Before me was the opportunity to illustrate nearly every player in the awesome X-Men universe. Still, after pondering the request for a while, I realized I had no choice. I was flattered by the offer, though reluctant to accept because I had to keep up a monthly schedule of my own. As the same time, Bob Budiansky called and asked if I'd be interested in drawing every card in the Skybox X-Men Set. In July of that year, X-MEN #1 sold 8 million copies and became Marvel's highest-selling title ever. In 1991, Chris and I were given the opportunity to redefine the X-Men for a new generation. Well, that day arrived, and what followed - my run on the UNCANNY X-MEN with Chris Claremont - was more fun than anything I'd ever imagined. I felt for the travails of Jean, Scott, Peter, Logan, Hank, Xavier, and all the others that joined their ranks and when I began working at Marvel, I knew my experience there would not be complete without an opportunity to draw my childhood friends. They were more than just comic book characters to me. The X-Men were always my favorite fictional people while I was growing up. That's why it's hard to describe the thrill I experienced when I was chosen to be the artist for the first set of X-Men Trading Cards. "What can I say? I'm just a fan at heart. Jim Lee is now DC Comics publisher, so Marvel couldn't get a quote from him now. Marvel Collects Jim Lee's X-Men Trading Cards For 30th Anniversary It also includes interviews, conducted by writer and set editor Bob Budiansky, with the Marvel staff who helped assemble, design, and create these iconic trading cards.
COMIC BOOK TRADING CARDS SERIES
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. The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series collects, for the first time, 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. Now, you can celebrate the 30th anniversary of artist Jim Lee's legendary X-Men trading-card art with The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series, the annotated, digest-size collection of the complete 1992 set, which includes bonus cards! 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. That set of trading cards 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. In 1992, Marvel Entertainment commissioned Jim Lee, the young superstar penciller behind X-MEN #1 (1991), the bestselling single-issue comic book of all time, to create all of the art for a new set of 105 trading cards. And now I can buy them all again as The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series, to be published in July. I was nineteen years old, so of course I bought them all. Even as Jim Lee was founding Image Comics.
In 1992, Marvel published a set of X-Men trading cards, all drawn by Jim Lee, to follow upon the launch of the new X-Men #1.
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