Creators Edition Master Series Trading Cards (1995 SkyBox)
This was first filmed on IG-Live in the midst of the TOYSREVIL Pop-Up (Day 3 / Sunday Feb 9th / Since watchable here on IG), which I am now sharing here for the first time in my non-sport trading cards collecting-life!
Released in 1995 by SkyBox, the series consisted of 90 basic cards, featuring characters and art by Dave Dorman ("Rail World" & "Projectile World"), Dave McKean ("The Survivors" & "The Lost"), Julie Bell ("The Naugle Swamp" & "Plateau Marcon"), Brom ("Merika" & "Grotton"), Brian Stelfreeze ("Gibralte") - (Info via). All of numbered 9 cards forming a "subset", with the back of the card themselves forming a puzzled image(s), showcased below, cheers.
Unfortunately 2 cards were missing from my set, as seen (and screen-grabbed) in my card flip-video filmed at the table for my pop-up, and no doubt somehow schuffled somewhere in my boxes ggrrrrr .... So consider THIS set "incomplete" for now, until I find the 2 cards...!
A closer look at Creators Edition Master Series #TradingCards (1995 SkyBox) on #TOYSREVIL: https://t.co/8lwBlldg3L - with this two cards "missing" from the deck!!!#handcollated pic.twitter.com/7r5UNMhmlr
— toysrevil (@toysrevil) February 11, 2025
Of the entirety of the concepts, only one manifested unto graphic novel reality: Dave Dorman's "The Wasted Lands", described on store.magnetic-press.com as;
"Award-winning artist Dave Dorman takes you on a high-speed, adrenaline-charged adventure to his world of post-industrial chaos, an unforgettable place and time where passion, greed, corruption, and love color the everyday struggle to exist, where ordinary men, eccentric heroes, and their horrific adversaries battle for power and for the hearts and minds of mankind.
Written and illustrated by Eisner Award–winning artist Dave Dorman (Star Wars, G.I. Joe), this Eisner-nominated volume collects new, previously unreleased, and out-of-print conceptual works and short stories that define the shared universe of The Wasted Lands!
Includes contributions from International Horror Guild Award–winning writer Del Stone, Jr. (Dead Heat, The Uninvited), and artwork by Christopher Moeller (Iron Empires), Jon Foster (Clive Barker's Chiliad), and Durwin Talon (Bonds)!"
Featuring 152 pages, this hardcover w/ die-cut cardstock dust jacket and ribbon bookmark is sized 8.5 x 11". Released circa September 2014, "The Wasted Lands" was nominated for "Best Graphic Album (Reprint)" in the 2014 Eisner Award.
Of the entirety of the concepts represented in the Creators Edition Master Series #TradingCards (1995 SkyBox) (Featured on #TOYSREVIL: https://t.co/8lwBllcIed), only one manifested unto graphic novel reality: #DaveDorman's "The Wasted Lands" (https://t.co/P63Z0c36fg) pic.twitter.com/u6HMf6BuKa
— toysrevil (@toysrevil) February 11, 2025
