Mars Attacks Fan Opens a Comic Book Store in the Eighties
Lodi, California's Lodi News-Sentinel newspaper shares with us this January 11, 1988 story in which Doug Blevins explains why he...
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Spotted Online – Zelda Trading Cards from 1989
Produced by Topps in 1989, these Zelda trading cards (posted at archive.org) are scratch-off game cards and they look incredible....
Non-Sports Cards Growing in 1993
From the October 26, 1993 issue of The Deseret News we find a short story about non-sport trading cards. Written...
“New Fad for the Skeptical Children of the Seventies”
Topps' Wacky Packs trading cards (Amazon.com search*) were originally published back in the seventies. These cards poked fun at packaging,...
Kickstarter – Mars Attacks: Occupation
The new Mars Attacks card set is now live on Kickstarter. I'm swamped at the office but wanted to take...
“Ee-yuk! Garbage Pail Kids!”
The Garbage Pail Kids book* from 2012 is a great joy, but the entire book would have been dramatically improved...
Topps and Star Wars in Starlog’s 1981 “Best of” Collection
It's not overstating things to say that Star Wars changed everything about licensing. In Action Figures Not Included* I took...
G.I. Joe in Wacky Packages
While reading through the Wacky Packages New New New* book last week I ran across the 1974 "G.I. Toe" parody...
