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  1. 140 - Wolverine vs. Hulk

    One of my favorite of the "Wolverine Vs." cards - both for the visual heft of the figures and for featuring Wolverine's whisker mask!

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #WolverinesGreatestBattles #DanLawlis

  2. 139 - Wolverine vs. Omega Red

    Design-wise, going landscape for these "vs." cards makes sense, but I don't love how the card name stays in the same spot as if the image was portrait oriented.

  3. 139 - Wolverine vs. Omega Red

    Design-wise, going landscape for these "vs." cards makes sense, but I don't love how the card name stays in the same spot as if the image was portrait oriented.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #WolverinesGreatestBattles #ScottHampton

  4. 138 - Wolverine vs. Cyber

    Cracking these packs as a kid, I didn't realize just how many Marvel greats worked on this set. We've had John Romita Sr., Bill Sienkiewicz, and now Mike Zeck.

  5. 138 - Wolverine vs. Cyber

    Cracking these packs as a kid, I didn't realize just how many Marvel greats worked on this set. We've had John Romita Sr., Bill Sienkiewicz, and now Mike Zeck.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #WolverinesGreatestBattles #MikeZeck #PhilZimelman

  6. 138 - Wolverine vs. Cyber

    Cracking these packs as a kid, I didn't realize just how many Marvel greats worked on this set. We've had John Romita Sr., Bill Sienkiewicz, and now Mike Zeck.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #WolverinesGreatestBattles #MikeZeck #PhilZimelman

  7. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #BrianStelfreeze

  8. 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

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #JamesSullivan

  9. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #RayLago

  10. 133 - Mimic

    As someone with a lot of fondness for the (not very good) 60s X-Men stories, I appreciate Mimic getting a card (presumably due to his imminent return as part of the Onslaught build-up).

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #ChrisMoeller

  11. 132 - Mesmero

    Having a new villain kill an old one to establish their bonafides is an old trick, but it must sting to be offed to make the Dark Riders cool - especially when their best days were already behind them.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #FrankCirroco

  12. 131 - Sebastian Shaw

    One of the fun things about these In Memoriam cards in hindsight is knowing how soon after the cards came out the dead characters would return - Shaw'll be back within a year.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #MarkChiarello

  13. 130 - Goblin Queen

    Not the best depiction of Maddie, but not terrible. I don't recall her being "officially" more powerful than Jean, though. I guess maybe on the grounds she was telepathic at a time Jean wasn't?

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #GlennFabry

  14. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #InMemoriam #BillSienkiewicz

  15. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips

  16. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #XFactor #Teams

  17. 120 - X-Factor Part 3

    A very Wolfsbane-first card. I appreciate there are multiples of Madrox.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #XFactor

  18. 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...

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #XFactor

  19. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #Teams #XFactor

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #XOvers

  24. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #XOvers

  25. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips

  26. 049 - G.W Bridge

    In terms of names that are puns, "George Washington Bridge" is a first ballot Hall of Famer.

    #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #SHIELD #DanBrereton

  27. 046 - Sunfire

    Sunfire!

    Making his trading card debut in an X-Men-specific set (following his first trading card in Marvel Universe Series 3).

    #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #JoePhillips

  28. 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.

    #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #XMenBlue #JoePhillips

  29. 012 - The Assassin

    For a nuclear-powered killer robot that dresses like a geisha, "Assassin" seems like a laughably generic name that is burying all kinds of ledes about the character.

    Scans via @tradingcarddb

    #TradingCardADay #93A #Namor #TheAssassin

  30. Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 #FantasticFour!

    (With Reed and Sue sitting this series out, we're getting flexible with the definition),

    Which card is YOUR favorite?

    #TradingCardADay #MM2 #HumanTorch #Thing #DoctorDoom #SheHulk #JimSteranko #GeorgePerez #GlennFabry #JoeJusko

  31. 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

  32. Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 original X-Men!

    (Sorry Iceman, you don't get a card in this set).

    Which card is your favorite?

    #TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #JoePhillips #GeorgePerez #CarlPotts

  33. 087 - Drax

    I've always had a soft spot for the short-lived "Jim Starlin-drawn First Appearance Drax" look, when he's much more just a green dude w/a cape and severe Widow's Peak.

    #TradingCardADay #MM2 #Drax #InfinityWatch #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #LouHarrison

  34. 085 - Phoenix

    Cool idea, so-so execution (I really don't like Rachel's hair and "tada!" posing).

    The Phoenix bird's beady eyes haunt me.

    #TradingCardADay #MM2 #Phoenix #Excalibur #XMen #LouHarrison

  35. 084 - Havok

    Given Kent Williams worked on this set, seems like a missed opportunity to not have him do the Havok card.

    Havok tends to trading card well, but I don't love this; too loosey-goosey.

    #TradingCardADay #MM2 #Havok #XFactor #XMen #JoePhillips