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Milestone: The Dakota Universe was put out in 1993 by SkyBox, and the 100 card set slid right into the groove of other line-wide comic book trading cards, from the DC Cosmic entries to the superb early Marvel sets to less-heralded niches like the Ultraverse product. The Dakota cards, like their kin, mainly focused on individual characters from their fictional shared geography (Dakota was the fictional Metropolis/Gotham equivalent), characters like the Iron Man-ish Armor seen on the box top above. Their design isn’t the most attractive, with muddled borders on the front and standard explanatory text on the back, but there are a few aspects that make them stand out. The first 18 cards, for instance, are somewhat unique in that they form two different murals depicting origin tales. The first of these, centered on the Superman proxy named (fittingly enough) Icon, combines a crashed ship with slavery and the Civil War: