Marvel Comics celebrates the 30th anniversary of Jim Lee’s The Uncanny X-Men trading card set with a new book collecting the entire set. Abrams Boks will publish The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series, a digest-sized, annotated volume reprinting all 105 cards in the 1992 collectible card set, plus bonus cards. The book releases in July. In the early 1990s, Jim Lee was one of the hottest artists in the industry. His new characters designs for the X-Men, debuting in X-Men #1, the best-selling comic book of all time, remain the touchpoint for an entire generation of Marvel fans thanks to their use in X-Men: The Animated Series (returning soon on Disney+). The Uncanny X-Men trading card set was the first time Marvel hired a single artist to create an entire collection of cards. These cards, and others like it, continue to inspire fans to create their versions today.
