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An editorial trading card is a trading card featuring entertainment content on some subject of popular interest other than sports, designed for collecting. The cards are produced in series featuring celebrities, subjects from television and movies, or original creations, for example. As many trading cards involve sports, editorial trading cards are often called non-sports trading cards. Most of the card series sell for only one or two years, tracking the popularity of their subjects. In recent years editorial cards have overlapped with the newer phenomenon of collectible card games. For example, the Pokémon craze yielded both a trading card game, produced by Wizards of the Coast, as well as regular trading cards by Topps and others that were not designed for gameplay.
Humor Movies Television Factual/Historical Comics Games Music Sci-Fi Sketch Cards A sketch card is a trading-card sized piece of original art usually measuring 2.5" (65mm) x 3.5" (90mm). They have been randomly inserted into various trading card sets since the 1990's. One of the first sets to include this type of chase card insert was the 1993 Simpsons set by SkyBox International that had 400 redemptions for an "Art DeBart Card." The sketch card insert has been most common in non-sport trading card sets like Lord of the Rings: Evolution, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Scooby Doo: Mysteries & Monsters. A few sport sets have also adopted the idea like the 2005 Topps Gallery Baseball. One of the all-time most popular sets was the 1998 Marvel Creator's Collection by Fleer. They called their sketch cards "sketchagraph" cards. The reason the set was so popular was because it used the artistic skills of hundreds of different artists, and they were allowed to draw any character in the entire Marvel Universe. Sketch card inserts have usually come one per box of trading cards, but some sets like Hulk by Topps came one in 12 boxes, and Lord of the Rings: Masterpieces by Topps come two per box. Some companies even offer oversize (3x5 inch) sketch cards as case premiums like Fathom by Dynamic Forces. A few of the titles that sketch cards go by include: | ||||||||
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