Trading Cards: Boris Stickers

This set was published in 1996 by FPG (Friedlander Publishing Group.) With the exception of the last five stickers, a figure is extracted from the image and presented with a transparent background, the stickers themselves being transparent. The last five images include the original backdrop. No titles are given for any images, largely because of lack of space. The backs of the stickers are unprinted. The black strip on one edge of each image is the copyright information and image number in the set.

Unlike Hercules I don't have access to a set of the cards. Since this site is primarily concerned with the artwork rather than the cards themselves I show below the complete painting from which the relevant image was taken – you can probably work out which part of the painting was used for the sticker.

For each card there are 500, numbered, autographed ones - that's right, 25,000 autographed cards in total. It is apparent that the cards were supplied to Boris as uncut sheets because the images I've seen show, in the absence of any definite borders, that quite often his signature impinges onto the edge of an ajoining card!

The uncut sheets each have 20 images so that two and a half pages were needed for the full set. The final ten cards were put on the lefthand side of sheet #3, the righthand side being occupied by the final ten images from a Ken Kelly set.