December 2024, we mentioned the high possibility of a soon to be released collector card series featuring the Phantom by Saturday Morning Cards. We have been informed that the series will be out soon with a date soon to be announced.
Pending final King Features approval, we have seen four potential designs for the base card and they look simply amazing. Which design do you like best? I personally like the skull throne scene but I do have a soft spot for the Billy Zane Slam Evil film poster pose.
Erick Marshall is the designer of these four designs and you can follow his work on his Instagram profile. He has worked on several other card lines for Saturday Morning Cards Popeye and chase one of one sketch cards of Dick Tracy and Smokey the Bear.
Wick Eric has recently posted this image on social media of a prototype card from a recent exhibition booth Saturday Morning Cards had which shows how they will look alongside their other collector card series.
For the lay person, their Popeye collector card set consists of 1,000x cards that will be released. In this card series there are 1,000 cards. Including are 199x Matrix, 150x Silver, 100x Stars, 50x Ice, 25x Gold Ice, 10x Gold, 5x Black Gold and 1x Black card and the rest will be one of one original art sketch cards by artists and other non numbered cards. The cost for these Popeye sets are $30US and comes in an exclusive display box. We expect the price and ratios of sketch art cards and collector card of the new Phantom set to be similar.
It will be interesting to see how the older Phantom fan base accept this 'new' style of card collecting which for many will be the first time they have seen this concept.
From what we have been told, there are several USA and Canada distributors that will be selling the Phantom series and there is potential that there will be an Australian distributor which will allow the Aussie phans ease of access to add these to their collections.
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