FLEER BRILLIANTS: SUPERMAN
(2025)

The return of the Fleer Brilliants brand after more than two decades was timed alongside the Superman 2025 movie. The base set comprises 90 cards in total, printed on premium 20-point rainbow foil board. Each pack contains three randomly-inserted base cards. There are five Legionnaires featured: Mon-El, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy and Brainiac 5.
   So far so good. Now comes the fun (or not-so-fun) part.
   There is a huge amount of base set parallels (retail variants): NINE for each card, and each only found in unique products. The color variants are tied to specific retail products:
> Blue (B) parallel (found in Wal-Mart Blaster Packs)
> Red (R) parallel (Target Blaster Packs)
> Yellow (Y) parallel (GameStop Blaster Packs)
> Purple (P) parallel (Exclusive to Mega Box Packs)
> Red-heat Vision (RHV) parallel (Mega Box serial numbered to 1938)
> Blue X-ray (BX) Parallel (Mega Box serial numbered to 999)
> Green Kryptonite (GK) parallel (Mega Box serial numbered to 499)
> Golden Flight (GF) parallel (scarce, numbered to 24)
> Purple Explosion (PE) parallel (only one of each in existence!)

And there's more!
   Each Mega Box (70 cards) also includes thematic insert sets with various parallels, such as Classic Covers; Superman Revenge Squad; Illuminators; World of Metropolis ; and Powered by the Sun.
   One of the Classic Covers set depicts ACTION COMICS 583 (which has Legionnaires in the background); while one of the Powered by the Sun cards features Mon-El (different art to the base card), which has a gold parallel to boot!
   Collecting a full set of all these variants just for the Legionnaires is tough enough, let alone all 90 cards and their various versions.
   And the Purple Explosion variants are near-impossible finds because of their scarcity. Some may never even be found, as they lie unearthed in unsold boxes.

Pictured below are the cards and their variants, and will be updated as the missing ones are found:

Mon-El (card 31): L-R, top and bottom rows: Base, B, R, Y, P, RHV, BX, GK

Mon-El (PS-9): Powered by the Sun (normal and gold)

Saturn Girl (card 48): L-R, top and bottom rows: Base, B, R, Y, P, RHV, BX, GK, GF

Lightning Lad (card 49): L-R, top and bottom rows: Base, B, R, Y, P, RHV, BX, GK, GF

Cosmic Boy (card 50): L-R, top and bottom rows: Base, B, R, Y, P, RHV, BX, GK, GF

Brainiac 5 (card 82): L-R, top and bottom rows: Base, B, R, Y, P, RHV, BX, GK, GF, PE

Action Comics 583 (CC8): Classic Covers