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ACCLAIM | ARMADA COMICSRecently Optioned by Legendary Entertainment for Movie and TV Development!
- First Appearance in Comics: Magic The Gathering
- Sealed Polybag First Printing with Special "Fireball" Promo Playing Card
MAGIC THE GATHERING, or MTG, released in 1993 by Wizards of The Coast, was the first-of-its-kind Customizable Card Game / Table Top Game that also was a collectable trading card game. In its now 31 years, the game is estimated to have well over 50 million active players worldwide, generating over a $1B annually in sales.
Hasbro Toys is the new owner of MTG, having bought and assimilated Wizards of The Coast some years ago, and now they're looking to expand the IP, due in part to the company's recent shift of attention from toys to games. So, the announcement earlier this year that Hasbro has teamed up with LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT, the production studio that is responsible for making Godzilla and King Kong more like household names again, to create a shared MTG Universe across film, TV and gaming.
Very likely, as with Godzilla and King Kong, comics will be a part of the mix, too -- especially as MTG has maintained a comics presence for years, from a myriad of publishers old, new and current. That presence began exactly 25 years ago, when Wizards teamed up with Acclaim Entertainment -- a video game development company that had also bought Valiant Comics in 1994 in order to use Valiant's characters in new games and the comic series as marketing material. Acclaim, through a newly minted imprint they called Armada, would tackle MTG for Wizards, and in 1995, the first issue was released.
MAGIC THE GATHERING: THE SHADOW MAGE #1, the first issue of a four-issue limited series, hit comic book shops in July of 1995, sealed tightly into a thin transparent poly-bag and complete with a special Promo Playing Card -- "FIREBALL" -- that was not elsewhere available. MTG The Shadow Mage #1 is the FIRST APPEARANCE of the MTG IP in the medium of comics, yet it would certainly only be the first of a great many appearances to come.
Increasingly hard-to-find, the time is Now to give your collection exactly what it deserves:
A sealed poly-bag edition of Magic The Gathering: The Shadow Mage #1 (1995) ...and get one step closer to becoming the Planeswalker you were meant to be....MAGIC THE GATHERING: THE SHADOW MAGE#1-A (OF 4)(VOL 1, JUL 1995)
- First Appearance In Comics: Magic The Gathering (MTG - CCG)
- Val Mayerik Regular Art Cover
- Poly-bagged Edition
- Includes Exclusive "Fireball" MTG Promo Playing Card
- First Shadow Mage #2 also includes a special promo playing card, Blue Elemental Blast. Both the Fireball and Blast cards would be reprinted and included the following year with Fourth Edition card decks, differing only in their printed copyright date of 1995 (instead of 1994). Later comics published by Acclaim/Armada would also include promotional playing cards with at least one issue of the given ConditionFIRST COMICS APPEARANCE:MAGIC THE GATHERINGPOLY-BAGGED EDITION * PROMO PLAYING CARDOPTIONED 2/2025 for Movie, TV DevelopmentCCG-Inspired Limited SeriesEarly Modern Age publicationUnreadUnopened /Sealed PolybagUnusedFirst PrintingDirect EditionRegular Art CoverIncreasingly Collectable and HTFDouble-Bagged & BoardedHigh-Grade Sealed Copy
Estimated Grade Range | All Copies:FN/VF (7.0) To VF/NM (9.0)Average Grade: VF (8.0)- Each of the Five (5) copies of MTG The Shadow Mage #1 is sealed inside its original poly-bag, thus making more specific grading estimates inexact and difficult, if not realistically impossible. We can confidently say that available copies very likely fall within the Grade Range given (above), which would be determined almost exclusively by spine stress and or spine creasing that may be present.
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