Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1009000-20150811213540/@comment-61022-20150812151713

The Marvel Universe trading cards (And similar sets) were part of the trading card craze of the 90s. From what I figure, they were what Marvel did instead of publishing Marvel Handbooks each year (probably a lot more lucrative that way) I have some full sets that Skybox (and it's predecessor companies) did back in the early 90s at home.

I recall all the data being canonical and correct, for the time they were published, although heavily abridged because you can't fit much on a trading card.

I think when it comes to stats like height and weight we should go with whatever the last handbook states. If these trading cards are significantly different, maybe that information can be put in a footnote somewhere. Power ratings, again, are probably valid for the time period the cards were produced. We should go with presenting the most recent handbooks and maybe put any older values in a foot note as well.

I think that's really the only information that's of any use on these trading cards, as most of the other data is going to be dated or trivial at best.