In 2013, Panini answered the question: What would the NBA’s top talent look like as comic book characters? That year, the company’s creative director, Brandon Lesley, teamed up with Hungarian illustrator Gyula Nemeth for a new 20-card insert set called Kaboom!. Nemeth illustrated the players in a pop art style, and Panini backed his artwork with eccentric foil patterns and inserted the cards as case hits in the Panini Innovation set. Basketball collectors fell in love with Kaboom! cards, so Panini did not take long to print them for other sports, including 2018’s multi-sport checklist that gave a handful of NFL players their first Kaboom! card. Panini released the first standalone NFL Kaboom! set in 2019, and football collectors have highly regarded the rare inserts ever since.
The 2022 Absolute Kaboom! iteration features Horizontal and Vertical checklists. Tom Brady, who was in the midst of his final season when the set came out, is featured on both versions. Upping the ante on an already popular set, each version also has /10 Gold and 1/1 Green parallels.
This is Brady's 2022 Absolute Kaboom! Horizontal Gold. Numbered 08/10, it feautures him celebrating as a member of the New England Patriots.
Graded a Mint 9, it's a pop 2 in the PSA registry with just two copies ranking higher.
The certification number on this card has been checked against the third-party grader's online database and is active as of 02/25/2026.
