Cafe Trade #3 2024: @levy2628

Coffee, Cards, Blogging. A fun way to kick off my Sunday....or any day.

Today I am showing off my third trade of 2024 and it happens to be my second trade with @levy2628.

And once again, my trade with @levy2628 brought a variety of fun cards.

Let's see what was sent this time.

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Clarence Birdseye. I bet you can't guess what he is connected to....yup...he was known as the founder of the frozen food industry including you guessed it, Birds Eye.

If only he had created Frozen Coffee.

Booming Cities mini insert

X-Ray Allen and Ginter base. Who doesn't want an X-Ray rookie card? Especially someone like me who has had plenty of them in my lifetime.

 

Always wanted one of these. Next up on my want list is the 2012 Allen Ginter People Of The Bible Jesus.

1995 Zenith Z-Team Sterling Sharpe. This is my next set chase now that I finished 1996. I will do a separate post on this in Unfinished Cup soon.

Kenneth Choi autograph from Spiderman Homecoming. Choi has starred in a variety of TV shows and Movies. Most recently on the TV series 9-1-1. Which is a much different show than what I grew up watching.

Laura Harrier played Peter Parker's love crush in Spider-Man Homecoming but has also played roles in other TV and movies along with being a model.

I am glad now to have three of the autographs from Spider-Man Homecoming and hope to add more from it and other Marvel ones as well.

Thanks again to @levy2628 for the trade. We have actually just finished another one recently so he could become Trade #4 as well.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I am always welcoming trades for Marvel cards like the ones above or the 1995 Zenith Z-Team needs. Maybe one of you will become the next Trade on my countdown.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday full of coffee and card happiness.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Cafe Trade #2 2024: @levy2628

Good Morning fellow Coffee and Card peeps!! Or just coffee or just card peeps though I don't know or understand how non coffee drinkers make it through day.

Before I start with today's latest post, I wanted to share my latest articles on Beckett and BCW Supplies.

First one is on Beckett and focuses on 1996-97 Stadium Club Basketball Matrix parallel. You can read it here, https://www.beckett.com/news/second-look-1996-97-stadium-club-basketball-matrix/

My second articles was on BCW Supplies and talks about sorting in the winter time to cure your blues, https://www.bcwsupplies.com/blog/2024/01/12/winter-got-you-down-sort-your-cards/

I would appreciate you guys giving them a read and maybe leave a comment or two on those posts!

*takes a sip*

My latest trade is with a guy I have plenty of experience trading with in the past on Twitter. Yes, I will always call it Twitter, X sounds like a dirty movie site.

We have done sports trades, non-sports trades and a mixture of both. The one great thing is that he is always fun to trade with and easy to trade with. 

Our latest trade shows this.

Jenny McCarthy rookie card. I have other versions of her rookie, but not the Topps Now one.

Anyone else think this is what this year's election will look like??

One thing that my non-sports collection lacks is vintage.  And I don't know much about vintage whether that be for sports or non-sports but when I see something cool, I will trade for it.

Like this one!

Or what about some Marilyn Monroe? Don't tell me this isn't cool.

Same for this John Wayne.

Along with the unique vintage non-sport adds, I added a couple modern as well.

Harry Hamlin is known for his role on L.A. Law, Clash Of The Titans, Shameless and Mad Men. Sadly, I haven't seen any of these. But, I think he has a solid signature so was glad to add him anyways.

 

Michael has been in a few other films, but I know him for his role on Spider-Man Homecoming. It was a great movie.

Thanks again to @levy2628 for this trade. I actually believe the next one in this series I post will also be a trade with him. If you liked the cards in this one, the next one is pretty stellar as well.

I hope everyone has a great Tuesday. Drink coffee, smile and be happy. Life goes by too fast to not drink coffee, smile and be happy.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Rise Of Marvel

*sits down to open laptop. begins to google a list of Marvel movies in order to use in today's post. *

*takes a sip*

*copies and pastes a list to edit, takes another sip, looks at nearby cards and is ready to go for today's post*

This summer I didn't go on any trips. I didn't take any adventures away from home. I didn't go to any theme parks, fairs or even wild crazy Walmart card shopping adventures. Outside of going to the grocery store, running errands, spending time with family my summer was a quiet one. One that didn't cost a lot of money for the money I don't have.

However, with that time I discovered a new passion in life, watching Marvel Movies.

*takes a sip*

The first movie I watched was Guardians Of The Galaxy and from there, I was hooked. The wit, humor and action in the movie had me. I followed that up with Guardians Of The Galaxy Two and then started to expand my watching.

Up until this summer, the only Marvel character I had any interest in was Spider-Man. I grew up watching that cartoon and thought he was the coolest, other than Batman. I also watched the three-what I consider OG movies-that featured Tobey Maguire. But, never had interest in watching the newer ones. Well, as my summer went on, I took a dip into those and really liked them.

The first one I watched was Spider-Man Homecoming.

Which featured a younger cast for the characters in this universe. Aunt May, hey eyes on the writing I see them drifting upward, was played by Marisa Tomei instead of an elderly woman.

MJ was played by Zendaya who is believed to be a rising star in Hollywood.

 

And Spider-Man was played by Tom Holland. Who I thought played the role really well.

The movie was the 16th movie in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) order. I didn't watch any of the movies in order so I can't remember which order I saw this one. I just wished I had watched them in order, but I chose the ones I wanted to see first, then I have gone back and tried to watch the others in order.

Here are the movies, crossed out, I have seen this summer in the MCU.

Phase One (2008-2012)

Iron Man 
The Incredible Hulk 
Iron Man 2 
Thor 
Captain America: The First Avenger 
Marvel’s The First Avengers

(I didn't watch the Hulk since they replaced the actor from that one in the movies following. I felt it would take away from what I have seen)

Phase Two (2013-2015)

Iron Man 3 
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 
Guardians of the Galaxy 
Avengers: Age of Ultron 
Ant-Man 

(Ant-Man was better than I thought it would be, same with Thor)

Phase Three (2016-2019)

Captain America: Civil War 
Doctor Strange 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 
Spider-Man: Homecoming 
Thor: Ragnarok 
Black Panther 
Avengers: Infinity War
Ant-Man and the Wasp 
Captain Marvel 
Avengers: Endgame 
Spider-Man: Far From Home 

(I have been holding off on Black Panther, it appeared to be boring but I probably will watch it next then Captain Marvel)

The Multiverse Saga: Phase Four (2021-2022)

Black Widow 
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 
Eternals 
Spider-Man: No Way Home 
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Thor: Love and Thunder
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

(I am lacking in this group. Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Eternals didn't look that exciting, but I will give them a try. Wakanda will have to wait until I watch the first and I believe Doctor Strange will be one of the next movies I am watching)

Phase Five (2023-2024)

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 
The Marvels 

(Ant-Man is coming up in my next three, The Marvels releases soon but I have to watch the other first)

This is just the movie part of the universe, there are also spinoff shows on Disney+. The one that intrigues me most is Loki, which is the spinoff from Thor.

But, I am going to finish the movies first.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I have started a fairly small collection of Marvel cards from these movies including the cards above and I am always looking for more. Especially autographs and relic cards from the movies.

Here is where I would rank my wants most in order,

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Spider-Man

The Avengers

Thor

Ant-Man

Then anything else.

I hope in comments you will let me know if you enjoyed any of these movies and went as crazy as I did watching them.

Hope you have a great Tuesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*