Among all the previous reviewed bubble gum cards, trading cards and sticker sets their were many similar items manufactured all around the world. This chapter will make you acquainted with some oddities that were manufactured during the sixties, seventies, eighties etc...
“OK Bubblegum” a candy company located somewhere in Germany manufactured during the sixties a series of black and white stills that came from the first James Bond movies. Also pictures of behind the screen are among the wrappers. The stills were printed on wax paper, wrapped around a long small piece of sticky bubblegum and inserted in an outside wrapper as shown here below. On the 14th of February 2010, three "OK" stills were sold on eBay for the staggering price of 76 EURO. Happy Valentine.

"OK Bubblegum Outside Wrapper"

"OK Bubblegum From Russia With Love"

Reverse of a "OK Bubblegum Card"

"Dr. No"	"Dr. No"	"Dr. No"
"From Russia With Love"	"Goldfinger"	"Goldfinger"
"Goldfinger"	"Goldfinger"	"Thunderball"
"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"
"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"
"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"	"Thunderball"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"

"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"
"You Only Live Twice"	"You Only Live Twice"

On the 2nd of october in 2022, 4 of the above images were sold on eBay for a staggering price of 136 EURO.

Italy knew many card manufactures, such as "Elah", "Movicolor", “Top Sellers Ltd.” and “Panini”. In 1975 ”Top Sellers” produced a magnificent sticker set known as the “SUPERSTARS”. The stickers depicted full colour stills of the then known world famous stars, the set was accompanied with a special designed collectors album where you could stick your precious stickers inside. Shown here below is the front and reverse of sticker number 21 depicting a full colour still of Sean Connery as James Bond in a scene of “Diamonds Are Forever”, and a picture of Roger Moore during a pauze while filming "Live And Let Die". The reverse of the collectable sticker had a short biography on the actor shown on the front.

"SUPERSTARS Roger Moore in Live And Let Die"
"SUPERSTARS Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever"

Worldwide there was and still is a variety of pictures, cards, stickers, etc… they all came in many different sizes and formats. In many cases there was even a collectors album available to protect and store your pictures. A very world famous chocolate bar producer is “Jacques”, the factory is located in Eupen, Belgium. Each chocolate bar was accompanied by a small picture with themes like geography, history, air planes, boats, singers, pop groups, actors and actresses. Here below some small pictures originated in Sweden, you can recognize Sean Connery in a “From Russia With Love” scene and Roger Moore in scene from “Ivanhoe”. Also a sixties TV-card produced in Spain depicting a still of Sean Connery as James Bond in "Thunderball". An eighties TV-card showing Sean Connery in "Never Say Never Again" and a Cinema Classics collector card. The last one originates in Spain and shows a picture of Roger Moore in "Moonraker".

"From Russia With Love"	"Ivanhoe"	"Thunderball"
"Sean Connery" sixties TV Card from Spain		"Cinema Classics"
"Never Say Never Again"	"Moonraker" Spain 1979

The cards shown here below are manufactured in Spain, dated 1978. Each card measures approximately 2" x 3". They are printed on heavy card stock. The reverse features the name and number of the card, as well as the name of the celebrity pictured and a brief paragraph in Spanish. It seems there was also a Spanish card set for "The Spy Who Loved me".

"The Spy Who Loved Me" two cards from Spain

Costa Rica, a beautiful country scattered with exotic landscapes issued a great looking "Moonraker" trading card set. Some of the cards fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. The two cards printed here below are the only ones that I have ever seen.

"Trading Cards issued in Costa Rica"

The cards shown here below are printed in Argentina, the card on the left and in the center display pictures from the James Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only". The card on the right shows Roger Moore in a scene from "Live And Let Die". Has anyone seen a complete set of these cards, if you do then please help me with some pictures of the other cards.

"Trading Cards issued in Argentina"

In 1983 and to coincide with the release of the 13th James Bond movie “Octopussy” the UK based “Shredded Wheat”, a well known breakfast cereal released eight large stickers each featuring special designed artwork of “Octopussy”.You could also send in for a numbered "Code Card" and an Octopussy Badge. The stickers came in 3 different cereal boxes: 12, 18 and 27 count boxes with various backs, Circus, Train or Jungle.

