Topps - US - ROTJ Stickers and Album (1983)

Distributed in 1983, the Topps Return of the Jedi Sticker album and stickers are very similar to the Panini albums we are all accustomed to seeing. One difference between a typical Panini album, and the Topps ROTJ sticker album, is the number of stickers that show an individual image. Almost all of the Topps stickers are part of a bigger image, with very few being a single image. And while with Panini you occasionally need to put two stickers together to make a scene, in the Topps album, it is not uncommon to need to use four or even six stickers in making a scene. The images however are really great, and the bigger pictures that are created in this way are very impressive.

Stickers came in small packets of five stickers each. The album, sold separately from the stickers, was originally sold at a cost of twenty five cents American. Inside pages had places to put together the stickers that would make larger pictures. Each page was dedicated to a character, or a particular movie theme. Luke, Han, Leia, and Lando each have a page. Jabba has two! Each page was printed in a primary color (red, blue, etc.) with a watermark styled image from the movie visible beneath where the stickers would be placed. In addition to the scenes to be created with regular square stickers, there were six ships that could be put together, using stickers cut out in the shape of parts of the ships.