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On GDMJR's checklists, he provided a listing of 18 cards that were oddities, cards that had some very minor printing errors but were replicated.

I've looked at the list and by digging through archives, I've been able to determine what makes them oddities, I'm still missing some deception on a few:

QuotePowerSurge "Silver" Specials like

• Mr. Sinister Power Scheme - blacks look very faded, bottom of card is washed out
• Namor Atlantis Attacks - black hair is no longer black
• Super Skrull Immitation; -completely grey on the right side

IQ "Pink" Specials like

• Beast Brilliant Deduction - pink @ AS part of BEAST
• Henry Pym Yellowjacket - pink @ bottom-left corner of image
• Kingpin Crime Magnate
• Magneto Magnetic Devastation
• Spider-Man Science Whiz

Classic "Pink" cards like

• Superpatriot - pink dots on shoulder
• Psycho-Man Fear
• Thunderbolts Techno

"Yellow" cards like

• Bullseye Precision Shot
• Black Panther Jungle Savvy
• Kazar Jungle Savvy
• ROM/Turbo Double Shot - yellow on DOUBLE SHOT

Image starter deck "Moire-less"

• Grifter Bull's-Eye Shot - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Zealot Warrior Soul - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Correctly cut Spawn Finite Power

My guesses are:
Spawn's Finite Power has the card borders correctly aligned, can anyone confirm this?
Grifter's Bull's-Eye Shot is the same as Zealot.

I'm mostly interested in these for collection and scanning purposes, if you guys can dig through your collection to find any of these it would be super!

And, if you want to trade some to me, that would be even better!

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EDIT: Pictures!

Grifter's is the same as Zealot's. Orange King had one on eBay that you should check out if it's still up.

Yeah, it's still up, just wanted to confirm with you guys so I can check if I have it in my collection before purchasing them from him.

I'm a bit confused though, OrangeKing put up the variant has the one with the non-gradient background. The ones that I think I have (majority of) are the ones with the checkered stuff.

Ah, ok. I'll search through my cards this weekend, but I don't think I have any of them.

So, I have The Shi'ar Lillandra Special with misplaced apostrophe ("The Sh'iar") and the correctly spelled one. Is this not an error like the above listed cards? was there a different story with this one?

Quote from: ncannelora on March 25, 2011, 12:36:57 AM
So, I have The Shi'ar Lillandra Special with misplaced apostrophe ("The Sh'iar") and the correctly spelled one. Is this not an error like the above listed cards? was there a different story with this one?

I've differentiated those from the oddities, I call them misprints. The reason is that there is clearly an edit made to the card (misplaced apostrophe is an example). Others include putting the "1" in "any 1 Special" on a new line for Longshot, Scarlet Witch's Sorceress Slam with a Fighting Icon, 5 Fighting from Powersurge (Venom with lamp), 2 Multi with reversed Iron Man, etc.

Azrael's no Trademark is one of those as well. Then there are the promo events that don't have the trademark, but those were specifically printed as promotional items (and the event text is different). Fatal Attraction's Down But Not Out! event does not have a trademark/copyright on the bottom, but all of them don't have it.

Quote from: Jack on March 25, 2011, 12:47:02 AM
I've differentiated those from the oddities, I call them misprints. The reason is that there is clearly an edit made to the card (misplaced apostrophe is an example). Others include putting the "1" in "any 1 Special" on a new line for Longshot, Scarlet Witch's Sorceress Slam with a Fighting Icon, 5 Fighting from Powersurge (Venom with lamp), 2 Multi with reversed Iron Man, etc.

Azrael's no Trademark is one of those as well. Then there are the promo events that don't have the trademark, but those were specifically printed as promotional items (and the event text is different). Fatal Attraction's Down But Not Out! event does not have a trademark/copyright on the bottom, but all of them don't have it.

Well now I'm confused. I thought the six misprints were Longshot, Scarlet Witch, Azrael, Tessa, Sebastian Shaw and Lilandra.

I've never seen anything about the 5 Fighting or 2 Multi. Were those two just printed differently in PS? I never noticed.

