Alien (1979) - Sticker #1

 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #84

Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas... all dead. Only officer Ripley survives, along with Jones, the cat, now purring in her lap. Ripley's going home.

And it will be a very long trip, Ripley.... 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #83

With a sudden burst of fury Ripley kicks the locker room door open and hurls the steel shaft straight through the Alien's midriff! Then, she blows open the rear hatch, sending the writhing, screaming beast into the blackness of space...!

While the card text differs a great deal from the events portrayed in the film, I do like the action hero beat of having Ripley kick open a door and stab the Alien, as if she were Van Helsing dispatching Dracula from this mortal realm.

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #82

 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #81

With Ripley trapped in the storage compartment the Alien turns its murderous fury on the sleep chamber containing Jones. Ripley, meantime, grasps a long metal rod and peels off the rubber tip... 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #80

 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #79

 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #78

The Alien - awesome, nightmarish has been hiding in the Narcissus shuttlecraft all along! Instantly, Ripley whirls into the spacesuit storage container as the relentless Creature peers through the locker window...! 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #77

With Jones locked in her cat box, Ripley races to the escape craft Narcissus and locks the door behind her. Can she, the last member of the Nostromo team, escape the cruel fate of her companions? 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #76

"The problem between you and the Alien," Ash concludes, "will produce a simple and elegant solution. Only one of you will survive." Lambert and Parker are the next victims. Only  Ripley remains... 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #75

Being a day that ends in Y, here is another card with a dynamic image that I believe is narratively out of sequence with the card that follows it. There might be a slim chance I am wrong about the continuity this time around, but I think not.

Only nine or so cards left in this set to scan and post.

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #74

Another Chris Foss production design illustration. 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #73

Wonder if the set painter that was captured and immortalized in this behind the scenes candid shot ever found out about it. I'm sure there would be plenty of weirdo fans that would have loved to have had him autograph this card. There is no way I could be alone in thinking that would be a fun thing to have.

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #72

 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #71

Swiftly the disembodied head of Ash is wired for sound. It speaks: "My orders were to investigate an alien life form, almost certainly hostile, and bring it back for observation..."

I am guessing that using a shot of Ash's decapitated head sitting atop the table was taken off the... uh.... proverbial table. So it goes. 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #70

Parker and Lambert rush to Ripley's aid as Ash continues his mad attack. Suddenly, Ash's head is ripped from his body, revealing wires and circuits where tissue should be. "My God" gasps Lambert. "He's... an android!"

"It's a robot! Ash is a goddamn robot!" Is what Parker says, after knocking Ash's block off (literally, not figuratively) with a fire extinguisher. It took some close listening, but I could also suss out a muffled line of dialogue, "It's an android!" Spoken, once again, by Parker, just after Ash's head is knocked off. Lambert doesn't say anything.

I know, I know. If I keep picking at these nits they are going to get infected. So be it.

Here is some more compulsive nitpicking, just to be joyously pedantic, the image in this card occurs just before the image used on card 69.

Pointing out and correcting these trivial matters is how an aging man has fun these days, I guess. LOL.

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #69

Science Officer Ash... a traitor? Ripley suspects he has been sabotaging their attacks on the Alien for some undisclosed reason. Ash finally confirms this belief by turning his murderous rage against Ripley! 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #68

As I stated with the previous card, these images are out of sequence. The above image is from just before the image of the fight between Ripley and Ash used on card 67. The same same will apply for the two cards that follow this one... 

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #67

Again, the image being used is out of sequence with the events of the film's narrative. So it goes.

Alien (1979) - Trading Card #66

Captain Dallas, convinced that the Alien is using Nostormo's air shafts to move around in, crawls into one of the vents in an attempt to drive the Monster out. Dallas' disappearance chills the blood of his crew-mates... 

Another out of sequence image used for this plot summary. This looks to be from when the Nostromo is either landing on, or taking off of, the inhospitable planetoid upon which the alien craft had crash-landed.