Jim Lee’s Iconic X-Men Trading Cards Live Again in a New Art Book

If you have been a comics-loving nerd between the ages of eight and 18 or so in 1992, chances are high you had a stack of Jim Lee’s X-Men buying and selling playing cards secreted someplace in your room. For those that missed them, or missed the buying and selling card craze of the ‘80s and ‘90s in general, it’s truthfully laborious to overstate how fashionable these items have been—however they have been clearly fashionable sufficient to be collected in a brand-new hardcover ebook, titled The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series.

The playing cards dominated, not simply due to Lee’s artwork—he was additionally illustrating the primary X-Men comedian, and was arguably the preferred artist of the time—however as a result of they served as a type of X-encyclopedia, detailing groups and characters in an expansive but accessible type that the comics didn’t. Plus, the cardboard backs contained bios of particular person characters, groups, and essential moments in X-history, alongside with histories, stats, and various trivia. There was additionally a nine-card mosaic that would type a scene of the X-Men battling within the Danger Room, in addition to uncommon hologram playing cards. I wasn’t even an X-Men fan on the time, and I purchased 1,000,000 of these items.

The ebook will embody each the fronts and backs of all 105 playing cards, together with “select scans of Lee’s original and digitally remastered art.” The playing cards may even be annotated and embody “interviews, conducted by writer and set editor Bob Budiansky, with the Marvel staff who helped assemble, design, and create these iconic trading cards,” all in response to the ebook’s official description.

The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series is due on July 5, and you’ll pre-order it right here. If it does properly—and I extremely suspect it is going to—there are such a lot of extra Marvel buying and selling playing cards from the ‘90s that would get the identical therapy…

[Via Nerdist]

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