Unauthorized Vending Machine Prism Stickers
There are several prism sticker sets listed here that are
considered to be "unauthorized" due to lack of copyright or
trademark information and may not have been authorized to be released by
the comic book company. I don't really know if they are truly rare, or
fairly common, but here they are nonetheless.
- Batman
- Batman, in cape
- Batman & Batgirl w/ Batcycle
- Batman & Batgirl & Gargoyle
- Batman in cape, running
- Batman & Robin in triangle, w/ large checker pattern
- Batman & Robin w/ small checker pattern
- Batman & Joker
- Batman, cape logo
- Batman, swinging on rope
- Batsymbol
- Penguin & Batman
- Marvel prism set I: These stickers (with the exception of
Silver Surfer and Wolverine) are replicas of the 1992 Marvel
Masterpieces cards.
Not much information is known about their print run or distribution. There also appears to be two versions of these stickers where one variant displays the character name text in black border, and the other variant contains unbordered text.
Here's an image of the two variants. The list below identifies which sticker comes in both versions. The remaining stickers are known to exist in the bordered version ONLY, and have been typically available as a complete set. The unbordered variant stickers also appear to be scarcer than the bordered variants. (Thanks Bob K.!)
- Beast (card #7)
- Captain America (card #16)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Colossus (card #14)
- Cyclops (card #13)
- Galactus (card #30)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Gambit (card #29)
- Ghost Rider (card #37)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Hulk (card #32)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Iceman (card #40)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Iron Man (card #38)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Jean Grey (card #46)
- Magneto (card #49)
- Namor (card #57)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Nightcrawler (card #63)
- Psylocke (card #65)
- Punisher (card #73)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Sabretooth
(card #78) (bordered and unbordered variants)
- Silver Surfer (bordered and unbordered variants)
- Spider-Man (card #87)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Storm (card #86)
- Thanos (card #83)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Thing (card #91)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Thor (card #92)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Venom (card #97)
(bordered and unbordered variants)
- Wolverine
- Marvel prism set II: These are copies of the 1990 Marvel
Universe Series I cards.
- Archangel (card #21)
- Black Panther (card #20)
- Captain America (motorcycle) (card
#31)
- Captain America (card #1)
- Cyclops (card #8)
- Daredevil (card #4)
- Green Hulk (card #3)
- Grey Hulk (card #17)
- Human Torch
(card #33)
- Iceman (card #22)
- Phoenix (card #11)
- Storm (card #24)
- Submariner (card #16)
- Thing (card #6)
- Wolverine (card #10)
- Marvel prism set III: These are replicas of the 1993 Marvel
Masterpieces cards. Some of the stickers exist as cut-out or die-cut
images, noted below.
- Archangel (card #16)
- Beast (card #17)
- Bishop (card #57)
- Cable (card #18)
- Captain America (card #15)
- Carnage (card #19)
- Colossus
(card #38)
- Cyber (die-cut) (card
#53)
- Cyclops (card #7)
- Darkhawk (card #59)
- Doom 2099 (card #43)
- Gambit (card #31)
- Ghost Rider (card #13)
- Havok (card #84)
- Hawkeye (card #70)
- Hulk (card #1)
- Iron Man (die-cut) (card
#4)
- Jean Grey (card #75)
- Magneto (card #39)
- Punisher (card #26)
- Rogue (card #27)
- Sabretooth (card #28)
- Shatterstar (card #76)
- Silver Surfer (card #11)
- Spider-Man 2099 (card #41)
- Storm (die-cut) (card
#10)
- Thanos (card #35)
- Thor (die-cut) (card #3)
- Wolverine (die-cut) (card
#6)
- Venom (card #45)
- Marvel Prism set IV: These stickers appear to be replicas of
the 1992 Marvel Universe Series III set. They have a prism finish and
are die-cut.
- Beast (card #6)
- Havok
- Rogue
(card #64)
- Storm (card #30)
- X-Men
- Marvel Prism set V: These stickers are replicas of the 1993
Marvel Universe Series IV cards and contain prism finishes similar to
the other sets previously listed.
- Bishop (card #117)
- Gambit (card #114)
- Magneto
(card #113)
- Psylocke (card #44)
- Wolverine
(card #116)
- Marvel Super Heroes: These stickers are not prism, but do
have a metallic/silver reflective surface.
- Bishop
- Cable
- Gambet (misspelled on sticker)
- Shatterstar
- Silver Surfer & Wolverine
- Spider-Man
- Storm
- Marvel Super Heroes II: These prism stickers measure roughly
2 5/8" x 3 1/4" and contain an image of the character with the
character name along the left side of the sticker. Here's an
image of two of the stickers.
- Captain America
- Doctor Doom
- Doctor Octopus
- Iron Man
- Magneto
- Wolverine
- Marvel Super Heroes III: Only three known stickers in what
appears to be a set similar to that above. These stickers measure 2 3/4"
x 3 3/8" and contain images of Marvel characters on a prism finish
background with a silver prism border. An image of three stickers are
shown here.
- Captain America
- Dr. Doom
- Spider-Man
- Super Heroes: These are cut-out image stickers.
- SuperHero Stars: These have a metallic/silver surface. There
are 12 in the set and come numbered with the number bordered by a star.
- 1 Magnus Robot Fighter
- 2 Diehard
- 3 Spawn
- 4 Warlock
- 5 The Pitt
- 6 Cyber
- 7 Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
- 8 Shaft
- 9 Solar, Man of the Atom
- 10 Shadow Hawk
- 11 Venom, Carnage & Spidey
- 12 Shatterstar
- X-Men: These prism stickers are unauthorized copies of the
1992 X-Men Series I cards. There are two variants to the Excalibur and
X-Men stickers in that non-prism (silver- reflective surface) versions
of these stickers also exist.
- Beast (card #1)
- Bishop (card #38)
- Colossus (card #25)
- Cyclops (card #17)
- Excalibur
(card #75)
- Imperial Guard (card #87)
- Jean Grey (card #24)
- Jubilee (card #29)
- Sabretooth (card #52)
- Storm (card #14)
- Wolverine (card #2)
- X-Men (card #71)
- X-Men (cut-out): These are cut-out stickers from what appear
to be copies of images from regular card sets (the Wolverine sticker
contains the same artwork as the Wolverine card from the 1992 Marvel
Masterpieces set). Each sticker has an orange X-Men logo on the front.
- Angel
- Polaris
- Professor X
- Storm
- Sunspot
- Wolverine
- Miscellaneous: These are miscellaneous stickers that I've
come across and may or may not be part of a set. Some contain the
character name and some do not.
- Colossus
- Ghost Rider
- Gray Hulk
- Green vs. Gray Hulk
- Iron Man
- Punisher (w/
text)
- Punisher (w/o text)
- Spider-Man
- Wolverine (reprints
one of the comic covers to the Wolverine comic mini-series)
- Wolverine (stalking)
- Wolverine (arms raised)
