Mega Metal trading card collection
Collection
0417-SCPA-MEGAMETAL
This collection contains eighty-eight trading cards from the "Mega Metal" series published in 1991 by Impel. These cards contain images of popular heavy metal bands from the period and include information on the musicians.
The collection is open for research use. Materials from this collection must be used in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room during SCPA’s operating hours. Please contact the curator for an appointment or if you have questions related to digital access of the materials.
Copyright was not transferred to the University of Maryland with the gift of any copyrighted materials. All rights remain with the creators and rights holders. The University of Maryland Libraries is granted permission for the use in scholarly research by the Libraries’ patrons under fair use in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.
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88 Items (88 trading cards)
The Mega Metal trading cards collection contains eighty-eight trading cards published in 1991 by Impel. These cards contain group and solo photos of bands, while the backs of the cards feature quotations and facts about band members. Bands represented in the collection include Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Slaughter, Skid Row, Judas Priest, L.A. Guns, M.O.D., Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Dio, and Nuclear Assault. It also contains two holographic cards with the band logos of, respectively, Bon Jovi and Skid Row.
Printed in 1991 by Impel, the complete Mega Metal trading card set contains 150 cards. Impel is a trading card company that also produced other sets of non-sports trading cards, including a Star Trek set, and one for World Championship Wrestling league (WCW). Impel became SkyNet, which was then purchased by Marvel in 1995. Marvel merged it with a sports trading card company, Fleer, and sold Fleer to Alex and Robert Grass in 1999. Shortly after, in 2005, it went defunct.
This collection is organized into a single series:
Gift of Vin Novara, an archivist, musician, and former curator of Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of Maryland. Acquired on January 10, 2017.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library