2024 SkyBox Marvel Masterpieces '92 Platinum — Captain Britain #15 — Pink Lasers
2024
A 2024 Pink Lasers treatment from Upper Deck's Marvel Masterpieces '92 Platinum programme, re-presenting Joe Jusko's 1992 Captain Britain portrait. The vivid laser-line field gives the card unusually strong graphic presence, while Upper Deck's stated production range of 992 gives it materially greater scarcity weight than the preceding unnumbered parallels in the TMR Captain Britain run.
Read the catalogue note →- Subject
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
- Character / role
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
- Set
- Marvel Masterpieces '92 Platinum
- Manufacturer
- Upper Deck / SkyBox
- Card code
- 15
- Card type
- Pink Lasers parallel
- Production range
- 992
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance — provisional from protected front/reverse photography; ungraded.
- Completeness
- Single card complete as supplied.
Catalogue note
A 2024 Pink Lasers treatment from Upper Deck's Marvel Masterpieces '92 Platinum programme, re-presenting Joe Jusko's 1992 Captain Britain portrait. The vivid laser-line field gives the card unusually strong graphic presence, while Upper Deck's stated production range of 992 gives it materially greater scarcity weight than the preceding unnumbered parallels in the TMR Captain Britain run.
Scarcity: Standard #15 Pink Lasers treatment; Upper Deck states a production range of 992. The separate 15-V Variant Cover Pink Lasers parallel is a different object with a stated production range of 692.
Historical context: 2024 re-presentation of Joe Jusko's Captain Britain painting from the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces programme; the reverse records Captain Britain #1, October 1976 as the character's first appearance. This is the standard #15 image, not the separate 15-V variant-cover card.
Uncertainties: Ungraded; surface, edge and fine patterned-surface scratching remain provisional through the protective sleeve/holder.
Why this object matters
Pink Lasers adds a forceful linear foil treatment, but its stated 992 production does not establish greater cultural importance than the lenticular construction. Recalibrate to strong importance while preserving the exact production fact.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
2024 re-presentation of Joe Jusko's Captain Britain painting from the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces programme; the reverse records Captain Britain #1, October 1976 as the character's first appearance. This is the standard #15 image, not the separate 15-V variant-cover card.
Preservation rationale
Finite-production Pink Lasers surface treatment records a distinct modern card-manufacturing format while preserving the painted 1992 visual lineage and British-Marvel / Captain Britain context.
Uncertainties
- Ungraded; surface, edge and fine patterned-surface scratching remain provisional through the protective sleeve/holder.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.1 / 10.
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