Now before I race ahead, how cool is the above header - for we actually have not only a date of issue, with a day, but this card advertises a set which is not actually yet released.
But how wonderfully it ties in with this week`s theme, which is all about the 75th Anniversary of the Peanuts strip cartoons.
Cryptozoic Entertainment retail a range of collectibles, not just cards, and they specialise in popular culture. Their links are pretty impressive, including with DC Comics. And they have a website, which I have been checking out to help me write this - that link will take you to the announcement of this set, but the site is well worth exploring. They also stall out at various film and card shows, and it was at one of these, the San Diego Comic-Con, that this card was given away - and they talk of that release on a blog page of their website. In fact it is through that page that we know this is the only promo card, for it says "..and an exclusive promo card..." If it had been one of many, such would have been mentioned.
This set is multi-faceted, and there is more than a base set - you get foil cards, stickers, scented cards. and tattoos (of a temporary nature). But there is something which, for me, harks back to olden times, because some of the cards fold so that the background goes away and the character is free standing, just like those birds eggs from Ogden et al - or the footballers from the early boys` magazines... And I think that is rather fun.
Anyway our character today is again Snoopy, but it is the "75" that we celebrate more than that. And I wonder if Charles M. Schultz ever dreamed that his little family of characters would still be so popular, that long after he sat and doodled them....