Crazy how I’m 38 years old and still love pulling out my X-men card binders that I’ve had since childhood. I wish I would have put more thought into completing sets when I was a kid, but I didn’t know much about collecting and completing sets, value and all. I still remember the sound and feeling of opening new packs and even the smell of new cards. Nostalgic for sure. Great vid, my dude and thanks for taking me back to simpler times.
Love this! I had these in a binder & took them everywhere with me as a kid. Left them in my back pack at a boys & girls club & came back & someone stole them. Broke my heart as a kid. I would still have them till this day if that didn’t happen. Thanks for sharing brings back memories.
Good score. 1996 was a turning point for Marvel with the bankruptcy. Many of the heroes who had their own titles wouldn’t be seen much for a few years. I got a lot of nostalgic feels looking at these with you, man. Thank you for sharing.
Damn! I remember going to a card store and seeing the Marvel Masterpiece back in '92 and feel in love with the artwork. I bought boxes to complete the set, but my nephew got a hold of it and yeah.... got demolished. 😭😭😭
1998 a kid sold me an entire album of 94's on Marvel cards, I kept them for my kids , they became hook on them bought lots of them , kept them in plastic , I still have them , pretty sure i have double sets . Now my kids are abroad serving , the album , and cards are still in my safe .
Hey gem,I use to collect marvel trading cards in the 90s but over the years lost them due to moving constantly.however seeing the trade card collection brought back memories to me and I really enjoyed and appreciated it.
This is awesome! Just the other day I was cleaning and found an entire binder of Marvel Masterpiece cards from my childhood in mint condition. I must have 200 cards from 92-96.
Man you always coming with that heat Gem! These are a blast from the past and hit the nostalgia factor big time! Thanks for the great content always. Keep it up!
Joe Jusko Marvel Masterpieces are timeless and so special to a lot of us. Always brings me back to when I was kid. I mean the smell alone of the 1992 set just brings it all back.
I collected a lot of comic book cards when I was younger, but Marvel Masterpiece was always my favorite. I had most of this set. Beast is by far my favorite.
Love your videos Gem! They really bring back my childhood memories. Slight correction though...the 94 masterpiece set were done by the Hildebrandt bros. So a consistent set as well.
The cards from the Hildebrandt Brothers are amazing too. In my home town some guys picked only the female characters, so it was pretty hard to get these cards, Psylocke and Rogue, were the hardest ones (today we have internet and everything is happiness). Vallejo and Julie also created some of the art for the cards of Cybernary, some of them were also very appreciated for the collectors in the 90s. Besides Eternal Champions, Boris Vallejo also painted the art cover for Golden Axe II for Sega Genesis.
I recently dug out my boxed marvel cards. Have a few full sets of marvel universe series 199x and masterpieces '92. Sadly stopped collecting around 1994. I bought a pack of ultra-pro pages to insert the cards and look through them once again... Nice memories
Very cool set but 93 was my favorite! Also the older ones w/ purple embroidery were cool! Even the wrestling cards and batman cards were awesome! Miss the best days ever! The Superman cards from the 90s were awesome too
You could frame the double impact cards in a shadow box style frame with a mirror back to show the art on the back. Do a nice marvel logo on it to set it off , that will allow you to frame , display , and see both sides of the cards and not have to buy two sets.
I still have my complete first and second series in albums put away from when I was a kid. I absolutely love the Masterpieces series, and the first was my favorite.
damn! $800 thats commitment. Boris and julies art is iconic. its def a gem to have this set in your collection. Im still missing the checklist, portraits, and 5/6 double impacts.
Awesome set bro, i have the 92 set too and always wondered why it was never worth that much money, over production killed a lot of collectibles in the 90's! My favorite two cards from the 92 set are Spider-man and Hulk
If only I had stopped collecting marvel cards one year sooner while transitioning into mtg. Still have my 94' marvel masterpiece set which was my last collected before getting into mtg during 4th/ice age
I really liked collecting 95' Fleer Ultra Spider-Man trading cards. Still own em' n in a binder like that. Kinda wished it Marvel Vs. DC still was a thing.
I bought a complete jim lee card set for $110 at the time. Still have it & still great after all this time despite how they have changed. Loved the marvel master peice series.
I still love the old 90's X-men set, series 1. All Jim Lee art. For the $500 double cards get a double sided frame and rig some sort of sliding rack so you can flip it while wall-mounted.
