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136 - Thunderbird
Can't do a collection of inactive X-Men without arguably the most famous one of all.
Somewhere along the way, I misplaced this card, so these images are from @tradingcarddb.
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Which Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 New Mutants card is the best?
Art from Bill Sienkiewicz, Bo Hampton & Joe Phillips.
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135 - Mastermind
One of the better trading card/static image depictions of Mastermind's powers.
The power description is reaching a bit; he technically doesn't go into people's minds - he needed help to do that w/Phoenix
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134 - Dark Phoenix
Can't do a "dead X-Men" subset without Dark Phoenix!
The description of her powers on the cardback seems to have forgotten Phoenix was also telepathic.
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134 - Dark Phoenix
Can't do a "dead X-Men" subset without Dark Phoenix!
The description of her powers on the cardback seems to have forgotten Phoenix was also telepathic.
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134 - Dark Phoenix
Can't do a "dead X-Men" subset without Dark Phoenix!
The description of her powers on the cardback seems to have forgotten Phoenix was also telepathic.
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128 - Warlock
What a great card. To have Sienkiewicz working on this set and NOT have him do the Warlock card would have been a crime.
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127 - Magik
New category: Deceased (I'm tagging it as #InMemoriam). It's mostly New Mutants & villains.
I appreciate the cardback text saying "reverted" and not the redundant "reverted back", one of my biggest grammatical pet peeves.
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Full X-Factor team triptych!
This was tricky to put together - there's really no good way to line up Polaris & Havok's legs AND the bottom border between cards 2 and 3.
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120 - X-Factor Part 3
A very Wolfsbane-first card. I appreciate there are multiples of Madrox.
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119 - X-Factor Part 2
I'm not sure I ever thought of the "Muir Island Saga" as a reverse Giant-Size X-Men #1 before, but that notion isn't entirely incorrect...
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118 - X-Factor Part 1
It's less obvious when all three cards are together, but on its own, the perspective here makes Random look like he's just a tiny lil' guy.
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 combined Excalibur triptych
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #Excalibur
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 Original Team cards!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #ScottHampton #BoHampton #JohnRomitaSr #OriginalTeam
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123 - Excalibur Part 3
I appreciate that Feron's cloud head is on Rachel's card. Poor Micromax doesn't make the cloud head cut (he does at least get name checked on the card back).
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #Excalibur
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122 - Excalibur Part 2
I messed up yesterday & jumped from X-Men Blue to Excalibur, but I'll finish out the triptych then go back.
It's too bad Widget couldn't make it onto Kitty's card since, you know, it's her.
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #Excalibur
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115 - Excalibur Part 1
Thanks to the fact that Excalibur at the time was only three members, this triptych basically serves as second cards for those members - w/past team members in the background as heads-in-clouds.
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #Excalibur
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104 - Fall of the Mutants
Probably out of necessity, Phillips focuses on just one of the three stories & while it makes sense to go with the X-Men-specific storyline, it does mean we were robbed of getting Bird-Brain on a card.
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103 - Mutant Massacre
New category: X-Overs!
Not sure I love the "toxic slime" coloring & font on the cardback but I do love Artie making it onto a trading card.
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102 - Professor X
Two things I love about this card:
1. Chuck smoking a pipe.
2. This totally looks like a portrait that would be hanging over the fireplace in the X-Mansion parlor. -
101 - Marvel Girl
Jokes on them, in the Silver Age, Jean could barely lift a log without collapsing, because "woman."🤦
I do appreciate the cardback only mentions her telekinetic powers, as was her only power initially.
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097 - Cyclops
Time now for one of my favorite subsets: Original Team.
Something about the pencil thin optic blast feels very Silver Age.
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Which Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 Upstart card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #MLF #BoHampton #JulieBell #ScottHampton #JohnVanFleet
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086 - Siena Blaze
Continuing the run of Upstarts - which might be the most 1994 thing about this set. Though Siena Blaze is a legit inclusion at this time, and this is a good card (even if it makes her power look like "makes snow").
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081 - Brood
A relatively action-oriented image relative to most of Sienkiewicz's other contributions to this set. I like that he chose to highlight their flying ability, which tends to get overlooked (and makes them even creepier).
