Marvel Universe Trading Cards part 1

1990 Comic Book Ad

In the early and mid 90’s marvel comics started releasing a trading card set consisting of about 200 cards per set. Even though the company was going through some rough times financially, these trading card sets were what mapped the way for marvel geekdom for years to come. All of my basic knowledge comes from reading these things over and over and over. Even though I don’t have them memorized, I’m pretty sure that I know every single “Did you know?” section from these cards.

These cards were extremely popular around its time, and it is arguable that these cards represent the biggest non sports card property of all time.

Today we look at set #1 that came out in 1990. All images courtesy of Marvel.com

Here is some commentary on some of my favourites:

Black and White Spidey: Spidey in black and white will always have some sort of interesting apeal. We have seen it resurface this year and I don’t think we have seen the last from this costume. Pretty sick. I always liked the battle statistics. Pretty straight forward. You suck or you don’t.

Wolverine: This is one of my favorite cards of all time. The art on this one is nice. Wolverine was the only character to have been featured in 3 individual cards on this set(Classic, Current, Patch).

Cosmic Spidey: Hilarious in a way. Every time someone that doesnt know much look at this collection they are always puzzled as to why spiderman is flying and what exactly it is that he is flying away from. Check out the twin towers in the background. In this stupidly PC world, this would have been a controversial card.

The Blob: I loved this card. Whomever drew this did a great job showing what the blob really is instead of a really fat guy which is what some actually think.

Famous Battles: These cards showed some art from an important event in the DCU. Lots of basic information for little geeks like myself. So basically, if you sit down with someone and they start talking about how the Hulk and Wolverine once went at it there is a chance that this is where they got it from.

Spiderman Presents: Some cheesy humour but it does the job. There are about 8 of them and I think they are all pretty funny. This was the only set to feature these cards

Holograms: There were 5 hologram cards on this set. They were al based on another simple card. These were the special hard to find cards. I never suceeded in obtaining more than two.

Stan the man: Someone drew this while on a high concentrated dosage of acid.

MVC Cards: They featured very important issues. Watch for an upcoming movie on this one.

This was by far my favourite set. I spend money, sweat and tears trying to get this whole set together and I had great success. There was a huge buzz about these cards among kids and Im sure it brings a memory or two.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion Trailer and Plot Details

I loved the first one. It is a fun game with a large library of characters, costumes, and powers. I still play it a lot.

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This one should be a nice improvement as far as graphics go. I need to be able to pound shit around as the Hulk.

The fusion basically means that you will be able to mix powers. Every pair of characters will generate a different type of combined attack. Sounds great

The plot is rumoured to be surrounding a timeline from Secret War to Civil War. WIll be able to choose sides and such? Im definitely interested.

Hulk vs Wolverine

Lionsgate has released a short of their upcoming Hulk vs Wolverine project. Very interesting:

This will also come with a Hulk vs Thor movie as well.

Man that Thor is such a dick.