Nice set. Now I have to go look and see if I have that set. I was buying mostly shrink wrapped boxes of cards back then and just putting them away without opening them..
Just saw your 92 framed and subbed. 2 mins ago. This is only set I didn’t complete (to include 2000’s). I stopped in 94-95ish. Soon as I got my license. Faves: 92>96>95>94>93 Current project 2023 : 96 MM
wow... I remember collecting this set. crazy how much is cost, never knew. I have the full base set, and the full golden frame set. Also 4 of the double impact ones. I remember searching ebay some years ago to try and complete my double impact. Just didn't feel like spending that much.
No mention of the Tim and Greg Hildebrandt 1994 Set. I really enjoyed their work. 1996 is my missing set though. I was out of the country from 95 to 97. But I also started with 1992 and Joe Jusko.
nice addition! Im with you, 92 and 96 are amazing sets with consistent art. I picked up the 96MM for $24 over 20 years ago and its crazy how much they can go for. But they are worth it.
Different set than this, but my friend pulled an un-numbered Weapon X card when we were cracking packs from this era and I haven’t ever stopped coveting it. Loved this set too.
I picked up at a local flea market 2 Impel factory sealed in box Jim Lee X-men trading cards (1 box with Wolverine, the other with Magneto) if and when i have the time, I wanted to look into a double-sided frame for these cards, so I can appreciate both sides. Loved these 90s trading cards.
Now this brings back memories. I was into sports trading cards and a comic fan so these were a natural transition for me. Even had the marvel ones where they were putting the characters into Halloween costumes. Lol I was a mark and proud.
I thought 1991 and 1992 was the best art work in the masterpiece sets. I have the first two sets and only half of the 1996 soon I'll have it all lol good video brother brings back memories.
I recently came across an entire binder full of perfect and near perfect condition marvel 90s cards. Super cool. I kind of need help with figuring out value .. not sure where to go.
I have a few of the 94 masterpieces, I have a full set of the Fleer Ultra 95 X-men set. I remember only buying the packs because they were all foil printed, then they had the smaller sets within the main set. They had the Wolverine timeline cards, Lethal Weapons rainbow foil set, Haunted X-Mansion holloween set, and the 3D embossed Alternate X set. Took me back to elementary school with this vid, had to bust out the old card album lol
I had about 95% of these along with the double sided Psylocke/Punisher card, the gold gallery Spider-Man, Cyclops, Sabretooth, and Hulk. I can’t for the life of me remember what I did with the binder. I know for awhile I thought of giving it to a coworker but I don’t remember if I followed through with it. I hope I can find it in my house somewhere.
I had no idea this was worth so much. I have all these plus Marvel Comic Card Series 1, 2, 3 & 4 (1990-93) in great condition. The bad news is that the Master Piece set isn't complete. It's missing a couple cards. Guess I'm on a mission now to find those cards, buy them & complete the set.
I will have to look and see which series I have then. I remember getting the series one year and thought they were cool and collected the subsequent years. Not sure if I have complete sets or not as I want to say I was missing some cards b/c I left spots in the binder sleeves blank. I could have been the special inserts or limited cards that I was missing. Some of these cards do look very familiar.
I have a nice set of both Marvel and DC cards not really sure they're worth but I also have a couple Superman Holograms I heard they're pretty sought-after.
Crazy how I’m 38 years old and still love pulling out my X-men card binders that I’ve had since childhood. I wish I would have put more thought into completing sets when I was a kid, but I didn’t know much about collecting and completing sets, value and all. I still remember the sound and feeling of opening new packs and even the smell of new cards. Nostalgic for sure. Great vid, my dude and thanks for taking me back to simpler times.
The first Marvel Masterpieces always hold a special place in my heart.
same
Same
Me too!!!!
Do you think they will go up in price? The 1994 edition Holo foil is pretty cool, been looking at them.
i actually still have those in my binder right now.
i had this set as kids. we destroyed them cuz we threw our cards around like we were gambit.
Awesome
Also did this
This is both funny and sad at the same time.
Damn You Gambo
BAMF!
1994 is completely painted by Greg & Tim Hildebrant, even the bonus cards! Gotta love Boris and Julie - thanks for sharing this.
This take me back to the golden days of collecting. I love the Masterpiece Collections. Thanks!
