Star Wars Collecting: Star Wars Trading Cards

With Andy Dukes and Cathy Kendrick: For 30 years, card collectors and Star Wars fans have been collecting Star Wars cards. Cards that have evolved over time from simple bits of cardboard with images of favorite characters and scenes, to much more artistic representations of the Star Wars universe. Some cards today are literally art, original sketches created by artists as chase cards to modern sets. It would be easy to spend our time telling you about just a small portion of the sets released by Topps over the 30 years of Star Wars, or even just listing all of the many Japanese card and sticker sets that were issued, but we’d be neglecting a lot of the fun of Star Wars card collecting if that was all we did. This presentation is about the mysteries and challenges of collecting Star Wars trading cards, and the importance of looking beyond the obvious as you build your collection.