The December/January edition of Beckett Vintage Collector came to my house Saturday. Yup, I've subscribed to the thing -- I should ensure that it stays in business if I'm writing for it, right? Asking for free copies all the time doesn't help them pay my salary. The latest edition should start appearing in stores and at magazine racks in the next couple of weeks. And, once again, I have a story in it. This is my fifth story for the magazine this year, something I didn't quite expect when the first one was published back in January. It's still very cool and I hope to keep it going for as long as they want me and I have topics. This edition's topic is subsets: You remember subsets, right? Well, maybe you don't. Subsets went out of style by the mid-1990s and that's already 25 years ago. Subsets were replaced by inserts, which were popular with both collectors and card companies -- card companies because now they could make collectors cha...
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