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 2025 Panini Absolute Kaboom! set once again offered collectors Horizontal and Vertical cards as well as Gold /10 and Green 1/1 parallels. A crucial piece of the annual hunt for superstar's best cards, collectors eagerly chase Kaboom! cards of players with the pedigree of Saquon Barkley. When this card initially released, he was fresh off a season in which he took NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors and won his first Super Bowl.
Graded a Gem Mint 10, it's a pop 2 in the PSA registry.
The certification number on this card has been checked against the third-party grader's online database and is active as of 04/03/2026.
This item was flash inserted on Apr 2, 2026.
