If you're going to put a "Pac-Man Fever" 45 in your jukebox, you needed a strip to go with it. It appears there were both color and black and white versions of the strip. (Scans courtesy jscaptura of http://45spaces.com.)
It's interesting that they mixed a ghost with arms with an armless Pac-Man. This was not typically done with licensed merchandise at the time. (Although you'll also notice that there's no Midway trademark notice either, so were the graphics even officially licensed?) However, you would still see this Pac-Man as part of the "Pac-Man" word logo on said merchandise.
It's actually interesting that there was a picture on the strip at all. Although it certainly wasn't unheard of, putting images on a 45's jukebox title strip wasn't the common practice of the day.
I've learned that there were two major jukebox title strip printers back in the day: Star and Sterling. I'm uncertain which company printed these. Or even whether it was the same company that did both, although that seems highly likely.
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