Cosmic Teams

Cosmic Teams was the name of a series of trading cards distributed in March, 1993 by Skybox. There were 150 cards and 6 holograms in the set, plus 12 promo cards.

Description

The Cosmic Teams set was made up of several "Team Triptychs" of various DC teams, and individual "DC Flashback" character cards from the team, all with a single distinctive color border to denote the team. On the back of the team cards was a paragraph of the team's history (in three parts) and a key to the characters. On the back of the character card was another picture of the character in a box called "DC Flashback!", a paragraph of the character's history, his or her real name, and first appearance.

The promo cards have the same artwork on the front as the regular card but on the back was the Cosmic Teams logo and promotional text. Each promo card had the same back.

The set contains original art, typically by the artist of the then-currently published book.

Legion Cards

Card	Title	Description	art credit(s)
17	L.E.G.I.O.N.	Team Triptych card 2	Barry Kitson, Robin Smith
19	Legionnaires	Team Triptych card 1	Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
20	Legionnaires	Team Triptych card 2	Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
21	Legionnaires	Team Triptych card 3	Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
73	Phase		Barry Kitson, Robin Smith
82	Cosmic Boy		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
83	Saturn Girl		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
84	Live Wire		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
85	Apparition		Adam Hughes
86	Triad		Ty Templeton
87	Chameleon		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
88	Invisible Kid		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
89	Leviathan		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
90	Shrinking Violet		Adam Hughes
91	Inferno		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
92	Andromeda		Adam Hughes
93	Brainiac 5		Jason Pearson, Karl Story
94	Ultra Boy		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
95	Matter-Eater Lad		Ty Templeton
96	Alchemist		Jason Pearson, Karl Story
97	Gossamer		Adam Hughes
98	Ferro		Chris Sprouse, Karl Story
99	Computo		Ty Templeton
100	Dragonmage		Jason Pearson, Karl Story
101	Catspaw		Jason Pearson, Karl Story
102	Kid Quantum		Jason Pearson, Karl Story
147	Timber Wolf		Joe Phillips, Al Gordon
148	Valor		M. D. Bright, Al Gordon
00	Dragonmage	promo back	Jason Pearson, Karl Story
000	Catspaw	promo back	Jason Pearson, Karl Story
0000	Computo	promo back	Ty Templeton
P1	Apparition	promo back	Adam Hughes

• The center card of the L.E.G.I.O.N. triptych (cards 16, 17, and 18) showed Phase, who at this point in continuity was Phantom Girl, time-tossed back to the 20th century by Glorith.
• The Legionnaires triptych and subset depict the SW6 Batch appearing in the Glorithverse-era Legionnaires book.
• Timber Wolf and Valor were two characters that had recently been newly (re)-introduced to the 20th century and were included in the "New Breed" subset of characters. The "New Breed" characters were not shown on any triptych cards and were never in a group by that name.
• The Dragonmage card was a giveaway that was packaged with "Wizard" magazine #19. The Catspaw card was a giveaway packaged with the "Comics Buyer's Guide Price Guide" for March/April 1993. The Computo card was included with each copy of "Legionnaires" #1. The Apparition card was given away at comic conventions in 1993.

External Links

• Cosmic Teams' JLA Cards
• Jeff Allender's House of Checklists