Monster Trading Cards

[horrorhunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfHtkEdG-vU#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQw_6mlpfY&feature=player_detailpage

[horrorhunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQ9jZRaWn8#

Cool vid with background music that I personally don't care for. Just mute the sound if you don't either. This thing screams for some good Alice Cooper like Black Ju Ju, or some killer monster surf music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XbYf0hFowm4

[Mord]

Thanks, Mord.

I'm working on getting some of the Hammer Horror autograph cards now. Compared to what you have to pay for an autographed photo at a show there are some really good deals on these autographed cards. I value the cards more than the photos because they are part of something bigger- the set. The only thing they lack is a personalized signature, but even those might bite you if you decide to sell or trade later.

I'm not fond of the personalized signature, myself. I'd rather have a classic saying & a signature (or just a signature). The only way I would like a personalized signature is if it's from one artist to another (like a birthday card from Todd Browning to Lon Chaney). The fact that these cards are part of a legitimate set also authenticates the signatures (a lot of forgeries floating around the autograph market).

[marsattacks666]

I'm not fond of the personalized signature, myself. I'd rather have a classic saying & a signature (or just a signature). The only way I would like a personalized signature is if it's from one artist to another (like a birthday card from Todd Browning to Lon Chaney). The fact that these cards are part of a legitimate set also authenticates the signatures (a lot of forgeries floating around the autograph market).

[horrorhunter]

I completed my chase card sets for the Frazetta 2 series posted earlier in this thread. Scans of the 3-card Chromium Set and the 3-card Spectrascope Set follow.



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[horrorhunter]

The Best Of Frazetta (Comic Images, 1996) is a stunning, all chromium, 90 card base set with 9 chase cards- 3 Comic Covers and 6 Magna-Chromes. It may be the most beautiful card set I've ever seen. Scans of mine below:

Cards 1-9:


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Chase Cards (3-card Comic Covers Set & 6-card Magna-Chrome Set):


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[Mike Scott]

It may be the most beautiful card set I've ever seen.

Judging from the 9 below, it surely has to be!   

[horrorhunter]

Judging from the 9 below, it surely has to be! 

I lightened the exposure a bit on the cards 1-9 scan which turned out to be a mistake. I should have left it dark and sharp. All 90 of the base set are chromium, they look like polished glass with a bit of a 3D effect. It really shows off Frazetta's superior art. The scans don't do them justice.

After seeing the last scan with those small lines on the last card front (M6), I went and checked the card and 9-pocket sheet and there are no lines or imperfections there. It's frustrating sometimes trying to present beautiful items with scans and photos and seeing all of these weird tricks of light, shadow, and dust muck it up. This set is striking in person, not so much in the scans.

[Mike Scott]

I lightened the exposure a bit on the cards 1-9 scan which turned out to be a mistake.

I thought something went wrong with the scan.

[horrorhunter]

I thought something went wrong with the scan.

I fixed the first scan. Still can't figure those unsightly lines on the last card in the last scan. Could be lint or dust on the scanner, I guess. Sometimes weird phantom things happen with photos and scans. Just have to drive on to the next.

[Hepcat]

I completed my chase card sets for the Frazetta 2 series posted earlier in this thread. Scans of the 3-card Chromium Set and the 3-card Spectrascope Set follow.

And contrast the way artists drew breasts in the days when breasts were necessarily all-natural to the way many/most artists draw breasts in this day and age of implanted women. Artists had to understand physics and how gravity works in the old days.

[horrorhunter]

And contrast the way artists drew breasts in the days when breasts were necessarily all-natural to the way many/most artists draw breasts in this day and age of implanted women. Artists had to understand physics and how gravity works in the old days.

Frazetta was the master of drawing natural looking, gorgeous, curvy women.

I agree that much of the art today does draw (npi) a correlation between the phony, cheap look that artificial enhancement brings, and some of the poorly crafted anatomy evident in many current art styles. I don't mind stylized anatomy if it's attractive. I just don't like some of the crappy, cheap, shortcut anatomy from someone like a Rob Liefeld.

[Mike Scott]

Still can't figure those unsightly lines on the last card in the last scan. Could be lint or dust on the scanner,

It's probably the surface of the Spectrascope cards. I tries to scan a color image with some kind of shiny surface and it came out b/w.

[horrorhunter]

It's probably the surface of the Spectrascope cards. I tries to scan a color image with some kind of shiny surface and it came out b/w.

I think it was scanner lint/dust. I went back and gave the scanner glass a good cleaning. 

[Hepcat]

Frazetta was the master of drawing natural looking, gorgeous, curvy women.

Well they were a bit too corpulent for my tastes but there's no question that Frazetta understood anatomy.

I agree that much of the art today does draw (npi) a correlation between the phony, cheap look that artificial enhancement brings, and some of the poorly crafted anatomy evident in many current art styles. I don't mind stylized anatomy if it's attractive. I just don't like some of the crappy, cheap, shortcut anatomy from someone like a Rob Liefeld.

I agree. Liefeld's work is certainly a case in point and I like it not at all.