1993 Marvel Masterpieces from SkyBox
The 1993 Marvel Masterpieces trading cards by SkyBox (find at Amazon.com*) is a set from a different time, and this advertisement from Hero Illustrated shows what was considered to be some of the best superhero painted art of the early nineties. At the time, the artwork in these types of card sets always looked impressive, but now I can see that it was really just wonky superhero comic art with layers of paint to distract me from the strange anatomy.
Still, it is fun as hell to be reminded of a decade when trading cards were far more popular than they are today.
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Whatever he’s eating went straight to his blobby thighs.
That Marvel logo and Domino are bringing up some strong 90s memories, Liefeld-palooza that those years were. Hero Illustrated is a magazine I had forgotten about, but it was a definite resource for me in the pre-internet days. Every issue had ashcans, trading cards, etc. I discovered and was exposed to a lot of great stuff because of that mag–indie comics like Bone & Grendel and even flicks like Evil Dead II and Buckaroo Banzai.