A One Card Simpsons Post

A one card post today, a Simpsons glow-in-the-dark card. I always enjoy adding new Simpsons cards to my collection and even better when they glow. I believe there are four different glow-in-the-dark cards in the 1993 Skybox Simpsons set and this one I picked up for under $1 plus shipping.

Glow It Up!

Yesterday Oregon’s Athletic Department Tweeted a picture of a poster that depicts a silhouetted player in a glow-in-the-dark uniform. So far there is no verification if the team will actually wear a glow-in-the-dark uniform or if this is just a cool poster but if any team does wear a jersey that glows it is definitely Oregon.

It should be noted that Nike, who also makes Oregon’s uniforms, did create glow-in-the-dark shoes for Ohio State so the possibility is there.

This would be a great opportunity to release glow-in-the-dark cards, alas I do not see Panini taking advantage of something like this even though glowing cards are cool. There just are not enough glow-in-the-dark cards available.

A Simpsons Nuclear Accident

This is one of my recent, more fun pickups. The 6-card neon set is from the 2000 Inworks Simpson’s 10^th Anniversary release. The cards are acetate, neon cards and they glow under black lights.

N1 Blinky the three-eyed fish

N2 X-ray Bart

N3 Homer eating radioactive waste

N4 Homer with a radioactive donut

N5 Skeleton Bart skateboarding

N6 Homer advertisement

These cards are pretty cool and I have been watching them for 14 years but never pulled the trigger because the cards usually sell for $3-5 each and that was just too much for something like this but when I came across a British dealer selling the entire set with a .99 cent starting bid it caught my attention. In the end I won the auction with a bid of $3.28 plus $4.31 shipping from England. A total of $7.59 for the entire set was more reasonable when you figure you could only get 2 cards from most sellers.

I have a strong LED black light so the cards were reflecting the light in to the camera so the full glow effect cannot really be seen in my pictures but when they are in hand they glow beautifully without a reflection. I did find a image of the set glowing nicely under a black light, but it is a small image but you get the idea.