Monday, July 18, 2011

Houdini is a 2011 Goodwin Champion

Upper Deck has released a new series of "retro" trading cards, the 2011 Goodwin Champions. Among the eclectic collection of sports stars, politicians, and animals we find Houdini. The Houdini card comes as a full size trading card and in a vintage tobacco card "mini" style. Pretty cool.


The photo Upper Deck uses for their Houdini card is a colorized still from his first Hollywood feature, The Grim Game (1919).

4 comments:

  1. Maybe this card lists Houdini's correct birth date (unlike the Topps American Heritage Houdini card, which has it as March 22).

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  2. I just got the card (the full-size version). This one has the date wrong, too! It's listed as March 12, 1874. Unbelievable.

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  3. Oh, my, I missed that. You're right. It says March 12. WTF?

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