Card of the Day - 2024-05-03

O Pee Chee Star Wars 1st
O-Pee-Chee [trade : gum : O/S : Canada] "Star Wars" (1977) 3/264

This is exactly the same set as we featured on Wednesday, but its Canadian Cousin, and it also hearks back to the card we showed of E.T. on Sunday because the cards, and the wrappers, in today`s set, were bi-lingual, French and English. 

This was slightly differently sorted out than our set, though the first was still  distributed as a first series, numbered 1 to 66, with white starred blue borders, and eleven stickers. They also repeated the curious titling of using "See-Threepio" rather than C-3P0 and "Artoo-Detoo" not R2-D2. 

Now the O-Pee-Chee second series, whilst still having the red borders like the UK version, and eleven stickers, the numbering here continued, from 67 to 132 - ours, on the other hand, had been numbered 1.A to 66.A. 

Then there was a third Canadian series, with orange borders, numbered 133 to 264, and twenty two stickers. This seems to combine our sets three and four, which ran from 133 to 198 and 199 to 264. But I have not checked them yet. Cards 265 to 330, which formed our fifth set, seem not to have been issued in the O-Pee-Chee version 

The only other original first film Star Wars set by O-Pee-Chee was for the third film, The Return of the Jedi, in 1983. These again had red borders, and were numbered from 1 to 132.