1951 Bowman Jets Rockets Spacemen Checklist

1951 Bowman Jets Rockets Spacemen trading cards were released in three sets of 36 for a total of 108 cards. The third series had a smaller print run than Series 1 and Series 2, which was common at the time and makes the set difficult to complete.

The collection was originally intended to be released in five series and tell a through story but the final two series were never released. The artwork for Series 4 was either lost or stolen and Series 5, though nearly complete, made no sense without the 36 missing cards that would have preceded it. The artwork for Series 5 did eventually see the light of day as a limited run in the 1980s after the original artwork was “found” and sold to a collector.

The entire story behind this popular set is incredibly interesting and the missing two series’ have sometimes been cited as the beginning of the end for Bowman who would be bought out by Topps just a few years later.

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