Unofficial First Buzz: 2026 Topps Finest Fantastic Four

[chinesefoosball]

This set is coming out Tuesday.

Seems like it'll be better than Brooklyn at least.

I know I'll end up buying some (I bought some of Brooklyn).

[finfangfan]

There is a subheading “relic” in the checklist with the following:

RELIC

FANTASTIC CREATORS
FC-01 Jack Kirby
FC-02 Stan Lee

COMIC EXCERPTS: SILVER SURFER
CE-01 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #2
CE-02 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #5
CE-03 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #6
CE-04 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #7
CE-05 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #9
CE-06 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #14
CE-07 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #1
CE-08 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #50
CE-09 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #64
CE-10 Silver Surfer Thor #193

So I guess we are getting a bunch of Silver Surfer comic cuts, but I wonder what the Lee/Kirby relics are? Cut autos?

[oldgoldy97]

The deluge continues.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

The deluge continues.

Agree. This one looks kind of loaded though. Sketch cards to chase as well. On the surface, this looks like a better product than Cap 85. So this one should sell well too.

[CicadaMound]

This was getting mentioned as "the first original art Marvel set" in the greater non-sport-o-sphere, which is a much bigger deal than Topps is advertising. If it was an actual Masterpieces or Galaxy clone they'd be hyping it up more...

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

There is a subheading “relic” in the checklist with the following:

RELIC

FANTASTIC CREATORS
FC-01 Jack Kirby
FC-02 Stan Lee

COMIC EXCERPTS: SILVER SURFER
CE-01 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #2
CE-02 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #5
CE-03 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #6
CE-04 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #7
CE-05 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #9
CE-06 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #14
CE-07 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #1
CE-08 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #50
CE-09 Silver Surfer Silver Surfer #64
CE-10 Silver Surfer Thor #193

So I guess we are getting a bunch of Silver Surfer comic cuts, but I wonder what the Lee/Kirby relics are? Cut autos?

And duh… description gives me the answer if I would have read it… “ultra-rare cut signatures from legendary creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee” … those are huge hits! Kudos to Topps for going out of their way to include those!

[kyle1707]

I like a lot of this stuff.

But what a flood

[PurplesaurusRex]

Originally Posted by CicadaMound

This was getting mentioned as "the first original art Marvel set" in the greater non-sport-o-sphere, which is a much bigger deal than Topps is advertising. If it was an actual Masterpieces or Galaxy clone they'd be hyping it up more...

That caught my eye as well. Looks to be a hybrid MCU/Comic set, I might be in for a couple boxes if the price isn't too crazy.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by PurplesaurusRex

That caught my eye as well. Looks to be a hybrid MCU/Comic set, I might be in for a couple boxes if the price isn't too crazy.

Yeah… they look like they did a good job assembling the checklist and inserts. Would love to see what the Silver Surfer comic cuts look like. Having a full short checklist subset focused on just him should make for a highly collectible chase for many as he has a good following.

[PumpnDumpling]

Originally Posted by chinesefoosball

This set is coming out Tuesday.

Seems like it'll be better than Brooklyn at least.

I know I'll end up buying some (I bought some of Brooklyn).

Wow, looks really good and you gotta love a stealth release that actually delivers

Hoping to snag a box or two but we know how this will likely play out

[dd316]

I wish they'd use the OG Finest technology on these. They're just Chrome with a different name now.

[Sickleclaw]

Any word on odds for this set yet?

[Brobocop]

Can't wait for the absolute flood of "Powerplant Worker #1" and "Powerplant Worker #2" autos. They are going to do to Marvel what they did to Star Wars, just load up the checklist with background characters that don't even have a name.

[finfangfan]

This looks like it is the original art subset mentioned upthread…

TOPPS ORIGINALS
TO-01 Doctor Doom Adi Granov
TO-02 Galactus Adi Granov
TO-03 Mister Fantastic E.M. Gist
TO-04 Human Torch E.M. Gist
TO-05 The Thing Nelson
TO-06 Invisible Woman Nelson
TO-07 Spider-Man Ben Bradi
TO-08 She-Hulk Ben Bradi
TO-09 Silver Surfer Myles Wohl
TO-10 Thanos Myles Woh

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by Brobocop

Can't wait for the absolute flood of "Powerplant Worker #1" and "Powerplant Worker #2" autos. They are going to do to Marvel what they did to Star Wars, just load up the checklist with background characters that don't even have a name.

