2024 Upper Deck : DC Super Heroes and Super Villains
DC Super Heroes and Super Villains trading cards are forthcoming from
Upper Deck Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products.
The partnership was officially announced on June 13, 2024. The inaugural DC
Comics collection is scheduled to arrive in hobby stores and
the e-Pack website in winter 2024. Planned releases include Fleer Ultra Superman,
DC Annual, DC Masterpieces, DC Unbound, and
SkyBox Metal Universe Batman.
Superman is featured on a limited preview card that was sold exclusively on
the Upper Deck e-Pack website from June 13–20, 2024. Each e-Pack contained one
preview card with short print foil color variations distributed in Red (1:25)
and Blue (1:50). The preview card artwork reprints the cover of
Action Comics #1000 (June 2018). The image was penciled by Jim Lee,
inked Scott Williams, and colored by Alex Sinclair.
The back of the Upper Deck DC Preview card features Superman
illustrations by Fred Ray, Jim Lee, Neal Adams, and Curt Swan.
Fleer/SkyBox previously distributed DC Comics and Superman trading cards from
1991–1997. The Fleer and SkyBox brands were acquired by The Upper Deck Company
in 2005. Upper Deck licensed Marvel Comics characters from 2013–2024 before
the trading card rights were acquired by Fanatics, Inc.