1979 Topps Moonraker finally gives James Bond the color trading card treatment. While a couple of other sets featuring the world’s most famous big screen spy came out long before this one, those opted for black and white. And while they’re not complex or even hard to find, there are inserts this time around to compliment the main set.
1979 Topps Moonraker Checklist Details
The base set consists of a solid 99 cards. It’s your standard Topps movie set from the era with the story getting a recap and the main characters getting some individual spotlights. Fronts are hard to miss thanks to their blue and yellow palette. A blue outer border gives way to a thin yellow inner frame. The bottom of this frame arches up to present the movie title on top and leave space for the caption below. There’s not much of a thematic approach here except maybe the blood spatter icon that houses the card number.
Backs are a mix of story recaps and puzzle pieces. For the text-driven ones, the art is attractive. To the side there’s an illustrated Roger Moore decked out in a tuxedo with a spacesuit over top. Along the top is a spaceship illustration and the film’s title. This still leaves plenty of room for the write-up.
Stickers make an appearance in 1979 Topps Moonraker. A total of 22 make up the set with one landing in every pack. They’re plain with white borders. Images have the standard thick solid color outline that was normal for Topps at the time.
Even though it’s one of the earliest sets of James Bond trading cards, 1979 Topps Moonraker doesn’t carry big values today. The biggest reason is likely that there’s a lot of it out there still in all forms including boxes, packs and sets.
1979 Topps Moonraker Checklist
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Set size: 99 cards
Cards per pack: 11
Packs per box: 36
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Base Set Checklist
99 cards.
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1 Agent 007
2 Relaxation, Bond-Style!
3 Trapped by Deadly Spies!
4 A Tight Spot for Bond!
5 Thrown from the Plane!
6 Plummeting to Earth!
7 Rescued by Parachute!
8 Jaws Vows Revenge!
9 Reporting to “M”
10 Miss Moneypenny
11 Q’s Newest Weapons
12 Hugo Drax
13 Fantastic Estate of Drax
14 A Collection of Perfection!
15 The Adversaries Meet
16 Holly…Friend or Foe?
17 Deadly Device
18 The Secret Plans
19 Murder in the Canal!
20 Killed by a Living Corpse!
21 Fantastic Chase!
22 Evil Assassin Chang
23 Kill Bond!
24 Hired to Kill!
25 The Clock Tower Struggle!
26 The Savage One
27 In Death’s Grip!
28 Chang Falls to His Doom!
29 Scientist Lair
30 The Deadly Fumes!
31 Vials of Destruction!
32 The Lab…Deserted!
33 The Spies Compare Notes!
34 The Man Called “Jaws”
35 Teeth of Steel!
36 Snapping the Cable!
37 Cable Car Peril!
38 Duo for Danger!
39 Holly Captured by Drax!
40 Bond Undercover!
41 Conferring With “M”
42 Testing New Weapons!
43 Director of “Q” Branch
44 The Menacing Monk!
45 Jaws in Hot Pursuit!
46 A Daring Escape!
47 Bond Glides to Safety!
48 Mysterious Hideout!
49 Beckoned by Beauty!
50 Beautiful But Deadly!
51 The Doom Bridge
52 Icy Waters Below!
53 Bone Crunching Anaconda!
54 Fished Out by Jaws!
55 Less-than-Tender Clutches!
56 Escorted by Jaws
57 Don’t Be Foolish, Mr. Bond
58 Inside the Great Pyramid
59 Drax’s “New People”
60 Launch All Moonrakers
61 Bond and Holly on the Run!
62 Commanding Moonraker 6!
63 The Ships Blast Off!
64 Speeding Toward Space!
65 Drax Aboard Moonraker 5
66 Journey Across the Heavens
67 The Incredible Space Station!
68 Docking of the Moonrakers
69 The Drax Empire
70 Peering Through the Telescope
71 Mind-boggling Complex!
72 A World in Space!
73 Bond and Holly Arrive
74 Inside the Space Station
75 The People of Tomorrow
76 The Command Chair
77 Spotted by Jaws!
78 Apprehended!
79 The Master Speaks
80 Crazed Genius!
81 Flowers of Death!
82 Hello, Dolly!
83 The Oddest Couple!
84 End of the World!
85 The Craft’s Rotation – Stopped!
86 Flying Helplessly Through Space!
87 Bond Swings Into Action!
88 Arrival of the Earth Forces!
89 Drax’s Dream…Up in Smoke!
90 Powerful Karate Chop!
91 Holly Blasts the Enemy!
92 Victorious Astro-Fighters!
93 Jaws Saves the Day!
94 Desperate Mission!
95 The Weightless Peril!
96 Destroying the Deadly Globes!
97 Lasers Find Their Mark!
98 The Moonraker in Flight
99 Death of a Mad Dream!
Stickers Checklist
22 cards.
1 per pack.
1 James Bond
2 James Bond
3 Corinne Dufour
4 James Bond
5 James Bond
6 James Bond
7 Jaws
8 James Bond
9 Assassin Chang
10 Jaws
11 Hugo Drax
12 Jaws / James Bond
13 Corinne Dufour / James Bond
14 James Bond
15 No Gravity
16 Hugo Drax
17 Holly Goodhead / James Bond
18 Space Station
19 James Bond
20 Space Station
21 Hugo Drax
22 James Bond / Jaws
