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R69 Horrors of War 1938 Gum Non-Sports Trading Cards


Probably the most Famous Gum Card set ever issued. This card set was issued by Gum Inc. starting in 1938. The illustrations are colorful, detailed and gruesome. conceived as a 240 card set about The Chinese-Japanese War, The Ethiopian War and The Spanish Civil War. The set proved so popular that an additional 48 cards were added about Germany and the beginning of World War II. The addition of these 48 cards to the set did not prove as successful as Gum Inc. anticipated and hence the last 24 cards and in particular the last 12 cards have proved very elusive to collectors (Burdick designation R69)

Complete subset - the First 48 cards (Stock number 006R69-A) $1000.00

The first forty-eight cards differ from the others in the set by their back design. The card number is in small type.

Cards 1 - 8

Marco Bridge is Scene of First Fighting. Chinese "Big Sword" Corps Resists Jap Forces. U.S. Marine Shot While Aiding Americans. War Plains Over Tientsin. Chinese Pursuers Shoot Down Jap Planes. Suicide Squad of Japs is Blasted at Woonsung. Blowing Down the Ancient Walls of Paoshan. Tokio Tank Fires on British Troops and Refugees.

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Click to view back of cards 1-8

Cards 9 - 16

U.S.S. Panay is Attacked by the Japanese. Twenty Naked Chinese Nationalists Charge Foe. Japanese Flagship Assailed in Whangpoo. Chinese Bombs Rain Death on Shanghai/ Trapping the Japanese at Nankow Pass. Bomb Hills Passengers on Shanghai Trolley. U.S.S. Augusta is Hit by Shell as Shanghai Burns. Japanese Attack Train at Wusih.

Click to view front of cards 9-16

Click to view back of cards 9-16

Cards 17-24

Girl Scout Carries Flag to Doomed Men. Japanese Bomb Orphanage at Kashing. Murder at A Monarchist's Funeral. Spanish Insurgents Bomb Government Territory. The Siege of Toledo. Big Shells Kill Madrid Children at Play. Early Campaign Tactics of Italy for Ethiopia. Italian Squadrons Flying Low Slaughter Ethiopians.

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Click to view back of cards 17-24

Cards 25-32

Chinese Fight Japs Inside Their Own Lines. Shells Splinter Deck of Tender with U.S. Refugees. Mobs Add Terror to Shanghai Shambles. Shanghai Shoppers Blown Up by Bombs. Tokio Airman Attacks British Envoy. Street Fighting Tactics in Shanghai. Japanese Bombers Raid South Station.. Shelling the "Lost Battalion" at Close Range

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Click to view back of cards 25-32

Cards 33-40

Japanese Slain in Ambush Near Peiping. Tokio Bombers Invade the Dead. Anti-aircraft Guns Blaze as Japs Bomb Power Plant. Sanitarium Evacuates Its Patients Under Fire. Japanese Seize Vessel and Destroy U.S. Flag. Scaling the Gates of Nanking. Foes Plains Trail The Chiangs. Panay Machine Gunners Fight Back

Click to view front of cards 33-40

Click to view back of cards 33-40

Cards 41-48

Chinese Victims of War. Mob Burns a Madrid Cathedral. A Loyalist Submarine Goes to a Watery Grave. The Bombardment of Almeria. Surrender of Rebels at Teruel. Haile Selassie Mans a Machine Gun. Fierce Wallega Tribesmen Attack Italian Aces. Bombing an American School Building.

Click to view front of cards 41-48

Click to view back of cards 41-48


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