This page of cards is a bit more interesting looking back, as being a bit more relevant to comics I was reading at the time, or within a couple years of this set.
Ghost Rider vs. Blaze, Hulk vs. Hulk, Spider-Man and Cardiac, Punisher and Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Omega Red, Cable and Deadpool all grab my attention just by concept. Hulk vs. X-Factor grabs my attention now due to knowing both were being written by Peter David at the time…though that was something I had not yet come to notice in 1993. At the time, other than perhaps the Superman books’ writers and Alex Ross on Marvels, I really didn’t have much concept of specific writers and artists.
In 2013 with the internet and such, it seems rather silly to have a checklist card, when one could likely very easily look up a “checklist” online for what cards exist. Back in ’93, though, this was an extremely valuable resource for knowing how many cards there were and what they were, in the holes in my collection. The checklist card was–outside of seeing cards for sale at the comic shop–the only real means of seeing the set as a whole.
Nowadays I would certainly feel a certain bit of disconcertment over having a “wasted slot” in a card pack taken up by a checklist.
Filed under: Marvel Series IV Revisited, The '90s Revisited | Tagged: 1993, Blaze, cable, Cardiac, checklist, Deadpool, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, hulk, MARVEL, Marvel Trading Cards, Marvel Universe, Marvel Universe 1993, Marvel Universe Series 4, Marvel Universe Series IV, Omega Red, Punisher, Secret Defenders, Skybox, Spider-Man, trading cards, Wolverine, X-Factor |
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