Posted on: 2025-07-11

Artbox History

Below is an exert taken from Artbos's orgiinal site. It gives a brief history of the company that bought us the incredible Harry Potter cards we collect today.

A subsidiary of Amada Printing MFG CO. LTD. and Japan Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Artbox  Entertainment was established in 1995 as a United States based company to manufacture and  market popular licensed products by specializing in the catagory of printed toys and collectibles.  Founded over 70 years ago, Amamda printing is Japan's leading manufacturer, marketer and  distributor of licensed products with annual sales of over $100 million dollars. Japan Pulp and  Paper, the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of raw paper with annual sales of over $5  billion was established over 150 years ago. With strong support from two of Japan's leading  manufacturers, Artbox Entertainment is well equipped to move into the 21st century as a leader of  printed toys and collectibles for Licensed Products.

Artbox Entertainment employs a team of in-house sales representatives and outside sales brokers  that cover a wide variety of North American markets including 9,000 specialty market locations:  8,000 mass market locations: 6,000 hobby locations and also 12,000 retail locations throughout  Japan, Europe, and South America.

Trading Cards, FilmCardz, Lenticular Motion Cardz, Binders and collectible tins are only a few of  Artbox Entertainment's complete line of licensed products. Whether produced as individual units  or multi-packs, all products are designed to achieve favorable consumer price points ranging from  $.99 to $9.99 SRP.

Artbox Entertainment's product lines feature some of the best properties around the world today.  Our growing list of licenses includes:

Harry Potter ™

Dragonball™

Dragonball GT™

Yu Yu Hakusho™

Marvel(Spiderman™)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day™

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines™

The Lord of the Rings™, The Fellowship of the Ring™

The Lord of the Rings™, The Two Towers™

The Lord of the Rings™, The Return of the King™

The Simpsons™

Pokemon™

Hamtaro™

Mega Man™


It is Artbox Entertainment's goal to creat licensed products with not only the highest quality  method of manufacturing, but also with the highest level of creativity and innovation regards to  product design, packaging, P.O.P, and more. By adding extraordinary methods of printing and  including lenticular motion, metalization, plastic and foil stamping, Artbox Entertainment ensures  nothing less than 100% consumer satisfaction that all our items are among the highest quality  licensed products available in the market today.