Happy Thursday, Collectors.
This time last week, as white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel, people all across the globe started wondering the same thing… “How will Pope Leo XIV impact the collectibles market?”
The answer is starting to emerge, as Topps announced that they sold a record-breaking number of Pope Leo XIV NOW cards (134K), and Leaf Trading Cards released four papal cards of their own, including one with the supreme pontiff photoshopped onto a Chicago-style deep dish pizza. (BTW, Mantel’s J.R. Fickle power-ranked the pope’s rookie cards, if you want some hard-hitting analysis).