Marvel Masterpieces 1992-2020

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

In the meantime, here is a curious new error pickup.

Here is the regular 1993 Dyna Etch Skullfire, how it should look on scan with all its foil. Zillions of these of this same card out there.


And here is the new pickup,



it’s an odd error that has the top foiled, but then there is a sharp dividing line and much of the bottom half not foiled, as you can see with the green sewage clearly, but with some strange patterns of foil remaining. (Look at the name to really see it, plus the foil strip at left). I cannot place this foil outline from anything….my best guess it was just a random splotch of foil somehow.

I wanted to revisit this post about the Skullfire foil error from way back. At the time I was perplexed by it and chalked up it to a random splotch of foil. I should have known better, because almost nothing is random like that, even with errors.

In some ways I’m an idiot because I didn’t think to just tilt the card in the light. I was randomly going through cards yesterday and just noticed on that Skullfire:



Yea I see the Skullfire outline in the foil now... Looks like one of the foil layers of the card was super offset, halfway down the card producing a weird error. The vertical ‘foil strip’ at left is just the small space between two cards on the sheet. As always, this type of error should exist on all the other Dyna Etch's as well, but will probably be quite rare…so look out for them, might be easy to miss.