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Card H10: Waverider
Rounding out the set with the DC icon, star of stage & screen, a character everyone knows and loves throughout pop culture, Waverider.
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Card H9: Wonder Woman
Another static image that Simonson nevertheless infuses with a lot of energy, though the background here is a bit more overpowering than some of the other hologram cards.
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Card H8: Superman
Almost, but not quite, the mirror image of the cardbacks on this cardfront. I love that Simonson gives him the poofier cape at the shoulders.
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Card H6: Hawkman
Hawkman continues his oddly-strong showing in the set, though I don't think the then-current Hawkworld iteration lends itself as strongly to the hologram format.
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Card H5: Green Lantern
Again, why are the best cards of every character in this chase subset? Is it just cuz Walt Simonson is drawing them all? Can you imagine how great it would be if Simonson did the whole set?
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Card H4: Flash
Flash finally gets his due in one of these categories, with what might be the most dynamic image in the entire set.
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H3: Deathstroke
Continuing alphabetically, we get Deathstroke. His "main" card wasn't bad, but this is quite a bit more dynamic, despite being a more static image.
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Card H2: Darkseid
Can't go wrong with a Walt Simonson hologram.
As w/at least some of the Marvel chase cards, the cardbacks to this subset are all the same & serve as a checklist of the hologram cards.
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Card H1 - Clark Kent and Lois Lane
Like the MU series, this set concludes w/a set of hologram chase cards.
Like the rest of this set, it skews boring by starting them off w/a hologram of people in business clothes.
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Card 180: Checklist B
One of the things this set is good at is crediting its artists; here, Mark Waid is credited w/the cardback text of presumably all the cards.
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Card 179: Checklist A
Given the set needs two checklist cards to cover it all, it's kind of amazing how small & insular it feels looking back. The Batman exclusion is part of that, sure, but there's still a lot missing
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Card 178: Wonder Woman #1
Another double-up, which at least matches the previous card in terms of showcasing the first issue of first solo series of the 2/3 of the trinity they're legally able to include in the set.
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Card 177: Superman #1
In lieu of featuring more unique characters, we're now circling back to double up on already-featured characters (which isn't to say Superman #1 isn't an important issue w/an iconic cover).
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Card 174: Showcase #34
A fun cover but another curious inclusion over the likes of the Silver Age Flash debut, anything w/Aquaman, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, all of whom I'd argue are more relevant, even/especially in '92.
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Card 175: Showcase #22
Green Lantern becomes the only character to get the debuts of both his Golden Age & Silver Age versions highlighted. Wild how Gil Kane contributed art to this issue AND to new cards in this set.
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Card 174: Sensation Comics #1
Back to the Golden Age, but NOT for Wonder Woman's first appearance, which is in All-Star Comics #8 (presumably this was chosen instead since she doesn't appear on that cover).
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Card 172: New Gods #1
The most modern comic to appear in this category, and arguably the first one whose cover is eye-catching enough to warrant inclusion regardless of the comic's content.
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Card 172: The Brave and the Bold #34
Even considering the gap left by the exclusion of all the Bat characters, it's still kind of interesting that the Hawks first appearance gets a spotlight over, say, any Flash comics.
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Card 171: All Star Comics #3
This is the first cardback to underscore WHY this is a classic - though again, it speaks more to the contents than the cover despite the category name (am I being too pedantic? Probably).
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Card 170: All-American Comics #16
While the inclusion of cardback text is expected/necessary at this point, it's interesting that the cardback summarizes the issue even though the category is Classic *Cover*, not Comic.
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Card 168: War of the Gods C
[Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park voice]: "Will there be any, ah, BATTLES on these, uh, Great Battles cards?"
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Card 167: War of the Gods B
While I appreciate a thorough block of cardback text, these cards are primarily a visual medium, which means it's problematic when what is written is way more exciting than what is drawn.
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Card 166: War of the Gods A
By no means an exceptional card, compared to some of the other Great battles card, this seems like a masterpiece.
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Card 165: Armageddon 2001 C
Probably the best card front of the 3, esp. if you know the story behind the story, though it's curious they never reveal the identity of Monarch; the cards aren't really spoiler averse.
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Card 164: Armageddon B
Well, this one at least has a *little* more action to it, and a straighforward summation of the crossover's plot.
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Card 163: Armageddon A
On the one hand, the cardfront seems like a fair representation of what the cardback is describing.
On the other hand, the result is still pretty boring.
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Card 162: Great Darkness Saga C
No disrespect to the legendary and recently departed Keith Giffen, but this cardfront is awful. Just a weird mash of colors and shapes and odd stagings and distorted/obscured faces.
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Card 161: Great Darkness Saga B
A greater-than-normal number of these battle cards seem to feature a group of characters flying at a planet
Was this story really only 4 issues? The HC I read it in was thicker than that
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Card 160: Great Darkness Saga A
Even by comic book standards, the synopsis on the cardback has a lot of proper nouns that are difficult to parse w/o context.
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Card 159: Cosmic Odyssey Card C
One of the interesting things about "Cosmic Odyssey" is how big a role the mystical side of DC plays in the story, despite its title and general setting.
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Card 138: Sinestro
I assume he's wearing the GL uniform due to the proximity of "Emerald Dawn" to this set, but busting through the lantern is a pretty great visual representation of his whole deal.
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Card 138: Sinestro
I assume he's wearing the GL uniform due to the proximity of "Emerald Dawn" to this set, but busting through the lantern is a pretty great visual representation of his whole deal.
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Card 138: Sinestro
I assume he's wearing the GL uniform due to the proximity of "Emerald Dawn" to this set, but busting through the lantern is a pretty great visual representation of his whole deal.
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Card 044: Deathstroke the Terminator
Ah, a true sign of the 90s: morally ambiguous anti-heroes are so hot, the New Teen Titans' #1 villain gets repositioned as a super-hero.
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And that's a wrap on #MU3!
Next up, as promised, DC Cosmic Cards, starting tomorrow!