SKETCHAGRAPH GALLERIES - MARVEL MASTERPIECES '07 - ULTRA SPIDEY '97 - MARVEL CREATORS COLLECTION '98 - MARVEL SILVER AGE - MARVEL LEGENDS - MARVEL MASTERPIECES '07 - - MARVEL MASTERPIECES '08 - FANTASTIC FOUR ARCHIVES - MARVEL MASTERPIECES III '08 - SPIDER-MAN ARCHIVES - - MARVEL 70TH ANNIVERSARY - CUSTOM SKETCH CARDS - UNCUT SKETCH CARDS - LINKS TO ARTISTS/GALLERIES -

Marvel Masterpieces '07 Sketch cards were included 1 per 36 packs (or 1 sketch card per box). The good news is that Marvel went back to the days of the Silver Age and Creators sets by having a *lot* of artists involved in drawing sketch cards. Variety returns!! The bad news is that the cards immediately took off for high prices on ebay. The combination of speculators, opportunistic dealers, and fanatic collectors drove the prices out of the reach of the casual collector from the start. The Charest card shown below was listed at $1200. And there were other cards listed at over $3000 or $4000. The funny thing is, you could get a full-sized commission for what some of these dealer/scam artists are trying to charge -- especially from some of the artists who are still really trying to break into the market. One additional interesting development in this set was the "Artist Proof Card". These cards look almost identical to the regular cards in the set except the "background" across the tops of the cards is sort of burgundy instead of blue/grey and the letters at the bottom are red and say "Artist Proof Sketch Card" instead of "Artist Sketch Card". I think the idea here was to finally let the artists in on some of the income from these card sets by letting them sell a few cards of their own at whatever prices they could sell them for. As such, some of the proof cards are true pieces of art with a lot more time and effort put into them than the regular cards. Unfortunately, a few artists decided to draw risque or inappropriate images, so Marvel and Topps decided that all Artist Proof Cards must be approved by them before the artists could sell them.

Art Adams

Anjin Anhut

It's an interesting "interpretation" of DD. Can someone let me know if this is some alternate universe version of DD or something. I guess it sort of looks like the Earth X version...? Update: Anjin was kind enough to contact me and share scans of some of his other cards with me. He also told me that he likes to have fun with his drawings and throw his own slant or interpretation on the characters. Do yourself a favor and check out Anjin's Gallery of Sketch Cards to see many more Masterpieces sketch cards (including some nice full color work).

Lui Antonio

A big DD Resource thanks to Lance Hudson who was kind enough to send scans of this card plus a card from Slayton and Tolibao. Thanks, Lance!

Chris Bachalo

Carlo Barberi

Claude Bordeleau

Kate "Red" Bradley

Travis Charest

Jim Cheung

Adam Cleveland

Adam Cline

Conan (Conan Momchiov)

Dan Cooney

Chris Copeland

Thanks to Lance Hudson and David Li for the artist IDs on these two cards!

Dennis Crisostomo

Ragan delaRosa

Brian Denham

Colleen Doran

Darla Ecklund

David Esbri

Tom Feister

Bo Hampton

A DD Resource "Thanks!" goes out to Rudy for identifying the artist on this card and a few others to boot! Thanks, Rudy.

Tariq Hassan

Chachi Hernandez

Jessica Hickman

Polo Jasso

Jim Jimenez

Tim Kane

Special thanks to Tom for IDing the artist on this one.

Brian Kong

Jim Kyle

JonBoy Meyers

Pop Mhan

Steve Miller

Jon Mills

The artist of this card was not listed when it sold on ebay, and I couldn't figure it out from the signature. A big DD Resource thanks goes to Patricia Pinder for supplying the answer!

Rich Molinelli

Randy Monces

Jerome Moore

NAR (Julio Naranjo)

William Neff

Tom Nguyen

Ryan Orsosco

Special thanks to Tom for IDing the artist on this one.

Ryan Ottley

Richard Pace

(Michael) Jason Paz

Jason Pearson

Special thanks goes out to Blair Shedd for helping me figure out who the artist was for these cards, and also for helping me straighten out Brian Shearer's name here in the gallery. And apologies for the image quality on the 2nd and 3rd cards: they were taken from extremely small thumbnails.

Tony Perna

Jason Keith Phillips

Zak Plucinski

Dan Quiles

William Reinhold

Andrew Robinson

Mark Romanoski

Noah Salonga

Brent Schoonover

Tony Shasteen

Brian Shearer

Blair Shedd

Ethan Slayton

Taki Soma

Aaron Sowd

Ron Spencer

Ken Steacy

Harvey Tolibao

Scot Terry

Special thanks to Rudy Jaquez for helping ID the artist on this one.

Bill Thompson

Brad Vancata

On one of the non-sport card forums, Brad was quoted as saying that the signature is not two "J"s, but represents "VAN" with the A cross bar going all the way across the letters. Thanks to Rudy for pointing me in the right direction in identifying the artist on this one.

Bob Wiacek

Sarah Wilkinson

Anthony Winn

Leinil Yu