OverPower is collectible trading card game developed by Fleer/Marvel in 1995. Please follow the link to the OverPower card game for specifics on the game itself. This page is devoted to the list of the major sets/expansions that were produced to provide game cards; which expanded from Marvel characters to include DC and Image characters.
Released late 1995, with 269 cards, being 21 new characters, 163 new specials (6 for each new character, plus 1 for each of the 39 characters from the Overpower original set), 28 power cards (reprints from the previous set), 41 universe cards or the original 42 were reprinted with a purple border - the basic 8F+3 Wolverine was not reprinted in this set) and 2 missions of 7 cards each (14 cards total). There are also two legitimate variants: Longshot Roll with the Punches (1 on second line) and Scarlet Witch Sorceress Slam with the Fighting icon - which would make a complete set 271 cards. Sold in 9-card booster packs. Characters: Banshee, Black Cat, Blob, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, Domino, Ghost Rider, Iceman, Juggernaut, Longshot, Mandarin, Mr. Sinister, Mojo, Mysterio, Namor, Scarlet Spider, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Silver Sable, Strong Guy and Super-Skrull. This card set has a matte finish.
Mission Control
Released early 1996, introduced a new type of card, the events. Composed of 142 cards, being 10 new characters, 68 new specials (6 for each character, plus 8 Any Hero specials), 2 missions of 7 cards each (14 cards total) and 50 events (5 for each mission, including the missions from early sets). Sold in 9-card booster packs. Characters: Black Widow, Brood, Doc Samson, Hawkeye, Morbius, Morph, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Sentinels and Vision.
DC OverPower
Released middle 1996, introduced the Intellect Power type. DC also introduced the allies, a new type of universe card, as well as Hero and Villain codes, a concept which was not used extensively in the game and never adopted by any Marvel OverPower expansion. It was composed of 334 cards, being 30 characters, 150 specials (5 for each character), 36 power cards, 70 universe cards, 4 missions of 7 cards each (28 cards total) and 20 events (5 for each mission). Sold in 62-card random decks and 9-cards booster packs.[1]
DC OverPower was also dubbed Batman/Superman OverPower" since all its characters were from these two heroes' storylines.
There is one variant; the Azrael hero without a date and trademark line. This is the hardest card to find and with the variant makes the set 335 cards.
IQ OverPower
Released late 1996, brought the Intellect Power type to Marvel characters, reprinting all Marvel characters released so far, now with Intellect values. Composed of 279 cards, being 78 characters (8 new and 70 reprints), 172 specials (5 for each new character, 1 or 2 for each character from previous Marvel sets, and 2 Any Character specials), 12 power cards and 17 universe cards. Sold in 15-card booster packs. New characters: Forge, Green Goblin, Henry Pym, Kingpin, Nick Fury, Red Skull, Shadowcat and White Queen.
Released middle 1997, made "team characters" a major game concept (though this was not the first OverPower appearance of "team characters", as they had already appeared in DC OverPower with the release of Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD and Metropolis SCU, and even earlier in Mission Control with the release of the Brood and the Sentinels), character cards that represented a team, while its specials represented the members of that team. Monumental also introduced the location cards, that added new mechanics to the game. 289 cards, being 22 characters (16 new and 6 reprinted promotional characters), 118 specials (6 for each new character, 1 Any Character, and 21 of the previous Marvel characters also got a new special), 30 locations, 36 power cards (reprints with new artwork), 26 universe cards, 20 tactic cards, 2 missions of 7 cards each (14 cards total) and 23 events (6 for each new mission and 1 for each of the previous missions). Sold in 65-card random decks and 15-card booster packs. Some cards, like the missions, were only available in decks. New Characters: The Acolytes, Alpha Flight, The Enforcers, The Hand, The Hellfire Club, Hydra, Inhumans, The Kree, The Marauders, The Morlocks, New Warriors, The Reavers, The Serpent Society, The Shi'ar, The Starjammers and X-Babies.
There were also three variant cards: Shi'ar Lilandra special (with Shi'ar misspelled Sh'iar in the card text), The Hellfire Club Tessa special with a JA code (instead of AA), and The Hellfire Club Sebastian Shaw special without the TM code. These are all common enough and make a complete set 292 including variants.
In addition to the 215 card set there were six promo cards. The six are referred to as the Classic Accidental Inserts. They are all rare to extremely rare. The rarest are the Any Power Teamwork (6A+0+0) picturing Captain America, Spider-man, and Wolverine; and the Tactic Artifact Avenger's ID Card (6I+5A) picturing the Hulk and Wasp. The next rarest are the Basic Universe (6I+3) Xavier Protocols picturing Professor X with several X-Men in the background on computer screens, including Wolverine; and the Any Character Deal with the Devil picturing Emplate and White Queen. The easiest of these rare cards are the Location Krakoa picturing the X-Men; and the Tactic Artifact picturing Nightcrawler/Errol Flynn shape shifting.
Image OverPower
Released middle 1998. Strange as it may seem, the first set released by Marvel Comics introduced characters that, at that time, were published by Image Comics. Composed of 217 cards, being 19 characters, 126 specials (3 Any Character; 6 for each character, Note: Spawn had a promo card (a 7th special) that came in 2 versions (wrong cut - National give-a-way and the Correct cut - Overpower Legion version). and 3 for each Image character of the Marvel vs Wildstorms. OverPower Card Game#Promo Cards promotional set (Future Backlash, Brass, Daemonite Voodoo, and Wynonna Earp, each 3 specials, except Future Backlash with 6), 4 locations, 38 power cards, 13 universe cards, 4 tactic cards, 1 mission of 7 cards and 6 events for that mission. Sold in 60-card random decks and 15-card booster packs. Characters: Backlash, Curse, The Darkness, Fairchild, Grifter, Grunge, Killrazor, Malebolgia, Overtkill, Ripclaw, The Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Spawn, Stryker, Tiffany, Velocity, Violator, Witchblade and Zealot.
X-Men OverPower
Released January, 1999 was the second set produced by Marvel, and the last OverPower set ever released. It introduced the aspects, designed to make locations more useful. X-Men Overpower cards were cut incorrectly, being slightly larger than the other cards, which made decks mixing X-Men sets and other sets very hard to shuffle without sleeves. Also, the font used for character's names was different. It contained 200 cards, being 38 characters (26 new and 12 variant), 126 specials (1 Any Character and 5 for each new character except four, that have no specials; also, 15 previous characters got 1 new special), 5 locations, 23 aspects, 4 universe cards and 4 tactic cards. Sold in 15-card booster packs. New Characters: Bastion, Callisto, Captain Britain, Cerebro, Crux, Deathbird, Donald Pierce, Goblyn Queen, Grey King, Landslide, Maverick, Mercury, Multiple Man, Phoenix, Polaris, Rapture, Sabra, Shadow King, Spider-Girl, Sunfire, Taskmaster, Thunderbird, Typhoid Mary, X-Man, X-Men: Original Team and Xaos
Unreleased series
Two new expansion sets were designed by Marvel Comics to be released in 1999/2000 to update the game, with new versions of the characters alongside new characters as Angel and Wasp: OverPower: The Marvels (that would have only heroes) and OverPower: Absolute Evil (that would have only villains). These sets were never released, but a complete spoiler for The Marvels somehow spread through the internet.
A third DC expansion was being designed by Fleer before handing the rights over to Marvel Comics. The set was to be titled "Universal Forces" and some pieces of artwork to be used in the set circulated the internet. Locations cards based on DC Comics locations were designed, as well as several new characters including Impulse, Black Lightning, Fate, Deathstroke, and The Rogues.
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