Beautiful Nightmare

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Autographs
NECA, 2001
Tim Burton
I’ll take a break from 1990s baseball inserts for a day or two to bring a random sample of one sweet non-sport autograph.
Tim Burton is one of Hollywood’s last originals. With films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ed Wood, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, the inferior but [...]

Tommy at the Plate

2003 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Sweet Spot Barrel Autographs
AU-TG. Tom Glavine
Bat barrel autographs are cool.
Bat barrel autographs of pitchers seem kind of silly.
Bat barrel autographs of pitchers may seem kind of silly but they’re better than sticker autographs – period.

Mr. Rooney in a Funny Wig

Sleepy Hollow Autographs
Inkworks, 1999
A3. Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck
Look, it’s Mr. Rooney with a funny wig on! Jeffrey Jones is one of my favorite character actors from my lifetime. Whether he’s being foiled by Ferris Bueller or churning out the news in Deadwood, there’s always something that he’s up to.
Turns out a few years ago [...]

18 and Life and Then Some

2008 Upper Deck Spectrum Spectrum of Stars Autographs
SSS-SB. Sebastian Bach
Back when I was ten Bon Jovi was the stuff. And it wasn’t the cougars who loved him – the girls dug him too. My sister was one of them. She was 13 and figured if she made it to the concert, he’d pull her out [...]

Fast Eddie

Terminator 2: Judgment Day FilmCardz Autographs
Artbox, 2003
Edward Furlong as John Connor
Whatever happened to Ed Furlong? He was an up-and-comer holding his own against Ah-nuld and the T-1000. He continued to emerge as a star with the creepy horror flick Pet Semetary, which was based on a Stephen King novel. Then Furlong suddenly became relegated to [...]

Alan the Ripper

2008 Finest Baseball Autographs
FA-RM. Alan “The Rip Master” Narz”
So you’ve convinced your significant other that $100 is well spent on and 18-pack master box of 2008 Finest Baseball.
“But, hun, there’s three autographs in here.”
In the third pack, there it is – your first autograph. The significant other looks over, “Are those packs of baseball cards [...]

Destroy All Humans

Battlestar Galactica: Colonial Warriors Autographs
Rittenhouse Archives, 2005
A19. Glen A. Larson
Canadians are renowned for their lax attitude about life. At least in some parts of this fine, barren country. As a result we like to take our time with things. Case in point: the fourth season premiere of Battlestar Galactica aired tonight rather than earlier in [...]