The incredible artwork shown here, coupled with information from a few other credible sources, legitimizes a planned gold version of Superman. This version would have coincided with the Man of Steel's 50th anniversary. This piece is a mock up for the Golden Superman card. It features a mixture of artwork, hand coloring, and pasted pieces. The Super Powers Collection logo appears to have been taken directly from a production card and applied onto this piece. The picture of Superman himself is entirely hand colored and hand pasted as is the word ballon. The flight lines, which give a nice action feel to the character, are totally hand drawn. The Golden Edition Logo is an intricate three layer pasted on logo. Finally, the Kenner logo on the bottom right is a black and white piece pasted on with hand drawn lines underneath it. This is truly a breathtaking piece of art.
As for the figure itself, it is unclear if the outfit was to be painted gold or vac-metallized, but either way this commemorative figure would have been striking had it reached production. As the artwork states, the Gold Superman would possess a flight action. I'm not certain if the entire figure would have been resculpted or if portions of the 1st series figure would have been used. One thing is clear, the arms were definitely going to be resculpted in a straight, more flightlike fashion as opposed to the more curved punching stance of the regular figure's arms. Special thanks go out to Peter LeRose for sharing pictures of this incredible unproduced card artwork.
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