Comments on: DC Cosmic Cards – Views from the Longbox Guest Appearance

By: Little Russell Burbage

Little Russell Burbage — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:22:10 +0000

I came across a still-wrapped box of these at one of my recent antique mall visits. I think it was $25 bucks? Send me an email if you want me to go back and see if I can still pick it up.
Email is my first name and last name no spaces at juno dot com. No “Little.”

By: JoeX

JoeX — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:26:13 +0000

I spent some time over at that card site, and holy crap did I waste a lot of money on comic and game cards back then.

By: Mark Baker-Wright

Mark Baker-Wright — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:49:41 +0000

I used to have a huge number of these. Wish I could find them today. Afraid I must have gotten rid of the at some point.

(Shag, thanks for the occasional shout-out when you read my comments on the podcast, but note that my blog has been “Blackrock’s Toybox” since early this year.)

By: JoeX

JoeX — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:49:13 +0000

Corporately, Impel changed it’s name to SkyBox in 1992, then was bought by Marvel in 1995 and merged into Fleer, which promptly went bankrupt and was sold to Upper Deck.

By: Anj

Anj — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:23:10 +0000

I also am loving this conversation. I totally had a bunch of these cards but never the entire series. Alas all but one of these cards of mine has been lost.

The only one to survive? The Steve Rude Golden Age Superman has followed me throughout my academic and professional career, on a picture frame with one of the Zero Hour Superman covers. That has been in every office I have had since the late 90s. The card is completely faded … but I love it.

I’ll tweet a picture. I probably would pick a different Superman cover to be framed these days but there is a 20yr history of this following me. Hard to break tradition.

By: Earth 2 Chris

Earth 2 Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:59:11 +0000

I’m listening now and LOVIN’ the hell outta this conversation! I love me some comics trading cards! I have a whole set, but this was before I was smart enough to get a box. That came with the Batman Skybox set. I even got the fancy, smancy “Skydisc” hologram card!

Speaking of which, I believe Impel somehow morphed into Skybox, through either a name change or buyout, etc.

Again, LOVIN’ this episode! You and Michael need to do Cosmic Teams now!!!

Chris