#mu4 — Public Fediverse posts
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Iron Man through the trading card ages!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #IronMan #MU1 #MU2 #MU3 #MU4 #PaulRyan #JohnRomitaJr #JeffJohnson
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Daredevil through the (trading card) ages!
Which one is your favorite and why is it Series 2?
#TradingCardADay #MU1 #MU2 #MU3 #MU4 #Daredevil #JohnRomitaJr #LeeWeeks #RonLim
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Here's the full page of the 2099 red foil inserts!
I think the background is meant to be some kind of tiered cityscape like the New Warriors cards, but the red foil effect makes it all much more abstract.
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Card H-IV: Spider-Man vs Venom
The last card of the set, a hologram chase card that came in three different colors and was inserted at a rate of 1 in every 180 packs.
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Card 9-2099: Tiger Wylde
Did any letter get more of a boost in the 90s than "Y"?
I like how this guy's head looks like someone stuffed a tiger into one of those metal condom helmets that were all the rage back then.
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Card 8-2099: Dethstryk
What a delightful slice of the 90s.
Name that jams two cool sounding words together? Check. Deliberate misspelling of those words? Check. Silver armor but has a cape? Check. Random weapon? Check.
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Card 7-2099: Specialist
What a bland, generic codename.
For all that the 2099 books missed in its depiction of the future, making the central villain of the imprint a corporation only grows more prescient with time.
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Card 6-2099: Punisher 2099
For all the other issues baked into the character's concept, it's a simple origin that's easy to reuse. "Here's another guy pissed off his family was murdered, but in the future!"
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Card 5-2099: Spider=Man 2099
The arguable star of the 2099 imprint appropriately nabs center square.
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Card 4-2099: Fearmaster
I have no idea who this is. Future Gangster, apparently.
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Card 4-2099: Fearmaster
I have no idea who this is. Future Gangster, apparently.
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Card 3-2099: Ravage 2099
Purportedly Stan Lee's last original creation for Marvel, and the only 2099 launch character that is not a future version of an existing character.
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Card 2-2099: Vulture 2099
Like the main cards, this insert set combines to make one larger image, though the red foil effect limits the detail of the background.
Vulture 2099 is a cannibal? That's a solid DYK fact.
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Card 1-2099: Doom 2099
The insert subset for this series features an assortment of the Marvel 2099 characters on a red foil background.
Always love a DYk fact that is a question.
Scans via TradingCardDb.com
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Card 180: Checklist
In retrospect, I have to admit the "each card is 1/9 of a larger image" gimmick worked better for me going through them here than ever before. But I still don't LOVE it.
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Card 179: Hulk vs. X-Factor
Another very recent "famous" battle, but overall a solid card. The Hulk pile-on is good, as is Guido gettting socked in the jaw.
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Card 177: Wolverine vs Omega Red
I (genuinely) love that the effect of Wolverine slashing Omega Red in the face is rendered as the old "ptooey! [boxer takes a hit and spits out a tooth]" routine.
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Card 176: Punisher vs Ghost Rider
One of the bigger failings of this subset is the sheer number of battles pulled from otherwise-random early 90s stories. It's ultimately more like "Contemporary Battles."
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Card 175: Spider-Man vs Cardiac
Cardiac's glow up continues, as he gets on the last Spider-Man-centric Famous Battle card, edging out many classic Rogues (though at least some got covered via the Sinister Six battle).
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Card 174: Fantastic Four vs Secret Defenders
Really feels like, in the spirit of the previous card, this should be "Fantastic Four vs the New Fantastic Four", since that's clearly what this Secret Defenders lineup references.
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Card 173: Hulk vs Hulk
More of these cards need to be battles that are representative of internal struggles. Wolverine vs his bestial nature! Spider-
Man vs that ol' Parker luck! Cyclops vs fist-clenching angst!
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Card 172: Ghost Rider vs Blaze
All else side, it seems like the guy with the shotgun should beat the guy with the chain.
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Card 171: Warlock vs Man-Beast
Even though this is citing a specific contemporary story, I do like that it takes pains to work in a bit about their original trippy-ass conflict from the 1970s.
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Card 170: Thor vs. Bloodaxe
One of problems with this more typical layouts - two figures facing off on either side of the card - is that some kind of visual "clash"/impact effect ends up in the center instead of one of the characters.
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Card 168: Daredevil vs Typhoid Mary
Something about this one just seems really stiff and awkward.
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Card 167: X-Force vs Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Easily the most packed cardfront yet. Great profile shots on the back, too.
