90's Gimmick Comic Covers | X-MEN Titles

Welcome to the second instalment in our short video series from MoDXtra looking at Gimmick Comic Covers from the 1990s. In this instalment Chris goes digging through his collection of X-Men comic titles from the early 90's to find the most shiny, eye-catching, novelty covers to do a little show & tell. The 90s were the wild-west of crazy, gimmick comic covers and a young teenage Chris was the exact target audience ("sucker") for the likes of DC Comics and Marvel Comics. As he describes it in the video "I was just the sort of sucker" being targeted by Marvel Comics, blasting all of his paperboy money on these novelty comics. Most of the books featured in this video are from X-Men titles published around 1993 & 1994. You'll see examples of hologram comic covers, foil comic covers, Chromium comic covers, Gatefold comic covers, and Embossed Comic covers from that time. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:09 - Foil Cover & Chromium Covers (Special Issues) 10:45 - Foil Embossed Miniseries & Story Arcs Covers 15:44 - Gatefold Covers & Die Cut Covers 20:48 - Hologram Covers Take a walk down memory lane and enjoy Chris' nostalgic look through his comic long boxes. ------------------------------------------ MoDXtra: Games & Collectibles is brought to you by the Ministry of Dice - a dynamic duo of man-children who worship at the broad church of nerdom. This channel covers board games & collectibles - please consider subscribing if you, like me, enjoy filling shelves with vast collections of board games, comic books, trading cards, action figures and statues! Check out our Twitch channel to see live game play from the MoD: Twitch: modxtra. Our title theme is by AndrewKN and is being used under the Creative Commons 0 license. It was sourced from the Freesounds.Org website.