1 - Cyclops & Jean Grey vs. Callisto
The final insert chase set is X-Men's Greatest Battles, all of which feature battles inspired by the animated series.
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@austingorton.bsky.social1 - Cyclops & Jean Grey vs. Callisto
The final insert chase set is X-Men's Greatest Battles, all of which feature battles inspired by the animated series.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS6 - X-Men: Gold Team Part 3
You'd think Bishop would look more excited about getting to pose for a trading card picture with his idols.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS5 - X-Men: Gold Team Part 2
In which Larkin crams 4/6ths of the team onto one card.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS4 - X-Men: Gold Team Part 1
Moving on to the Gold Team, Bob Larkin gives us an extra shiny, sharply-defined Iceman (against an Archangel wing backdrop).
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS3 - X-Men: Blue Team Part 3
The placement of the extra red foil X logo on these is weird; it almost seems like it's trying to "x out" the Fleer logo.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialHere's the full nine card Hildebrandt Brothers image from the Fleer Ultra X-Men insert set (via The Marvel Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt book)
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS2 - X-Men: Blue Team Part 2
In case you didn't notice, while the card fronts feature new art, the cardbacks are repeating the text from the previous Blue Team triptych.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialSLS1- X-Men: Blue Team Part 1
The "Special Limited Subset" of six chase cards, exclusive to WalMart, offer up 2 more Team Triptychs for the Blue/Gold squads, featuring red foil lettering on the front
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP9 - Jean Grey
Wrapping up the nine-card Hildebrandt Bros. team-up subset.
But don't worry, there's still more inserts!
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP8 - Gambit & Bishop
Aw, from throwing exploding pies to being paired up on a trading card.
@austingorton.bsky.socialTP7 - Iceman & Sabretooth
I asked Fabian Nicieza about this set's continued placement of Sabretooth w/the X-Men & he said that Fleer mostly produced the cards on their w/o much from Marvel editorial (vs the earlier Skybox cards).
@austingorton.bsky.socialTP6 - Professor X
Featuring Xavier's huge noggin'.
"Of Earth?" Shouldn't it be "on Earth?"
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP5 - Wolverine
Wolverine, of course, gets his own dedicated card in the insert set.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP4 - Rogue & Archangel
One of the fun things about this set is getting rare character pairings - like these two, who go years w/o sharing any on-page dialogue together.
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP3 - Beast & Jubilee
That sure is a way to depict Jubilee's power!
Also..."teenage tornado"?
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@austingorton.bsky.socialTP2 - Psylocke & Cyclops
My Christmas gift wax box only netted me three of this insert set; this is one of them channeling a bit of that early 90s Psylocke/Cyclops flirtation subplot.
@austingorton.bsky.socialTP1 - Storm
The second insert subset is a 9 card "team portrait" in which one large image is split into ninths. They are all painted by the Hildebrandt Brothers, and like the Fatal Attractions cards, they are holofoil enhanced.
@austingorton.bsky.socialFA6- Exit: Wolverine!
I appreciate this subset's dedication to punctuation in its titles.
I never pull FA3, but did end up with three copies of this.
@austingorton.bsky.socialFA5- Magneto Defeated!
AKA Onslaught's conception.
All else aside, this is definitely one of the iconic images to come out of this story.
@austingorton.bsky.socialFA4 - Wolverine Crippled!
Despite having assembled a complete set (& some change) via the wax box of these cards I received for Christmas ages ago, this is the one Fatal Attractions insert I didn't pull.
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