Rockwall, TX
Quoted from n1teowl:No idea where Stern got these. Someone suggested they bought a bunch of unopened packs and used them for the aprons. Anyone know more about these?
The cards originally were produced and sold in 1966. In 1989 the Topps trading card company re-issued the cards. Each of the cards used in the new Batman machines are from those 1989 reissues, but are vintage themselves at 30 years in age. Got a massive sealed lot in an online auction.
In the packs there are some cards that don’t feature any of the characters whatsoever and those were discarded and not used in any of the games aprons.
I was there personally the day that we began opening up the packs and sorting them into different stacks and piles as the legendary Adam West alive and well signed them personally at a table inside of Stern Pinball headquarters. A moment I’ll never forget.
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