1989 Comic Images Excalibur trading cards don’t deliver much in the way of content. In fact, unless you know about the X-Men spinoff and its members, you’re not going to learn much about it.
Comic Images released a lot of Marvel sets in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They were doing it before Impel and the trading card boom made the license cool with card collectors. But in that comes the sense that the sets were made specifically for comic fans rather than expanding its potential boundaries.
The Excalibur checklist has a modest 45 base cards plus one header, which was in every pack. Fronts have an image taken from the early run of comics along with a short one- or two-word caption. Rather than providing additional information, backs have a black and white puzzle piece.
One could argue that Excalibur’s second-tier status contributes to this set’s overlooked status. Compared to many other Marvel trading card sets of the 1980s and early ’90s, this one is all but forgotten. However, for completists, this is also one of the tougher sets to find.
1989 Comic Images Excalibur Checklist
Set size: 46 cards
Cards per pack: 5
Packs per box: 50
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Base Set Checklist
46 cards.
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1 Checklist
2 Goblin Princess
3 Daydreaming
4 Trouble
5 Widget
6 Excalibur
7 Psychic Attack
8 Gate Crasher
9 Whoops
10 Captain Britain
11 Lockheed
12 Meggan
13 Concern
14 Ready
15 Stalking
16 One Kiss
17 Take That!
18 Warlord
19 Surrounded
20 Free-e-e
21 Britains
22 Changeling
23 Agony
24 Scatterbrain
25 Angry
26 Ghouls
27 Phoenix
28 Shadowcat
29 Warwolves
30 Til Death
31 Exploding
32 Restrained
33 Crazy Gang
34 Nightcrawler
35 Arcade
36 Sobering
37 Saturnyne
38 Nightmare
39 Juggernaut
40 King Arthur
41 Stop!
42 Slashed
43 Tea Party
44 Bodybag
45 Enough!
Cover Card
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