Two weeks ago, I shared my Topps Bunt Top 5 Base Cards of 2025. This week, I am sharing my Top 5 Marvel Collect Base Card of the year. If you remember from my July post of my top base cards from 2025 so far, two of the Marvel Collect base cards I highlighted there will show up here. Don't remember reading that? Check it out here
Throughout the year, I "hoard" my favorite base cards. I quote hoard because I don't go after trades to fill the hoard, but I don't workshop them, so they will always stay at the top of the collection when I look the collection by quantity of cards.
There are 16 cards I found interesting enough not to workshop away and let them move to the top of the base collection. Here are my favorite 5 of those 16 and I will leave a list of the characters portrayed of to fill out the remaining 16.
5. Hawkeye, Series 1, White, Tier 1 - Card Count 107
I like how this shows a superhero in a common location, a theme park. It is a setting to which we can all relate. The fun spirit is what I like about this card.
4. Kate Bishop, Series 1, White, Tier 1 - Card Count 107
Let's stay with Bishop's world and take a look at the card highlighting Kate Bishop. Where, Hawkeye's card is fun and relatable, Kate's card is dramatic and filled with movement. She looks powerful and invincible taking aim with her bow and arrow standing in a field of flying arrows coming right at her. This is a card that will stick with me for quite some time.
3. Spider-Man, Series 1, White, Tier 1 - Card Count 88
You know this character's card will likely show up in a top 5 for me either in base card collections or in "insert" card collections, probably both. There is a reason a character in comics becomes a favorite, and for me it is the look, the power, the personality. For Spider-Man, it is all of those, but the look is why he always shows up on my lists. Here he is, swinging through the New York night sky with webs all around him and Spidey in some contortion of swing. The best...well, almost the best this year!
