's and before then. It is now a thicker material and they have all sorts of different variants and inserts. I remember back in the day the common cards you couldn't get 5 cents for. So they went on bike tires, used for other made up games, or just tossed to the side. With the quality of materials now, you can sell some of the more expensive commons for a buck or two to try to recoup some funds to put towards your next purchase.

One thing that is way more difficult in collecting these days is that there are so many different types of sets from the different companies. Back in my youth collecting days, you had Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Bowman, Upper Deck and Score were just getting started. Now you have all those guys plus some more and everyone puts out 3 or 4 different sets of each sport. Hard to keep track of.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I still have a collection of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi cards from when I was a kid.

 

[Mysterian]

GPK's in the 80's, and a few series of Marvel Universe back in the early 90's.

And of course the Grocery Store Associates card series, which I've alluded to a couple times here on the board. Highly sought after.

 

[starry_solo]

Not anymore, but way back when, I collected:
Star Trek
Star Wars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Disney animated movies
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (MMPR) - only them, not any of the new Rangers iterations
Sailor Moon (US and Japan)
Gargoyles and other Disney Afternoon

 

[Genie+]

MTG

 

[Dan Murphy]

I'm one of those wishing I still had my baseball card and comic book collections from the 50's. I have no idea what happened to them. I had a LOT of both.

I know the only way to get the baseball cards then was to buy the nickel packs with 5 cards and a dried out bubble gum slab.

Regular comics were a dime, special, big ones (more pages) were a quarter. I liked war story comics, sci-fi of the day ones and super heros of the day, Superman, Superboy, Batman, Aquaman, Plastic Man and a few others I can't recall.

Also bought a ton of car magazines back then, most were a quarter. Probably a dozen or more different magazine titles a month.

I do still have my vinyl 33's records, several hundred I'm sure. Glad I still have those.

Have fun collecting.

 

[BrianL]

I'm one of those wishing I still had my baseball card and comic book collections from the 50's. I have no idea what happened to them. I had a LOT of both.

I know the only way to get the baseball cards then was to buy the nickel packs with 5 cards and a dried out bubble gum slab.

Regular comics were a dime, special, big ones (more pages) were a quarter. I liked war story comics, sci-fi of the day ones and super heros of the day, Superman, Superboy, Batman, Aquaman, Plastic Man and a few others I can't recall.

Also bought a ton of car magazines back then, most were a quarter. Probably a dozen or more different magazine titles a month.

I do still have my vinyl 33's records, several hundred I'm sure. Glad I still have those.

Have fun collecting.

Man 50's comics are still worth something because so few survived. There are some high-value 60's ones form earlt on, like the fisrt issues of Marvel and all, but a little after that point, the collectors started to keep them ensuring that they would continue to exist, but also making them far less rare. Once you get to the mid-70's prices crater. Of course, I was able to buy a ton of 80's comics back in the day for next to nothing, and that's when a lot of really good stuff was being made.

 

[sksjasams]

My DS was a big Pokémon card collector when he was young. In addition to what he pulled from packs, Santa brought him some nice EX cards.
Now that he is grown, he collects mostly basketball and some football cards.
For the first time, he recently sent in a few of his best Pokémon and sports cards to be graded.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Man 50's comics are still worth something because so few survived.

I hear you, Brian. I have no idea where they went. Mom probably tossed them.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Star Trek (original series) card collector here.

 

[jrsharp21]

My DS was a big Pokémon card collector when he was young. In addition to what he pulled from packs, Santa brought him some nice EX cards.
Now that he is grown, he collects mostly basketball and some football cards.
For the first time, he recently sent in a few of his best Pokémon and sports cards to be graded.

Nice! If he sent some in from when he was young, he will probably come back with some decently valuable graded cards. My son and I have a stack of cards that we want to send in for grading. We had been waiting for the turn around time to get to something reasonable. I think PSA is finally to a point where we are okay with the turnaround time.

 

[lanejudy]

Baseball cards from the 70s 80s and 90s. Still have them in my closet,

 

[SandyinMonterey]

HUsband has been collecting baseball and football cards (complete sets) since the 60's. All in original box and mint condition. He has other sets, like Harry Potter, throughout the years and more that I'm sure I'm not aware of.

 

[amcnj]

When I was in elementary school sports cards were a common item. Even cereal boxes sometimes had them to cut out from the back of the box. But the only entire set I ever had was Planet of the Apes!

 

[mamamary]

My dh is a big collector of baseball cards. He has been collecting since he was a kid. He has made a lot of money on this. I don’t get it but that’s his thing.

 

[Kennywood]

I collect non-sport trading cards, but my primary focus is promo cards.