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"Gulp Oil", a parody of Gulf Oil; a sticker from the 11th series (1974). Wacky Packages returned in 1973 as peel-and-stick stickers. From 1973 to 1977, 16 different series were produced and sold, originally (with Series 1–15) in 5-cent packs containing three (later reduced to two) stickers, a stick of bubble gum and a puzzle piece with a sticker checklist on the back of it.
The 1982 Topps Factory Set is rare due to J.C. Penney's failure to sell them. J.C. Penney factory sets were available in 1982 in a color box and 1983 (SKU 672–1203), 1984 (SKU 672–1641), and 1985 (SKU 672–2029) in brown boxes. From 1986 to 1992, Topps factory sets came in two designs, Retail (or Christmas) and Hobby dealer.
On July 30, 2014, Topps re-released 1985's original Series 2 set, plus 13 returning characters from Series 2 characters that have been reimagined in previous Garbage Pail Kids sets also as a set of metallic chromium cards. Chrome Series cards are thicker than the original cards and are not stickers. [25]
Topps also acquired ThePit.com, a startup company that earlier in 2000 had launched a site for online stock-market style card trading. The purchase was for $5.7 million cash in August 2001 after Topps had earlier committed to invest in a round of venture capital financing for the company. This undertaking was not very successful, however, and ...
The 240-card set, quite large for the time, included current players, former stars, and prominent minor leaguers. Individual cards measured 2 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 2 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches (6.0 by 7.3 cm), which Goudey printed on 24-card sheets and distributed throughout the year. [20] The bulk of early National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees appear in this set.
In March 1992, Topps Company, Inc., announced the formation of Topps Comics, to be headed by Jim Salicrup, with plans to start publishing in October 1992. [1] [3] The company's first title [4] was Bram Stoker's Dracula, a four-issue series (Oct. 1992—Jan. 1993), along with 100 collectible cards, based on the movie, with art provided by Mike Mignola and a full script provided by Roy Thomas ...
Baseball Talk was a set of 164 "talking" baseball cards that were released by Topps and the LJN Corporation during the spring of 1989. Each card featured a plastic disk affixed to the back of an oversized baseball card.
The series's name was provisional, and Topps in fact intended to adapt every episode, [1] but never got as far as season two. The series was written by Roy Thomas , who would create a first draft for each issue by working off of the episode's script, then watch the actual episode and modify his work to account for changes made on the set.