Category: Silver Age
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Iconic Rookies: 2008 Rittenhouse Archives Iron Man Movie Casting Call CC1 – Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark Before the MCU became the MCU, there was one casting decision that changed the whole hobby-adjacent pop culture universe: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. And for non-sport collectors, one of the cleanest “early movie-era” pieces you…
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Iconic Rookies: 2005 Inkworks The Sopranos Season One #2 – Anthony Soprano This one isn’t cute. It isn’t shiny. It isn’t “look at my hit.” This is The Sopranos — and if you’re doing iconic TV in non-sport, you don’t skip the boss. Today’s Iconic Rookies entry: 2005 Inkworks The Sopranos Season One #2 –…
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Iconic Rookies: 2005 Inkworks Family Guy Season One #7 – Stewie Griffin If Peter is the engine, Stewie is the chaos. And the hobby loves chaos… as long as it’s still cheap enough to pretend we’re “early.” So for Iconic Rookies, we’re going with one of the most important character base cards in the entire…
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Iconic Rookies: 2005 Inkworks Family Guy Season One #2 – Peter Griffin Some cards are “key” because they’re rare. Peter Griffin is key because he’s inescapable. If you collect modern pop-culture non-sport, you eventually end up at Family Guy whether you planned to or not. So for Iconic Rookies, we’re going straight to the clean…
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Iconic Rookies: 2002 Topps Spider-Man #3 – Spider-Man Every once in a while the hobby gives us something that should be a “no-brainer,” and somehow it still sits in that undervalued zone. Today’s Iconic Rookies entry is exactly that: 2002 Topps Spider-Man #3 – Spider-Man (the base card… not an auto). 2002 Topps Spider-Man #3…
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Iconic Rookies: 2000 Topps X-Men The Movie #2 – Professor X Some cards get love because they’re loud. Others deserve love because they’re the anchor of an entire franchise. For the original X-Men movie, there’s no bigger “foundation” character than Professor Charles Xavier — and his cleanest, most straightforward base card in the set is:…
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Iconic Rookies: 2000 Topps X-Men The Movie #6 – Wolverine Every hobby has its blind spots. In non-sports, sometimes the most obvious character cards somehow still trade like they’re filler from a junk wax commons box. So today’s Iconic Rookies pick is exactly that kind of “how is this still cheap?” card: 2000 Topps X-Men…