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1973 Scooby-Doo #167 Fher Spain Hanna-Barbera Nuevo Festival Rookie Card Unglued

Card #167 from Nuevo Festival Hanna-Barbera is the first Scooby-Doo card in any numbered, officially licensed, album-issued collectible series — the three criteria that define a rookie card by classification. Produced by Editorial Fher in Bilbao in 1973 under official Hanna-Barbera license, it is card #167 of over 200 in the Nuevo Festival album, distributed exclusively through Spanish newsstands and kiosks, and never available through any international or US retail channel. Earlier Scooby-Doo sticker items from circa 1970 were unnumbered promotional pieces issued outside any album or checklist system — they meet none of the three criteria. This card has never been glued. Condition is good relative to format and age — see all images.

TAKEAWAYS

• Card #167 from Nuevo Festival Hanna-Barbera — the first Scooby-Doo card in any numbered, licensed, album-issued collectible series: the rookie card by classification
• Numbered · licensed · album-issued — all three criteria met. Earlier promotional sticker items from circa 1970 meet none of these criteria and do not qualify under any standard rookie card definition
• Official Hanna-Barbera Productions license, Editorial Fher S.A., Bilbao, Spain, 1973
• No adhesion on reverse — never glued, not removed from album. Survives in original unaffixed condition
• Distributed exclusively through Spanish newsstands and kiosks — never available outside Spain, never available through any US or international retail channel
• Spain print runs were significantly smaller than US or UK equivalents — the country's market size made overproduction economically unviable
• Nuevo Festival Hanna-Barbera covered the full Hanna-Barbera roster of the era: Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Wacky Races, Space Ghost, and others across 200+ cards
• Approximately 1 in 5,000 produced cards from this series survives today in unglued condition — 0.02% survival rate
• Heavy cartulina stock — Fher's production standard for this series
• Condition: Good relative to format and age — see all images

Editorial Fher was Spain's most established licensed publisher of álbumes de cromos, operating since 1937 and holding the Hanna-Barbera license by at least 1971. The Nuevo Festival Hanna-Barbera album of 1973 was their second major Hanna-Barbera release, following the Festival Hanna-Barbera album of 1971, and it covered the full roster of characters then in syndication across Spanish television. By 1973, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! had been on air for four years and was among the most recognisable cartoon characters in Spain. Fher produced the album under official Hanna-Barbera Productions license — a documented, contracted relationship, not an informal arrangement.

The cromo format meant every card was manufactured with the explicit purpose of being glued permanently into the dedicated album. No secondary market for individual cards existed. No protective storage was available or culturally expected. Cards that survive unglued today do so because an album was never completed, a packet was never opened, or a card was set aside before the gluing step — each the minority outcome of a majority process designed to eliminate the card as a standalone object.

CONDITION

This card has never been glued. No adhesion is present on the reverse — this is an unaffixed card, not a card removed from an album. Condition is good relative to its format and age: a 1973 Spanish cromo stored for fifty years without sleeves, toploaders, or any archival protection carries the expected signatures of that history. Please review all provided images carefully before purchasing — they are the definitive condition reference for this listing. Surface, edges, and paper integrity are all visible in the images as offered.

Card #167 addresses Scooby-Doo collectors, Hanna-Barbera specialists, vintage Spanish cromo collectors, and collectors who understand that rookie card classification is a matter of documented criteria, not marketing. Numbered. Licensed. Album-issued. First in series. No earlier Scooby-Doo card meets all three criteria simultaneously. No earlier documented equivalent exists in any numbered, licensed, album-issued collectible format. An unglued example of this specific card, fifty years old, surviving outside a format that consumed its cards by design, does not appear on the secondary market with any regularity.

Foreign-issued: Yes — Spain only