Women Of Marvel Series 2 Box Break

What We Pulled:

Packs: 24
Cards Per Pack:  5
Total Cards Expected: 120
Total Cards Received: 120

Base Set Completion: 100% (90 Cards)
Duplicates: 13

Inserts:
Color Sketch Card: 1 (Crystal)
Multi Card Sketch Puzzle: 0
Embrace (1:8 Packs): 3 (Black Widow & Hawkeye, Elektra & Punisher, X-23 & Hellion)
Marvel Artifex (1:12 Packs): 2 (Storm & Invisible Woman)
Women of Marvel Framed (1:24 Packs): 1 (Rogue)
Ultimate Heroes (1:24 Packs): 1 (Kitty Pryde)
Emerald Insert #/100 (1:24 Packs): 1 (Rescue)
Sapphire Inserts (1:3 Packs): 8 (Domino, Firestar, Hope, Mystique, Psylocke, Spider-Girl, Warbird, White Tiger)

 Our Thoughts:

Overall: We enjoy taking a look at sets like these because it reminds us that there are other characters in their respective universe than the ones that we all follow because of the comics we read. I forgot all about Princess Omaka until I ran into her card here. The 90 card base set does well in representing almost all the women in the marvel universe that matter.

Design: The base set is OK. I don't like the fact that they did the offset box on the front and back. I just causes less artwork to be shown which is a bad thing. The back of the card is simplistic. Real Name, First Appearance and Little Known Fact are what are put on the card. I would have liked either Team Affiliation or Primary Nemesis to have been included. Maybe even a Powers heading. I think that they could have done so much more with the base set cards.

Design of the Inserts: These are good. To the right is the Marvel Artifex Insert of Storm.  The other card is the Women of Marvel Framed of Rogue. Each of the insert sets has its own design and play off each other rather well. The only thing that I would have done different is somehow included a 10 card insert set of the Women of Marvel that were not Heroes. An Aunt May who has played a major part in Spider-Man's life, a Mary Jane, a Pepper Parks, etc. 10 cards for the Women behind the Heroes. Marvel has enough talent to get the sketches looking up to comic book standards. So there should be no reason that we get a sketch card and ask if a 9 year old might have drawn the image. This is a pet peeve of mine. If your business is drawing, then let's get the standards up there.

The value of the box is around $60 at the current time. It is about right for what you get and if you want to collect an insert set, you will have to either collect a couple of boxes or go onto the secondary market.

If you like looking at the artwork portrayed by those who work on the Women of Marvel, then it is a good thing to get. If you like knowing about characters that you might have forgotten or want to discover a character that you do not know of the female persuasion, then this is a good product. It is a good product, but it could be better.

Box Value: 3 out of 5.

2011 Marvel Beginnings Series 1

WHAT WE PULLED

Packs Per Box:  24

Cards Per Pack:  7

Cards Per Box:  168

Base Set Completion:  118 of 180 (65.6 Percent)

Duplicates:  0











Inserts:  50

X-Men Die Cut (1:2) 45 Cards

12 - Cloak, Colossus, Cyclops, Darwin, Forge, Husk, Longshot, Rachel Summers, Pixie, Professor X, Sunfire, Warpath

Micromotion (1:2) 60 Cards

12 - Angel, Apocalypse, Deadpool, Doctor Octopus, Hawkeye, Hulk, Kraven, Luke Cage, Nightcrawler, Punisher, Thing, Wolverine

Breakthrough Issues (1:1)  45 Card Set

24 Cards Pulled

Breakthrough Issues Autographs (1:72)  45 Cards

0 Pulled

Breakthrough Issues Autographs Dual - 15 Cards

0 Pulled

Breakthrough Issues Autographs Triple - 4 Cards

0 Pulled

Hologram Villians (1:72) 42 Cards

1 - Hobgoblin

Artist Sketch Cards (1:72)

1 - Taskmaster by Remy "Eisu" Mokhtar

Ultimate Panel Focus - 10 Cards

0 Pulled

 Overall, there is just enough to capture the imagination of Marvel readers in this box.  Buying 2 boxes to complete the base set along with at least 4 or 5 boxes to have a chance to get all the basic inserts in this set seems a little bit too much.  Also, hopefully in Series 2 and 3, we have more Breakthrough Issues that veer away from Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four.  I hope that Marvel does remember that there were other groundbreaking comics out there that aren't in the major books. 

 As for the autos, it is good that they aren't in each and every box.  The base cards do give information on the 1st appearance of the character, although I would have liked having their powers instead of a brief synopsis of what the characters went through.  The art on the cards is good and aside from a bent corner here and there, the cards are good.

 Box Value:  3 out of 5