Alien Trading Cards
The Alien trading card set from 1979 is made up of 84 cards and 22 stickers. It was released by Topps.Card fronts feature a large still from the movie surrounded by red and yellow borders. Card backs have either a blue background surrounding a black alien 'egg' which contains a caption explaining the scene shown on the front, or a puzzle piece. There are 44 story-back cards and 36 puzzle-piece cards.
Stickers from this set show a die-cut photo of each character, outlined in yellow against a mottled green background.
The 1979 Ridley Scott film is considered as much horror as science fiction; despite its dark tone, a handful of products were marketed to kids, including this card series and an 18" Kenner action figure of the alien monster.
Prices for this card set generally include stickers.