As you might expect, I keep an eye out for weird promotional stuff when I visit the comic shop. A few years back, Marvel gave out handfuls of glowing, bouncing eyeballs as a promotion for their Original Sin series, and they gave out vampire teeth for the recent Blood Hunt event. Maybe one day, we'll be able to make an entire Marvel face? Anyway, I don't know how I missed Marvel's promotional punch-out cards from way back in 2002, but luckily, eBay came to the rescue, as it often does, and I was able to grab a stack that included the Thing.
The set came unpunched and in the size of credit cards. Perhaps I'll keep one in my wallet and try to pay with it, and if anyone balks at the idea, well, I can always clobber them, and then blame the Thing for the litigious results.
The set I picked up came with Dr. Doom and the Fantastic Four, minus the Human Torch. Sorry, Johnny. The cards have a color bleed that makes Sue's face look very weird, but I get it. Thankfully, the set had more than one Thing, so I didn't have to stay up at night and fret over whether I would actually build the model or not.
It also came with a number of other popular Marvel characters. A lot of the Spider-Man and X-Men character art, since this was 2002, used images of the characters' Ultimate counterparts instead of the regular folks.
To build the tiny figures, you match up the (extraordinarily tiny) numbers on the cards and insert the pieces into their corresponding notches. There are front and back illustrations, so you get the whole 3D experience with these.
These were weird promos that I missed the first time around, but they're pretty fun and the Thing stands up pretty well on his own. Now I have like four doubles of the Hulk card. Who wants 'em?
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