BOB DYLAN TRADING CARDS

   Very popular among children since the1960's, the trading cards are now quite rare and sought after by collectors. They were manufactured by Panini, the reference in trading cards, but also by various commercial firms which wanted to fidelize their customers with series in various domains (sports, cinema, music...).
   Of course the image of Bob Dylan was often used through the years on these cards.
   Many of the early items presented here come from David Halpen's Trading Cards album. They are noted below as (David Halpen's). Visit his great webpage and enjoy the slide show.

1960's, Spain. (David Halpen's)

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(7) The same image was used in several series, mostly in France: L'Age D'Or des Idoles 1964 (1), Corvisart Epinal 1966 (2), Milliat Frères 1966 (3), L'Amiénoise Biscottes 1966 (4),
Samo Chips Publistar 1966-1967 -small (5) -large (6), and Publistar Postcard 1966-1967 (7). (David Halpen's)

(1) (2) Monty Gum 'Beat Group', 1966. (David Halpen's)

1966 Cartolina. (David Halpen's)

1966-1968 Swedish Popbilder. (David Halpen's)

1967 Personality Poster Card. (David Halpen's)

1969 Heinerle Star Parade. (David Halpen's)

UK, 1970. Lyons Maid Pop Star series, #32 (front and back).

1970 Hitschler gum wrapper. (David Halpen's)

1971 Schlager 'Star Parade' #102. (David Halpen's)

1972 Monty Gum 'Hit Parade'. (David Halpen's)

1972 Panini 'Cantanti'. (David Halpen's)

Israel, 1972, 'World Pop And Film' set, 6.7 x 9.2 cm (2.5 x 3.6 inches).

Italy, 1973, Panini 'VIP' #154

1974 Kras Gum Zvijezde Mikrofona. (David Halpen's)

Holland, 1974 'Dandy serie P' #31. (David Halpen's)

1974 Monty Gum 'Stars'. (David Halpen's)

1974 Panini, 'Picture Pop'. (David Halpen's)

1975 Džuboks 'Pop Parada' #72 (front and back)

1975, Panini 'Pop Stars' #7, 'Pop Stars'

1975, Monty Gum 'Hobby'. (David Halpen's)

1975 Suede/Holland 'Popbilder' gum card, 7 cm x 4,5 cm

France, 1975, Tintin, 'Popcard', 14 cm x 10,5 cm

Spain, 1978, 'Fabulosos', 3/4" x 2 1/2"

Spain 1980, Pop festival #169 (front and back)

Venezuela 1980, Pop festival #169

Spain, 1982. 'Show de Estrellas', 2 1/8" x 3". The back is numbered with text in Spanish.

Spain, 1984 'Super Excito'. (David Halpen's)

1984, 'Super Musical'. (David Halpen's)

1985, Italy, Tutto 'Musica e Spettacolo'. (David Halpen's)

1987, Panini 4-card set 'Bob Dylan and Tom Petty'. (David Halpen's)

1987, Panini 'Smash Hits'. (David Halpen's)

Canada 1990's, from a Board Game.

1990's, from a Hasbros game.

1993, from a set of 8 Pop-cards by Peter Pollmann

Germany 1997; approximately 2 9/16" x 3 15/16". The back features five trivia questions along with a choice of answers, with the correct answers in boldface script.

USA, The Story of America Grolier trading card. Grolier Story of America cards were released in decks of 20 cards from 1994 to 2001. This was a subscription card set, which meant you had to remit payment to the company each month to continue your collection. The cards were never available as a retail set, only as a subscription during their original print run. About 4 cm X 6 cm.

bob dylan 1998 Grammy Awards trading cards grolier USA, The 1998 Grammy Awards Grolier trading card, showing Bob and Jakob Dylan.

front back
USA, given away at the concert in Philadelphia, 13 July 2016 Thank you to Peter Koehler for the scans.

Italy, #17, from the Raro! magazine

#4, Rock Street! series

Made in Holland, no information.

Set of 20 trading cards, each one showing a Bob Dylan concert poster; could also be on the 'Jigsaw Puzzles' page, as the back of the cards, when correctly assembled, shows a Bob Dylan photography.

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