"Shredded Wheat Octopussy Stickers & Package "

"Code Card & Badge"

As a tie-in with the 1987’s James Bond movie “The Living Daylights”, the UK based candy bar and sweets manufacturer “TRIO” issued three different pages with action stickers. The page containing the action stickers could be found inside a pack of six biscuits. Each page was holding four little stickers. Today this unique sticker set is quiet difficult to find and it scares the living daylights out of your pocket. The sticker size is 6,5 cm by 14,2 cm.

"TRIO Stickers & Wrapper"

During 1998 the American based diecast toy manufacturer ”Johnny Lightning” issued a set of ten never seen before James Bond related diecast cars in a scale of 1/64. Each little car was accompanied with a trading card designed by the well known trading card manufacturer “Inkworks”. For each car they designed five different trading cards. Today these cards are very hard to obtain for the simple reason that if you tried to access the card or the car, you had to destroy it’s packaging. There are not many collectors around that like to destroy the precious packaging of a James Bond related toy. A few months later, the UK based toy maker “Corgi” issued exactly the same diecast cars in their Corgi Junior range together with exactly the same trading cards that were issued by “Johnny Lightning”. The difference to the cards was only the date and the companies name “Johnny Lightning” or “Corgi”. Because of the brand name, the die-hard collectors had to collect two times fifty cards. This first set of “Cars & Cards” were related to the following James Bond movies; “Dr. No”, “Goldfinger”, “Thunderball”, “You Only Live Twice”, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, “Diamonds Are Forever”, “The Spy Who Loved Me”, “For Your Eyes Only”, The Living Daylights” and “GoldenEye”. The cards were numbered from 1 to 50 and the reverse was issued with a small checklist.

Dr. No

Goldfinger

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Diamonds Are Forever

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only

The Living Daylights

GoldenEye

During the year 2000, Johnny Lightning issued another six cars & cards. Again there were five cards for each car, the card numbering followed the previous car & cards now starting from 51 thru 80. One error slipped into the card set related to “A View To A Kill”, card 68 shows Roger Moore in a “For Your Eyes Only” scene where he is climbing one of the Meteora rocks in Greece. After that they released another six car set accompanied with the original film poster, and to coincide with the 40th Anniversary, Johnny Lightning issued again twenty cards and cars, one car for each movie from “Dr. No” thru “Die Another Day”. Each card depicted the original film poster, lucky for the collectors they didn’t issue each car with all the different posters from around the world. Also some gift sets containing two or more cars complete with diorama were manufactured, but all of these came without the cards. There’s also a race car with a printed advertising for “Goldfinger”, the car came with a black card depicting a golden 007 Gunlogo.

Dr. No

Goldfinger

Thunderball

A View To A Kill

GoldenEye

The World Is Not Enough

In the late nineties the USA branch of Warner Home Video issued a set of poster artwork cards, one given away with each DVD there has been a number of similar offers with videos/ DVD’s in many countries, some as web or high street shop exclusives, the cards on the whole feature poster artwork and cast information on the reverse, some though have featured reproduction stills as seen in cinema lobbies.

Another oddity came from Eastern Europe. “Hentyh”, a well-known candy and chewing gum manufacturer based in the Ukraine issued two James Bond collector boxes. No cards this time but a set of small stickers. Inside the box you could find approximately 100 pieces of stuffy gum surrounded with a small sticker. At first I only knew about seven different stickers, but more than a decade later, an American collector, Robert Lukaszyk discovered thirteen onther stickers. It looks like Vodka isn’t enough for 007.

"Hentyh Sticker Set"

The pictures displayed on the stickers were taken from several James Bond movies. Just something to have is the beautiful designed counter display box depicting artwork from the following movies: “Never Say Never Again”, “The Man With The Golden Gun”, ”Licence To Kill”, “From Russia With Love” and “The World is Not Enough”. This collectors box was difficult to obtain in the usual retail shops, lucky for the collectors that they were sold for very economic prices on eBay. All by all this sticker set and it’s counter display box is a very nice addition to any James Bond memorabilia collection.

