This month’s Art Gallery display is from the 2012 Topps
Mars Attacks Heritage release. The original Topps Mars Attacks release was in
1962 so this release was for the 50th Anniversary of the original
set. Included in this release were a variety of inserts including parallels, 3D
cards, printing plates and sketch cards.
With the sketch cards the artist was allowed to take
their own impression from the Mars Attacks line, including the original
release, Tim Burton’s 1996 movie and the comic books. This card was done by
Dave Tata, a well-known illustrator that has done work for a couple of animated
shows and he is found on quite a few sketch card checklists including Topps Mars
Attacks, various Topps Star Wars sets Cryptozoic DC The New 52, Cyptozoic
Batman, Cryptozoic Superman, Cryptozoic Walking Dead and various Rittenhouse
Marvel sets.
Earlier last year I purchased a Mars Attacks sketch card
from a seller who flaked out. After I got a refund from eBay he told me his was
sending the card anyway, which never happened. I ended up finding this card,
which I liked better. What caught my attention first was the color. I like the
red, there is a connection with Mars plus red=anger and that is implied here
too.
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