Topps Mars Attacks card in Mars Attacks Comic

December 19, 2012, 05:44 PM

kevin LePore

The Newest issue of Mars Attacks Comic Book #6 has a New Mars Attacks Card #32a Robot Terror

I checked all the comics @ the comic shop , they all come with the SAME Card

On the back it says :
See Card 18a A Soldier Fights Back
collect the set of 5 cards

December 19, 2012, 07:22 PM

treksearcher

I've also seen these on "that site" but the shipping is expensive. I'll keep checking in case they are in Comic Shops in the U.K.

December 20, 2012, 12:18 AM

BILLZEE

Thats cool news... Thanks for posting this.

December 20, 2012, 10:43 AM

David R

So is there just 1 card, or 5 different ones in this issue ? If 5, where are the others available ?

December 20, 2012, 12:03 PM

Ted Dastick Jr.

quote:
Originally posted by David R:
So is there just 1 card, or 5 different ones in this issue ? If 5, where are the others available ?

My guess is the next 5 issues will contain a card.

December 20, 2012, 01:51 PM

Martian Commander

Ted is correct. There are 5 cards that will be packaged with issues #6-#10 of the regular series. Art by Dan Brereton, Miran Kim, Franco Francovilla and others.

The stories on the back were written, produced and approved by Topps, to fit in with the original 55, and are direct sequels to 5 individual cards from that set.

January 01, 2013, 08:23 AM

Potato Head

quote:
Originally posted by treksearcher:
I've also seen these on "that site" but the shipping is expensive. I'll keep checking in case they are in Comic Shops in the U.K.

Due to be in UK comic shops on 2nd January. It was scheduled to ship before Christmas.

January 02, 2013, 01:59 PM

Potato Head

Picked mine up today from my local comic shop. It's poly-bagged with the comic.

February 13, 2013, 07:21 AM

Potato Head

Mars Attack comic # 7 is out today it includes card 18A

March 13, 2013, 01:32 PM

Potato Head

Mars Attack comic # 8 is out today it includes card 41A - Horror in Paris

March 21, 2013, 10:42 PM

Batman

Here are the first three cards, well worth tracking down they feature great new art:

March 23, 2013, 08:11 PM

Tattoox

Wow! 7 & 8 came out on the same day. I better catch up.

March 25, 2013, 08:14 AM

Potato Head

quote:
Originally posted by Tattoox:
Wow! 7 & 8 came out on the same day. I better catch up.

No. 7 was out on the 13 February and No. 8 was out on the 13 March.

March 26, 2013, 10:32 AM

xtime

SELL OUT!!!
Got the last issue at the shop.
Had to mail order all the rest.

The #1 issue has at least 55 variation covers, one for each original card.
Also, there appear to be parodies...Mars Attacks verses Popeye, KISS, Transformers, etc.

March 26, 2013, 10:56 AM

Ted Dastick Jr.

quote:
Originally posted by xtime:
Also, there appear to be parodies...Mars Attacks verses Popeye, KISS, Transformers, etc.

These were one-shot crossovers with other IDW titles. They came out about a month or so ago.

March 26, 2013, 12:08 PM

chesspieceface

Right, there were at least 5 different one-shots, but each of those had a pair of additional variant covers where guest artists were given a chance to mix their own characters into the Mars Attacks Universe. Here are the actual issues in CAPS along with the variant covers for each:

TRANSFORMERS
Spike (from Buffy)
Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore)

REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
Chew (Image Comics)
Madman (Mike Allred)

KISS
Judge Dredd
Star Slammers (Walt Simonson)

ZOMBIES Vs. ROBOTS
Rog-2000 (John Byrne)
Cerebus (Dave Sim)

POPEYE
Opus (Bloom County)
Miss Fury

And while the cover of the variants, to use the Popeye one for an example, read "Mars Attacks Opus" or "Mars Attacks Miss Fury", the interiors of those comics is the same as what's inside the "regular" edition Popeye comics, so it looks like 15 different covers in total for 5 different comics.

March 26, 2013, 01:40 PM

Ted Dastick Jr.

quote:
Originally posted by chesspieceface:
Right, there were at least 5 different one-shots, but each of those had a pair of additional variant covers where guest artists were given a chance to mix their own characters into the Mars Attacks Universe. Here are the actual issues in CAPS along with the variant covers for each:

TRANSFORMERS
Spike (from Buffy)
Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore)

REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
Chew (Image Comics)
Madman (Mike Allred)

KISS
Judge Dredd
Star Slammers (Walt Simonson)

ZOMBIES Vs. ROBOTS
Rog-2000 (John Byrne)
Cerebus (Dave Sim)

POPEYE
Opus (Bloom County)
Miss Fury

And while the cover of the variants, to use the Popeye one for an example, read "Mars Attacks Opus" or "Mars Attacks Miss Fury", the interiors of those comics is the same as what's inside the "regular" edition Popeye comics, so it looks like 15 different covers in total for 5 different comics.

I wasn't aware of those variants!