How do I creatively display a set of trading cards?

October 24, 2006 12:35 PM

I've had a complete set of Sin City trading cards gathering dust for years. What can I do with them?

You can see what they're like in this ebay auction.

The art is very striking, and I'd like to come up with a creative way to use them/display them.

Does anyone have ideas?

posted by crickets to Grab Bag (5 answers total)

Get a bunch of trading card sleeves (the kind that are large sheets - like 12 to a page or whatever), and arrange them in an aesthetically pleasing way, then frame them.

Or collage them and frame them.

Or get a bunch of single trading card sleeves and make a mobile. Or string them together and make a "beaded door".
posted by ArsncHeart at 12:46 PM on October 24, 2006

If you've a little bit of cash sitting around I'd get a mat cut for them and frame them in a single frame. I've a couple of postcard lots I've done this with and I love the result.
posted by FlamingBore at 1:01 PM on October 24, 2006

Or ignore that - didn't realize it was 72 cards.
posted by FlamingBore at 1:04 PM on October 24, 2006

Damn, those are fucking gorgeous! Please don't do the beaded door or mobile--they'll end up bent and abused.

Get them professionally matted and framed. If you have any of the original comics, you could have the comic in the middle and the trading cards surrounding it.
posted by Anonymous at 1:15 PM on October 24, 2006

You could get a coffee table that's the right size to lay them out in a grid, then put glass on top. Would make an interesting conversation piece with some of the graphic novels as your coffee table books.
posted by ckolderup at 6:40 AM on October 25, 2006