NEW!!! 1985 Japanese Wrestling Card Set Discovered Shogakukan Inc Magazine Supplement
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Sorry fellas for not adding to my adventures with Dpeck at the wrestling convention last weekend as I was off work for that travel for three days navigating back to California and then I was a bit distracted by a pretty exciting piece of mail last night. This set consists of 53 cards and were inserted as a supplement to a 6th grade elementary school magazine in September of 1985. The manufacturer is Shogakukan. I needed some assistance from someone who could read Japanese for the set information but for the wrestlers I used google translate to get the names. I'm super excited to be holding cards of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Andre the Giant and rookie cards of Hawk and Animal of the Road Warriors and rookies of King Kong Bundy, Dynamite Kid (although there is a paper cut out from 1982), and Davey Boy Smith. The cards measure 2 7/16 by 1 3/16 and have perforations from being removed from the sheet. There is an ad card that is a pull away too.
1985 Ace of Spades Tiger Mask (Misawa)
1985 King of Spades Dynamite Kid
1985 Queen of Spades Davey Boy Smith
1985 Jack of Spades Yoshiaki Fujiwara
1985 10 of Spades El Canek
1985 9 of Spades Akira Maeda
1985 8 of Spades Kuniaki Kobayashi
1985 7 of Spades Hiro Saito
1985 6 of Spades Dick Slater
1985 5 of Spades Jumbo Tsuruta
1985 4 of Spades Dick Murdoch
1985 3 of Spades Ric Flair
1985 2 of Spades Animal Warrior
1985 Ace of Clubs Antonio Inoki
1985 King of Clubs Riki Choshu
1985 Queen of Clubs Hulk Hogan
1985 Jack of Clubs The Cobra
1985 10 of Clubs Terry Gordy
1985 9 of Clubs Tiger Jeet Singh
1985 8 of Clubs Ashura Hara
1985 7 of Clubs Strong Machine
1985 6 of Clubs Super Tiger
1985 5 of Clubs Adrian Adonis
1985 4 of Clubs Rusher Kimura
1985 3 of Clubs Hawk Warrior
1985 2 of Clubs Stan Hansen
1985 Ace of Hearts Lionness Asuka
1985 King of Hearts Giant Baba
1985 Queen of Hearts Nick Bockwinkel
1985 Jack of Hearts Masked Superstar
1985 10 of Hearts Terry Funk
1985 9 of Hearts Genichiro Tenryu
1985 8 of Hearts Andre the Giant
1985 7 of Hearts Masa Saito
1985 6 of Hearts Seiji Sakaguchi
1985 5 of Hearts Itzuki Yamazaki
1985 4 of Hearts Jaguar Yokota
1985 3 of Hearts Noriyo Tateno
1985 2 of Hearts Chigusa Nagayo
1985 Ace of Diamonds Bruiser Brody
1985 King of Diamonds Ted DiBiase
1985 Queen of Diamonds Kengo Kimura
1985 Jack of Diamonds Nobuhiko Takada
1985 10 of Diamonds King Kong Bundy
1985 9 of Diamonds Yoshiaki Yatsu
1985 8 of Diamonds The Great Kabuki
1985 7 of Diamonds Bob Backlund
1985 6 of Diamonds Tatsumi Fujinami
1985 5 of Diamonds Animal Hamaguchi
1985 4 of Diamonds Killer Khan
1985 3 of Diamonds Jimmy Snuka
1985 2 of Diamonds Takashi Ishikawa
1985 Joker Dump Matsumoto
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
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Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Great stuff. I love seeing new discoveries
Work your magic Rob and get PSA to grade these!
There is no reason why these shouldn't be slabbed. It's obvious we have a complete set and we know who and when these are made. With the rise in wrestling memorabilia, there is no reason for these not to be slabbed. Thanks for the heads up on this listing.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Those are really nice - the way they break off reminds of the 51T Red Backs.
Photography's not bad either.
You've got King Kong Bundy in the set - well all right!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Handsome man
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I shipped the Hogan, Flair and Andre to PSA earlier this week so hopefully we will see them in slabs in a few months. I'll keep everyone posted on my progress on these cards. This is the only time that I have ever seen these offered and we get a lot of stuff coming out of Japan the last few years. I hope to see more of these coming out of Japan.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Good luck, I hope they grade them!
Good luck. Looking forward to seeing them slabbed
The entire sheet is pictured above so that should help the process in getting them in slabs I would think. We know the maker, the year and the month they were released. It's all there!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Definitely. A pretty cool set indeed.
Need to have a checklist somewhere on line and send that link to customer service to give them the heads up. Then if they agree... fw that email to customer service with the order number that the cards are in. Nothing worse than waiting 6 months and get an N9
I got the Andre, Hogan and Flair graded!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Verdict is in
45319805 1985 SHOGAKUKAN WRESTLING PLAYING CARDS HULK HOGAN QUEEN OF SPADES 3 (first graded)
45319806 1985 SHOGAKUKAN WRESTLING PLAYING CARDS RIC FLAIR 3 OF SPADES 6 (first graded)
45319807 1985 SHOGAKUKAN WRESTLING PLAYING CARDS ANDRE THE GIANT 8 OF HEARTS 7 (first graded)
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Congrats on getting them graded. Look forward to seeing them in the new slabs.
There are a handful from the set that I will send in....rookies of Animal, Hawk, King Kong Bundy, etc
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
First slabbed Nature Boy for this issue! Wooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable