Martinex1: I have a very simple question for you all today... did you collect comic book trading cards? And if so, which did you collect and what were your favorites? Honestly, I only dabbled in it and never kept the cards. One series I did enjoy was from Marvel (~1990) and it featured the first issue covers from many titles. Before the internet and access to any detail necessary about the genre, that series was very cool for a collector. But I just never kept them in order or in a neat fashion like my actual comics. I am curious why you did or did not collect trading cards; share your memories and thoughts with us here at BitBA! Here are some examples that may jog your memories.
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While the super-hero trading card trend kicked in at the height of my comic-buying years, I'd kind of aged-out of finding them appealing by that point. And what we're looking at here are the baseball-card inspired "pure" trading cards, yep? Not the table-top gaming cards that became huge a short time later-- Overwatch? Overpower? Was that Marvel's early entrant into the market?
Looking at the images, here's something that pops up to my untrained eye: DC's graphic design- the borders and such- seems to skew a little "young", y'know? They make me think of birthday party napkins from Party City. Marvel's graphics come across as somewhat bolder and more sleek-- less "cute". Still sort of echoing the perceived difference in Tone from the two giant houses even this late in their rivalry. Heh.
My favorite of the ones you've pictured here, Marti? "Gassed by a Geranium"--! TOTALLY captures the spirit of the TV show on one card-- especially since the Perilous Plant. . . the Fatal Flora. . . the Vengeful Vegetation. . . is not even REMOTELY a geranium-! AH-HAHAHAHAAHAAA!
(If anything, it looks like a Zebra Plant with a couple o' enormous mutated day-lily blooms stuck onto it. . . nice!)
HB
I have several series from the early-mid 90s, all of which are virtually worthless now. I'm at summer school, so don't recall exactly what I have. I know the first Marvel series from Impel is in the comic room, as is the first series of Batman: The Animated Series. I have the ERB cards Joe Jusko painted, and an early X-Men series. It runs in my mind that I probably have 7-8 different series, most of them complete - perhaps only missing a chase card here and there.
It was fun at the time, but just another example of the excesses of those times and the money I spent foolishly. I'm sure I haven't looked at the cards since they went into pages and binders.
Doug
Though it's from the Silver Age, my first cards were from the 1966 series with the puzzle on the reverse side. Still own the complete set of those.
I did purchase many of the 1990s cards, mainly for images of the Fantastic Four, but enjoyed any that displayed new artwork by favorite artists, like the Bros Hildebrandt, etc.
As these got more expensive, I stopped buying them.
I had some of the Marvel cards with the Hildebrandt illustrations. Pretty sharp. Also had a very few of those 1966 cards that Disneymarvel mentioned. But the only set I ever completed was the Marvel stickers in the latter 70's. You recall, they had comic art with humorous captions; and came with pieces of a puzzle you could assemble. One featured Fanastic Four 100, another was the cover to Conan 1.
I remember some of the cards looked kind of cool in the comics ads, but they weren't sold in the drugstore where I bought comics, so I never got any. The handful of cards I have came from polybagged comics like X-Force (whose value I probably lessened considerably by opening the bags to get the cards out).
There's no doubt if those cards were released in the '70's I would have been collecting them.
Like Redartz those Marvel stickers from '76 was the closest I got to comic cards.
Also did my best to collect all the Marvel Slurpee cups from that era.
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