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Topps released two series of Wacky Packages Erasers, the first one on March 23, 2011 and the second one on October 12, 2011, each with 24 Wacky Packages All-New Series parody designs; each pack included one eraser with a paper label of the design wrapped around it and a miniature sticker of that eraser. Four of the erasers in each of the two ...
Ugly Stickers (Topps, 1965) Wacky Packages (Topps, 1967–present) Weird Wheels (Topps, 1980) You'll Die Laughing (Bubbles/Topps, 1959) Merchandising and toys.
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 ...
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 ...
While non-sports cards initially showcased such real world subjects as entertainers, animals, and famous places, their success expanded with the introduction of new concepts created specifically for the cards including the popular Wacky Packages product label parody sticker cards from the Topps company, issued in their original run in the late ...
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]
Saunders also produced a number of less well-known trading card series, including Ugly Stickers, Nutty Initials, Make Your Own Name Stickers and Civil War News. [1] Wacky Packages was Norman Saunders' last major art project, and also his biggest popular success. He began them in 1967 with the "Die-Cuts" and he continued to paint them until the ...
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Topps Chewing Gum Company released a product called Wacky Packages, in which stickers showing various products were shown in ridiculous scenes, such as Hawaiian Punch fruit drink, was parodied as "Hawaiian Punks. Beats you to a fruit-juicy pulp."