SkyBox International
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SkyBox International Inc. was an American trading card manufacturing company based in Durham, North Carolina. It was a subsidiary of Brooke Group, and originally formed as Impel Marketing in 1989. In 1990, the company was renamed SkyBox International. For the next five years, they produced trading cards for the National Football League and National Basketball Association. Skybox also produced many licensed Non-Sports trading card sets including sets produced under a master license for DC Comics (including Superman, Batman, DC Villains, Sandman and Vertigo amongst others) and more notably the Star Trek franchise. During the 1990's Skybox produced at least one trading card set per month.
In 1995, Skybox was acquired by Fleer, and in 2005, Fleer was acquired by Upper Deck.