2006 Complete Avengers box break
 

Boxes are tough to find now and almost double what they were at release but I still think this is the best sketch release Rittenhouse has put out and I'll still pick up the occasional box when I can find one.

This box arrived yesterday:

Box #7807

Greatest Enemies- GE2,GE3,GE7,GE8
Mightiest Heroes- MH3, MH5
Legendary Heroes- LH2

Sketch- I'm not 100% sure on either artist or Character but I think it's High Evolutionary by Matthew Goodmanson.

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That is a cool sketch. When did this product come out? My local shop almost never gets the Rittenhouse products in. Are the base and inserts as nice as the sketch you got?

[QUOTE=ifish73;111223]That is a cool sketch. When did this product come out? My local shop almost never gets the Rittenhouse products in. Are the base and inserts as nice as the sketch you got?[/QUOTE]

This set came out in 2006. The base cards are decent but not spectacular, the inserts are gorgeous. There were 8000 sequentially numbered boxes, 40 packs per box, with 3 levels of inserts, Greatest Enemies 9 card set- 1:10 packs, Mightiest Heroes 18 card set- 1:20 packs, Legendary Heroes 9 card set- 1:40 packs. The sketch cards were all full color and were 1 per box, there were also 100 sketches by Stan Lee randomly inserted (all Captain America in pencil).
The sketches were overall superb. Here's some scans of the inserts I mentioned and I'll show a few of my sketches too.:D

Greatest Enemies:

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Legendary Heroes:

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Mightiest Heroes (my personal favorite Marvel insert set)

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5 of my favorite Complete Avengers sketches in my collection:

Guy Dorian Iron Man:

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Warren Martineck Baron Zemo:

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Renae Deliz Sue Storm:

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Eddie Vieira Wasp:

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Brian Kong Dr. Doom:

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That Iron Man sketch is incredible! I wish I had such luck with my sketch pulls. I just got back into non-sports last year. My son loves superheroes and I bought some of the 07 Marvel Masterpieces and we are hooked. Are you going to open any of the series three of the Marvel Masterpieces? I was planning on getting two or three boxes from Blowout when I buy my case of UD Documentary.

If I send you like $5 via paypal would that cover a few of the cards from the Avengers set if you have any extras for my son? He likes Spider-Man, Hulk and Iron Man. Anything cool looking to a 5 year old. If so let me know.
Thanks

[QUOTE=ifish73;111442]That Iron Man sketch is incredible! I wish I had such luck with my sketch pulls. I just got back into non-sports last year. My son loves superheroes and I bought some of the 07 Marvel Masterpieces and we are hooked. Are you going to open any of the series three of the Marvel Masterpieces? I was planning on getting two or three boxes from Blowout when I buy my case of UD Documentary.

If I send you like $5 via paypal would that cover a few of the cards from the Avengers set if you have any extras for my son? He likes Spider-Man, Hulk and Iron Man. Anything cool looking to a 5 year old. If so let me know.
Thanks[/QUOTE]

I do plan on opening some MM3. I skipped MM2 except for a couple of cheap boxes once the price dropped, the set was too watered down and the odds of getting a good sketch were pretty slim. The samples I've seen from some of the artists are very good, and a couple of artists went all out (Danny Kuang and Sanna U spring to mind). I might post some of their cards in the non-sport section here later. I think the best release might be the Fantastic 4 Archives set from Rittenhouse, it looks pretty good and I've already ordered 2 cases for myself.

[url=http://www.scifihobby.com/products/marvel/fantasticfour/]Fantastic Four Archives Trading Cards - Rittenhouse Archives[/url]

PM me your address and I'll send some base cards and a few inserts I have multiples of, whatever I can get into a 180 pt top loader. No charge.;)