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Visual Guide Update - Vintage Card Backs, Part 18: The Coup de Grâce

Posted by Chuck | February 09, 2015 at 03:08 PM ET

Our final card back update (for now) features some of the toughest card backs to add to your collection. If you go down this road be prepared to lay out a stack of credits for this collection! Click through for the last six card backs we add, completing the entire run of 196 unique cards available from the Vintage collection! This is our 18th update, adding well over 200 card backs to the Archives. A huge thanks to JTA content contributor George Telesco for all his help in completing this first phase of our updates! Don't forget, you can check out all 18 updates over on our Visual Guides channel if you missed anything!

If you want to complete a Vintage Star Wars carded collection, these final figures will likely be your biggest challenge. Aside from the Vinyl Caped Jawa, which isn't technically a unique card, these other five will not only set you back thousands of dollars, they will be extremely difficult to even find to purchase! While there are plenty of rare cards to hunt down in a complete set of figures, these are the ones that don't offer a cheaper counterpart!

Thanks to JTA content contributor George Telesco we've now added not only these 6 rare carded figures to our Archives, but an example of every possible carded figure available (not including special offers and card back variations). This is only the first step in our goal as we will continue to add card back combinations to our Archives in the future in an effort to put together the biggest card back collection available online!

The Vinyl Caped Jawa is one of the most famous Vintage variations, and finding him carded will set you back more than a few paychecks! While the card back itself is not any different from the cloth caped Jawa Star Wars 12-back its what's inside the bubble that makes this one so valuable! Finding a genuine Vinyl Caped Jawa loose is a difficult enough task, so we are thrilled to add this beautiful sample to our Archives!

Anakin Skywalker is probably one of the strangest cases of Jekle and Hyde collectibles from the Power of the Force line of figures. Because he was first offered as a mail-away premium, loose he is the most common and inexpensive Power of the Force figure to collect. However, because of his limited availability carded, he is one of the most expensive of the new 15 figures to collect carded. Also of note: Anakin is one of only three figures to use original artwork for the card front image.

Yak Face is considered by many to be the one desired piece to finish off that carded collection. While never offered on a U.S. card back, most still feel this completes the U.S carded run of figures. With the coin included, Yak Face can only be found carded on a Canadian card back, while a much cheaper version can be found on the Palitoy Tri-logo card back. This is another collectible you had better be prepared to pay a hefty sum for!

The AT-AT driver was only released in Australia, making it one of three figures released on the Power of the Force card back that is extremely hard to find due to it not being available in the U.S.! What's even more curious, this figure is only packaged with a Warok coin. It is not uncommon for the bubble on the Australian-released figures to be yellowed. Even so, this figure will still be one of the last you purchase due to its rareness and availability.

The Gamorrean Guard is another Power of the Force card back only released Down Under. This figure does come with the proper coin, but is still as hard to find as his two counterparts.

Nikto is the final figure of the three Power of the Force figures only released in Australia. Like the AT-AT Driver, Nikto only came packaged with a Warok coin and ranks right up there with the other two Power of the Force re-packs in rarity.

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