On the last episode of 11 O'Clock Comics, host Vince B was enthusing about a mid 90s Mars Attacks! comic from Topps. This got me thinking about one of those holy grail-type collectibles that I'd really like to add to my piles of decaying man-tat - The 1962 Mars Attacks bubblegum card set. Designed by no less than Wally Wood and Bob Powell, the final painted art for this classic set was provided by Norm Saunders, the same man who came up with this classic...
A quick google for Mars Attacks cards revealed a Boing Boing link to a rather lovely Flikr show of the English version of the set*. Check it out HERE. Truly stunning, eh?
I have to own these! Full sets go for quite a bit on ebay. Incomplete ones are pricey, but not totally out of my reach. Individual cards are very doable.
So it begins.
*The cards in the English version are smaller than the American ones.
5 comments:
any thoughts on the Dinosaurs Attack card set from Topps quite a few years later? I remember one card that had a really quite horrendous image of a dinosaur eating a baby....
Don't know anything about it. Sounds cool!
a website about dinosaurs attack:
http://www.bobheffner.com/dinosaursattack/indexfront.htm
the set was done in 1988 as a homage to the mars attacks cards...
I'll second that enthusiasm for the comic series. That was mighty good fun.
Yes these cards were very nice indeed. And that Dinosaurs Attack got a comic as well. Can't remember who did the artwork, but was nice and gruesome.
I'm in a stinky internet cafe so not keen on signing in to too many things.
JB
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