World War II Hobby Box (Historic Autographs 2025)
Each Box contains 2 Inserts/Relics and 6-8 Border Variations on average!
HA 2025 WWII trading cards feature WWII's major participants, why they fought and the technology they used leading up to and including The Battle of Normandy and Liberation of Europe. See the villains, heroes, battles, and events that still shape our world today!
A low-key but very important aspect of the 2025 HA WWII set will be the base set, which will include five versions. Each version will be made with a country/flag border and language changes on the front only. The base set is, of course, the United States, followed by the British (limited to 300), the French (limited to 150), the German (limited to 100) and the Japanese (limited to 50).
Autograph Highlights
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- George H.W. Bush
- Winston Churchill
- Douglas MacArthur
- George S. Patton
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Edmund Hillary
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- Omar Bradley
- Jackie Robinson
- Joe DiMaggio
- Ted Williams
- Hank Greenberg
- Gil Hodges
- Stan Musial
- 30+ Baseball HOFers
- Football HOFers
- Boxing HOFers
World War II (Sept. 1, 1939 - Sept. 2, 1945) was the deadliest war in history, in many respects a continuation of the disputes left unsettled by WWI. WWII was a global conflict of Axis belligerents led by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan vs. Allied defenders, led by Great Britain, the US, the USSR, and China. Combatants from most of the world's nations participated on one side or the other-some participated on both. All wars are horrible human excesses of aggression that bring sorrow and tragedy, but war also highlights humanity's ability to rise above the pain and forges heroes. HA 2025 WWII trading cards include the heroes and the good that came out in the war.
PRODUCT BREAKDOWN
- Cut Signature 1:4 Boxes
- Normandy Waco Glider Relic 1:750 Boxes
- Paratrooper Arm Band D-Day Relic 1:187 Boxes
- 1/1 Artist Sketch 1:150 Boxes
- Normandy Higgins Boat Relic 1:107 Boxes
- Medal of Honor Optichrome 1:37.5 Boxes
- Fighter Pilot Gear Relic 1:30 Boxes
- Historic DNA Relic 1:27 Boxes
- Smiling Jack Buyback 1:25 Boxes
- Dirt Relic 1:8 Boxes
- Ration Stamp Relic 1:7.5 Boxes
- 1/1 Printing Plate 1:5 Boxes
- Before/After City Lenticular 1:4 Boxes
- Unit Insignia Foil 1:4 Boxes
- Point 1:4 Boxes
- Holographic Weapon Sticker 1:2.5 Boxes
Adventures of Smilin' Jack Vintage
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack was an action-packed aviation comic strip that first appeared in the 1933 Chicago Tribune and was picked up by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.
The strip followed the title character who starts out as a nervous student pilot and becomes a barnstormer-an acrobatic pilot who performs daredevil stunts at local fairs and festivals, and sells airplane rides to spectators. Jack builds his own airplanes which are shot down by rivals, taken for joy rides by friends, and hit by every storm on the Atlantic seaboard. Jack fights international criminals and villains including The Claw, Toemain the Terrible, The Head, and The Mongoose-Jack is often in peril! Fortunately he has many romantic interests to console him. These hot women are so meltingly beautiful that they became known as "de-icers."
Smilin' Jack is the second handsomest man in the world-the handsomest is his co-pilot Downwind Jaxon, whose face is never shown because he is looking downwind. Smilin' Jack's appearance was based on air racing star Roscoe Turner. The strip was created by 27-year-old cartoonist Zack Mosley, "Smilin' Zack."
In 1939, Smilin' Jack became a radio program sponsored by Tootsie Rolls, who offered a premium for ten candy wrappers-a flying chart just like the one Jack uses. Each radio episode began with announcer Tom Shirley demanding, "Clear the runway for Smilin' Jack!", over the roar of an airplane. In 1943, Smilin' Jack became a movie serial-Smilin' Jack worked with the Chinese government to stop the Black Samurai, a Japanese spy ring led by the German operative Fraulein von Teufel. The Smilin' Jack insert cards in HA's World War II were for sale at movie theaters circa 1943.
Configuration: 12 Packs Per Box, 4 Cards Per Pack + One 2-Card Holiday Pack