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Biggles the card game, revisited
May. 19th, 2023 10:26 pmYeah so I bought a copy off Ebay and it arrived today. :D
Worth it.
The cover is actually just one of the cards with Biggles's face, glued to the box. It looked so after-market that I assumed it was done by a previous owner, until I looked up more pictures of the card game online and nope, they're all like that. A printing thing, maybe? The box is single-color printed, so perhaps it was cheaper to do that and then glue a card to the box at the factory (since they were already doing 4-color printing on those) than to do a full-color run of boxes of cards at a time when most packaging wasn't that colorful.
Anyway, so it contains two sets of cards, one with red backs and one blue, for playing the game.
They are honestly very pretty! Each one is a nice full-color painting (a lot of them from book covers or illustrations) and they're printed nicely, especially considering that they're over 60 years old.
Biggles, why is your life like this.
( Images continue under the cut, with full spreads of cards )
Worth it.
The cover is actually just one of the cards with Biggles's face, glued to the box. It looked so after-market that I assumed it was done by a previous owner, until I looked up more pictures of the card game online and nope, they're all like that. A printing thing, maybe? The box is single-color printed, so perhaps it was cheaper to do that and then glue a card to the box at the factory (since they were already doing 4-color printing on those) than to do a full-color run of boxes of cards at a time when most packaging wasn't that colorful.
Anyway, so it contains two sets of cards, one with red backs and one blue, for playing the game.
They are honestly very pretty! Each one is a nice full-color painting (a lot of them from book covers or illustrations) and they're printed nicely, especially considering that they're over 60 years old.
Biggles, why is your life like this.
( Images continue under the cut, with full spreads of cards )