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adamantium skeleton, Fatal Attractions, holograms, Wolverine, X-men, X-men covers, X-men holograms
Marvel published Fatal Attractions in 1993, a six-chapter X-Men saga complete with wrap-around covers and holograms! Where are all the holograms now, I ask you? WHERE?!
But I digress. The mind-boggling complexity of this x-travaganza might put you off, if you are not into x-tensive sub-plots of 1993. So let’s skip all that and just rock the covers and holograms!
The big highlight of the story? Magneto gets fed up with our favorite mutant and rips all the adamantium out of Wolverine’s body! That’s gotta hurt! It was also the first time we discovered the claws were not implants but a part of Wolverine’s body — even without the adamantium.
If you like this Wolverine hologram below, you’ll love my scan of the hologram cover to Wolverine #100.
Collector’s Guide: From the Fatal Attractions series; Marvel, 1993.
Individual issues:
X-Factor #92
X-Force #25
Uncanny X-men #304
X-Men #25
Wolverine #75
Excalibur #71
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I loved those issues! It was telling such an engaging story – but from several different perspectives and with contained narratives. I read and re-read those issues.
Its a shame about the Holograms, though! I collected Comic Trading Cards when I was young – so I cut those holograms out to make use as trading cards. Several years later I’m old, have lost the hologram cards, and have holes in the cover of my issues!
Thanks a bunch for posting them (and even trying to scan the holograms. The Havok one turned out pretty good!)
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For a brief time, you had the coolest trading cards in the world!
Most of us have at least one story of a comic book we regret cutting. Lucky for us, Marvel printed enough copies that now, 19 years later, we can still find pristine copies of these beauties.
But people that cut the Marvel Value Stamp out of Incredible Hulk #181 in 1974… They are still kicking themselves.
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Yes, prices have come way down on these puppies. We admit to finding them last year on a 50-cent rack in NM condition, along with the first 20 issues of X-men. Score one for thrifty nostalgia – although we did plunk down the princely sum of $2.10 for the Excalibur issue to complete our set.
Thank you for dropping by, Philip! Are you talking about Invisibles #5 from the first series?
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Nice. I have all of these comics in mint condition.
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These are fun, though their resale value isn’t anywhere near where the 90s hype led collectors to expect. I sold the full set on eBay a few years ago for maybe $25, but last time I checked, you could buy the individual issues for less than that. (I got mine for 50 cents a pop at a used bookstore because someone dumped them as part of an X-Men collection.) But, resale value aside, they are bad-ass covers and the holograms are awesome!
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