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As of 2024, 11 Old School series (with 33 stickers in Series 1–5, 30 stickers in Series 6–10 and 28 stickers in Series 11) and one subset in Topps' Wacky Packages 50th Anniversary Series (2017) (with 10 stickers that were also parodies based on products from the 1970s that Topps did not parody in the original 1970s run) have been released ...
Frankenstein Stickers (Topps, 1966) Funny Monsters (Topps, 1959) Garbage Pail Kids (Topps, 1985) GrossOut (Upper Deck/Kryptyx, 2006) Hollywood Zombies (Topps, 2007) Horror Monster (Nu-Cards Inc., 1961) Mad Magazine Series 1 (Lime Rock, 1992) Meanie Babies (Comic Images, 1998) Mad (Fleer, 1983) Make Your Own Name (Topps, 1966)
For a period beginning in 1973, the Wacky Packages stickers managed to outsell Topps baseball cards, becoming the first product to do so since the company's early days as purely a gum and candy maker. Pokémon cards would accomplish the same feat for a few years starting in 1999. In the absence of new fads to capitalize on, Topps has come under ...
The stickers were so popular that Topps neglected to produce a hockey card series in either 1982-83 or 1983-84 (in fact, the stickers were so popular that by 1987-88, Panini had obtained its own license to produce NHL stickers in Canada). After working at O-Pee-Chee Company for nearly 50 years, Frank Leahy died suddenly in 1980.
The concept originally began as an unreleased Wacky Packages sticker for a 1985 series, [4] but the management at Topps thought it would be a good idea for a separate spin-off series. Spiegelman and fellow cartoonist Mark Newgarden worked together as the editors and art directors of the project, Len Brown was the manager and the first run of ...
Topps was the leader in the trading card industry from 1956 to 1980, not only in sports cards but in entertainment cards as well. Many of the top selling non-sports cards were produced by Topps, including Wacky Packages (1967, 1973–1977), Star Wars (beginning in 1977) [18] and Garbage Pail Kids (beginning in 1985). [19]