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Not long ago, trading cards were just for collecting and trading (and making noise when you pinned them to your bicycle tires). Today, entertainment trading cards--TV trading cards, movie trading cards and even cartoon trading cards--are an integral part of Hollywood's marketing strategy. Many of these entertainment trading cards are also designed to be used in card games and role-playing games. Clever, no? Every time you play the game, every trading card is an ad for that television show or movie!

There's a little method to the madness in entertainment trading cards--and, originating from Hollywood, there's a lot of madness to the method. With today's ensemble casts, recurring characters and intricate plots within plots, TV trading cards help you make sense of who's doing what to whom. As movies strive for the long-term franchise (Star Trek 11, James Bond 21, Rocky 76), movie trading cards are that needed refresher course telling you who the villain is this time around.

Trading cards still feature sports heroes like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Reggie Jackson, as sports collectibles have done for over a century. Hollywood fans love their icons as much as Cooperstown fans, so entertainment trading cards were inevitable. TV, movie and cartoon trading cards have become such a mainstay of movie and TV collectibles that they are sure to become more valuable as time goes by. Get an advantage by starting your entertainment trading card collection at Overstock.com, where prices look like they're right out of Hollywood's Golden Age.