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Originally Posted by DynaEtch
Another uncut sheet pickup…DC this time. Gonna get this framed but gonna wait on that. Hologram sheets are great
Took me a little bit to place these but they’re actually not trading cards…rather were holos put onto Robin II comics in the 90s. Would also explain why the back of this uncut sheet is blank.
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It's a great looking sheet, and you're right about sticker versions of those cards being placed on the comic book covers, but your sheet is, in fact, made up of actual trading cards.
Each of the Robin comics in that monthly miniseries had multiple covers sold singly, but also in a bagged sets collecting all of each month's covers. Each of the 4 bagged sets came with one trading card, which were blank-backed. I dutifully purchased them all month-by-month, to not miss a card, although I needn't have worried as at the end of the series, a box set was released that included all 14 comics (MSRP: $1 to $1.50 each) and all 4 cards in a reusable slipcover box for $30.
Nearly 35 years later, those (and the bagged sets, which varied in price due to different amounts of comics in each) remain widely available at retail price or less, although the box sets
were limited to 25,000, which, at the time, was not enormously high. Those Robin miniseries (there were 3 in all) were very heavily printed, in large part due to the original one from earlier in 1991 being the first Robin solo title ever, and selling very, very well right out of the gate. The third and final Robin miniseries followed in late '92 and that one's gimmick was motion covers. (Issue #1 of the first miniseries had a bound in pinup/poster.)
The Batman/Joker images also made it onto a hologram pin set around that time, with 10 pins (in a ratio of 6 Batmans to 4 Jokers) on a nifty Bat-logo shaped backer card with a suggested retail price of $2 per pin.
