Card of the Day - 2023-01-11

Panini "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" 129/30
Panini [trade/commercial : O/S : Italy] "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) 129/216

Here we have one of the stickers which tied in with a 1988 cinema film called "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". This was a mixture of animation and live actors, and the story revolved around a cartoon rabbit, married to a femme fatale, who was voiced by Jessica Turner. Somehow Roger gets accused of a murder he did not commit and Bob Hoskins, in human form, not as a cartoon, is the cartoon-hating private detective who helps Roger find the truth

It is way better than it sounds, and actually it was based on a book, called "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?", which was picked up by Disney. There was also a second book, not exactly a sequel, called "Who Plugged Roger Rabbit?"

Panini Roger Rabbit write up

Unfortunately though the film was released in 1988, Topps had rather stolen the market by releasing their set of cards in 1987. Their "wax packs" contained nine cards and a stick of bubble gum, thus making them still authentic trade cards because you were buying the gum and the stickers were coming free. Whereas our stickers were just a packet of stickers, which technically render them into commercial territory.

Nabisco roger rabbit report

Roger Rabbit was also the subject of an issue by Nabisco, and you can read about that online at CerealOffers/RogerRabbit     
They were not cards, but small comics, so some collectors do not think they are truly cartophilic. However they were given away, which technically makes them more cartophilic than our set.  Though as our New Issues Report makes clear, ours scraped in to cartophilia on a technicality, for  "A free album and stickers were given with the `Look In` magazine dated Jan 7th 1989.

And the Nabisco set also appears as a New Issue in the same Cartophilic Notes and News >