The Monthly Venture Issue 1
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Welcome to The OverPower Legion!
As the official publication of The OverPower Legion, The Monthly Venture will take you inside OverPower with helpful tips on playing, information about top OverPower players and their strategies for winning, plus inside information about the people who bring it all together.
Most of all, the Legion is about you -- the OverPower player. AS your forum for OverPower news and updates, we need your input to make it successful and keep it successful. After all, without you, none of this would be possible.
Tell us what we're doing right -- and doing wrong. What you want to see and what you don't want to see. Do you have a favorite deck that you think is unbeatable? Tell us what it is! Do you have a picture of you and your friends playing? Send it to us!
Send letters to: Address removed (Sorry but we won't be able to return anything you send us.)
Next month: The Galactus Hero Card!
Until then -- venture well!
9 Really Fine Facts About OverPower
- The original name of OverPower was Power Players.
- The original game mechanic was designed by brothers Michael and Theo Stern, both active in the gaming field for over nine years.
- The original hero cards had both offensive and defensive Power Grids as well as rating for movement and flight -- allowing them to "climb" onto Universe cards.
- Todd McFarlane (Spawn) did the pencils for the Web-Headed Wizard card. (The pencils were originally used for the cover of Wizard #50.)
- The art used on Mission Cards that were based on actual Marvel storylines (like The Infinity Gauntlet) was scanned into a computer right from the original art from the comic books. Computer coloring was used then to further enhance the images.
- Richard Garfield (creator and designer of Magic: The Gathering) play-tested OverPower at the Origins Convention in Philadelphia in July, 1995. He loved it!
- There were over 60 heroes scheduled to appear in the first release of OverPower. Due to odds of getting your favorite hero being low, the number was trimmed to 39 and most of the heroes later appeared in PowerSurge and soon, Mission Control.
- Two versions of the Wolverine Fighting 6 card exist. One was a promo card distributed at conventions that had Wolverine's name on it. The other, and final version, appears without Wolverine's name. The promo card is now highly collectible!
- There were no icons on the original OverPower cards.
