The Fleer Corporation was founded in 1885 by Frank H. Fleer as a confectionary business. At various times they produced baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and racing cards. 1991 saw the first release of Fleer's Ultra set, which in some years was actually released earlier than its regular Fleer (Tradition) set. The 1991 set had an announced production of 15% of regular Fleer and this set was produced on higher quality card stock and used silver ink. Fleer's super premium flagship set, called Flair, began production in 1993 with an announced production run as 15% of Ultra. Its trademark was that it was printed on very thick card stock (about twice the thickness of regular cards), used a unique glossy finish along with six color printing. 1994's Ultra and regular Fleer sets began another tradition of offering an insert card in every pack and the next year started another tradition called "hot packs" (where about 1:72 packs contained only insert cards. An assortment of the easier to find insert cards and not the rare 1:36 100% foil cards). The Mustin family, Frank Fleer descendants, sold Fleer in 1989 for just under US$70 million to Paul Fleer and Charter House Investments. Comic-book empire Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. purchased the company on July 24, 1992 for US$340 million. In early 2005, Fleer announced that it would cease all productions of trading cards and file an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, which is a State Court liquidation, similar to Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In July 2005, Upper Deck acquired the rights to the Fleer name and began producing Fleer-branded cards. (from Wikipedia)
1996-1997
Flair Wave of the Future, card #103
Flair Wave of the Future "Blue Ice #/250
Fleer Metal Universe, card #182
Ultra Rookie
Ultra card #24
Ultra Gold Medallion Edition
2005-2006
Ultra Scoring Kings
Ultra Scoring Kings Jersey Auto #/20
Ultra Scoring Kings Jersey
Scoring Kings patch .. #48/50
Scoring Kings patch/auto .. #01/10
Ultra card #31
Promo
Ultra card #31 Gold
Promo - reverse
Difference Makers
Difference Makers Patch/Auto #/5
Difference Makers Jersey
Difference Makers Jersey/Auto .. #07/10
Difference Makers Patch #/25
Difference Makers Jersey/Auto .. #07/10 back
Fresh Ink
Fresh Ink reverse
Fresh Ink blue parallel .. #23/25
Fresh Ink blue parallel .. #23/25 reverse
The blue parallel for Iginla looks different than those for other players. When searching for images on eBay the other players all have a distinct light blue background. These two Iginla versions look virtually identical.
Hot Prospects base
Hot Prospects "Red Hot" #060/100
Hot Prospects #1/1
Cards: 18 of 20 Completion: 90%
Missing 2005/06 Ultra Ice #/100 Hot Prospects White Hot #14 .. /10