5 Great TV Backer Cards To Get The Collector In Your Life For Christmas

For those of you who haven't heard of them yet, TV backer cards were art prints that had been commissioned by Blockbuster years ago on a cardboard backing... Now these prints are very highly detailed, and with the downfall of the video rental industry, have begun to see the rise of Backer Cards in all forms becoming collectors items... And so I thought that for the collector in your life, that one or all of these backer cards might help you in your Christmas shopping this season!

So with out further adieu:

At number 5: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1, Disc 1:

The backer card for the first season, disc 1 of the classic Vampire drama series, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'

At number 4: True Blood: The Complete First Season, Disc 1:

This backer card would be a great gift for horror fans or even just fans of the series!

At number 3: The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season. Disc 1:

And for the more contemporary Vampire TV series fan...

At number 2: Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Guard On Duty:

And for the kiddies room...

At number 1: Big Love: The Complete Fourth Season, Disc 2:

This backer card would be a great gift to get your girl friend or wife... Or would be great to give to just the fan of the series!

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Nintendo Power... A Collector's Item

This magazine may have joined the dearly departed, but it will never be forgotten!

That's right folks... If you were born before the 1990s I imagine that you would not have only heard of , but maybe actually owned this magazine, a magazine that during it's production was initially called, 'Nintendo Fun Club News'!

Now for a little bit of history about this magazine, first off, this magazine was initially being created in house at, 'Nintendo Of America' as, 'Nintendo Fun Club' back in the mid to late 80s! Well it looks like in 1988 that, that this particular magazine was discontinued in favor of bringing to the world of Video Games at the time, 'Nintendo Power'!

Nintendo Fun Club News was the pre-cursor to Nintendo Power. 

Now the intention of Nintendo Power was to act as sort of a news/strategy guide, (initially just for video games that were made in house at Nintendo, but later would include games and what not that were licensed through Nintendo...)

This magazine would continue on through out the decades leading up to it's unfortunate end back in 2012... But during the height of it, and after Nintendo released the follow up console to the, 'NES', Nintendo Power started to add cartoon strips that would include stories from such classic games as: 'Super Mario World' and, 'Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past', and that is just to name a few!

Super Mario Adventures was the name of serialized comic that ran in Nintendo Power after the release of the Super Nintendo!

And that is just to name a few of the gimmicks that Nintendo Power did over the years that it has been around. a couple of more examples being a, 'Top 200 Video Game list' in issues 196 - 200, a top 20 list of all of the games that have ever been released for a Nintendo console as a way to celebrate Nintendo Power's 20th anniversary, and again that is just a few of them... Because if I explained all of the ones that have been around over the decades, we could be here for awhile...

Never-the-less, sadly, with the downfall of Nintendo Power, this magazine and all of it's issues have since become collector's items, so heck, if you are looking for a Christmas item for the gamer fan in your life this year... This might be the right gift for him or her!

This magazine maybe gone, but will never be forgotten!

The Backer Card... A New Collectible

When I first started Hellinspace... Like most people I imagine, that when they are starting up a new business, have the usual jitters that come with trying to start up their own business... But there is a side to starting up your business that most people generally tend to leave out, when talking about starting up their businesses... That being the fun stuff!

What I mean... Well in my case, while trying to figure out how I was going to make my business profitable... Now many people do that in many different ways... If some one wants to start up their own law firm, these lawyers might find it something of a thrill when looking for their first cases, and for Doctor's opening up their own practice... Well they might get a strong sense of satisfaction when they begin truly designing their offices, (exam rooms and the like,) as well as looking for their first clients!

Well for me, being that Hellinspace has, HellsDepot.com as a store that sells all sorts and kinds of goodies... (Or well at the time that I am writing this, HellsDepot is closed for renovations,) so besides the fact that building the store was a lot of fun, one of the things that I found that I really enjoyed, was finding the right kind of product for the store, and that is when I came across, 'Backer Cards'!

A TV Backer card for HBO's, 'True Blood'!

Now you might be wondering what these cards are, right? Well during the time when movie rental stores were still available (this was mostly before streaming, and red box,) one of the things that Blockbuster did, was they commissioned these high quality mini-posters that were printed most of the time on heavy card stock (or, well in a few cases that I could find, on metal...)

The reason they did this is that when these TV shows (and they did this for all of the entertainment mediums that they had for rent at the time, including Movies and Video Games,) happen to be all out for rent at the time,  they would put these cards out to let people know that  they happen to be out of that particular item at the time.

A Video Game Backer Card for: Street Fighter X Tekken!

With the downfall of the movie rental industry  these mini-posters (called backer cards,) have started becoming highly collectible items, that rather you are a Movie Memorabilia  collector, Video Game Memorabilia collector, or TV Memorabilia collector, has generally found a place in this world!

Now it is true, these pieces are still relatively new to the world of collectors, but if you happen to see them, you will be able to distinguish at least some of them by the fact that some of these will have, 'Blockbuster Delivers'... The truth is, is I have not seen this as of yet on to many TV or Movie Backer Cards, but I have seen them a lot on Video Game Backer Cards!

The other way you can distinguish between them is the fact that a lot of people selling them online will let you know, either in the title of the listing, or  in the description that these are not the Movie/Tv Show/Video Game.

Anyway, if you already know about these, well I hope that I have given you a little bit more information that you can use... If you are now just discovering these, enjoy!

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