Aucoin was Bill Aucoin, KISSs manager.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the input. I missed that completely.

Right when I first got heavily into Kiss around my 12th birthday September '78. Buying these over the counter at the town stationary store was like copping crack cocaine! Kiss stuff was taboo contraband back then. "Omg, he has Kiss cards! Ship him off to reform school!"

Aucoin was Bill Aucoin. Original Kiss Manager. Him and his boyfriend Sean Delaney were the masterminds behind a lot of the early Kiss marketing and stage shows. He single handedly funded the Kiss machine early on when they were not making money, at least his American Express did.

As a young KISS fanatic, I was psyched to collect these cards when they hit the shelves. But it soon became apparent that it was really a crappy collection - they would literally use what appeared to be the same shots (with maybe a slight difference) on multiple cards. So you'd have Paul playing guitar, then another one with the same pose but his head tilted a little differently. This is bc practically the entire set of photos look like they came from the same concert/photo shoot. You'd think they could have thrown in some shots of them in a limo, at an appearance, etc. Anything to mix it up and make it interesting. It was a cheap cash grab, like much of their merchandising at the time.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

I agree with your point on the photos. The images for this particular Kiss set could have been a lot better. Nonetheless, the whole bubble gum card experience of your favorite band doesn't get diminished by the photos. There are phenomenal shots of Kiss throughout the years. I agree with you, Aucoin just didn't get real creative with the photos here. Many sets are like this. Often when the cards aren't solely beautiful for their art and photography, they are beautiful for what they represent... That band, that time, the smell of the gum. Spending paper route money to get a few more packs and hiding them in the shoebox when you got home. I look forward to ripping boxes and packs of many products as time goes on, so people can experience these sets without having to hunt down boxes and packs themself. I appreciate your comments not only about what the cards represent to you personally, but also on the cards themself from a collectability standpoint. This is a channel dedicated to collecting music cards, so card condition and finding these cards comes into play here, just as much as our love for the artists and groups.

@tomflorio3639

8 ай бұрын

@@cardboardportfolio Sounds good! Enjoy. PS - I realize the "similar image on multiple cards" thing is not unique to this set. It was common in entertainment cards I collected. I remember collecting Charlie's Angels cards, and it felt like all 60 cards in the set were taken from 2 episodes. But, I didn't mind, because, hey . . . Charlie's Angels! 😄

@dakert40

7 ай бұрын

The KISS wax packs sold for only 15 cents in 1978 🙂

@wangdangle73

7 ай бұрын

Ace on fire card

@wangdangle73

7 ай бұрын

I'd chew that gum for nostalgia

Cool video. I remember my parents purchasing these cards for me when I was 8 years old in 1978. I remember opening them and the smell of that gum. I ended up with a lot of duplicate cards. I'm surprised you didn't have any doubles out of those 3 packs.

I have the complete first and second series. I remember when I got them in the 80's the cards had a strong waxy scent to them. I had no KISS concert videos back then, so when I would listen to the Alive albums I would stare at those cards and the images seemed to come alive with the music.

I remember buying an unopened wax box of KISS cards back in 1978. My girlfriend at the time got mad at me for getting them instead of spending the money on weed. I was able to make 2 complete sets out of the box. I do still have them, but I did open them the same day I bought them. I'm sure glad I didn't listen to my girlfriend.

@jeffkaufman9875

8 ай бұрын

@Lemmy Have you considered smoking the cards?..

oh man... memories. i had over 100 in my collection in 5th grade. '77 i think. thank you.

Ah, yes. The late seventies… Buster Brown shoes, navy blue corduroy pants, mustard yellow long-sleeved turtleneck and a massive hair helmet that would make 2012 Justin Bieber blush. I can still remember putting the KISS puzzle together on my school desk. I kept my cards in a Star Wars lunchbox. They were always stacked in order and secured with a rubber band. In my fourth grade class, there was a kid named Mike who had all four of the KISS dolls. He used to pop off their heads, stick them onto the tips of his fingers and sing “Rock N Roll All Nite”. Good times, indeed.

Yeah, maybe miscut, whatever. Loved them as a kid back in the 70’s. I remember rushing down to the local gas station/feed store (grew up in a very rural area) to grab a few packs with allowance money. Great memories!