Yeah, the image on the 2m is reversed. Dunno about the 5f.
I do remember that the 3f in Powersurge was printed larger (the image of Longshot is bigger on the card).

And, that totally makes sense, differentiating the misprints and oddities.

Quote from: ncannelora on March 25, 2011, 01:49:58 PM
Yeah, the image on the 2m is reversed. Dunno about the 5f.
I do remember that the 3f in Powersurge was printed larger (the image of Longshot is bigger on the card).

And, that totally makes sense, differentiating the misprints and oddities.

Wow, I've had those cards 15 years and never noticed that. Interesting.

Quote from: Kal-el on March 25, 2011, 01:07:22 PM

Quote from: Jack on March 25, 2011, 12:47:02 AM
I've differentiated those from the oddities, I call them misprints. The reason is that there is clearly an edit made to the card (misplaced apostrophe is an example). Others include putting the "1" in "any 1 Special" on a new line for Longshot, Scarlet Witch's Sorceress Slam with a Fighting Icon, 5 Fighting from Powersurge (Venom with lamp), 2 Multi with reversed Iron Man, etc.

Azrael's no Trademark is one of those as well. Then there are the promo events that don't have the trademark, but those were specifically printed as promotional items (and the event text is different). Fatal Attraction's Down But Not Out! event does not have a trademark/copyright on the bottom, but all of them don't have it.

Well now I'm confused. I thought the six misprints were Longshot, Scarlet Witch, Azrael, Tessa, Sebastian Shaw and Lilandra.

I've never seen anything about the 5 Fighting or 2 Multi. Were those two just printed differently in PS? I never noticed.

I probably confused everyone there. The 5 Fighting and 2 Multi were not misprints, more so inconsistent with the first set of Power cards.

There are subtle differences between the power cards in the Original set and Powersurge. The two that were the most obvious were the 2 Multi (the background image being completely reversed) and the 5 Fighting (missing a lamp).

The other ones were enlarged images, 3F and 8E are easy to spot.

So the 6 misprints were the one that Kal-el posted. The 18 oddities were the ones I listed. The 5 Fighting, 2 Multi, etc., are just inconsistencies between OP and PS and should not be called a misprint or oddity.

I've got one of the faded Mr. Sinster specials.  I always wondered what was up with that.

The entire card has a faded black so it was likely a printing error that went unnoticed. I might actually have the one already, but I'll have to double check.

I definitely have at least one of the scarlet witch misprints.  I think I have some of the faded Powersurge cards too.  I'd have to do some serious scrutiny to find out if I have any of the other cards listed.

I haven't had time to look at what I actually have and what I need, from what I know and what my brother told me..

QuotePowerSurge "Silver" Specials like

• Mr. Sinister Power Scheme - blacks look very faded, bottom of card is washed out
• Namor Atlantis Attacks - black hair is no longer black
• Super Skrull Immitation; -completely grey on the right side

IQ "Pink" Specials like

• Beast Brilliant Deduction - pink @ AS part of BEAST
• Henry Pym Yellowjacket - pink @ bottom-left corner of image
• Kingpin Crime Magnate
• Magneto Magnetic Devastation
• Spider-Man Science Whiz

Classic "Pink" cards like

• Superpatriot - pink dots on shoulder
• Psycho-Man Fear
• Thunderbolts Techno

"Yellow" cards like

• Bullseye Precision Shot
• Black Panther Jungle Savvy
• Kazar Jungle Savvy
• ROM/Turbo Double Shot - yellow on DOUBLE SHOT

Image starter deck "Moire-less"

• Grifter Bull's-Eye Shot - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Zealot Warrior Soul - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Correctly cut Spawn Finite Power

Bolds are the ones we have, non-bolds are the one we could be missing. Open to trades just to get completion of my set and to get these scanned in as a reference.

I recently noticed a card oddity in one of my Silver Surfer specials. On his Energy Projection special, both the AG and Silver Surfer name are blurry, but on closer inspection it appears they are spelled out in double fonts that don't overlap giving them a 3-D type blurry effect.   The Silver Surfer picture on this card is also fuzzy. Anyone else have something similar?