There were six different games represented, with a total of 10 different cards for each game. Your objective was the same as the game that the card represented. On the back of the card, they showed you all of the possible icons you would uncover by scratching the different spots on the front, and their meaning. The idea behind these cards was the same idea of scrtch-off lottery tickets. Here is an unopened pack with Link on the wrapper. There was Mario(of course), Princess Peach and Link. There were one of three Nintendo characters on the wrappers. In 1989 our good freinds at Topps, put Nintendo GamePack trading/scratch and win cards on the market. Games, magazines, sheet sets, stationary and toys. There was merchandise for everything Nintendo. If you’re around the same age as me(31), I’m sure you remember Nintendo being a way of life for a good chunk of years. Of course comic books weren’t the only cards that got the trading card treatment.
COMIC BOOK TRADING CARDS SERIES
For some reason, it seemed that the card of Quasar was the most difficult to obtain, and he’s like a D-list character! This was the first of many wildly successful comic book trading card series Of course, alot of wheelin’ and dealin’ went on. I bought countless packs of these and eventually completed the set and had each of the 5 holograms.
On the bottom of the card backs there were little trivia blurbs, titled, “Did you know?”. On the back of each card it gave you some stats, such as, their real name(if known), their height and weight, as well as the comic book they first appeared in and their win/loss record. We have Super Heroes, Super Villains, Rookies, Famous Battles and some cheesy Spider-Man interview cards(not pictured). Sorry, I’m not going to open them today.Īs you can see, there were a few different sub-sets. If you placed 2 packs side by side, you could tell which packs had holograms by finding which packs were just a bit taller compared to the other packs(hologram cards were just a bit thicker than ordinary cards). To get around this, I found out another way to find out which packs had those precious hologram cards. Of couse, store owners and employees realised this and had to place them closer to the registers. If you scratched a small hole on the front of the pack, you would see if that pack had a hologram(all of the hologram cards manufactured were the first cards in the packs that contained them). I learned a trick to finding the holograms before you bought a pack from a kid a grade above me. I think on average, there were 2-3 holograms per box. Randomly inserted into these packs were 5 different hologram cards for kids to collect. But with these cards, they added something every kid pined for. There were cards of characters you knew and ones for those that you weren’t familiar with. For me though, these were an awesome addition to the comics I was reading and collecting. Even if you weren’t into comics, you collected these cards.
These things were all the rage in my school. Just as there were kids trading their Pokemon cards at school 10 years ago, I remember trading Marvel Universe trading cards before class. Sure, I collected baseball cards in the beginning, but then I found non-sports trading cards. For me, collecting comics and trading cards went hand in hand. Just as there was toys and comic books for cartoons and movies, there were trading cards. For today’s post, I wanted to talk about something a little different, but I’m sure many have indulged in.
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