Get all the nostalgia feels hitting you right in the gut, with The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series hardcover.
It’s been 30 years since Marvel commissioned 105 trading cards from Jim Lee based on the comics in 1992. Obviously, this is for a book with all the art of the cards in it, because if it was the actual cards, we would all have to pool money to get it!
This is just super cool and hey, who wouldn’t want this for their coffee table or collection? Plus, the art is just so dope and will bring back all those memories of when you first saw them. For the price, especially considering it’s a hardback, this is hard to beat. Let’s check it out!
The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series Book
Let’s hear from them about the book:
In 1992, Marvel Entertainment commissioned Jim Lee, the young superstar penciller behind X-Men (1991) no. 1, the bestselling single-issue comic book of all time, to create all of the art for a new set of 105 trading cards—a set that would go on to become one of the most celebrated in Marvel history and the gold standard for non-sports trading-card artwork and design. Lee was the first artist to create all of the original artwork for a Marvel card set; his dynamic character portraits, battle scenes, team shots, and innovative nine-card Danger Room puzzle cards helped fuel both the ’90s boom of comic-book trading cards and the general public’s mania for all things X-Men. Fans of the chart-topping comics could turn to the cards for further insight into their favorite characters, as Marvel writers and editors included bios, stats, and trivia for each hero and villain.
The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series collects, for the first time, the front and back of each collectible card in the set—including Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Magneto, and Deadpool—along with select scans of Lee’s original and digitally remastered art. It also includes interviews, conducted by writer and set editor Bob Budiansky, with the Marvel staff who helped assemble, design, and create these iconic trading cards.
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