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**Press Release**

June 11, 1999 – Elkins Park, PA – Steve Charendoff today announced the formation of Rittenhouse Archives, Limited, a new entertainment collectibles company. Rittenhouse will initially create and market its own hobby-exclusive line of licensed Star Trek and Twilight Zone trading cards and collectibles. Charendoff, formerly the Entertainment Director at Fleer/SkyBox, will serve as President of Rittenhouse Archives and run its day-to-day operations.

"This is an extremely exciting time to be launching a new hobby business. There are so many positive changes taking place in this market with collectors pursuing newer and more innovative products in different formats," said Charendoff. "Science fiction, in particular, leads the entertainment category, and Star Trek continues to be one of its most enduring and successful properties. I look forward to continuing the excitement I helped to create with Fleer/SkyBox’s Star Trek: The Original Series trading card series through Rittenhouse’s line of new and innovative Star Trek and Twilight Zone products."

Rittenhouse’s first product will launch in September with Star Trek: The Original Series In Motion, the first-ever all-lenticular Star Trek card series which will feature 24 different cards in its base set, plus 6 Sound In Motion audio cards. Each card in the series measures 5"x7" and features multiple lenticular (or motion) sequences.

"The combination of multiple lenticular scenes makes these cards incredibly dynamic," said Charendoff. "And the addition of 10-second sound bites will make the Sound In Motion cards even more dynamic. The response to this product in my research and discussion with Star Trek dealers and collectors has been overwhelmingly positive."

Star Trek: The Original Series In Motion will be limited to 8,000 sequentially numbered boxes, and is believed to be the most limited hobby product ever created for the sci-fi classic. Each box will contain 20 packs, with one Sound In Motion card included as a box topper. Each pack will contain 3 lenticular cards with a suggested retail price of $4.99 per pack. A custom album will also be available, complete with plastic sheets to house the entire set.

After Star Trek: The Original Series In Motion, Rittenhouse will follow in November with the first-ever trading card series based on the original Twilight Zone TV program. Rittenhouse will include in every box an average of 2 autographs from 12-15 leading stars who appeared on the classic sci-fi show. Autographs will include William Shatner, Rod Taylor, Kevin McCarthy, Bill Mumy, Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Richard Kiel and other top stars.

"The Twilight Zone is without question the greatest science fiction program never to have appeared on trading cards – until now," said Charendoff. "The reason is that CBS simply never had the rights to use the actors, but that is changing. I have had overwhelmingly enthusiastic responses from all of the actors contacted to date, and we are going back and remastering the original films to create the most visually stunning card set possible.

"The insertion of 2 autographs in every box of The Twilight Zone cards also breaks new ground in the entertainment hobby market. These are not autographs for the sake of autographs, but signatures from some of the most prolific Hollywood actors, and the quantities of these autographs will be plentiful enough for dealers and collectors to find any one card and to build complete sets without going broke."

Rittenhouse’s The Twilight Zone trading cards will be printed in a traditional, 2.5"x3.5" format and come in packs of 9 cards for a suggested retail price of $1.99. Each 36-pack box will average 2 autographs, and the entire production run is estimated at 5,000-6,000 boxes.

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