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074 - Mojo
I don't know if an extreme closeup on Mojo's face is the best way to capture his character, but at least it's an exceedingly well-done extreme closeup from Sienkiewicz, who may well be this set's stealth MVP.
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 X-Factor highlights!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #XFactor #BillSienkiewicz #BoHampton #FrankSpinks
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063 - Sauron
Another Sienkiewicz stunner; really captures how freaky it would be to encounter a pterodactyl man.
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #BillSienkiewicz #BrotherhoodOfEvilMutants
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 X-Force highlights!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #Cable #Shatterstar #Cannonball #Rictor #XForce #BillSienkiewicz
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054 - Colossus
Unlike Feral, Colossus - who threw in w/the Acolytes since the last set of cards - rightly gets listed as a Super-Villain.
I like too that he leads off that section. Not sure why he's fighting Doc Ock though.
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X-Men Blue Team highlights from Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #XMenBlue #DanBrereton #BrianStelfreeze #DaveDorman #KentWilliams #Beast #Jubilee #Sabretooth #Wolverine
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046 - Sunfire
Sunfire!
Making his trading card debut in an X-Men-specific set (following his first trading card in Marvel Universe Series 3).
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044 - Mirage
The mystery of whether the MLF's Moonstar was actually Dani...Moonstar...never seemed that mysterious, but this card seems to exist just to tease it.
But it does give us Sienkiewicz on another former New Mutant!
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 X-Men Gold Team highlights!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #XMenGold #JoePhillips #EzraTucker #JulieBell
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033 - Wolfsbane
Back-to-back Sienkiewicz! Not a character he co-created, but another old New Mutant friend.
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032 - Strong Guy
Check out those tiny little legs! Really underscores how distorted his upper body strength is.
Always fun to see a character's co-creator do their trading card.
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030 - Polaris
This card is 1000 times sexier than any image of Polaris in the "sexy" gold costume she adopted around this time.
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026 - Siryn
There's a way you can read this card as "she's just failing" and while I might like a little bit of a scream effect, I think you can also read it as a more dynamic "dropping in for an attack" picture.
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021 - Cable
Fantastic card. Love seeing Sienkiewicz doing one of the "later" New Mutants.
This set briefly tries to make Six Pack happen, so Cable gets two Group Affiliations (Domino was flagged as Six Pack too).
#TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #XForce #SixPack #BillSienkiewicz
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017 - Nightcrawler
Perfect match of subject, approach & artist. Depicting Nightcrawler coming out of a teleport is clever & Sienkiewicz's abstract style creates the impression of a figure materializing from nowhere.
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007 - Psylocke
Bill Sienkiewicz with his first card of the set. Sadly, it's not the greatest Psylocke card.
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002 - Rogue
In lieu of the classic bar graph stats, this set adopts a "Mutant Power Profile" featuring a partial wireframe (SO hot at the time) recreation of the cardfront image w/notes detailing the powers.
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Marvel Masterpieces X-Men Blue Team!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #Wolverine #Psylocke #Rogue #Gambit #BillSienkiewicz #JulieBell #BrianStelfreeze #JoePhillips
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024 - Empyrean
A character with a complicated power set tied directly to a specific storyline, Empyrean never really took off.
Props for teaching me a new vocab word via the name back in the day.
Scans via tradingcarddb.com
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Marvel Masterpieces Midnight Sons!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #GhostRider #Morbius #Blade #Vengeance #BillSienkiewicz #BrianStelfreeze #TomPalmer #TristanSchane
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 Excalibur cards!
Which one is YOUR favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Excalibur #CaptainBritain #Nightcrawler #Phoenix #JoePhillips #KentWilliams #LouHarrison
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 Thors!
How do you prefer your Thor: classic, 90s, or space horse?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Thor #Thunderstrike #BetaRayBill #LouHarrison #JoeJusko #JoePhillips
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OG Defenders...uh, defend!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Hulk #DoctorStrange #Namor #SilverSurfer #BillSienkiewicz #MichaelWKaluta #JimSteranko #JulieBell
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X-Men Gold! Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #UncannyXMen #Storm #Archangel #Colossus #Bishop #MichaelWKaluta #JoePhillips #JulieBell #BrianStelfreeze
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X-Factor! Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XFactor #Forge #Polaris #Mystique #Havok #JoeJusko #DanLawlis #JoePhillips