u/Combative-Nerds

Context: I’m an old collector of Planet Studios pins. Planet Studios had the Marvel license to produce lapel, pens, and jewelry for Marvel from 1987-1996 (and later other comics). Most older collectors recognize these pins from comic bookstore spinner displays on their counters in the 90’s. Planet Studios had a marvel catalog of almost 400 pins. There were a number of pins that were meant for production, but never came to be. One character that never received a pin was the invisible woman, even though the catalog contained a number of pins for the other members of the fantastic four.

A few years ago, fans made After Planet Studios and started creating fantasy pins to finish off or add to the original catalogue. One proposed project is an invisible woman pin, but the condition would be is that pin would have to fit the vintage cloisonné style of pin (1 to 1.5 inch) so it could match the other pins of the catalogue. It seems like pain collectors prefer modern pins just because you can do a lot more with images nowadays.

So here is the question: would people in the fantastic four community be interested in an invisible woman lapel pin, even though it would be made in a vintage style?

Second question: if you would be interested, what price point? (These fantasies pins are now running around $15. From my understanding the project would like to bring these prices down, but because of poor sales, the prices essentially includes a donation/premium to try to keep the project going)

I’m attaching a number of images so you can see the style of the vintage fantastic four pens and the recent additions made by After Planet Studios.

We are seeking any input, whether it is positive or negative, and of course if you would be interested. Because if this community wouldn’t support this pin, then I don’t think it would be wise to create this pin.

Thank you! And I hope this post doesn’t break any rules or upset the moderators.

Greetings a few weeks ago I made a post regarding a Speedball Lapel pin made by After Planet Studios and posted some pics.

Here is some context: Planet Studios was a pin making company for Marvel during 1987-1996, that featured cloisonné lapel pins from 1 to 2 inches in size. We would call them now vintage pins, and they look pretty crude and much smaller to the pins currently being made.

After Planet Studios is a fan project where they are trying to complete the catalog of missing pins from the original Planet Studios project.

With that being said one of the missing pins that were never made was from Cloak of Cloak and Dagger. So here are the questions I have for this community?

1. do you guys consider Cloak as being part of the New Warriors?
2. is there any interest for a lapel pin made

of

1. Cloak? (from my research it seems like no pins were ever made for Cloak… from a pin making perspective I can see why. He

appears

1. difficult to capture)
2. Lastly, what would be your price point?

Historically, After Planet Studios is charging $15 per pin. From my understanding, they would like to lower their prices, but poor sales is making them struggle to fund each project. So in a nutshell, each buyer is kind of making a partial fan support donation with a purchase.

Thanks for your input and I hope this post is acceptable to the moderators.