Saturday, 16 February 2013

Burger King Empire Strikes Back Cards and Stickers.

In 1980 Burger King ran some Star Wars promotions for the release of The Empire Strikes Back.  One of these was the Everybody Wins scratch card game in which the top prize was an Atari Video Computer system. The most common prize was a strip of trading cards with scenes from Star Wars and ESB. There were 36 cards in all.

18 from The Empire Strikes Back:


And 18 from Star Wars:



Another promo was The Super Scene Collection Stamps, which consisted of a free fold out chart to stick the 48 collectable stamps on.






For more on Burger King Star Wars promotions try these sites:

The Star Wars Collectors Archive
Jawa Trader UK

Sunday, 10 February 2013

X-Men vans by Corgi.

These were released in 1992-93 as a "limited edition" of 5100 and came in a box featuring the cover art from issue 16 of the X-Men by Jack Kirby.

 



The two vans are a Morris J van and a Bedford CA van.




The Morris J features art from issue 3, the X-Men versus The Blob.



The Bedford CA has art from issue 8, the X-Men versus Unus the Untouchable.



Saturday, 9 February 2013

D.C. Super Heroes Monthly

This U.K. anthology series published in the early 80's reprinting american D.C. material featured some unique painted cover art.

Vol 1 Issue 1 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 1 Issue 4 by David Jackson.


Vol 1 Issue 5 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 1 Issue 6 by Bryan Talbot.


Vol 1 Issue 7 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 1 Issue 8 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 1 Issue 9 by Bob Wakelin.


Vol 1 Issue 10 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 1 Issue 11 by Bryan Talbot.


Vol 2 Issue 2 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 2 Issue 3 by Bryan Talbot.


Vol 2 Issue 4 by Bryan Talbot.


Vol 2 Issue 6 by Alan Craddock.


Vol 2 Issue 7 by Alan Craddock.


Saturday, 2 February 2013