Bootleg - Greece - Empire Strikes Back Cards (1980)

This page is still in progress. I have been relying on two friends, David Polis, who provided me with scans of his personal collection (which has become the basis of this partial checklist), and Chris Burton, who is promising to fill in all the information I am lacking once I've done my best with this page. :o)

This card set was issued in Greece at the time of the release of The Empire Strikes Back. An unlicensed set, it is both unique in many ways, and difficult to complete.

Because it was issued in Greece, all of the text on the cards is in the Greek language using the Greek alphabet. This makes the cards fun to look at, but difficult to translate for your average American card enthusiast. The cards include primarily images from The Empire Strikes Back. Many of the images are repeated more than once. A small number of cards include images from Star Wars, and a small number include images from Star Trek!

The set includes a total of 200 cards. This alone would make the set difficult to complete, but to add to the complexity for the completionist collector, the cards also come in two variations, large and small text. It is possible to complete two sets of 200 cards, one set with small text descriptions, one with large text descriptions.

Because the text descriptions are in Greek, I have made up my own descriptions based on David's scans.