Superman The Movie: Series Two (Topps)

Superman The Movie: Series Two
Topps
1978

Here's a little follow up to to last week's post based on Superman The Movie from Topps.

With pack after pack of the first Superman trading cards based on the popular Warner Bros. film flying off shelves, Topps naturally put into production a second series. One of the things that confused me about collecting Topps cards back as a kid was how the numbering system picked up where the last series left off. My young mind could never grasp this simple concept.

Superman The Movie, Series II, picked up with card number seventy-eight, and continued all the way through one hundred sixty-five, for a total of eighty-eight cards. Each pack, once again, featured ten cards, one sticker and a stick of gum.

Unlike the prior series, which featured a red and white border, this all new set depicted a red and blue one. Personally, I think I like the original series style more than this all new one.

As was the case, when Topps began running out of images for the set, they began including behind the scenes photos, as well as, the director and production stills. The at the time highly popular Star Wars series from Topps was notorious for this, and it was all in an effort to pad the series.

There were six stickers released in the series, and with one per pack, it was easy to complete multiple sets if buying a full box.

Topps produced ten all-new foil chase cards for the set.

While this would be the last set of cards Topps would release based on the first film, it wouldn't be their last Superman series. Not by a long shot. Topps would be right back at it in 1980 with cards based on Superman II.

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Superman The Movie: Series One (Topps)

Superman The Movie: Series One
Topps
1978

Christopher Reeves will always be the one true Superman to me. Yet it saddens me to admit, I can't sit through the original Warner Bros. movies anymore. They're kind of boring. Classics, but I don't know, they just take too long to get going. Especially the first one.

Still, the imagery of the film excites me, which is what makes Topps' 1978 series so awesome to thumb through. You get all of that Superman goodness in cardboard form, without having to sit through the two hours (plus) film.

Each pack of course starts with that fantastic waxy feel. Within, you'll find ten cards, one sticker and that powdery gum stick, which we ate in fistfuls as kids.

The cards themselves feature a fantastic white and red border with the silver Superman logo emblazoned at the bottom left corner. Interesting though, is that the cards don't follow any form of chronological order of the film. A complete set of base cards includes seventy-seven in total.

Topps always found a way to incorporate stickers into their trading cards throughout the 70's and 80's, and that was no exception for Superman. Six fantastic stickers in total were produced, which featured a whole lot of Superman and Clark. That blue background and red border with the yellow text box pops in your face, screaming SUPERMAN!

I don't know when Topps started producing foil chase cards. However, I know this was definitely one of the firsts for me. I'd never seen a foil card, and it blew my young mind away.

Though it's fun to open these packs, even today, it's not so fun to pay upwards of $100.00 for a box of them. For those of you not wanting to pay top dollar, you can have the work done for you, and nab a perfectly mint set of all the cards, stickers and foils for as little as $25.00. Granted, you don't get the giddy joy of opening packs and seeing what's inside for yourself...or the gum.

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