Trading Card, Gum Inc. Superman No. 44: Museum Object and Cultural History
Trading Card, Gum Inc. Superman No. 44: Date made: 1940. maker: Gum, Inc.. copyright holder: Superman, Inc..
The object in the museum catalogue
One of a set of 72 trading card featuring Superman, included in packages of Gum Inc.'s "Superman Bubble Gum" in 1940. Each "adventure story" card features an image of Superman on the front with a connected story on the back. The cards are one of the earliest examples of merchandise featuring the iconic superhero.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1940
- maker: Gum, Inc.
- copyright holder: Superman, Inc.
- associated institution: Superman of America Club
- maker: Gum, Inc.
- maker: Superman, Inc.
- Object Name: Card, Bubble Gum
- Physical Description: cardboard (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Subject: Superman
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Food Culture
- Subject: Circus
- ID Number: 1987.0213.089
- accession number: 1987.0213
- catalog number: 1987.0213.089
- Credit Line: DC Comics, Incorporated
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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