My Bart Sears collecting has been on the light side recently as well, but not completely without anything arriving on my doorstep.
I recently managed to get my hands on another copy of Bart's Cremator #1 cover, which was quite exciting, as it is so very hard to come by these days. As you may have read in my post dedicated to this cover, it is my favourite single piece of Bart Sears artwork, and it felt great to give the new copy the proper laminating treatment it deserves.
I also finally got my hands on this, just last week-
There is a story behind this Overpower Magneto card, a card I've been looking to get a hold of for a very long time. But I wasn't always looking for it, because, back in the late 90's, I actually did have a copy of it. I knew that Bart had done some cards for the Monumental Overpower expansion, but I wasn't absolutely certain if he'd done anything for the other sets. So I grabbed anything that looked even remotely like Bart's work from a comic shop that had a sizable number of the singles from most sets. This card was included in that list.
When I got the cards home, what was first noticeable was the difference in artwork from the two sets Bart produced cards for. The Overpower base set used a colouring method very popular at the time which was essentially paint by numbers with a heavy dose of airbrush. The Magneto card is a perfect example of this, where there are no traditional comic ink lines. Rather, the artist wouldn't even use ink, and would simply draw detail outlines, leaving blacks open and no rendering, see Bart's Overpower Thor card for a better idea of what I'm getting at.
So anyway, after some consideration, I came to the conclusion that Bart did not do the Magneto card, or the Thor card, rather that some inhouse Marvel artist had probably tried to make the art look like it would be Bart, maybe they were even a fan of his! I must say at this point that I was not in contact with Bart by this stage, though I really wish I was. Because, not long after making contact with Bart, he mentioned that he had done the artwork for those Magneto and Thor cards, not to mention the Deadpool one. I rushed back to the comic shop, only to find that they had recently sold their entire collection of Overpower cards to some guy! And so my quest began.
But I now have all of those three cards again, and the purchase of that Magneto card also means that, to the best of knowledge, I now have every Bart Sears trading card in existence.
I thought it might be a good idea to actually list all of the Bart Sears cards in existence, taken straight from the Bart Sears Checklist. So here we go...
| # | Details | Company | Year |
| #1 | DC Backing Boards Series 2- Card #50 - r: JLE #1 cover | DC | 1989 |
| #2 | DC '92 Series 1: #45- Doctor Light | DC | 1992 |
| #3 | DC '92 Series 1: #47- Elongated Man | DC | 1992 |
| #4 | DC '92 Series 1: #62- Metamorpho | DC | 1992 |
| #5 | DC '92 Series 1: #69- Peacemaker | DC | 1992 |
| #6 | DC '92 Series 1: #154- Invasion! Card A | DC | 1992 |
| #7 | DC '92 Series 1: #155- Invasion! Card B | DC | 1992 |
| #8 | DC '92 Series 1: #156- Invasion! Card C | DC | 1992 |
| #9 | DC Cosmic Cards '93: #124- Despero | DC/Skybox | 1993 |
| #10 | DC Cosmic Cards '93: #125- Starro | DC/Skybox | 1993 |
| #11 | DC Cosmic Cards '93: #143- Eclipso | DC/Skybox | 1993 |
| #12 | X-O Manowar & Turok Promo card - r: X-O #14 cover | Valiant/Upper Deck | 1993 |
| #13 | Turok Dinosaur Hunter Mail Away card - r: Turok #1 cover | Valiant | 1993 |
| #14 | Turok Dinosaur Hunter Promo card - r: Turok #1 cover | Valiant | 1993 |
| #15 | The Dark Phonecard - r: The Dark #1 cover- 500 made | Global Link | 1993 |
| #16 | Creator's Universe: Pheros Promo card | Dynamic Ent. | 1993 |
| #17 | Creator's Universe: #60- Pheros | Dynamic Ent. | 1993 |
| #18 | Creator's Universe: #87- Thrashur | Dynamic Ent. | 1993 |
| #19 | Creator's Universe: #97- Wolfhound | Dynamic Ent. | 1993 |
| #20 | Valiant Era 1: #73- X-O Manowar - r: X-O #14 cover | Valiant/Upper Deck | 1993 |
| #21 | Valiant Era 2: #154- X-O Manowar - r: X-O #15 cover | Valiant/Upper Deck | 1994 |
| #22 | Valiant Era 2: #230- Turok 1 - r: Turok #1 cover | Valiant/Upper Deck | 1994 |
| #23 | Valiant Era 2: #231- Turok 2 - r: Turok #2 cover | Valiant/Upper Deck | 1994 |