I have a few packs of those that I got from a KISS convention back in 2000. I think I paid less than a dollar a pack.

Give ya five bucks if you chew a stick of that gum. 👹

@MetalSalvation

8 ай бұрын

I was hoping he'd show a close up of them.

I had all of those cards made the puzzle poster to wow forgot about these cards thank you for the memory.

I had some of those KISS cards, wish I'd held on to them.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

You can always grab a handful of singles for old time sake. I'm sure you could pick up a few nice ones for a few bucks on eBay or COMC. Thanks for checking out the video.

My brother and I used too have thousands of them we would cut out the the figures and make dioramas of there stage we would take toilet paper rolls and cover it in aluminum foil and make peters drum riser put sparklers and fire crackers and smoke bombs and use our cassette recorder to do make shift concerts what an awesome time the 70’s were.

I actually remember all these photos on the cards..... memory lane....

I have both sets - not sure if they're complete, but I still have em in a card binder.

Yep still have mine !! Bought them all the time at the grocery store ..

Oh this brings back memories I used to collect these ki⚡⚡ cards a lot back in the late 70s with that pink powder gum lol

from all the packs i ripped i never pulled #28 or #43! ( i was given those cards to complete my set). man, what memories. i can still smell those cards, and that gum with the white powder on it , ahem, was so distinctive. one thing that drove me nuts was the group puzzle on the back had a reverse negative. i completed the set and then my dad bought me a box of series 2 ($5!) and i completed that set as well. i still have all my cards and they still have that unmistakable odor.

OMG, i had these!!!!

Had all of them. We used to put 2 identical cards next to each other in an antique strereoscope 3D viewer and it worked. Seeing Kiss in 3D, great memories.

Man, i would be wearing white gloves handling those. Thanks for the walk down memory lane

@RockNRoller66

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, that gum is probably like anthrax by now and it's all over the cards.

@jeffkaufman9875

8 ай бұрын

@Rock White GLOVES…🤣😂😅

I had stacks upon stakes of trading cards. Most were the kiss collection.

I have about 5 of those unopened packs and the complete set in a binder.

Greatest days of my life lol

I have the cards with KISS, Queen, The Babys & The Village People. I believe they were from 1978 or 1979.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Those were 1979 Rock Stars, I did a video opening 8 packs of those. It is one of the most recent posted.

@johnsoos6907

8 ай бұрын

@@cardboardportfolio Cool, I'll check it out! 👍

Those were great man, its like you're looking at real alien pictures, to good to be true.

i still have the hole set

Back in 4th grade a classmate knew I was kiss krazy so one day he brought a pack of kiss cards to school. Back then the convenience stores only had partial boxes, but eventually I completed both sets back then. A few years ago I bought 4 complete boxes of series 1 and 2 complete boxes of series 2. It took me 35 out of 36 packs to make a set from series 1 and 28 packs from series 2.

Lots of "Peter" in that pack...

@mikeoxinya570

7 ай бұрын

Yea, because nobody wants those 😂

I have a bunch of those cards, some not so great condition, but most are near perfect.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Seems to me centering is the big problem. Not a single card out of the 3 packs I opened here, were centered enough to grade.

I did these and starwars cards

I still have mine.

Donruss was notroious with the miscuts... mainly the outer edge of the puzzle namely the cards with print on the back of them, not the actual puzzle pieces, would almost always be miscut. If you can find anything even close to high 7 then good luck. in all my years collecting, I have 1 9.5 peter criss info card. I have yet to see a 10 graded. Centering was not a priority for these cards. Okay, this was the 70's but still. I have the original set still that i opened in the 70's... beat all to hell, but still the actual set i put together as a kid spending my allowance and lawn mowing money to buy thepacks. Bought the marvel blood comic at the same store as the cards.... good times.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate your comments. As I made note in an earlier comment... Often when the cards aren't solely beautiful for their art, photography and "condition", they are beautiful for what they represent... That band, that time, the smell of the gum. Spending "lawn mowing" money to get a few more packs and hiding them in the shoebox when you got home. I appreciate your comments not only about what the cards represent to you personally, but also on the cards themself from a collectability standpoint. This is a channel dedicated to collecting music cards, so card condition and finding these cards comes into play here, just as much as our love for the artists and groups.

You can use a section of pantyhose to remove the wax residue.

