Batman® playing cards
Characters from Batman: The Animated Series on a pack issued in 1992.
Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated superhero television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it originally aired from 1992 to 1995, with a total of 85 episodes. Thirteen characters from the series are featured in this pack, with each character appearing on the same card in each suit. The names of the characters are listed on one of the extra cards. The cards have large indices together with the appropriate number of pips in the upper right-hand corner of each card (including 11, 12 and 13 for the J, Q and K, respectively). Rules are also included for two special card games.
![Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992 Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992](images/countries/usa/uspcc/batman-1.jpg)
![Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992 Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992](images/countries/usa/uspcc/batman-2.jpg)
![Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992 Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992](images/countries/usa/uspcc/batman-3.jpg)
Above: Batman® playing cards printed and published by USPC Co., Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1992. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 2 extra cards in tuck box. Size: 63 x 88 mm. ™ & © 1992 DC Comics Inc.
The same set of cards exists in a different tuck box made for the International Playing Card Company, Ltd., Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with text on the box in English and French. See the boxes►
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By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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