Marvel Universe Series 3 Hobby Box (1992 Skybox) (Reed Buy)

36 packs per box , 12 cards per pack

- Look for Holograms (Randomly Packed)

Produced by Impel. The fronts of these cards have an image of a Marvel character, while the backs have a head-shot of the character, information and quotes, plus a Power Rating of the characters abilities. The base set is made up of the subsets Super Heroes, Team-Ups, Super-Villains, Rookies, Cosmic Beings, Origins, Teams, and Milestones. The backs of the cards in the Milestones subset reprint an image of a comic book cover. The artwork is uncredited, but some artists are recognizable by their style. One item of note: the checklist card credits Joe Jusko with the background paintings, which is apparently the background colors. If you put cards 1-10 next to each other in a straight line, and then put cards 11-20 in a straight line underneath, you can see that the backgrounds all go together to form a 200 card puzzle image of the Marvel Universe. Artwork by Michael Bair, Bret Blevins, Sal Buscema, Greg Capullo, Denys Cowan, Steve Epting, Ron Frenz, Kirk Jarvinen, Sam Kieth, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Ron Lim, Kevin Maguire, Mike Manley, Tom Morgan, John Romita Jr., John Romita Sr., Paul Ryan, Javiar Saltares, Alex Saviuk, Mark Silvestri, Mark Texeira, Dwayne Turner, Jim Valentino, and Lee Weeks. Card back artwork on Milestones by John Byrne, Dale Keown, Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr., Paul Ryan, and Lee Weeks.