Marvel's X-Men Series 1 (1992) Trading Card Set
Consisting of 100 base cards, Marvel's "X-Men Series 1" was published by Impel in 1992, and feature the distinct art of Jim Lee (which I constantly had to remind myself is the difference with "Series 2", which featured multiple different artists), and c'mon, Jim Lee makes most every fictional character look hella GOOD, as far as I am concerned, period.
Featured here is a time-lapsed/sped-up version of my card-flip of the sole hand-collated set I have since made available at the TOYSREVIL-table at Miku Market!
As well still images posted here are swiped from this Amazon-listing, cheers.
Miku Market @ 02-09, Queensway Shopping Centre, Singapore 149053.
(Officially) Opens 12noon to 6pm every Saturday and Sunday.
This series showcases a design format I oft associate with my earliest memories of how trading cards "looked like", with designed borders and info at back of card, before the advent of pull-bleed images. And honestly, sometimes I miss that look.
Also another aspect of the hobby that reflected a period of my (formerly active) comicbook-collecting-life, where the characters and character designs were familiar to me, versus the current comcbook-incarnations that I am wholly unfamiliar with, especially when I flip thru "newer" trading cards of X-Men, and not inclusive of "story development", as trading cards are essentially a scaled down "pin-up art" (also excluding reading the text at back-of-card), in most cases anyways, IMHO.
This set - to me - is an essential need for any X-Men retrospective collector, IMHO.
