Deathstroke in 1994's SkyBox DC Stars Card Set

To paraphrase a classic line from Star Wars, "Walmart. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." Ok, Walmart may not be that bad, but then again many employees past and present beg to differ. Walmart sucks and 1994's SkyBox DC Stars Card Set is just one more reason why. It seems that Walmart wanted in on the comic book properties' highway to hell that was the comic book boom and crash of the 90s. But, they weren't just on the highway, they were in the Walmart exclusive merchandise lane of the highway.

Walmart wanted a DC Comics card set that would only be sold in their fine stores so they had SkyBox "create" the DC Stars Cards set. This Walmart exclusive set featured a whopping, count them, 45 cards. But the best part was that there was absolutely no original art commissioned for the cards. Skybox simply recycled artwork from the then only two-year-old DC Comics Cosmic Cards set as well as artwork from the three-ring binder formated Who's Who series from the early 90s. The results were just as worthless as one would imagine they would be. Deathstroke was unfortunately featured on card #30, which was made from recycled his Cosmic Cards artwork. All of Slade Wilson's Walmart exclusive trading card "glory" is pictured below.

The two Deathstroke cards juxtaposed here shows the retreaded artwork. The 1992 DC Cosmic Card on the left and the 1994 DC Stars Card on the right.

Deathstroke's DC Stars Cards card #30 front and back.

 

Jericho in 1992's DC Comics Cosmic Cards Trading Card Set

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Deathstroke in 1992's DC Comics Cosmic Cards Trading Card Set

In the early 90s, comic book properties were showing up in all kinds of products. One of the coolest forms of comic book merchandise were trading cards. After Marvel launched successful card sets, DC released their own trading card set in 1992 from Impel called DC Comics Cosmic Cards. The Cosmic Card set consisted of 180 regular cards, which featured heroes, villains, DC Comic events, classic covers, and two checklist cards. In addition to the normal cards the set also contained 10 Hologram Hall of Fame chase cards. Deathstroke was featured prominently in this set in a number of ways.

First, lets take a look at the packaging. Batman was sadly missing from this set as his trading card rights were still held by Topps. However, featured prominently on the card pack wrappers are the usual suspects of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and...Deathstroke? Yep. Check out the wrapper images below.

Deathstroke was also featured on two different versions of a normal card. His normal card was #44 in the set. Both sides of this card are shown below.

Oddly enough, Deathstroke also has an inadvertanat second normal card as there was a printing error on some cards in which the DC Q & A question was missing (See image below). 

But that wasn't all. Deathstroke was also featured on one of the ten Hologram Hall of Hame chase cards with card #DCH3. Both sides of this cards are shown below.