Flashback Product of the Week: 1992 Comic Images Ghost Rider II Spirit of Vengeance

This Friday Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will be released in theaters.  Its been five years since we’ve seen that famous Marvel Comics flaming skull on the big screen.  Ghost Rider has to be one of the darkest antiheroes comic book fans have ever seen.  From a visual perspective, he is one of the coolest looking characters.  This new film looks to be a lot darker than the first.  I look forward to seeing it this weekend.

In 1992, Comic Images released an 80-card set based on Ghost Rider.  There are also 10 glow-in-the-dark inserts for you to look for.  During the 90’s, comic book cards were on fire.  I’m sure there are collectors reading this that remember trading in some of their favorite sports cards for products like this.  Most of those cards have tanked, but a few still hold some value.  Sealed boxes can be found for under $10.00.

Marvel Mailday!

A little over a month ago, I won a contest from PlayMarvel.com.  Today in the mail I received my prizes which were two 2008 Marvel Masterpieces Writer Autographed cards.  The came directly from Upper Deck.

Todd Dezago

Roger Stern

Flashback Product of the Week: 1991 Upper Deck Comic Ball Series 1

In 1991 Upper Deck was flying high after it’s success with their ’89 & ’90 baseball sets.  I have no idea what they were smoking when they came up with the idea for their Comic Ball Series of trading cards.  In 1991 Upper Deck released Comic Ball Series 1 which teamed up popular baseball players with Looney Tunes characters.  Comic Ball had very little success, but Upper Deck kept making it for a few years despite how unpopular they were.  At this point in The Hobby, holograms were the big “hits” and you could find them randomly inserted into Comic Ball products.  Today, you can find sealed hobby boxes for $10.00 and singles sell for only a few pennies.