Buzz Break: 2006 Inkworks Veronica Mars Season 1 cards

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The box: 2006 Inkworks Veronica Mars Season 1 trading cards
Where to buy: Will take some looking ...BlowoutCards.com for newer non-sports cards

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 168
Base set completion: 
72 of 72 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 72 (Yes, two full sets.)
Triplicates: 15

Notables on base cards – See gallery

Insert cards: 7 (all in gallery below with some base)
Triangle (1) – Veronica Mars (box-topper)
Revolving Around Mars (2) – Weevil Navarro, Logan Echolls
Who Killed Lilly Kane? puzzle cards (4) – Lilly Kane, Duncan Kane, Aaron Echolls, Abel Koontz

Autographs/Memorabilia: 2
Pieceworks Authentic Show-worn Item card (1) – Kyle Secor as Jake Kane
Autographs (1) – Anthony Anderson as Percy "Bone" Hamilton

What's Buzz-worthy: This #TBT break of mine is a little pricier than my typical grab but it was still less than this one's original suggested retail price of $72 but I took that shot as there are some unique finds among the hits -- two per box (one auto, one mem) -- with some perhaps-rarer finds still potentially paying for the box. There are 11 autos to be found here with Kristen Bell, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Majorino, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Anthony Anderson for starters and there's a good chance you'll know them from elsewhere. Among the dozen memorabilia cards? Bell, Seyfried, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna and ... Paris Hilton. (Actual eBay sale on that one about $50 shipped, while the only actual active listing has an asking of $199.99 ... it's not that hot.) Bell and Seyfried's autos will likely pay for a box, though, and others will pay for a chunk of it. Boxes are findable but not worth paying a premium, really, while the rest of the box inclusions are pretty barren and simple. My box? I landed one auto of a name people should know -- "Pookie! Let's burn this ... down!" -- while my mem card is of a name I don't really know but he's had plenty of credits. The base set itself has a Hilton appearance and a few other highlight-ish cards or other cameos (Alyson Hannigan who you might know from elsewhere) but the set is not the greatest as images appear to be pulled from screenshots on a lot of it and then uses subsets with other images to fill things out. The company, a non-sports entity long gone but one I liked in that era -- guaranteed a base set in every box and this one yielded two. Meanwhile the three insert sets are pretty simple. (That kind of puts a damper on the values of anything not the hits.) I hadn't ever opened this one -- never watched the show -- but for the price all these years later I decided to rip. I might do it again ... we'll see. There can be some big boxes and some big whiffs, too.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: B+ (one of the better-name autos this time)
Fun Grade: C (a good box ... but not a fun rip)

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