Love this! I had these in a binder & took them everywhere with me as a kid. Left them in my back pack at a boys & girls club & came back & someone stole them. Broke my heart as a kid. I would still have them till this day if that didn’t happen. Thanks for sharing brings back memories.
In Carlsbad?
I saw who did it, it was a Latino kid.
This is so awesome. I used to collect comic cards when I was little. I haven't seen them in years!! I love this so much.
Man this just brought back a TON of memories for me collecting these sets in the '90s. Now I want to collect them all over again!
Dave C Same...let me know, Dave! We can trade duplicates old-school. 👍
Good score. 1996 was a turning point for Marvel with the bankruptcy. Many of the heroes who had their own titles wouldn’t be seen much for a few years. I got a lot of nostalgic feels looking at these with you, man. Thank you for sharing.
Damn! I remember going to a card store and seeing the Marvel Masterpiece back in '92 and feel in love with the artwork. I bought boxes to complete the set, but my nephew got a hold of it and yeah.... got demolished. 😭😭😭
Hopefully he got demolished in return 😄
1998 a kid sold me an entire album of 94's on Marvel cards, I kept them for my kids , they became hook on them bought lots of them , kept them in plastic , I still have them , pretty sure i have double sets . Now my kids are abroad serving , the album , and cards are still in my safe .
Hey gem,I use to collect marvel trading cards in the 90s but over the years lost them due to moving constantly.however seeing the trade card collection brought back memories to me and I really enjoyed and appreciated it.
When I was a kid I was starting to collect this set as well, but once Jordan came back, RIP to the marvel sets.
Dude that was me! 🤣 I saved all my lunch money and when he came back I said bye to marvel lol
Impeccable timing on the video I just dug out my marvel masterpieces 94' and 95 marvel flair.
This is awesome! Just the other day I was cleaning and found an entire binder of Marvel Masterpiece cards from my childhood in mint condition. I must have 200 cards from 92-96.
Those are some killer cards. When you covered the '92 set I picked up three boxes of the 2003 TMNT cards on ebay.
Man you always coming with that heat Gem! These are a blast from the past and hit the nostalgia factor big time! Thanks for the great content always. Keep it up!
1994 fleer ultra x-men was my favorite loved the variety of art work on does .
Joe Jusko Marvel Masterpieces are timeless and so special to a lot of us. Always brings me back to when I was kid. I mean the smell alone of the 1992 set just brings it all back.
I collected a lot of comic book cards when I was younger, but Marvel Masterpiece was always my favorite. I had most of this set. Beast is by far my favorite.
I love trading cards, a sealed box of those goes for like $1000 if you can find one
Worth at least 3× more today haha
This is one of my favorite sets
Love your videos Gem! They really bring back my childhood memories. Slight correction though...the 94 masterpiece set were done by the Hildebrandt bros. So a consistent set as well.
The cards from the Hildebrandt Brothers are amazing too. In my home town some guys picked only the female characters, so it was pretty hard to get these cards, Psylocke and Rogue, were the hardest ones (today we have internet and everything is happiness). Vallejo and Julie also created some of the art for the cards of Cybernary, some of them were also very appreciated for the collectors in the 90s. Besides Eternal Champions, Boris Vallejo also painted the art cover for Golden Axe II for Sega Genesis.
My favorite set. Glad you made a video on it and got them.
I recently dug out my boxed marvel cards. Have a few full sets of marvel universe series 199x and masterpieces '92. Sadly stopped collecting around 1994. I bought a pack of ultra-pro pages to insert the cards and look through them once again... Nice memories
Very cool set but 93 was my favorite! Also the older ones w/ purple embroidery were cool! Even the wrestling cards and batman cards were awesome! Miss the best days ever! The Superman cards from the 90s were awesome too
Killer set. Man, brought me back.
Loved this set as a kid and still do at 45. Classic stuff man!
You could frame the double impact cards in a shadow box style frame with a mirror back to show the art on the back. Do a nice marvel logo on it to set it off , that will allow you to frame , display , and see both sides of the cards and not have to buy two sets.
Would there be a way to setup the mirrors to where you're not looking at a reverse image? This sounds quite interesting.
I still have my complete first and second series in albums put away from when I was a kid. I absolutely love the Masterpieces series, and the first was my favorite.
damn! $800 thats commitment. Boris and julies art is iconic. its def a gem to have this set in your collection. Im still missing the checklist, portraits, and 5/6 double impacts.
