Topps has landed the trading card rights to one of the most anticipated films of next summer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In advance of that release, Topps will produce a set of Indiana Jones cards under its Heritage brand that will be available in late February.


The 90-card set will be available exclusively in hobby and specialty markets and will feature scenes from all three original Indiana Jones movies, with card designs paying homage to the Raiders of the Lost Ark cards first published by Topps in 1981.  The retro-designed product will come with bubble gum in every pack. Five-card packs will carry a $2 suggested retail price.

Ira Friedman, Topps VP of publishing, said the company is in the process of finalizing arrangements with cast members of the original movies to provide autographs for the series. Inserts in the product will include 1-of-1 sketch cards and sequentially numbered parallel cards.

“We’re thrilled to be associated once again with this truly extraordinary property,” Friedman said. “Our Heritage treatment for the original movies is a nostalgic and fun way to kickoff our Indiana Jones trading card initiative – the first phase of an ongoing program that will transition to the new movie and beyond.”

Friedman said Topps will release its card set for the newest Indiana Jones film in May, just prior to the movie’s scheduled Memorial Day weekend release.