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Card 166: Darkhawk vs. Evilhawk
I haven't seen this many metal hawks throwdown since the Silverhawks got cancelled!
I love that the headshots on the back pivot to face us for this card.
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Card 165: Spider-Man vs Juggernaut
Love a callback to a classic Bronze Age battle in a heavily-90s set like this.
Alex Saviuk? Good at drawing Spider-Man. Who'da thunk it? 😉
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Card 164: Wolverine vs. Venom
You wouldn't think this pairing'd be more than a one-off, but between Larry Hama becoming the de facto Venom writer & them both being, you know, hugely properly, it was def A Thing for awhile.
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Card 163: Punisher vs Jigsaw
I'm pretty sure this is George Perez, and it's wild to see him drawing the Punisher.
Love Jigsaw's big ol' eye and Cable-esque jaw on the cardback.
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Card 162: Captain America vs Crossbones
This might be the most generic of the Famous Battle cards.
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Card 143: The Secret of Spider-Man's Parents
A 90s mystery masquerading as a Silver Age one. Which I'm sure will end well and not be a lead-in to a tortured saga involving clones...
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Card 142: The Sixth Member of the Infinity Watch
Even moreso than the X-Men stuff, this is pretty 90s. I'm pretty sure it turned out to be Thanos?
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #UnsolvedMysteries #InfinityWatch #KirkJarvinen
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Try this again...
Card 141: The Face of Doctor Doom
A rare "mystery" dating to the Silver Age.
There's two cards in this subset about someone's face, which isn't a lot, but also, seems like a lot, you know?
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #UnsolvedMysteries #FantasticFour #DoctorDoom #PatBroderick
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Card 140: The Fate of the X-Men
A rare "mystery" dating to the Silver Age.
There's two cards in this subset about someone's face, which isn't a lot, but also, seems like a lot, you know?
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #UnsolvedMysteries #FantasticFour #DoctorDoom #PatBroderick
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Card 137: The Origin of Cable
Things I love about this card:
1. It's another mystery that's basically "who dis?"
2. It gets solved relatively soon.
3. Lil' Cable.
4. #GeorgePerez drawing characters like Grizzly & Askani. -
Card 139: The Origin of Ghost Rider
Another "origin" mystery!
I forget how this one shook out, but I'm pretty sure it leads to Dan Ketch & Johnny Blaze being brothers, and that always seemed really dumb to me.
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Card 138: The Face of Darkhawk
tl;dr version of cardback text: [shrug emoji], whatever you want it to be!
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Card 136: The Origin of Wolverine
New category: Unsolved Mysteries of the Marvel Universe! Most of which come from the early 90s!
Honestly, it's a cool idea for a subset of cards.
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Full Marvel Universe Series 4 #AlienRaces page!
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #TomMorgan #Kree #Skrulls #Shiar #Asgardians #Brood
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Card 119: Brood
I have read a crap ton of comics featuring the Brood, and I don't think I could name one specific one (aside from "the Queen") if my life depended on it.
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Full page of Marvel Universe Series 4 X-Men cards!
Thanks to the "themed" pages in this set, this is probably the MU set with the fewest X-Men in it (even with Psylocke sneaking onto the earlier "spinoff X-Men" page).
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Card 117: Bishop
All in all, a good mix of Blue and Gold team members across this page.
The X-Traitor plotline makes it into the trading card, setting up a later card in this series.
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Card 116: Wolverine
For whatever reason (maybe the colors?), Wolverine fades into the background more than a lot of the other X-Men against the same background.
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Card 115: Cyclops
Given what a cool and visually-engaging power he has, it's wild how few Cyclops trading cards depict him actually using his power.
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Card 114: Gambit
Someone looks like they're pushing out a fart.
The trailing energy effect is pretty cool.
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Card 113: Magneto
This basically just aping Jim Lee's Magneto, but it's not a bad look to ape. And isn't that mostly what Thibert was always doing at this time anyways? 😉
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Card 111: Rogue
Not a big fan of the almost fearful look Rogue has on the cardfront, but the large headshot on the back is quite nice and almost makes up for it.
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Card 111: Beast
Tucking the figure under the right hand border makes it another card w/a subject that feels "big".
I did not know that Did You Know fact, and am pretty sure this is the only place it's been mentioned.
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Card 110: Archangel
His wings get clipped (high oh!) by the nine panel grid, but I do like how his body extends past the bottom border. In general,
Thibert does a good job making these figures feel bigger on the card.