COMC6 - From Lindros to Betts

Not much time today, so let's enjoy another half dozen cards randomly plucked from my latest COMC shipment...

A nice mid-'90s SP insert of Eric Lindros.  This is my second card from this insert set, both coming from COMC and both setting me back just $.50.  There are 30 of these Premier inserts altogether, so it's doubtful I'll ever finish it.

I'm totally hooked on last year's Bowman Chrome "Bubbles" refractors at this point.  I'm hoping I can complete the Red Sox team set of these parallels.  I believe there are 9 total, and Lackey here is my 3rd, so I'm getting there slowly but surely.

A nice black refractor, serial numbered to /100, from 2013 Topps Chrome.  I thought this photograph of Middlebrooks was one of the more interesting used in the 2013 set, so I pick up different versions whenever I can find them cheap.  Cards in the $1-$5 range like this one are where I find COMC to be most effective.  In fact, I just checked my purchase history and it looks like this one set me back just $.75!

My quest for Champ's Yellow parallels continues.  There are 100 of these one-per-hobby-box cards in total, and Daniel Alfredsson here makes 15 now in my collection.  A long way to go, and truthfully probably one of those projects I'll never ultimately finish, but it's rewarding when I do find one I need from time to time.

If you collected hockey in the early '90s like I did as a kid, it's hard not to like these throwbacks from the Fleer Retro set that came out a couple of seasons ago.  This Patrice Bergeron is done in the style of '93-94 Ultra, and does a decent job mimicking the original if you ask me.  It looks sort of like Patrice has a small third arm growing out from his shoulder, and how about Tim Thomas lurking in the background there?

In closing, a really, really, really shiny Mookie Betts card.  When I first stumbled upon this one I did a double take, as I had no recollection of Betts being on the checklist for these inserts when Bowman was released last year.  Well, it looks like Topps released these same inserts across a variety of Bowman products in 2014, with this card actually having come in Bowman Sterling.

Alright, that's a wrap!