I have 2 complete sets of these cards and 2/3 of another set. I bought them about 15 years ago from a guy for $25. Most of them look pack fresh so the price of unopened packs is insane.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

The pack price is somewhat out of whack, but that's OK. There are a lot of products like this one, none of the cards are really chase cards, they are all about the same value unless you are dealing with the variations. And although the break on the pack isn't actually worth the cost of the pack, I'll still rip a pack like this just for the thrill of tearing into a pack that should have been opened back when I was a teenager. It is also always my best shot at getting pristine cards. It doesn't always have to make sense for me to do it!

Bill Aucoin- pronounced Oh Coin. Cool video and fun to see them opened but not sure if I would have!

I still remember the great smell and powder in those.

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

It's amazing the gum smell still fills the room after 45 years.

I collected these, I believe I have one ace card left,that’s not in good condition

I can barely hear you speaking, because the music is so loud

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Noted: I'll work on that. Thanks for watching.

I saw these in a comic store in Guelph, Ontario in the late 80s or early 90s when my dad took me there. I thought they were a new set so I bought a handful of packets. On the way out of the store I opened one up and popped the gum into my mouth and started chewing. That's when I realized that they were at least a decade old! I spat that dried, stale crumbly gum out on the sidewalk and we had a good laugh about it. Blech 🤢!

I want to know what the gum tasted like 😊

The last of the series are worth and rearist of all of them especially the ones that had Eric Carr in them and there were like three gene with blood poring out his mouth they were the least printed and were definitely the best pictures awesome brother bought back some great childhood memories I literally had two garbage bags full as we at shcool used to gamble with them as we invented game and gene with blood was highest card and ones with Eric nobody gambled with them as the last series was the least printed peace and love lloydy

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input. A friend of mine in Australia recently provided me with an image of a "NEW SERIES" box that features the 21 "Corrected Version" cards that have the Eric Carr's. A few details for those interested... The 1st series box had red sides and the pack price was 15¢. The pack wrappers are blue. The 2nd Series box has blue sides, the pack price is 15¢ and the box says "2nd Series" in big pink and white letters across the top of the front. The pack wrappers on 2nd Series are red. The "NEW SERIES" box has red sides, the pack price is 20¢ and the box says "NEW SERIES" in big yellow block letters across the bottom of the front. I'm fairly certain the pack wrapper is blue, but is a bit darker than series 1 blue wrappers. I will show the "NEW SERIES" box image in the video I post for my 2nd Series Kiss Rip.

I have a SEALED Series 1 box. Box is a bit beat up in a few spots, and clear plastic has a thumbnail sized hole in one spot. Anyone have any idea what that could be worth? Not a single sealed one on ebay.

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

I don't know of any instances where the factory boxes came out of the cases sealed. They were usually stacked 16 per case and had no cellophane seal to them. I am assuming yours was sealed later by BBCE or someone else that certified the box before shrink wrapping it. Currently, USA 1st series boxes sell in the $600 range.

you ruined the enjoyment of this..just appreciate the cards for how cool they are...

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Don't know what to tell ya... Some are gonna like these videos and some aren't. I sometimes give my opinion on which cards and sets I like better than others. Nonetheless, I do appreciate you watching and giving your input. And you are always invited back to see if some of my other videos are more to your liking. Cheers!

I can smell the bubble gum

How much does it cost to have a card graded?

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

Depending on which grading company you choose and how many you plan to send in, you can count on paying roughly $15 - $30 per card. If you are using PSA and the card has a high value, it could be considerably more.

@dakert40

7 ай бұрын

WOW thank you

Great video, brought back some memories. But please do away with the shitty background music, it makes it kinda hard to hear what you're saying.

@cardboardportfolio

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your input. Noted, and I will take it into consideration when making future videos. I have also learned, by watching back these videos after I edit them, that I need to either speak loud enough and clear enough so people can clearly hear what is being said, or don't say anything at all. This is all a learning process for me.

@maiden-eq4uv

7 ай бұрын

A agree the music is way too loud for the presentation

you can clean the card.dont throw away

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

The waxy cards cleaned up nice, the gum cards are permanently stained.

Enjoyed the video but holy crap was that music distracting.

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

Noted, Thank you for your input.

Lose the background music man thanks for showing.

@cardboardportfolio

7 ай бұрын

Noted