In the early 70?s IPC magazines released 2 sets of cards that most young lads from that era will remember getting in their weekly comic, these are a now a very collectable and nostalgic piece of memorabilia that will only go up in value.

There were 160 cards in each set and they were collected via popular comics of the time.

The first series was released over a period of 4 weeks in 1970 (February 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th) as a set of 160 blue backed small cards that were issued as sets of 32 cards in 5 different comics (Buster, Lion, Scorcher, Smash and Tiger) and they came in sheets of 8 per comic, problem is of course unless you had a good paper/milk round or very understanding parents it was next to impossible to collect them all as you had to buy 5 comics for 4 weeks to collect the whole set.

There was a follow on series from the above set the following year which differed from the originals by having red backs (and different players of course!!)

They were also released via comics which were on this occasion Buster and Jet, Lion and Thunder, Scorcher and Score, Tiger, and Valiant and TV 21. Again there was 8 cards per comic over a period of 4 weeks in 1971 (October 16th, 23rd, 30th and November 6).

The cards were mounted in small albums presented free with the comics and we have been lucky enough to get hold of a few empty ones, as you would expect though they do have some slight wear and tear marks here and there but they are still a useful purchase if youve a few cards you need to stick in !!

Stocks do fluctuate with these so if you don?t see the one you want please mail us as we may have it and have not yet put it on the site or we can simply make a note and drop you a mail when we get them back in stock.