2024 SkyBox Metal Universe Avengers — Lionheart #43 — Base Set
2024
A 2024 SkyBox Metal Universe Avengers base card for Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh), a comparatively little-used British Marvel identity whose history includes a period as Captain Britain. The reverse explicitly links the character to Avengers #82 (2004), giving a low-value modern base card useful documentary weight within TMR's British popular-culture context.
Read the catalogue note →- Subject
- Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh)
- Character / role
- Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh)
- Set
- SkyBox Metal Universe Avengers
- Manufacturer
- Upper Deck / SkyBox
- Card code
- 43
- Card type
- Base Set
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance — provisional from protected front/reverse photography; ungraded.
- Completeness
- Single card complete as supplied.
Catalogue note
A 2024 SkyBox Metal Universe Avengers base card for Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh), a comparatively little-used British Marvel identity whose history includes a period as Captain Britain. The reverse explicitly links the character to Avengers #82 (2004), giving a low-value modern base card useful documentary weight within TMR's British popular-culture context.
Scarcity: Regular Base Set card; Upper Deck's official checklist states four base cards per pack.
Historical context: Kelsey Leigh was introduced in the 2000s Avengers storyline, died protecting Captain America, was restored and empowered as Captain Britain, and later adopted the Lionheart identity. This card's reverse cites Avengers #82, dated May 12, 2004. The physical card carries ©2023 UDC while the product checklist/release is documented in 2024; both dates are retained.
Uncertainties: Exact card-front illustrator/designer credit has not been established. The object carries ©2023 UDC while the checklist/release is documented in 2024. No numeric condition grade assigned.
Why this object matters
The Lionheart base card supplies the reference design against which the archive's parallel treatments can be studied. Its reverse's character-history link supports meaningful value despite an ordinary production status.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
Kelsey Leigh was introduced in the 2000s Avengers storyline, died protecting Captain America, was restored and empowered as Captain Britain, and later adopted the Lionheart identity. This card's reverse cites Avengers #82, dated May 12, 2004. The physical card carries ©2023 UDC while the product checklist/release is documented in 2024; both dates are retained.
Preservation rationale
Documents the recirculation of a relatively obscure British Marvel superhero identity within a 2020s premium trading-card programme. Front and Reverse owner-direct preservation masters plus public record/preview derivatives are independently verified in canonical R2.
Uncertainties
- Exact card-front illustrator/designer credit has not been established. The object carries ©2023 UDC while the checklist/release is documented in 2024. No numeric condition grade assigned.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 7.6 / 10.
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