1983 Topps : Superman III Picture Cards

Superman III, starring Christopher Reeve and Richard Pryor, was released in the United States on June 17, 1983. Topps Chewing Gum issued a set of trading cards and stickers featuring scenes from the sequel. The Superman III series is comprised of 99 base cards and 22 stickers. Boxes contain 36 wax packs. Each wax pack contains 10 cards, a sticker, and a stick of bubble gum.

The base cards contain a yellow frame with black borders. The Superman emblem used by the films was designed by Bob Peak. The film title modifies Ira Schnapp's original telescoping logo. The more rounded Superman logo would not appear until Superman vol. 1, #386 (August 1983). The Superman III sticker borders are striped red and white around a blue frame.

Promotional images from Superman III appear in a series of stickers released by Ziploc. In the UK, Nabisco released a series of Superman III Action Replay Game cards. Parker Brothers produced a card game and a boardgame that feature scenes from Superman III illustrated by Neal Adams.

The 1984 release of Supergirl was the last card series that Topps produced for the Salkind Superman universe. There were no licensed cards issued for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace or the Superboy television series. The last Superman trading card series from Topps was the 2006 release of Superman Returns.

Uncut factory sheets of Superman III cards and stickers were released to the public. Various cards from the 1983 set have been stamped in gold foil by Topps and reissued as buyback inserts in the 2011 American Pie series. Memorabilia cards containing a piece of cape worn by Christopher Reeve were randomly inserted into boxes of MLB A Piece of History in 2008.