Marvel Rittenhouse Promos

What just seemed to be a few days ago, when I got home Saturday from work I found a thin SASE waiting for me in the mailbox.  I had sent off for the newest promo from Rittenhouse from their upcoming Marvel Bronze Age set.  When the company Inkworks was in business I would send away for just about every free promo I could get.  I was surprised to see that Rittenhouse did the same for a majority of their card sets.

While I wasn't reading comics in the 70's (or 80's), I can appreciate the rich history of many of Marvel's characters.  Rittenhouse also does an amazing job w/ their cards and this is such an iconic fight between Wolverine and the Hulk so I had to have this card.

The set covers Marvel Comics from 1970 to 1985 and features one sketch card per hobby box.  Everything that I've seen is really nice so I may have to track down a hand collated set before it's all done.

I forgot I had the last promo of their's too.  This one is from the Greatest Heroes set.  I have an extra one if anyone wants to trade me for it.

Rittenhouse Marvel Dangerous Divas

I've been a long time Marvel Comics reader, but due to several different reasons I'm having to drop my monthly books.  That said I still can appreciate the artwork, stories and characters of the Marvel Universe.  Being a card collector as well I love it when my card hobby collides with one of my other hobbies.

Rittenhouse has done an awesome job w/ their various Marvel card sets.  Due to the one per box sketch cards the prices for a full box are a little out of my price range, but thanks to so many dealers busting cases and boxes buying a hand collated set is easy and cheap.

Rittenhouse's latest Marvel offering is simply called Dangerous Divas.  I question some of the characters included in the set, but the base set is still simply beautiful.  What is really nice about this set when compared to others in the past is the inclusion of a larger image on the back of ALL the base cards!  Plus each character in the set has 3 cards that make one larger image when displayed side by side.  Different artists contribute their work for the various characters so if you don't like one version of Spider-Woman or Ms. Marvel you have 2 other cards of them.  Enough talk though, let me show you some examples of these 3 card panels and the back images.

Here we have X-Men member Psylocke.  I can't name the artists here, but I love the combined image.

Next we have one of my favorite characters, Carol Danvers AKA Ms. Marvel.  Artist from left to right:  Adrianna Melo, Frank Cho and the late Michael Turner.

Another favorite, Jessica Drew AKA Spider-Woman.  The first image appears to be Frank Cho's work, but the middle and right images I can't peg.  Perhaps that Steve McNiven on the right?

Tigra is currently serving as an instructor for the Avenger's Academy program.  I love the differences in the art.

And lastly we have the Scarlet Witch who single-handedly rid the Marvel Universe of the majority of mutants.


As I mentioned earlier each group of 9 cards has a portion of a larger image on the back.  Below are all of the 9 card images.

Mike Mayhew cover from a Avengers one-shot.  Not my favorite, but a nice start.

Beautiful work by Jo Chen of Spider-Woman, the Invisible Woman and Storm.



the Lady Liberators by Mike Deodato featuring Thundra, She-Hulk, Valkyrie and the Invisible Woman



This is one image that I'm not familiar with, but the artist appears to be Olivier Coipel.



The X-Women courtesy of Terry Dodson.



Image from the Herald's mini-series.



Another offering of the X-Women courtesy of Terry Dodson.



The Women of Marvel by Greg Land.

If you're a non-sports card collector and or comic fan then you should at least give this set a look.  I paid $3.00 for the 72 card set which is a great deal in my book.  I decided to save some $$ and stay away from the inserts, but from what I've seen of those they are equally as nice.