Half-Blood Prince Price Increase Coming Soon - New 2009 Star Trek Original Series Autographs Announced - Spider-Man Archives & Twilight Zone Announced Customers planning to pre-order the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trading card set should place their orders by Friday, June 10th, if possible. On Friday, we will be raising our box and case prices. We've seen a lot of interest in this set so far, and it is shaping up to be one of the hottest non-sport releases of 2009!

Rittenhouse Archives gave us a bunch of new information today on the sets it plans to release between now and October! First, they've posted an almost complete list of autograph signers for the upcoming 2009 Star Trek: Original Series trading card set on their site. Remember, every box will contain 3 autograph cards! Here is the list...

A140 - Leslie Shatner as Onlie Girl in "Miri"
A160 - Lisabeth Shatner as Onlie Girl in "Miri"
A168 - Leslie Parrish as Lt. Palamas in "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
A191 - Paul Baxley as Black Knight in "Shore Leave"
A192 - Paul Baxley as Ensign Freeman in "The Trouble With Tribbles"
A194 - David Gerrold - Writer of "The Trouble With Tribbles"
A195 - Rex Holman as Morgan Earp in "Spectre of the Gun"
A196 - Skip Homeier as Dr. Sevrin in "The Way To Eden"
A197 - Barbara Babcock as Mea 3 in "A Taste Of Armageddon"
A198 - Elinor Donahue as Nancy Hedford in "Metamorphosis"
A199 - William Shatner as Mirror Universe Kirk in "Mirror, Mirror"
A200 - Leonard Nimoy as Spock in "Miri"
A201 - Hagan Beggs as Lt. Hansen in "The Menagerie"
A202 - TBD
A203 - Sandra Smith as Janice Lester in "Turnabout Intruder"
A204 - Harry Landers as Dr. Coleman in "Turnabout Intruder"
A205 - William Wintersole as Abrom in "Patterns of Force"
A206 - Lee Meriwether as Losira in "That Which Survives"
A207 - Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth in "All Our Yesterdays"
A208 - Sabrina Scharf as Miramanee in "The Paradise Syndrome"
A209 - Harry Basch as Dr. Brown in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
A210 - Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie in "This Side of Paradise"
A211 - Mark Robert Brown as Don in "And The Children Shall Lead"
A212 - Carol Daniels as Zora in "The Savage Curtain"
A213 - Garland Lee Thompson as Transport Technician Wilson in "The Enemy Within"
A214 - John Winston as Lt. Kyle in "The Immunity Syndrome/Wolf in the Fold"
A215 - William O'Connell as Thelev in "Journey To Babel"
A216 - William Sargent as Thomas Leighton in "The Conscience of the King"
A217 - Janet MacLachlan as Lt. Masters in "The Alternative Factor"
A218 - David Frankham as Larry Marvick in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"
A219 - Roger Perry as Captain John Christopher in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
A220 - Kim Darby as Miri in "Miri"
A221 - Marc Adams as Hamlet in "The Conscience of the King"
A222 - Venita Wolf as Yeoman Ross in "The Squire of Gothos"
A223 - Naomi Pollack as Lt. Rhada in "That Which Survives"
A224 - Shari Nims as Sayana in "The Apple"
A225 - Susanne Wasson as Lethe in "Dagger of the Mind"
A226 - Tom Troupe as Lt. Harold in "Arena"
A227 - Louie Elias as Inmate Guard in "Dagger of the Mind"
A228 - Gary Combs as The Gorn in "Arena"
A229 - Gary Combs as Kirk Stunt Double in "Space Seed"
A230 - TBD
A231 - Shirley Bonne as Ruth in "Shore Leave"
A232 - Barbara Bouchet as Kelinda in "By Any Other Name"
A233 - Lezlie Dalton as Drea in "By Any Other Name"
A234 - Miko Mayama as Yeoman Tamura in "A Taste Of Armageddon"
A235 - Bob Bralver as Grant in "Friday's Child"
A236 - Phyllis Douglas as Space Hippie in "The Way To Eden"
A237 - Victor Brandt as Watson in "Elaan of Troyius"
A238 - Sheila Leighton as Luma in "Spock's Brain"
A239 - Marlys Burdette as Krako's Woman in "A Piece of the Action"
A240 - Robert Sampson as Sar 6 in "A Taste Of Armageddon"
A241 - William Smithers as Merik in "Bread and Circuses"

Rittenhouse also gave us information on the upcoming Complete Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary trading card set. The 81-card set will cover all 156 original Twilight Zone episodes from 1959 to 1964. Every box will include 4 autograph cards! Signers include John Astin, Cliff Robertson, June Foray, Morgan Brittany, Mariette Hartley, and many others. Customers pre-ordering 3 cases will receive a Cliff Robertson "A Hundred Yards Over The Rim" autograph card variation. Customers pre-ordering 6 cases will receive an incentive card that has yet to be determined. Customers pre-ordering 12 cases will receive an archive box! The set is expected to release on October 7th. Boxes are on sale for $62, cases (12 boxes) are $709, and binder cases (4 binders) are $82.

And finally, Rittenhouse gave us the first peek at the upcoming Spider-Man Archives trading card set, due out in late October. Every box will include a hand-drawn, color sketch card! Artists include John Romita Sr., Felipe Massafera, Cat Staggs, Brian Kong, and many others. Customers pre-ordering 6 cases will receive an exclusive painted card (by an artist TBD). Customers pre-ordering 18 cases will receive a free archive box! We are pre-selling boxes for $62, cases (12 boxes) for $709, and binder cases (4 binders) for $82.  ¶ 3:43 PM