Bicycle Zombie playing cards

Published June 22, 2023 Updated June 22, 2023

Bicycle Zombie playing cards with hints on how to survive a zombie attack, USA, 2012.

2012 USAZombiesTodd BrainardUnited States Playing Card Co.Bicycle

Should you ever find yourself confronting or being followed by a herd of zombies then this pack could prove very useful! With artwork by Todd Brainard and published under the Bicycle brand by the United States Playing Card Company in 2012, it offers 52 useful hints on how to handle the situation and survive a zombie attack! Each card offers a valuable tip or piece of advice, while the aces and court cards additionally show zombie cartoon characters – portrayed with different coloured faces and limbs on each suit. There are two jokers and two additional advertising cards. See the box

Bicycle Zombie playing cards, USA, 2012 Bicycle Zombie playing cards, USA, 2012 Bicycle Zombie playing cards, USA, 2012

Above: Bicycle Zombie playing cards with artwork by Todd Brainard, manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company, USA, 2012.

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By Peter Burnett

United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022 • Contact

I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.

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Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.

Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.

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