1996 Topps X-Files Season 3 is their last seasonal set of trading cards for the show. And little changed from the first two sets.
Once again, the base set is 72 cards of episode recaps, characters, strange artwork and characters. Every card but the checklist also has a foil parallel. These have a small stamp on the front that reads, “The Truth Is Out There.” The truth is, inserted one per pack, there are so many of them that there’s not much value in them.
1996 Topps X-Files Season 3 has three insert sets. A pair of 3-D Holograms give Fox and Mulder a futuristic look. Etched Foil cards return. These mix artwork with the technology and have plenty of pop. Finally, there is a pair of Paranormals Finest chromium-style cards. None of the inserts are terribly hard to pull. Combine that with their small checklists and finishing a master set is affordable, even by busting boxes now.
Although this is the final season set of X-Files trading cards from Topps, they did make more. Among them was a set based on the first film, Fight the Future. This set would be the first to have X-Files autographs.
1996 Topps X-Files Season 3 Checklist
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Cards per pack: 9
Packs per box: 36
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Base Set
72 cards.
1 Title Card
2 Introduction
3 Mulder, Fox William
4 Scully, Dana Katherine
5 Skinner, Walter S.
6 The Cigarette-Smoking Man
7 X
8 The Lone Gunmen
9 The Well-Manicured Man
10 3X01 The Blessing Way
11 3X02 Paper Clip
12 3X03 D.P.O.
13 3X04 Clyde Bruchman’s Final Repose
14 3X05 The List
15 3X06 2Shy
16 3X07 The Walk
17 3X08 Oubliette
18 3X09 Nisei
19 3X10 731
20 3X11 Revelations
21 3X12 War of the Coprophages
22 3X13 Syzygy
23 3X14 Grotesque
24 3X15 Piper Maru
25 3X16 Apocrypha
26 3X17 Pusher
27 3X18 Teso Dos Bichos
28 3X19 Hell Money
29 3X20 Jose Chung’s From Outer Space
30 3X21 Avatar
31 3X22 Quagmire
32 3X23 Wetwired
33 3X24 Talitha Cumi
34 More Secrets of the X-Files
35 The X-Files on Video
36 The X-Files on Video II
37 Lightning Boy
38 Reincarnated for Revenge
39 The Monster Called Madness
40 Genetically Different Human
41 Unwitting Victim
42 Lethal Apparition
43 Emulsified Remains
44 Inhuman Internees
45 Embittered Veteran
46 Demonic Madman’s Fall
47 Victim of Vengeance
48 Insect Perspective
49 Alien Autopsy Subject
50 Extraterrestrial Abduction
51 The Man with the Power
52 Robotic Insect
53 Decapitation Sculptings
54 Bruckman’s Decomposition
55 Alien Ooze Appliance
56 Cockroach Crossing
57 Cyclopean Alien
58 731 Extraterrestrials
59 Liquefied Corpse
60 Grotesque Sculpting
61 Awaken the Sleep of Reason
62 A System of Secret Files
63 Prophecy of Death for Mulder
64 Monsters Begetting Monsters
65 An Apology for the Truth
66 Smart Is Sexy
67 At the Center of a “Cosmic G-Spot”
68 An Exchange of Information
69 The Truths Are Out There
70 Guardian Angel
71 A Miraculous Individual
72 Checklist
Silver Foil Parallel
71 cards, inserted 1 per pack.
Card #72 does not have a Silver parallel.
3-D Holograms
2 cards, 1:18 packs.
X1 Fox Mulder
X2 Agents Scully and Mulder
Etched Foil
6 cards, 1:12 packs.
Uncut sheet included in cases.
i1 One Player Only
i2 Falling
i3 Home of the Brave, Part One: The New World
i4 Home of the Brave, Part Two: A Question of Ownership
i5 Thin Air
i6 Night Lights, Part One
Paranormals Finest
2 cards, 1:18 packs.
X3PF1
X3PF2
Promo Cards
P1 Advance Comics Magazine
P2 Dealers, General Distribution
P3 Non-Sport Update Magazine
P4 Overstreet Fan Magazine
P5 Trade Shows, Binder
