Older Marvel trading cards

[Scrapper6]

You're lookin' at the typed words of the guy who donated all his doubles of the old Star Wars TCG to Value Village because they ain't worth %&*(.

The only damn trading cards that seem to be worth anything these days are those stupid Magic the Gathering cards and of course the Pikachu and Friends Collection.

Everything else was just a fad. A fad that ended in suffering and pain and death and too many stupid binders full of sheets of worthless collectible merchandise. (Don't suppose anyone is interested in a few McDonald's Hockey Cards from back in the day?)

I'd say just keep'em. They mean a lot to you I'd wager and there isn't really hope in Hades of gaining back the hundreds... Nay... Thousands of dollars spent buying up packs of cards.

Although I'd probably still buy up a ton of cards if I could. I still need to finish off the Jurassic Park Tops Card Series 2 from the Red Packaging. Anybody still selling those?

[chans formers]

Originally Posted by Team Jetfire

Marvel Masterpieces (series 1) cards were nothing short of amazing.

Oh the money I wasted...

i agree!!
the marvel masterpiece series was all that mattered to me back in the day!!!

[FreedomGundam]

So yeah, I've decided to keep my cards... in fact, I've gone OCD in the past week and gone on forums, eBay, Kijiji, Craigslist to try to complete the sets. :P
Now to play the waiting game and hope that my cards come in soon...

In addition, after doing a bit of research on the card sets that were available during 1992-1996 (the only period of time I cared about cards/comics), there's even a few more sets that I'd be looking to pick up (namely the 1994 Amazing Spider-Man set, all drawn by Mark Bagley).

[Protoman]

Man..... Marvel Masterpiece Series 1 and 2 were sooo sexy and the later SUPER THICK 1994 Marvel Flair series... even their packages were sexy. Would love to find those sets again complete.

[FreedomGundam]

Originally Posted by Protoman

Man..... Marvel Masterpiece Series 1 and 2 were sooo sexy and the later SUPER THICK 1994 Marvel Flair series... even their packages were sexy. Would love to find those sets again complete.

Marvel Masterpieces were nice, but the '94 Flair series definitely topped it off as the most beautiful Marvel set EVER.

Though actually, I'd love to get my hands on the 1995 Marvel Masterpieces series; I have a handful of random cards and they're gorgeous. Though I suppose that the whole series being drawn by Patelis, Scanlan and Nelson helps too. :P

[blitz]

Damn I think I still have that '94 Flair series incomplete. Those were the shiny plasticy cards?

[ConvoyGTR]

Originally Posted by Scrapper6

... Everything else was just a fad. A fad that ended in suffering and pain and death and too many stupid binders full of sheets of worthless collectible merchandise. (Don't suppose anyone is interested in a few McDonald's Hockey Cards from back in the day?)

Oh man..... I got a ton of those hockey cards.... I don't remember why I started collecting those in the first place.

Originally Posted by FreedomGundam

... There's even a few more sets that I'd be looking to pick up (namely the 1994 Amazing Spider-Man set, all drawn by Mark Bagley).

I got those They are glorious

[Cheers Ian]

I've got a massive collection of Hockey cards that are essentially worthless.

I'm trying to track down a set of Jason goes to Hell trading cards at the moment, and it's proving harder than I thought. I should have grabbed them at Fan Expo when I had the chance.

[FreedomGundam]

Y'know what I think part of the problem was?
Back in the day, we had no internet. We had no eBay.

The only way to find out whether or not a card/set/comic/whatever was "rare" and "valuable" was through word of mouth. And everyone pretty much said that everything would be(come) "rare". Especially the buddies that you traded and collected with, and the guys at the hobby stores selling you the damn things.

Either that, or buy those expensive (at the time) magazines that listed the prices and value of each card/issue... (But seriously, in early highschool on a very limited budget, would I spend $7+ on a magazine to find out whether or not my cards are rare, or spend the $7 on another 2-3 packs of the said cards in question?)

To this day, I wonder how accurate those magazines are... seeing as how I once saw a listing in one of these magazines for a comic book that I had that I thought was valuable (Sensational Spider-Man #0 with lenticular cover) that I paid about $7 for when it came out back in 1996. That magazine from 10 years ago (about 5 years after the comic's release) said it was "worth" $30. I can now find about 20 copies of it for sale online, ranging from $0.99 to $5.75... Geez...

[Protoman]

Also part of the logic behind why trading cards ain't popular today is because of the internet on many levels

LNeed #1 - Picture of your favorite player/character Need #2 - Up-to-date stats of said player/character. You also spent more cause you had to hunt down those cards on a random situation (unless you had a place with singles)

Today you want a picture or Wolverine or Bo Jackson? Google images, here, have 7 million. Stats, ditto for the net, and UP TO THE MINUTE. Looking for a single cards? Ebay, forums, the sky is the limit.