To be fair they were Johnny Storm and Thing in the Roger Corman FF movie from the 90’s. The dual is a fun card actually!

DA-JM Jay Underwood Powerplant Worker #1
DA-JM Michael Bailey Smith Powerplant Worker #2

[Brobocop]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

To be fair they were Johnny Storm and Thing in the Roger Corman FF movie from the 90’s. The dual is a fun card actually!

DA-JM Jay Underwood Powerplant Worker #1
DA-JM Michael Bailey Smith Powerplant Worker #2

Okay, shame on me for not knowing that. That's actually really awesome!

[finfangfan]

Also what’s with the repeat numbering of some cards in the base set? Wonder if base checklist got updated somewhere along the way and they didn’t delete the cards that were replaced or if they are “rare” variations?

001 Mister Fantastic
002 Invisible Woman
003 Human Torch
004 The Thing
005 Air-Walker
006 Alicia Masters
007 Artie Maddicks
008 Attuma
009 Awesome Android
010 Bentley-23
011 Beyonder
012 Devil Dinosaur
013 Diablo
014 Doctor Doom
015 Dragon Man
016 Ego
017 Fallen One
018 Firelord
19 Flux
020 Franklin Richards
021 H.E.R.B.I.E.
022 The High Evolutionary
023 Immortus
024 Impossible Man
025 Klaw
026 Leech
027 Lyja
028 Mad Thinker
029 Miss Thing
030 Mobius M. Mobius
031 Molecule Man
032 Morg
033 Over-Mind
034 Power Skrull
34 Puppet Master
035 Psycho-Man
037 Rama-Tut
038 Red Ghost
039 Ronan
040 Sandman
041 She-Thing
41 Spider-Man
043 Super-Skrull
044 Terrax
045 Thundra
46 Titania
047 Trapster
048 Valeria Richards
049 Victorious
050 Wizard

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by Brobocop

Okay, shame on me for not knowing that. That's actually really awesome!

No worries … there is no shame with the Corman FF.

[chinesefoosball]

Wow, thanks for the insights about some of those cool relics

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Agree. This one looks kind of loaded though. Sketch cards to chase as well. On the surface, this looks like a better product than Cap 85. So this one should sell well too.

Does anyone want MCU Fanastic Four cards, though?

The designs look pretty cheap and cheesy to me.

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by CicadaMound

This was getting mentioned as "the first original art Marvel set" in the greater non-sport-o-sphere, which is a much bigger deal than Topps is advertising. If it was an actual Masterpieces or Galaxy clone they'd be hyping it up more...

Topps Marvel original art = AI slop

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

And duh… description gives me the answer if I would have read it… “ultra-rare cut signatures from legendary creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee” … those are huge hits! Kudos to Topps for going out of their way to include those!

I had an inkling that Jack Kirby's wife actually signed many of his purported signatures, and so I did a Google to find out. Welp, I was right:

Kirby didn't sign covers. His wife signed thousands of books when he was on his deathbed.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/comi...0264124792045/

I showed it to Rich Henn and he said it was possibly "Roz" his wife, who apparently signed for Jack in this era.

https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/4...ack-kirby-sig/

His wife even helped ink his drawings:

But he still didn't like inking. So what he'd do was to have Roz take a pen — usually one with a fairly inflexible tip so it put down a very static line that didn't get thinner or thicker — and she'd trace his pencil lines. Roz had a little experience in fashion illustration, mostly doing ink linework on drawings by others. That's what she was doing when they started dating.

https://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/1...-by-roz-kirby/

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Yeah… they look like they did a good job assembling the checklist and inserts. Would love to see what the Silver Surfer comic cuts look like. Having a full short checklist subset focused on just him should make for a highly collectible chase for many as he has a good following.

Marvel's corporate brand synergy dictates the female version of Silver Surfer.