Topps

The Topps Company, Inc.
Topps logo
Founded	1938
Headquarters	One Whitehall Street, New York, New York
Type	Private
Industry	Collectibles, confectionery
Website United States: topps.com

The Topps Company, Inc. is a company that manufactures trading cards, stickers, and other similar items. The company was founded in 1938 and is based in New York City. Although they are most well-known for manufacturing sports cards, they have made eleven Pokémon card sets based on Pokémon: nine sets of trading cards based on Pokémon the Series and two sets of cards featuring scenes from the movies Mewtwo Strikes Back and The Power of One. Topps does not manufacture any cards for use with the official Pokémon Trading Card Game.

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• Pokémon Cards manufactured by Topps
• Pokémon Topps card summary
  • Regular Pokémon Topps card sets
  • Pokémon topps special promotional card sets
• Other Topps products
• Visual summary
• External links
• See also

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Pokémon Cards manufactured by Topps

Set no.	Logo	Name of Expansion	Generation	Main set cards	Release year	Set abb.
1.		Pokémon Trading Cards series 1	Gen. 1	90	August 1999	Series 1
2.		Pokémon the First Movie Trading Cards	Gen. 1	72	November 1999	First movie
3.		Pokémon Trading Cards series 2	Gen. 1	72	June 2000	Series 2
A.		PROMO: Pokémon Chrome Trading Cards Series 1	Gen. 1	78	June 2000	Chrome 1
4.		Pokémon: the Movie 2000 Trading Cards	Gen. 2	72	July 2000	2000 the movie
5.		Pokémon Trading Cards series 3	Gen. 1	72	december 2000	Series 3
B.		PROMO: Pokémon Chrome Trading Cards Series 2	Gen. 1	73	December 2000	Chrome 2
6.		Pokémon Johto Trading Cards series 1	Gen. 2	90	February 2001	Johto 1
5/6EU.		Europe version: Pokémon Johto Series 3	Gen. 2	70	May 2001	Johto 3
7.		Pokémon Johto League Champions Trading Cards	Gen. 2	50	November 2001	League
8.		Pokémon Advanced Trading Cards	Gen. 3	90	May 2003	Advanced
9.		Pokémon Advanced Challenge Trading Cards	Gen. 1, 2 & 3	90	June 2004	Challenge

Pokémon Topps card summary

Regular Pokémon Topps card sets

Set no.	Logo	Regular sets	Nonholo	Silver	Rainbow	Diecut	Sticker	Clear	Pop-up	Hologram	Logo color
1.		Series 1 - 1st print	90	90	90
1.		Series 1 - 2nd print	90	90	90
1.		Series 1 - 3rd print	90	90	90
1.		Series 1 - 4th print	90	90	90
2.		First movie - 1st print	72	72	72	12	18
2.		First movie - 2nd print	72	72	72	12	18
3.		Series 2	72	72	72	12	10	5/10
4.		2000 the movie	72	72	72		10			6
5.		Series 3	72	72	72	12		5/10	10
6.		Johto series 1	90	90		15	62		10	9
5/6EU		Johto series 3	70	70
7.		Johto League	50	50		18	37
8.		Advanced	90	90		18			10
9.		Advanced Challenge	90	90		18			10

Pokémon topps special promotional card sets

Set no.	Logo	Promo sets	Chrome	Spectra	Sparkle	Tekno
A.		Pokémon Topps Chrome 1	78	78	78	78
B.		Pokémon Topps Chrome 2	73	73	73	73

Other Topps products

• Pokémon Chipz
• Pokémon Top 10 Collector Cards (never produced, just marketing idea)
• Pokémon Merlin cards (subsidiary of Topps since 1995)
• Pokémon Candy Container
• Pokémon candy
  • Pokémon Gum-Filled Lollipop With Sticker
  • Pokémon Popzoids

Visual summary

Set no.	Logo	Regular sets	Nonholo	Silver	Rainbow	Diecut	Sticker	Clear	Pop-up	Hologram
1.		Series 1
2.		First movie
3.		Series 2
4.		2000 the movie
5.		Series 3
6.		Johto series 1
7.		Johto League
8.		Advanced
9.		Advanced Challenge

Set no.	Logo	Promo sets	Chrome	Spectra	Sparkle	Tekno
A.		Pokémon Topps Chrome 1
B.		Pokémon Topps Chrome 2

External links

• Official website
• Topps on Wikipedia

See also

Topps Pokémon Trading Cards Pokémon Trading Cards series 1 • series 2 • series 3 Pokémon Johto Trading Cards series 1 • Pokémon Johto Series 3 Pokémon Johto League Champions Trading Cards • Pokémon Advanced Trading Cards • Pokémon Advanced Challenge Trading Cards Pokémon the First Movie Trading Cards • Pokémon the Movie 2000 Trading Cards Pokémon Top 10 Collector Cards • Pokémon Chrome Trading Cards (series 1, series 2)

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