I picked this up recently, as I can’t resist hologram sheets of any type or size. It is the venom promo holo from 1992 Marvel Universe inserted into Advance Comics.





I’m assuming it was cut from a larger full sheet (I think? Any thoughts on this?). Has anyone seen a full sheet of this Venom promo holo and if so, how many cards on the sheet? Also, has anyone ever seen or have the uncut sheet(s) of the regular holos from this set? (5 colored holos). Thats one of my grail uncut sheets and I never could find one anywhere.

Looks like a normal sheet to me not cut from anything my opinion only.
Although Marvel is not my thing , check it against other Marvel Impel 4 card sheets.

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Originally posted by piko:
Looks like a normal sheet to me not cut from anything my opinion only.
Although Marvel is not my thing , check it against other Marvel Impel 4 card sheets.

I suppose it’s possible (heck kinda wish thats the case). The edges don’t look obviously hand-cut. Just seems like 4 to a sheet is too small for a sheet though. 1991MU by impel had 4 blocks of 4, so very well maybe was like this.


(Not my sheet, pic from online).

Could a promo sheet be different? Maybe…but maybe was just a full sheet cut into quadrants. Which would be a shame because I’m always against cutting sheets for any reason. Oh well. I doubt we’ll ever see a full sheet of this even if it does exist.

Twenty years ago, that was a very common promo. Every collector had at least one. You could find another one for under $5 - maybe even two for $5.

Fast forward to 2020-2022, new collectors who didn't have one suddenly wanted one and the value jumped. Since then, the value settled to roughly $5-10 - maybe more on a good day.

I don't think I've ever seen sheets of that, and I agree, that 4-card sheet must've been cut from a larger one. There were so many. When I say that, I mean the company did it - not someone cutting up a sheet later. It might have been an oddball giveaway within the company or at a show.

David R. or Promoking might have seen (or even have) something. It's a question for a longtime promo collector or a Spider-Man specialist who might've stumbled upon something at a flea market or garage sale.

Yep thats a good point, they made sooooo many of these Venom Advance Comics holo promos, I estimate into the multiple tens of thousands (whatever the print run of that Advance Comics issue was). So it would make sense for a printing company to use a sheet of say 16 vs a sheet of just 4. Not that it won’t still be a huge number of sheets with 16…but certainly better than using just 4 to a sheet. (Could be looking at 3k sheets vs 12k sheets if print run was, say, 48k cards).

I agree with your comments on the value of the promo itself. People should keep in mind the relevant Advance Comics magazine, even still sealed, is still in fairly abundant supply even 3 decades later, not that expensive, and that will easily cap the value of the promo.

It brings up an interesting (and tangential) topic that probably warrants its own thread- the relevancy, if any, of the value of the card itself to an uncut sheet of that card. I do a lot of uncut sheet collecting- you might even call it my primary collecting focus these days. My stance on the above question is there is very little connection at all between the card and sheet value. Since they are totally distinct collectible units, each with their own supply (in this case, the venom promo holo with a gigantic supply, and a sheet like this with a tremendously low supply, this being the only one Ive seen personally). But I’ve seen this happen on social media posts of people trying to value uncut sheets without having comps. Some responses say take the most expensive card on the sheet, and if there are say 10 of that card on the sheet, times it’s value by 10 and that could be around the value of the sheet. This would be a totally inaccurate way to value a sheet- it would be ignoring that the sheet is a completely different collectible than the cards it contains and there need not be any interplay there at all.

As for this sheet, in disclosure it was $250 which could be an overpay or not, who knows. But definitely a lot more than 4 of these Venom promos, to illustrate the point above. Unfortunately if indeed it was just a cut section of a fuller sheet, which I suspect it is, I do think that hurts the collectible value a lot. A full sheet of this Venom holo, if one even exists, I suspect would go for quite a lot- probably over $1000.

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