Popbilder Period After Number IV

Set facts

Cards

157

Numbering

#801–956

Printing

Color

About the set

• Issued in 1978. Numbers 801–956, 157 cards in all, because No 956 exists twice.
• Almost all pop singers and groups, plus a few sports cards: Frank Andersson (885, 944, 952) and Ingemar Stenmark (892, 947).
• Sold in wrappers printed "8 BYTESBILDER", "POP" and "VÄRLDSBERÖMDA FAVORITER", in orange, purple, blue and green.

How to recognise

• A period follows the number, as in "806. Agnetha o Annifrid".
• The cards carry the line "© Universaltryck Grafiska AB".

Numbers to know

• No 956 comes in two versions: Magnus Uggla with his own name, and the same picture named "Sex Pistols". The "Sex Pistols" misprint is by far the hardest card in the set.
• No 925 is a separate, correct Sex Pistols card and is common.
• The first ABBA run (801–816) and most of 837–869 are among the commonest cards. The Kiss cards (827–835, 929–932) are among the harder ones.
• Some names are spelled oddly in the set's list, for example "Jetro Thull" (865), "Manfred Man" (873), "Thin Lizy" (906, 918) and "Iggi Pop" (921). Whether the cards carry the same spellings is unclear.

Double number

• #956 Magnus Uggla / Sex Pistols (e.g. Magnus Uggla)

Related sets

• 1975 Popbilder Period After Number III: sold in wrappers with the same wording.
• 1979 Popbilder Period After Number I: its cards carry the same "© Universaltryck Grafiska AB" line.