Join Beckett Sports Card Monthly‘s Chris Olds as he rips into a hobby box of 2000 Topps X-Men The Movie cards in this latest retro edition of Box Busters.

What will he find inside beyond one autograph and memorabilia card? Watch and find out …

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By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

Rittenhouse is looking at Marvel Comics from the early 1970s to the mid-80s. Comic fans recognize this period as the Bronze Age.

This time for Marvel Comics involved all of the big superheroes, but it seemed as though their lives got infinitely harder with darker plots than previously seen.

The Bronze Age marks the rise of Wolverine, a new team of X-Men, and first appearances for Punisher and Swamp Thing.

Marvel Bronze Age Trading Cards will feature an 81-card set highlight key comics, characters and events between 1970-1985.

Collectors can find one color sketch card in every box that could be from a variety of artists (see a full list on Rittenhouse’s site). Rittenhouse is included hot boxes in cases where there will be randomly inserted sketch card puzzles.

There are other chase elements in Marvel Bronze Age including a Classic Heroes insert set.

Boxes will have 24 five-card packs and will cost $84 a box. The set comes out Dec. 5.

Check out the gallery of selected sketch cards.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here.

Join Beckett Media’s Bryan Hornbeck and Andrew Tolentino as they rip into a box of 2012 Upper Deck Marvel Super Hero Squad gaming cards in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? Watch and find out …

By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor | Commentary

Image courtesy of Shopcowboys.com

In a recent Dallascowboys.com report, America’s team announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment — one that should add some depth to the 2011 roster.

“We are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to energize our fans, and what better way to combine our brand with some of the all-time great Super Heroes that everyone has grown up with,” noted Cowboys Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Jerry Jones Jr.

In alliance with the Marvel Universe, the Cowboys are currently selling merchandise — namely t-shirts — featuring easily befitting Captain America, and will enlist the powers of other fictional forces in future releases. Iron Man and Spider-Man are obvious picks for the secondary, and the Incredible Hulk should carry the line, but there are still some questions about Romo’s eventual replacement at quarterback.

As for how this news could impact the hobby, assumptions are speculative at best. While Upper Deck has an existing partnership with Stan Lee’s living legacy, it lacks in NFL licensing. Much to many a crossover collector’s chagrin (mine, in particular), no football card manufacturers have announced any related developments.

And they sure haven’t made mention of anything like, oh, I don’t know,  Jason Witten as Wolverine inserts — hint, hint.