A Mary Lynn Rajskub Autograph Pick-Up

A while back I pulled a printing plate autograph from a box of Topps Star Wars Evolution cards, and decided it was probably worth more to someone else than it was to me. I got a couple of lowball offers on it that I declined, and then a couple of days with no action at all where I wondered if maybe I had misjudged the market on the card. Finally an offer came in that was right about where I'd estimated the card should sell for, so I accepted it without countering and found myself with a decent little chunk of Paypal.

Around that same time, this Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian autograph card from the Comic Images 24: Season 3 set showed up on eBay for about $10 less than the lowest of the listings I'd been watching for several months. I went ahead and grabbed it. I don't know that the silver ink on a silver background thing works well, but out of the handful of autographs Rajskub has among the 24 releases, this is the easiest one to find.

Unlike the relic card I picked up a while ago, this one isn't serially-numbered. It does, however, mention that this is one out of 600 copies produced. I already addressed this, but there is variation among the different releases as to the spelling of O'Brian in the character's name, with some saying O'Brian and some (like this one) saying O'Brien. The IMDB page for the show uses O'Brian, so that's the one I go with.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated!

There was a period of time when my family got really into the television show 24. I was out of the house by then, but I remember watching all or part of a couple seasons. I've never been much good at watching a show and keeping up with the seasons and episodes. I thought the show was pretty cool, though, even if it did really stretch the boundaries of belief most of the time. I also missed quite a few episodes, so I was never 100% sure what was going on.

One thing I was sure of was that Chloe O'Brian, as played by Mary Lynn Rajskub, was my favorite character. I saw this relic card from the 24: Season 4 trading card set put out by Artbox in 2006 on a sales thread in the Blowout Cards forum and I picked it up as part of a lot with the Christopher McDonald Star Trek autograph I showed a while back. These things are pretty scarce nowadays, so I was happy to add one to my card collection. One interesting note I discovered while researching this card is that different cards spell the character's last name differently. Sometimes she is O'Brian, and sometimes she is O'Brien. The IMDB page for the show lists her name as O'Brian.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this card was serially-numbered, being copy # 010 / 500. That print run of 500 copies makes it the most numerous relic in the product, according to Jeff Allender's House of Checklists. I'd still like to pick up one of her autographs from one of the 24 trading card sets, but the price tag on the few that are available has put me off of that idea for now.