Awesome set bro, i have the 92 set too and always wondered why it was never worth that much money, over production killed a lot of collectibles in the 90's! My favorite two cards from the 92 set are Spider-man and Hulk
My favorite was the 1994 Fleer Ultra X-Men base set.. This was my first time seeing this set though.
I still have those. I like the 94 Flairs as well. So much pop in the color
So happy to see some cards on the channel
"Most sought-after TCGs from the 90s are worthless"
*laughs in Magic*
If only I had stopped collecting marvel cards one year sooner while transitioning into mtg.
Still have my 94' marvel masterpiece set which was my last collected before getting into mtg during 4th/ice age
I had so many of these cards growing up. Thanks for sharing
FYI the 1994 set is paint by 2 brothers with the same style.
The Hildebrandts. I have this set. It's great.
I miss my Marvel Masterpiece. I stole and traded for that set. Came home after basic training. What cards? What comic books?
I never knew they came out with that set. I have the 92 set which were awesome!!! Man I wish they brought this series back.
I really liked collecting 95' Fleer Ultra Spider-Man trading cards. Still own em' n in a binder like that.
Kinda wished it Marvel Vs. DC still was a thing.
Can’t wait to see this framed! Such a sick purchase and worth every penny 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
3 best card art imo: wolverine in sewer, psylocke from double impact, and ghost rider card
I bought a complete jim lee card set for $110 at the time. Still have it & still great after all this time despite how they have changed. Loved the marvel master peice series.
I still love the old 90's X-men set, series 1. All Jim Lee art. For the $500 double cards get a double sided frame and rig some sort of sliding rack so you can flip it while wall-mounted.
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell are amazing artists!!! Nice bro! 🔥🔥🔥
Nice set. Now I have to go look and see if I have that set. I was buying mostly shrink wrapped boxes of cards back then and just putting them away without opening them..
Love the artwork. Thanks, Gem Mint.
Good stuff man! Keep up the great content
Just saw your 92 framed and subbed. 2 mins ago. This is only set I didn’t complete (to include 2000’s).
I stopped in 94-95ish. Soon as I got my license.
Faves: 92>96>95>94>93
Current project 2023 : 96 MM
''that outfit is painted on" LOL
I mean he's not wrong.
LOL, that's pretty much why I passed on MM96 even back when it was just $200 for the base set. I thought all the art looked so cheesy.
wow... I remember collecting this set. crazy how much is cost, never knew. I have the full base set, and the full golden frame set. Also 4 of the double impact ones. I remember searching ebay some years ago to try and complete my double impact. Just didn't feel like spending that much.
No mention of the Tim and Greg Hildebrandt 1994 Set. I really enjoyed their work. 1996 is my missing set though. I was out of the country from 95 to 97. But I also started with 1992 and Joe Jusko.
nice addition! Im with you, 92 and 96 are amazing sets with consistent art. I picked up the 96MM for $24 over 20 years ago and its crazy how much they can go for. But they are worth it.
Different set than this, but my friend pulled an un-numbered Weapon X card when we were cracking packs from this era and I haven’t ever stopped coveting it. Loved this set too.
I picked up at a local flea market 2 Impel factory sealed in box Jim Lee X-men trading cards (1 box with Wolverine, the other with Magneto) if and when i have the time, I wanted to look into a double-sided frame for these cards, so I can appreciate both sides. Loved these 90s trading cards.
Now this brings back memories. I was into sports trading cards and a comic fan so these were a natural transition for me. Even had the marvel ones where they were putting the characters into Halloween costumes. Lol I was a mark and proud.
I remember seeing these cards when I was young. Such great artwork. Miss these times. Congrats on getting this set.
I used to collect theses card like crazy ! Beautiful artwork
I had these masterpieces back in 1993 ...that's an amazing set. Can't wait to receive my wolverine from then till now set.
I thought 1991 and 1992 was the best art work in the masterpiece sets. I have the first two sets and only half of the 1996 soon I'll have it all lol good video brother brings back memories.
The 92 set is the best but I never even knew this even existed super dope
I didnt know these existed! Thank u for making a video on it.
I recently came across an entire binder full of perfect and near perfect condition marvel 90s cards. Super cool. I kind of need help with figuring out value .. not sure where to go.
