Help Identifying Marvel Cards

[armyml]

Hi guys, need some help from the experts! I've got these 3 cards that came along in a trade at my shop awhile back and I can't seem to find any information on them. Where they came from, rarity, value...anything. All I could find were some random Ebay listings that I definitely can't use to assess. Any help is appreciated!!

card1 by mark liddell, on Flickr

Card2 by mark liddell, on Flickr

[sketchopolix]

These are unfamiliar to me but the rounded corners suggest something I had seen as inserts in Wizard magazine once? Might add that to your search. Are they thicker plastic like a credit card - that is the Wizard insert I remember.

[armyml]

Originally Posted by sketchopolix

These are unfamiliar to me but the rounded corners suggest something I had seen as inserts in Wizard magazine once? Might add that to your search. Are they thicker plastic like a credit card - that is the Wizard insert I remember.

Aha! Yes sir, they are thick and feel just like a credit card.

[DynaEtch]

To my untrained eye, I do not think these came from Wizard. Promo cards from Wizard usually had some type of chrome or foil finish. I may be wrong though.

After an online search, I was just able to find there are 4 of them. It doesn’t specially say what they came from, just something in 1993 and they feel like plastic credit cards. The eBay listings I could find all seem to say 1993 Marvel Overpower, but that doesn’t make sense since OverPower was launched in 1995, plus they don’t say OverPower on them. I think those are incorrectly titled listings. The listings are asking surprisingly high prices, $50-150, but people can ask anything, so doesn’t mean much.

[smanzari]

These kind of look like cards that would be on the rack while checking out at Spencers' Gifts or somewhere similar- maybe there? Seems a few ebay listings say the Wolverine "Staff" card is from the 1993 Overpower set (TCG) but I don't think that's right

[armyml]

Thanks guys. Yea I pretty much come up with the same results you are when trying to do some research. I'm hoping someone that remembers these from back in the day chimes in. You're absolutely right in the ridiculous Ebay listings as well. I saw those and immediately knew I couldn't use those as any sort of indicator.

[sthoemke]

I think they came with X-Men Xavier's School Address Book (puch-out type cards), Antioch Publishing 1993. Notice the ISBN numbers on the cards.

Here is a listing that shows the cover graphic similar to the first card's graphic.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/272507653941

[sketchopolix]

Originally Posted by sthoemke

I think they came with X-Men Xavier's School Address Book (puch-out type cards), Antioch Publishing 1993. Notice the ISBN numbers on the cards.

Here is a listing that shows the cover graphic similar to the first card's graphic.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/272507653941

Ding ding ding. Sounds (looks) like a winner to me.

The card I am remembering was an Avengers ID card. Recall it being Wizard but 30 years later willing to accept that memory could be faulty.

[Scifi Cards]

Antioch made all sorts of merchandise: ID Cards, Bookmarks, Stickers that they sold primarily at the point of purchase in bookstores. Especially Waldenbooks and B. Dalton in the shopping malls of the day.

These were likely on an impulse buy rack by the register.

Ed