Here’s the back of the second card, focused on Danny DeVito’s Penguin, with a special Burton cameo: An aside: the oval border around the card number gave me clammy-skin flashbacks to interminable standardized tests - I can’t be alone in that. The card backs featured another pic with a bit of text on the production and plot goings on.
The knox and kane railroad story 1991 full#
Full bleed fronts, foil stamping and Kodak photography were the name of the game, as card #1, of the stern Michael Keaton Batman, will attest: And the design of the cards followed the same understated pattern. “See, we don’t even need bright colors and pictures and all that jazz to put asses in the seats.” That sort of thing. It was the ultimate in cool, catch-me-if-you-can showmanship. As you can see from the box top above, Topps wasn’t relying on flashy packaging to catch buyers’ eyes. The packaging and card design carried over the simplicity of the sports offerings. It was a psychic Up Yours to what had once had once vexed me so greatly, what had once pushed me away from two hobbies at once.Īnd now for the post-mortem on Batman Returns: The Senses-Shattering Stadium Club Edition. (Glut exhibit 14Z, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.) And I tore that box open, and made myself MULTIPLE sets. So a couple of months ago, I had my revenge, like Daniel Day-Lewis smashing Paul Dano’s head with a bowling ball in There Will Be Blood. I bought a box of the vile temptresses on eBay, both chagrined and amused that what was once as out of reach as Fort Knox gold new sells in single dollar digits. I couldn’t rationalize spending too much on them, and only managed to scrounge together a few packs before the summer of 1992 was over and everything to do with the Tim Burton Batman vanished from convenience store shelves forever. And the Stadium Club cards, despite being way out of my league, were still - like the hot girl who wouldn’t touch you with a ten foot cattle prod - all the more desirable because of their unattainability. Why? Because I loved comic books and I loved cards, and putting the two together made any product irresistible. Which was overkill in the extremis, and a nightmare for the velcro wallet of my youth. (Remember, it was this proprietary interest in Trading Card Batman that kept the Caped Crusader from appearing in the first company-wide set of DC cards from Impel.) And, not only did they put out a run of the mill regular set, they also decided to issue an extra 100 card Stadium Club parallel series.
The knox and kane railroad story 1991 license#
Yes, Topps had the license to produce cards for Batman Returns, the much-anticipated sequel to the runaway train that was 1989’s Jack Nicholson-infused Batman. And soon - as in next year - Topps had spread this beautiful virus (totally gorgeous, totally out of a juvenile’s financial reach) to all four major American sports: Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey. The brand was an early brick on the road to post-boom hell, and left kids like me, long the bicycle spokes backbone of the market, out in the cold. I recall seeing packs of this beautiful merchandise and marvelling at the (sometimes) $4.00 per pack (!!!) price point, all the while cursing my own poverty - there just weren’t enough lawns to gin up sufficient cash to make Stadium Club affordable. It made its debut in 1991 with baseball cards, issuing a premium, glossy set with no borders, excellent photography and an incredibly high price point. A major part of the sports card arms race referenced here two weeks ago was Topps’ Stadium Club brand.
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