| #24 | Conan Chromium 2: #13- Pin-up 2 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #25 | Conan Chromium 2: #26- Pin-up 5 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #26 | Conan Chromium 2: #42- Pin-up 3 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #27 | Conan Chromium 2: #58- Pin-up 6 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #28 | Conan Chromium 2: #67- Pin-up 1 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #29 | Conan Chromium 2: #82- Pin-up 4 - r: Conan Portfolio 1 image | Comic Images | 1994 |
| #30 | DC Stars: #21- Metamorpho - r: DC '92 Series 1 card | DC/Skybox/Wal-Mart | 1994 |
| #31 | DC Stars: #22- Elongated man - r: DC '92 Series 1 card | DC/Skybox/Wal-Mart | 1994 |
| #32 | DC Stars: #35- Peacemaker - r: DC '92 Series 1 card | DC/Skybox/Wal-Mart | 1994 |
| #33 | Dark Horse- Comics Greatest World: #27- Titan | Dark Horse/Topps | 1994 |
| #34 | Wildstorm Set 1: #22- Winter | Aegis Ent. | 1994 |
| #35 | Hero Special Editions #3- Violator - r: Violator pin-up | Todd McFarlane/Hero | 1994 |
| #36 | Violator Green Card - r: Violator pu - came with Violator figure | McFarlane Toys | 1994 |
| #37 | Marvel Overpower: Deadpool- Super Spy | Marvel/Fleer | 1995 |
| #38 | Marvel Overpower: Magneto- Repel Object | Marvel/Fleer | 1995 |
| #39 | Marvel Overpower: Thor- Protect Teammate | Marvel/Fleer | 1995 |
| #40 | Spawn Chromium: #64 - r: Voilator #1 cover | Wildstorm | 1996 |
| #41 | Spawn Chromium: #65 - r: Violator #2 cover | Wildstorm | 1996 |
| #42 | Monumental Overpower (MO): Adam Warlock- Soul Gem | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #43 | MO: Alpha Flight- Guardian | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #44 | MO: Captain America- Sharon Carter | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #45 | MO: Henry Pym- Ultron 1 | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #46 | MO: Hydra- Madame Hydra | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #47 | MO: Inhumans- Triton | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #48 | MO: Serpent Society- Diamond Back | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #49 | MO: Serpent Society- Sidewinder | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #50 | MO: Shi'ar- D'ken | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #51 | MO: Silver Surfer- Shalla Bal | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #52 | MO: Starjammers- Corsair | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #53 | MO: Power Card- Energy 8- Dark Phoenix | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #54 | MO: Power Card- Strength 6- Thunderbird | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #55 | MO: Universe-Teamwork- Black Bolt, Gorgon & Medusa | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #56 | MO: Universe-Teamwork- Firestar, Nova & Namorita | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #57 | MO: Universe-Teamwork- Supreme Intelligence, Ronan & Kree | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #58 | MO: Universe-Ally- Wyatt Wingfoot | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #59 | MO: Mission- Fatal Attractions: Misguided Efforts- Rusty Collins | Marvel/Fleer | 1997 |
| #60 | Marvel Premium X-Men '97 Timelines: #73- Black Knight | Marvel/Fleer/Skybox | 1997 |
| #61 | Marvel Premium X-Men '97 Timelines: #74- Constrictor | Marvel/Fleer/Skybox | 1997 |
| #62 | Marvel Premium X-Men '97 Timelines: #76- Kane | Marvel/Fleer/Skybox | 1997 |
| #63 | Marvel Premium X-Men '97 Timelines: #77- Rama-Tut | Marvel/Fleer/Skybox | 1997 |
| #64 | Marvel Premium X-Men '97 Timelines: #79- Stryfe | Marvel/Fleer/Skybox | 1997 |
| #65 | Zoom Suit Promo Set 1: #2 of 7- Zoom Suit #1 cover | Superverse | 2006 |
| #66 | Zoom Suit Promo Set 1: #5 of 7- Zoom Suit #2 cover | Superverse | 2006 |
| #67 | Zoom Suit Promo Set 1: #6 of 7- Zoom Suit #3 cover | Superverse | 2006 |
| #68 | Zoom Suit Promo Set 2: #4 of 9- Zoom Suit #2 cover | Superverse | 2006 |
| #69 | Zoom Suit Promo Set 2: #7 of 9- Zoom Suit #3 cover | Superverse | 2006 |
I have a new shipment of Bart Sears comics on it's way as I write this, and I'll be doing a full write up of everything in it as soon as it arrives, so come back soon!
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