The Merchandise Guide
Cards
Compiled by Martin Willey

• Set 1, 2016
• Set 2, 2018
• Set 3, 2019
• Set 4, 2021

• Introduction
• Base card set
• Foil cards
• Autograph cards
• Sketch cards
• Autograph Sketch cards
• Promo cards

Unstoppable Sketch Cards - Series 1

Art by Adam Cleveland

These are sketch cards released by Unstoppable in June 2016. There are zero or one card per box, with 1999 boxes (probably about half of boxes have sketch cards). Each card is a unique piece of artwork, not a print.

Unstoppable claimed "over 40 artists" produced cards, but 34 named artists are known. Artists Graham Bleathman and Ted Woods each drew 50 cards for the set. Bruce Gerlach did 30, Jason Westlake did 29, Louise Draper did 25, Paul Cowan, Marcia Dye, Jay and Scott Fellowes each did 20, J D Seeber did 12, Nick Neocleous and Jeff Abar did 10 (see below). It seems most artists made 20 or 30 cards, and a few artists made 50. The artists also had a limited number of "Artist Proof" blank cards to draw on for personal appearances, conventions and personal ebay sales.

In total there are probably around 1200 cards. About 1000 of those cards were put into boxes, with the rest held back for dealer incentives.

Some of the sketch card artists may only be available in a multi-case order, as a special add-on packet (like 11 of the autograph cards). The limited artists seem to be Bleathman, Fry, Seeber and Abar. The Jeff Abar cards were not issued until December 2016 and August 2017, as part of special dealer incentives (see details).

The back text reads "Congratulations. You have found a very limited edition genuine hand drawn one-of-a-kind Space:1999 sketch card created by ..." All the cards are labelled either "SK1" (portrait) or "SK2" (landscape), although artists don't necessarily follow the guidelines.

Most of the pictures are based on publicity photos, usually actor portraits. The cards are small (2.5 x 3.5 inches / 6.5cm x 9cm), although there are some double-sized "box-topper" cards, and some with a single drawing across two or even four cards. The styles include dramatic art, dynamic action, cartoon caricature and amateur doodles.

Two of the best artists are Andy Fry (actor portraits) and Graham Bleathman (spaceships). Both these artists seem to be limited to multi-case orders.

There are 34 named artists:

Jeff Abar More
Graham Bleathman More
Steven Burch More
Adam Cleveland More
Christopher Chamberlain More
Paul Cowan More
David Day More
Louise Draper More
Marcia Dye More
Danielle Ellison More
Scott Fellowes More
Andy Fry More
Bruce Gerlach More
Chris Henderson More
Laura Inglis More
J(AY) More
Elfie Lebouleux More
Kevin Meinert More
Joe Miller More
Solly Mohamed More
Rich Molinelli More
"Nik" (Nick Neocleous) More
Matthew Parmenter More
Enid-Elvin Ramos More
Rupam More
Tom Savage More
Clay Sayre More
J D Seeber More
Elbert Smith More
Westley James Smith More
Sue Thomas More
Jason Westlake More
Ted Woods More
Clinton Yeager (written "Yaeger" on the card back, but signature is "Yeager") More

Portraits of Sandra from many different artists, collected by Patrick Zimmerman. Only some artists originally drew Sandra, so Patrick contacted many of the others to commission additional sketches.