Definitely like the 92 set better. Growing up I had almost every set. Still love series 1, 2, and 3.
Beautiful set! Going to look killer framed with your other set. Look forward to seeing them side by side when you get it finished.
Can you show the framed 92 set and how you displayed it?
I miss collecting trading cards, had everything from Marvel to Star Wars, to the 1989 Batman, I even had Horror movie cards...
The 94 set was the Brothers Hildebrandt so it was pretty themed and consistent as well.
I have a few of the 94 masterpieces, I have a full set of the Fleer Ultra 95 X-men set. I remember only buying the packs because they were all foil printed, then they had the smaller sets within the main set. They had the Wolverine timeline cards, Lethal Weapons rainbow foil set, Haunted X-Mansion holloween set, and the 3D embossed Alternate X set. Took me back to elementary school with this vid, had to bust out the old card album lol
I had about 95% of these along with the double sided Psylocke/Punisher card, the gold gallery Spider-Man, Cyclops, Sabretooth, and Hulk. I can’t for the life of me remember what I did with the binder. I know for awhile I thought of giving it to a coworker but I don’t remember if I followed through with it. I hope I can find it in my house somewhere.
1994 Marvel Masterpieces was painted by the Hildebrandt brothers exclusively. It's a beautiful set, in my top 3 favourites
Actually have an opportunity to interview one of the brothers
Any word on the 1995 marvel metal inaugural edition holofoils? I can’t find anything on them.
Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman with red hair & b/w suit. Cool set thanks for sharing.
I had no idea this was worth so much. I have all these plus Marvel Comic Card Series 1, 2, 3 & 4 (1990-93) in great condition. The bad news is that the Master Piece set isn't complete. It's missing a couple cards. Guess I'm on a mission now to find those cards, buy them & complete the set.
I got the complete 94 set. The artwork is all over the place but i love it.
Seeing this today reminded me I have the entire collection....thanks for the payday
Yes!! 1992 MM by Joe Jusko is my all time favorite! I literally subscribed just because u said that 😂
i have that set framed too
I've a similar spiderman collection same type folder too.. I it in Florida in the 90s still l9ve it
I will have to look and see which series I have then. I remember getting the series one year and thought they were cool and collected the subsequent years. Not sure if I have complete sets or not as I want to say I was missing some cards b/c I left spots in the binder sleeves blank. I could have been the special inserts or limited cards that I was missing. Some of these cards do look very familiar.
Thoughts on the 94 set... I was just showing all my old cards to my sons and was loving showing all them to them
I remember buying boxes of those. But nothing hit like the 92 set for me.
I loved the masterpiece issues that collected all the artwork. Really beautiful work and it did hook me further in as well.
Dude...where do you get those cases for your collections? I can't find them...
This is such a dope set of cards 👀 Great Artwork!
"I thought trading cards from the 90s weren't worth anything." Yep. Sounds like my thinking. Thank you for the enlightening video.
1500 to 2k now. This the only 90s set I get the increase in price on with it's real rarity. Still love 92 also but they are everywhere.
The 1994 set was by the Hildebrandt Brothers, so it was overall very consistent as was the 1992 set.
I have a nice set of both Marvel and DC cards not really sure they're worth but I also have a couple Superman Holograms I heard they're pretty sought-after.
1994 Marvel Flair Set was my favorite.
I literally just pulled this entire set out of a recycling bin
That's cool I got a bunch of those master piece card in a binder with signatures on them
That set looks nice , I think the card set by the Hildebrandt brothers was far better!
I agree the hildabrant set was dope
collected all of the marvel card sets in the 90"s.....got them all binded up too .
I still have my set I think, time to go digging around.
Oh yeah! Got the 91-92sets..thinking of getting them graded
My mom sold all my marvel cards and pogs at a garage sale when I got older. Now I’m looking to buy everything back just for nostalgia
Nice Boris is one of my favorite artists as well as Alex Ross which I believe he also has a marvel card set.
i dont thin alex ross does...if he does, i need it asap lol
Look up Alex Ross - kingdom come trading card set. Thank me later lol
My grandfather and I have like 4 extra large binders completely full of these cards. is there any website that we could use to best value them?
I just got a bunch of these from a family member..I kinda don't know what to do with them but display them in sleeves
Thanks for sharing this man!