By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

The Walking Dead comic spurned a popular television series. But the graphic novels still have its loyal legion of fans.

Cryptozoic will release the second edition of The Walking Dead Comic Trading Cards on June 5, featuring artist autographs, chase cards and oversized sketch cards.

This set will feature artwork not depicted in the first series that came out last summer. The 24-pack box will contain at least one sketch card. Each pack will come with five cards.

The 72-card base set will consist of memorable comic covers from the series and two different chase sets: Something to Fear (the storyline surrounding the 100th issue) and Quotable (best quotes from the series).

“In the first set, we focused very heavily on the characters of the story – each character selected had nine cards featuring interior black and white art, highlighting some of his or her most dramatic moments,” Cryptozoic brand manager Miranda Charsky wrote on the company blog. “For the second set, we really wanted to focus on the awesome full-color cover art, for which I just finalized the opaque whites for the foil parallel base set, and they look fantastic!”

Collectors will get a chance to pull sketch cards, parallels and printing plates.

Autographs will be from creator Robert Kirkman, artist Charlie Adlard, letterer Rus Wooten and editor Sean Mackiewicz.

More than 75 artists will be used in the set.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here. Follow Beckett Media on Facebook and Twitter.

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

The Walking Dead’s first go-around on trading cards was a hit with collectors, selling out from the Cryptozoic warehouse. That’s the kind of success companies can’t ignore.

On Tuesday, Cryptozoic released The Walking Dead Trading Cards Season 2.

The set features scenes from episodes, bios and chase cards. But the most popular aspect of the first season of cards was the autographs.

As part of Free Price Wednesday, we’ll look at 2011 The Walking Dead Autographs.

The basics:

Here’s a look at the autographs, sorted from highest value to lowest.

As you can see by the screen shot, the card with highest book value in the Becket database is Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on the show. Reedus, however, was popular before The Walking Dead with fans of The Boondock Saints.

When it comes to autographs in non-sports products, it sometimes helps to have a following from another television show or movie.

Here’s another picture that highlights one of Reedus’ autograph, just to show exactly what can collectors can see.

To get more information on the Online Price Guide, click here.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here.

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

Allentown, Pa. | Cryptozoic Entertainment had exciting news for television fans over the weekend.

The company announced five new licenses added to its stable at the Philly Non-Sport Card Show in Allentown, Pa.

Cryptozoic added Psych, Once Upon a Time, Archer, Alphas and Revenge.

Here’s a rundown of the latest shows.

Psych: This new trading card set will highlight the first four seasons of the USA Network show. While the main cast is coming to cards, Cryptozoic is working on securing many of the Psych’s popular guest stars.

Archer: This adult-themed cartoon is not for everyone, but those that love show can’t get enough laughs. These cards are due out in the fall of 2013 and will feature the first four seasons. Randomly inserted sketch cards will be included.

Alphas: These cards will feature pictures from the episodes of the first season of the SyFy show. This product will have autograph and sketch cards.

Revenge: This fiery show is a hit with more than nine million viewers on ABC. This card set due out next year with autographs and wardrobe cards. The base cards will highlight the episodes from Season 1.

Once Upon a Time: This show follows the lives of fairy tale characters and now they are coming to cards. The set is based off Season 1 and will introduce autographs, wardrobe cards and sketches for this ABC show.

Cryptozoic had other news to announce as well.

The three main actors from The Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev (who plays Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce); Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore); and Paul Wesley (Stefan Salvatore) will all sign wardrobe cards, which will be from flashback scenes.

The second season of The Vampire Diaries comes out soon.

In addition, the entertainment company announced the redemptions for The Walking Dead Series 2. Cryptozoic acquired Shane Walsh’s complete sheriff uniform. The product will have triple wardrobe cards featuring pieces from shirt, pants and patches. There will also be single and dual wardrobe cards as well.

The last announcement from the Cryptozoic crew regarded one of its most popular products. The team got the entire main cast from The Big Bang Theory to sign autographs for the upcoming product focusing on the third and fourth seasons.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here.

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

Fans of the The Walking Dead – comic or television series – can keep adding to their collection. The Walking Dead Season 2 trading cards are set to come out in the fall.

Cryptozoic is bringing back many of the elements that made the first installment of the cards popular with autograph and costume cards. In addition, The Walking Dead will feature sketch cards of many of the popular characters.

The base set will highlight moments from the second season, the good and the bad.

The chase sets will look at the character development in Character Bios. Shadow Box cards will also be inserted, which are dedicated to the Walkers. In addition, there is a front and back foil puzzle set.

Cryptozoic released images of the costumes that will be in The Walking Dead. Collectors can directly relate the cards to where the item appeared in the show.

Check out the gallery below of the costumes that will be used (all shirts) and sketch cards that will be in The Walking Dead.

Susan Lulgjuraj is the editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazine. You can email Susan here with ideas, comments and questions. Follow her on Twitter here.

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor

The Walking Dead didn’t start as a hit cable television show. The origins of the show started with comics in 2003.

Writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore – who was later replaced by Charlie Adlard in the seventh issue – got together to create a story about a zombie apocalypse. The story follows survivors of the apocalypse and what they do to get through it.

Cryptozoic had a hit when it issued trading cards from the television show’s first season. The company is coming back with the second season on trading cards, which will be released in the fall.

But the celebration of The Walking Dead continues with a trading card set devoted to the comics, where it all started. The Walking Dead Comic Book Trading Cards are scheduled to be released at the end of July.

About 80 artists were employed as they took the series and created sketch cards with their own unique rendition of moments from the comics. The sketch cards are considered inserts and found just one per box for The Walking Dead Comic Book Trading Cards.

There are 90 cards in the base set with foil parallels to go with them. Chase sets include Mini-Book, featuring nine monthly comics and Killed in Action highlighting nine characters. Printing plates will also be found in the product.

There is a redemption card for the set: an oversized signed art card by creator Robert Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard.

The Walking Dead Trading Cards Second Season won’t be out until later this year, but collectors could expect more of what they got in the first series with autographs, wardrobe cards and more sketch cards.

Susan Lulgjuraj is a contributing editor for Beckett Media. You can email Susan here. Follow her on Twitter here.

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor

The Walking Dead are getting closer.

Cryptozoic Entertainment is bringing the show about zombies closer to its fans as only the entertainment company knows how – through trading cards.

The Walking Dead Trading Cards is scheduled to come out in mid-December. Packs should cost around $3.50 with five cards in a pack and 24 packs in a box.

The 72-card base set will feature pictures highlighting memorable moments from the first season. But that’s not where all the fun comes in.

The set will feature autographs (1:24), wardrobe cards (2:24) and sketch cards (1:288).

There are also special wardrobe “patch” cards, which are very limited. Twenty redemptions will be found in the product. Eighteen of them for a piece of character Rick Grimes’ shoulder badge patch.

But two of the redemptions will be for full intact badges on oversized cards – one of Grimes’ badge and another for character Shane Walsh’s badge.

Check out a gallery of autograph cards and badge cards below.

Susan Lulgjuraj is a contributing editor for Beckett Media. You can email Susan here. Follow her on Twitter here.