Joe Jusko's Marvel Masterpieces

The complete Marvel Masterpieces painted trading-card art from the rare 2016 Upper Deck set is collected for the first time, featuring Marvel's most famous heroes and villains, beautifully illustrated by the incomparable Joe Jusko!

Joe Jusko's paintings for the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading card collection are credited with launching the '90s trading card boom. In 2016, Upper Deck returned the Masterpieces series to its roots with an all-new set of Jusko cards.

The full set of paintings is collected here, all 132 from the set, including the hard-to-find premium cards. Each piece of art is presented at actual size and has been scanned by the artist to ensure the highest quality reproduction. Each card is accompanied by its preliminary sketch, as well as commentary from the artist himself. Art fans not only get the full magnitude of Joe's talent, in great detail, but insight into his thought process behind each piece. A must-have not only for Marvel fans, but for fans of fantastic art as well.

And as an incredible bonus, Joe has painted 10 brand-new pieces exclusively for this book!

Joe Jusko is one of the best known fantasy, pin-up and comic artists in the world today. His career has spanned over 40 years, starting with the sale of his first cover for Heavy Metal magazine in 1977 at the age of 17. Since graduating that year from NYC's High School of Art & Design, Joe has worked for almost every major comic publisher, producing hundreds of images for covers and interiors. His work has appeared on paperback book covers, calendars, posters, t-shirts, toy packaging, and countless trading cards, most notably the multi award-winning 1992 Marvel Masterpieces, the popularity of which led to his groundbreaking 1995 Art of Edgar Rice Burroughs trading cards. Those 125 paintings have made him the most prolific Burroughs artist ever.

In addition to his work at Marvel over the years, Joe has produced art for many other companies and characters, including DC Comics, Wildstorm, Top Cow, and Byron Preiss Visuals, to name just a few. He has produced storyboards for ad agencies and advertising campaigns for such clients as the World Wrestling Federation. Joe also produced a fully painted graphic novel based on Lara Croft, the heroine of the Tomb Raider video game series, which won a Certificate of Merit from the Society of Illustrators, into which he was inducted in 2007.