ISSUE 179; Steve Charendoff - President of Rittenhouse Archives

Steve Charendoff has worked on more card sets than probably anyone else around. From his early career at Fleer Skybox, to establishing Rittenhouse Archives over 20 years ago, Steve has overseen one of the most creative and revered periods of Marvel trading cards (not to mention the incredible curation of other global IP such as Star Trek, James Bond, Stargate, and many more). Steve tells of his pride at having introduced Marvel sketch cards in 1997, and of working with comic book legends to create The Silver Age and Creators Collection sets in 1998. We get into sketch card quality, sell sheets, promo cards, wrapper incentives, gold seals and the history of gaining, revitalising and then losing the Marvel licence. Hear how relationships are key to a quality product, and how the focus on set quality is paramount at Rittenhouse. A consummate card professional and advocate, huge thanks to Steve for making time for this recording. Note - a few internet pauses have been edited out, so any weird jumps in the conversation aren’t snips that were too juicy - just shite Wi-Fi is all. Any images we discuss are on the tasting notes on the podcast Facebook page and the video of this recording is available on YouTube here ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/MarvelCardCollectorsPodcast⁠ Go here for the Rittenhouse website; https://www.scifihobby.com/ Artist Intro – HUGE thanks to WARREN MARTINECK for this week’s opener – you can find his awesome work here; https://www.facebook.com/WMartineck/ http://warrenmartineck.com/ Do please support our featured artists, appreciate their work, and tell them we sent ya! =========== As always friends, YOU can help us by; - suggesting content you want to hear - sharing the podcast with friends - liking, starring & leaving a review on our FB page, or wherever you listen - getting involved by leaving voicemails & sending in emails/messages/comments Our email; [email protected] LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL; https://anchor.fm/mccp/message 😊 GET INVOLVED PEOPLE – this podcast is for you so let us know what YOU wanna hear about! =========== ALL of our links are now here; ⁠https://linktr.ee/TheMCCPod⁠ Ian’s Black Cat ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mrfeliciahardy/⁠ Our opening music is here ⁠https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4303-rocket-power⁠😊 =========== Our recommended listening; The Rebel Base Card Podcast; https://anchor.fm/greg-mclaughlin Meanwhile At The Podcast; http://www.meanwhileatthepodcast.libsyn.com/