Iron Man movie cards by Rittenhouse Archives

[Incarnadine]

From the Rittenhouse newsletter:

Every Iron Man Movie card box includes 2 Autograph, Sketch, and/or Costume cards. Autograph cards include Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Stan Lee, and more! Costume cards include those with clothing worn by Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts), Jeff Bridges (Obadiah Stane), and Terrence Howard (Col. Rhodes). Sketch cards will include movie sketches as well as comic book sketches from actual Iron Man comic book artists (Brian Denham, Emir Ribeiro, Harvey Tolibao, Cat Staggs, and others). Bonus cards include Iron Man Archives cards - a historical look at Iron Man in comics from Tales of Suspect #39 to present. A case topper card signed by Iron Man co-creator Larry Leiber is inserted one per case. Customers pre-ordering 2 cases (24 boxes) receive an Iron Man armor prop card, and customers pre-ordering 4 cases (48 boxes) receive a hand-drawn sketch card by Iron Man artist Bob Layton.

[Incarnadine]

Rittenhouse has updated their site with new info:

On April 30th, Rittenhouse Archives will release its Iron Man Movie Trading Cards, the perfect companion to what will be one of the hotest and high-tech movies of 2008! Each box of this set will feature 2 Super-Collectable Cards Per Box! including Autograph cards, Sketch Cards and/or Costume Cards.
Signers so far for this set include:

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark Iron Man Autograph Cards
Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes
Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane
Faran Tahir as Raza
Jon Favreau the Director of Iron Man

More to be announced in the coming weeks!

Iron Man Movie Trading Cards - Rittenhouse Archives

[hockeyron]

I'm not that familiar with the character so I don't know the collector base but it looks like a nice release ...
Would love to see a Gwyneth Paltrow auto though ...

ron

[Tim]

I just got two cases today; it looks like Rittenhouse is expecting a sellout by week's end and they are pretty sure they are going to get Paltrow to sign as well.

[Incarnadine]

Originally Posted by Tim

I just got two cases today; it looks like Rittenhouse is expecting a sellout by week's end and they are pretty sure they are going to get Paltrow to sign as well.

Damn, now I have to scrape up enough $$$ for at least a half case. If only it weren't so close to the Women of Marvel release.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Incarnadine

Damn, now I have to scrape up enough $$$ for at least a half case. If only it weren't so close to the Women of Marvel release.

I admit I don't know Rittenhouse very well yet, but if they are anything like all the other companies, one will be delayed and it won't matter!

[Incarnadine]

Originally Posted by Tim

I admit I don't know Rittenhouse very well yet, but if they are anything like all the other companies, one will be delayed and it won't matter!

Actually, I don't think it will be delayed. Most sets based on yet to be released movies are required to be released by a certain date, it's part of the licence agreement since the card release is supposed to be part of the promotion for the movie. I remember all the big promises TOPPS was making for King Kong but the set turned out to be junk because they hadn't secured the big signers and had to release the set before the movie opened. So I doubt the Iron Man card release will be pushed back unless the movie itself gets pushed back.

[Tim]

Thanks for the info.

As for this product, to me it has two potential things going for it: the great content, and the possibility that it is going to be a big hit. If both of those things happen, this will be a home run!