2020 Upper Deck Marvel Ages Trading Cards Checklist

I think the insert sets are underrated. Love the Fresnel, World Cloud and Flavorful inserts and they have the right SSP’s of the biggest stars. The price is right on these boxes, but like everything else Marvel, will keep appreciating over time.

This is an awesome set of cards for this year. They a lil from all eras of marvel pretty diverse set of cards per pack and the specials are awesome

I’m a passionate collector of late 80s/early 90s Marvel comics and cards and this set has sparked me what to expand in both directions of that era!

I have pros and cons, so I’ll get the cons out of the way first.

For me, I like to collect my cards in the classic 9 pocket pages as most kids did growing up in the 90s. I feel like I’m being trolled on some of these sets. Gamerverse and every decade set is going to make me use a whole ‘nother page for 1 card? Everyone knows placing the odd ball/even card on the backside of another card is major cringe. (and you NEVER put 2 cards in 1 pocket :P) Word Cloud is the same way! 55 cards! Really? These guys couldn’t have made it a 54 card set for an even 6 pages? The highly respectful homage to Steve Ditko set is 10 cards as well! Oh, and did you guys at Upper Deck really have to edit the blood off of the Todd McFarlane #316 Venom hands with the Decades 1980s card?! C’mon now! Trolls I tell ya! Disrespect. I can’t speak for Todd, but that’s messed up. I could also add that the sheer amount of cards and subsets is overwhelming. That could be a con, but in perspective, this allows for years of card trading amongst my fellow Marvel fans as well and that is what its all about!

With the complaints out of the way, the Pro’s outweigh the cons. The Standard and Autograph Clippings, Coinage, Metal Relics, Fresnel, and Sketch cards…wow, just wow. I’m sure the comics used for the Clippings weren’t museum grade, but I would also venture to say that to some comic collectors, it’s a bit sacrilegious. Nonetheless, acquiring a couple of these clipping cards has ignited a flame in me to obtain the actual comic at some point down the road and that’s exciting. Metal Relics has a Spider Man Torment #1, and anytime I can collect something that has Todd McFarlane’s art you can count me in :) They also have super rare relics with real GOLD, people!! Fresnel? What is Fresnel?? I never knew the history of a fresnel lighthouse lens until I saw the Fresnel subset and did a little research :P Fun. Not only are they beautifully designed, but very creative. I don’t own a sketch card yet, but I really look forward to the possibility (comic book artists are super heroes to me). The base/clay cards are a nice throwback to classic sports cards, which I’ve never seen done in a non-sports series anywhere so big props for that! I’m having fun picking out my nicely centered cards for the binder.

Regardless of my opinions, you cannot dispute the amount of hard work the people at Upper Deck have done in putting this set together. I haven’t been interested in Marvel cards since 1994 and I typed all this because Trey and Cardboard Connection compiled a superb article. I’m on my 5th box of Ages and I won’t stop! Cheers

To me, this set is lackluster and uninspired. I grew up in the 90s with the great Marvel Universe sets. The base cards have a large border with very little action. It’s just meh to me. The common inserts, Totally Toys and Gamerverse, are way too common. I would they insert less of those in a box and 1 or 2 more of the rare inserts.

There also seems to be an issue with the checklists I’ve seen online. Word Cloud 38 is Magneto and not the Mandarin (source: I pulled one from a pack).