[Comicsstudiessociety] Book for IJOCA review: The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series - Worldwide

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 10:08 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a pdf of this so it's a worldwide offering. 1st person to write to
> me at mrhode at gmail.com
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> The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards
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> The Complete Series
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> In 1992, Marvel Entertainment commissioned Jim Lee, the young superstar
> penciller behind *X-Men* (1991) *#1*, the bestselling single-issue comic
> book of the modern era, to create all of the art for a new set of 105
> trading cards—a set that would go on to become one of the most celebrated
> in Marvel history and the gold standard for non-sports trading-card artwork
> and design. Lee was the first artist to create all of the original artwork
> for a Marvel card set; his dynamic character portraits, battle scenes, team
> shots, and innovative nine-card Danger Room puzzle cards helped fuel both
> the ’90s boom of comic-book trading cards and the general public’s mania
> for all things X-Men. Fans of the chart-topping comics could turn to the
> cards for further insight into their favorite characters, as Marvel writers
> and editors included bios, stats, and trivia for each hero and villain.
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> *The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series* (Abrams ComicArts;
> August 9, 2022; U.S. $24.99; Hardcover) for the first time collects the
> front and back of each collectible card in the set—including Wolverine,
> Storm, Cyclops, Magneto, and Deadpool—along with select scans of Lee’s
> original and digitally remastered art. It also includes an introduction by
> writer and set editor Bob Budiansky, along with original interviews
> conducted by Budiansky with the Marvel staff who helped assemble, design,
> and create these iconic trading cards.
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> *About the Authors and Artists*
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> Comic book illustrator *Jim Lee* is the editorial director of WildStorm
> Studios (which he founded in 1992) and the artist for many of DC Comics'
> bestselling comic book and graphic novels, including *All Star Batman and
> Robin*, *Batman: Hush*, and *Superman: For Tomorrow*. He also serves as
> the creative director for the upcoming DC Universe Online video game. Prior
> to DC, he was one of the founding fathers of Image Comics and best known
> for his run on the X-Men for Marvel Comics, during which he co-created such
> characters as Gambit and Agent Zero.
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> *Ed Piskor* lives and draws out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His *New
> York Times* bestselling series *Hip Hop Family Tree*, which was
> originally serialized on Boing Boing, has gone back to print numerous times
> and won the 2015 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. He’s currently
> working on the monthly series *Red Room *from Fantagraphics. His series
> for Marvel, X*-Men: Grand Design*, was released in 2017 to wide acclaim.
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> *Bob Budiansky *is an American comic-book creator and editor. During his
> decades-long tenure at Marvel, he penciled *Ghost Rider*and created and
> wrote *Sleepwalker*. As editor, he oversaw *Fantastic Four*, *Daredevil*,
> *Spider-Man*, and eleven sets of Marvel trading cards in the early ’90s,
> including the 1992 Impel X-Men trading card set. He is perhaps best known
> for writing the*Transformers* comic and naming and developing hundreds of
> Transformers characters for Hasbro Toys.
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> *About the Book*
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> *The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series*
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> Illustrated by Jim Lee and Paul Mounts
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> Introduction by Bob Budiansky
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> Foreword by Edward Piskor
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> Abrams ComicArts / August 2022
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> U.S. $24.99 / CAN $31.99
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> Hardcover / 272 pages
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> 5 1/2 x 7 1/8 / full color illustrations
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> ISBN: 978-1-4197-5724-2
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