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		<title>Firestorm, El Hombre Nuclear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[¡Firestorm, el hombre nuclear, de los Super Amigos!
Our good friend Jon over at the Fizzit Firestorm-themed blog sent scans of these unique Firestorm collectibles. He received the following cards from Argentina.  The majority of these come from the Spanish-language version of Kenner&#8217;s Super Powers line, Super Amigos.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Our good friend Jon over at the <a title="Jon from Fizzit" href="http://fizzit-fzam.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fizzit Firestorm-themed blog</a> sent scans of these unique Firestorm collectibles. He received the following cards from Argentina.  The majority of these come from the Spanish-language version of Kenner&#8217;s <em>Super Powers </em>line, <em>Super Amigos</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This first one is a trading card from the <em>Super Amigos</em> game.  To see all the cards in the <em>Super Amigos</em> card set, <a title="Entire Super Amigos card set on Aquaman Shrine" href="http://www.aquamanshrine.com/2008/06/super-amigos-card-game-1985.html" target="_blank">please visit the Aquaman Shrine by clicking here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-card1.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm card" width="600" height="481" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The next five are stickers associated with the <em>Super Amigos</em> line.  It appears these were produced from 1985 through 1987.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker1.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" width="600" height="826" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker3.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" width="573" height="831" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker4.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" width="585" height="860" /><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker5.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" width="600" height="410" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This last sticker uses specialized ink that really is intended to be viewed under blacklight.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker6.jpg" alt="Super Amigos Firestorm sticker" width="600" height="831" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These next ones come from some Superman-related set.  This set was released in 1994.  Nice to see the Elemental Firestorm getting some merchandise action!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Firestorm Spanish Trading Card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-card4.jpg" alt="Firestorm Spanish Trading Card" width="600" height="620" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Firestorm Spanish Trading Card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-card5.jpg" alt="Firestorm Spanish Trading Card" width="600" height="424" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Firestorm stickers from that same 1994 Superman series.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Firestorm Spanish sticker" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-sticker2.jpg" alt="Firestorm Spanish sticker" width="600" height="440" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These next two come from a set entitled &#8220;Cartas de Poder &#8211; DC Super Heroes&#8221;.  I really don&#8217;t know anything about these sets, but I love that they called Firestorm &#8220;el hombre nuclear&#8221;.  Also, he&#8217;s got an attack of 2,700 and a defense of 2,300!  I have no idea what the scale is, but that sounds impressive!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Firestorm Cartas de Poder card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-card2.jpg" alt="Firestorm Cartas de Poder card" width="600" height="427" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Firestorm Cartas de Poder card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/spanish-card3.jpg" alt="Firestorm Cartas de Poder card" width="600" height="436" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once again, our thanks to <a title="Jon from Fizzit" href="http://fizzit-fzam.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jon from the Fizzit Firestorm-themed blog</a> for supplying these images.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Apoyo Firestorm!  Avivar la llama!</p>
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		<title>Firehawk Heroclix and Trading Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back for FIREHAWK WEEK!  On Monday we looked at Firehawk&#8217;s various Who&#8217;s Who appearances.  Today we&#8217;ll be looking at a few other items featuring Firehawk.  Don&#8217;t forget, come back on Friday for the unveiling of a newly-commissioned Firehawk sketch done for the FIRESTORM FAN site!
Here is a Firehawk HeroClix game piece from WizKids.  HeroClix [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Welcome back for FIREHAWK WEEK!  On Monday we looked at Firehawk&#8217;s various <em>Who&#8217;s Who</em> appearances.  Today we&#8217;ll be looking at a few other items featuring Firehawk.  <strong>Don&#8217;t forget, come back on Friday for the unveiling of a newly-commissioned Firehawk sketch done for the FIRESTORM FAN site!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is a Firehawk <em>HeroClix</em> game piece from WizKids.  <em>HeroClix</em> is a collectible miniatures game in which players construct teams of heroes and villains to play out a battle turn-by-turn on a grid map.  Firehawk is #004 from the &#8220;Justice League&#8221; set produced in 2007, and is considered to be a &#8220;common&#8221; piece (meaning easy for collectors to obtain).  Her rank is &#8220;experienced&#8221; and the point value for the figure is 63.  If all that is meaningless to you, don&#8217;t worry.  The cool thing is they made a Firehawk game piece and used her current costume (the one she wore when fused with Jason).  She looks friggin&#8217; cool!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Firehawk Heroclix" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/heroclix_firehawk.jpg" alt="" width="503" height="496" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the front and back of the card that came with the Firehawk <em>Heroclix</em> game piece.  It provides a brief background on the character, as well as details on the powers her figure has in the game.  It&#8217;s interesting to see how they classified her powers in order to fit their game structure.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Firehawk Heroclix Card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/heroclix_firehawk_1.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="404" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Firehawk Heroclix Card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/heroclix_firehawk_2.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="404" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Next up is the Firehawk card from the &#8220;VS System&#8221; collectible card game produced by Upper Deck. In the system, players build and play a deck of VS System cards in an attempt to win a game against their opponent.  This card is named &#8220;Firehawk, Flaming Justice&#8221; and is #DCL-012 from the &#8220;DC Comic Legends&#8221; set produced in 2007.  Her attack rating is 5, while her defensive rating is 4. She has a casting cost of 3, and when activated the target player loses 1 endurance for each character he controls.  Again, if all that is meaningless, don&#8217;t sweat it.  Just be happy we got a cool game card featuring Firehawk!  I don&#8217;t know who the artist was, but they sure did a nice job!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Firehawk VS card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/firehawk_card_vs.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="400" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This final Firehawk piece comes from the 1991/1992 DC Comics trading card set produced by Impel Marketing.  Firehawk is #49 in the series and the art was done by <em>Firestorm</em> (volume II) artist, <a title="Tom Mandrake's web site" href="http://www.tommandrake.com/">Tom Mandrake</a>.  Man, I love his artwork!  He always does such a great job.  It&#8217;s impressive that Firehawk got her own card in this series, especially since the monthly Firestorm book had been canceled a year earlier.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Firehawk trading card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/firehawk_card1a.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="400" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Firehawk Trading Card" src="http://firestormfan.com/images/firehawk_card1b.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="400" /></p>
<p>That wraps up our coverage today.  Come back on Friday when we close out FIREHAWK WEEK!</p>
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