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Originally Posted by byronscott4ever

This is a favorite set of mine as well. If someone decided to make an SNL set today, they could do autos of so many people, from beginning to end. Cast members, musicians, guest hosts, Lorne Michaels, etc.

I found a checklist online of which cards supposedly were signed:
9 Al Franker
18 Julia Sweeny
19 Rob Schneider
27 Mike Myers
33 Chris Rock
47 Chris Farley
53 Adam Sandler
58 G.E. Smith
83 Phil Hartman
89 Tim Meadows
130 Kevin Nealon
131 Ellen Cleghorn
131 Ellen Cleghorn - Signed as Queen Shenequa.

I have purchased a few boxes and never hit an auto. Frankly, I think the autos weren't inserted because they missed getting back and in the packs. That's a hunch because for a while, I asked every seller of any of these where they got the card and no one said it came from a pack. I believe one or two said that Star Pics sold them cheap when they went bankrupt. That makes sense.

I have two auto inserts and bought them for next to nothing on ebay so I'm not sweating it a great deal (of course, I hope they are real). I have enjoyed getting them signed IP since the set came out.

Thanks SO much for sharing this! Do you mind sharing the link where you found this checklist? I never found one myself in my research, or if I did, it must have been early in the game, and I can no longer find it. That was my only concern with writing this post, is that in the beginning I didn't save every image or link I found when I most definitely should have. Trying to use this post as a central repository of information so future collectors can find it easily and all in one place. I see the Myers is definitely listed as the Wayne World card, so the mystery continues there... I mean, if that one is SOOOO perfectly forged, why haven't others ever shown up on the market from the same source somehow?

You might be right about them not getting packed out, as I suggested, no seller I ever spoke said they got one from a pack either. That could also potentially explain the different authentication stickers on the pictured Kevin Nealon and Chris Rock cards (first two in the post). If they had these in their vault without stickers, they could have quickly slapped others on their once they went bankrupt and had their assets acquired by someone else. The ink is consistent, both compared to other cards and other certified authentic memorabilia so I don't believe them to be forgeries.

Do you mind me asking which two you have and could share pics? The more we can identify and display here in the post, the more educated we can be when these do come up for sale. Are yours possibly the Al Franken & Julia Sweeney? Those were the two I lost when I found the others, and IIRC, they did go for pretty good prices.

Originally Posted by GUCD231

Great read! I can appreciate the depths a collector will go to uncover information that was never made readily available. I believe half the fun of collecting great sets like yours is the detective work and satisfaction of knowing exactly what you have. The PSA exemplar theory is valid. While PSA is helpful I would trust my gut as you did when deciding if it was authentic or not.

Thanks for the kind words! The first time my Farley failed, I figured it could just be a "standard" mistake if you can call it that (most Farley autos I've seen with PSA/DNA are late in his career, rushed IP versions, while these are early and all signed in a controlled environment). The second time it failed (good money after bad, *sigh*), I figured they just HAD to be using the original bad one as a specific Star Pics exemplar.

Originally Posted by BuffyCollector

There has been a bunch of Twin Peaks fakes on eBay recently. It's so hard to collect these sets.

The Twin Peaks is another set in the same boat as these for sure. Early in my research, I had found a long article writing about those, but almost nothing about these, so I felt compelled to share my knowledge with others as we continue to try to piece together the facts as best as possible. These are too cool to be forgotten to the ages, and left to the forgers!