"Hentyh Counter Display Box"

To continue their previous release of a box filled with gum and stickers depicting stills from several James Bond movies, the Ukraine based company “Hentyh” issues in 2006 a new sticker and gum box, this time to tie-in with the latest and official EON version of “Casino Royale”, the first James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig as secret agent 007. Again the box contains 100 pieces of stuffy gum surrounded with a small sticker. Again the counter display box is a real piece of art displaying all the major actors from “Casino Royale”. A nice addition to your James Bond memorabilia collection.

"Hentyh Casino Royale Counter Display Box"

Here below you can see seven different wrappers. The wrapper was foulded around a piece of chewing gum together with the stickers. So all the stickers came out foulded. You can clearly see the sticker coming out in one of the unopened packs.

"Hentyh Different Wrappers"

"Hentyh Unopened Wrappers"

"Thanks to Robert Lukaszyk for the above pictures"

Not known to everybody are the so called bootlegs, these are trading cards created and produced by an individual. An internet shop by the name of "nikolaitradingcards" produces trading cards on request. Here below are some samples from that particular web shop.

"Part of a Goldfinger cardset"

"Part of a Casino Royale cardset"

In December 2013 Topps celebrated there 75th Anniversary with a new card set. Since 1938, Topps has existed, first as a chewing gum company. Then, in 1947 Bazooka arrived and then in 1949 so did its cardboard. This one will take a look back at more than 100 classic card sets from the past with some new inclusions, too. Each 24-pack box will include three autographs and one stamped buyback card for about $100 when it arrives on 11 December 2013. The autographs will be from more than 20 iconic people from past Topps sets. The autographs will have Rainbow and Diamond versions limited to 75 and 10 copies a piece, while the buybacks will be stamped with a Topps 75 logo. There also will be a selection of cut autos in the product as well as autographed buyback cards. The standard set will consist of 100 cards each with three parallels (Rainbow foil, a Diamond version limited to 75 copies and “modern gloss”) and 1/1 printing plates. In addition there will be eight mini cards and eight test issue cards among the offerings. Among the signers are Roger Moore (James Bond), Richard Kiel (Moonraker), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Corey Feldman (The Goonies), Lou Ferrigno (Incredible Hulk), Ed Gale (Howard The Duck) and Joyce DeWitt (Three’s Company) to name a few.

Each box holds 24 packs with 8 cards. There are 3 autographs, 1 Stamped Buyback and 24 Parallels per box for a total of 192 cards.

"Autograph Card"	Richard Kiel "Diamond Sparkle"	"Rainbow Foil"
"Card Reverse"	Roger Moore "Diamond Sparkle"	"Reverse Rainbow Foil"

"Base Card"	"Base Card Reverse"
"Rainbow Parallel Card"	"Rainbow Parallel Card Reverse"

The above cards are very hard to find, I only have the Jaws Rainbow Parallel Card. The autograph cards demand high prices.

A few years after, they celebrated again with the 2018 Topps 80th Anniversary Wrapper Art set. A base set of 114 cards and checklist. A nice look into Topps history. The 1979 James Bond Moonraker Wrapper is a part of the base set.

"Base Card"	"Base Card Reverse"

Here below some trading cards from Australia, the manufacturer doesn't create whole sets for James Bond, Roger Moore can be found, but mostly George Lazenby is present. Pop Century is the manufacturer.

"Roger Moore"	"George Lazenby"	"George Lazenby"

In the sixties people also collected matchboxes, even today these are still collected."Vlinder", a Dutch matchbox company issued a series with filmstars. Here below Roger Moore and Sean Connery.

In 2015 Panini from the USA released a card set were you could find a double relic card of Roger Moore. See pictures here below.

"Roger Moore Double Relic Card by Panini"

Some other oddities is a Sean Connery card and a Ursula Andress card as seen in the movie "Dr. No" issued by a Canadian firm Hamilton Candy Company.

"Sean Connery"	"Reverse"	"Ursula Andress"	"Reverse"

There are many other odd items out there perhaps as single cards or stickers produced in very limited quantities or given away at cinemas and in high street stores during a films release. On the whole these are used to advertise tie in products, most of these items are very rare and now nearly impossible to find, but thanks to places like eBay, one lives in the hope of a rare item popping up. Here below a picture of Sean Connery as James Bond in "Goldfinger" on a very rare card with an embedded Lincoln one Cent coin.

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