The Yellow Back最強シール烈伝 第1弾
Amada printed this set twice. Here is how to tell which one you are holding.
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- Amada’s Hyper Sticker Collection 1: 203 Pokémon stickers, 150 plain, 35 prism and 18 gold, 50 mm square, 1996.
- The art is Ken Sugimori’s Red and Green game art, sold over the counter before the trading card game reached the shops.
- Amada printed the whole set twice; collectors call the results the first and second runs.
- The four photographs above are one prism from each run, front and back.
- The tell worth trusting is the stock: the first run is slick and almost plastic, the second matte and papery.
Four things separate the runs, and the captions above name them: sun-ray streaks in the holo, the density of the red ink, the colour of the back and the feel of the stock. Feel is the one to trust, because streaking and ink shift with the light while the stock does not, so the first run reads slick and almost plastic and the second matte and papery.
It is identical on both runs: the same 1995 Nintendo, Creatures and GAME FREAK credit, the same 1996 MADE IN JAPAN beneath it, the same plate.
That copyright line cannot separate the runs, and the licensing-change theory does not hold: a re-cleared reprint would show a change there and none appears, so the second run is a plain reprint of the same plate.
Nor is the yellow back a sign of age. Cream and white liner are both catalogue stock, and white is what a printer specifies when the liner is to be printed on, which is exactly what Amada did with Pokédex text on both backs. The colour says which stock was loaded, not how long the sticker sat in a drawer.
The set itselfHyper Sticker Collection 1All 203 stickers, 150 plain, 35 prism, 18 gold, with the first-print markers type by type.The method, across the whole catalogueCodex No. 004: How to tell an Amada sticker’s print runThis set is the only one of the thirty-one where two runs are proven. No. 004 is the method that got there, and the evidence classes that cannot date a sticker.Hidden Temple Codex, 27 July 2026. Both findings are this archive’s own, read off its contributors’ photographs, which remain their property.