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Are You Ready For Your Mystery Date?
Today let's take a look at another entry in a long line of Topps penny pack vegetable-dye based issues, the 1960 (or '61) Magic Tatoo set. These spit 'n' slap sets were literally based upon the...
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All Ears
Yonks ago I posted a pretty fuzzy image of a strange and virtually unknown Bazooka box back set called Toppscience. Recently a series of eBay auctions and an extended plumbing of the depths of my hard...
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Here's The Story...
...of a pretty amazing auction lot.If you're in a certain age group it's pretty much impossible not to be aware of "The Brady Bunch" and its offspring. The Friday Night ABC-TV show premiered on...
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Know When To Fold 'Em
Some more Topps Fold-A-Roo scans have emerged since I last took a look at this uber-scarce set in 2014 and also 2018. A complete opposite-fashioned ripoff of Al Jaffee's MAD Magazine Fold-Ins, which...
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The Check Is In The Mail
Some business to take care of today folks, namely financial business. Friend o'the Archive David Eskenazi has been sending across a steady diet of Topps esoterica and the items on display here today...
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What's Weird?
Some Topps paperwork, that's what! I've been somewhat focused on paper items used or issued by Topps of late and a couple of fairly strange items have randomly popped up.Leading off is an award...
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Rub-A-Dub-Dub
I 'll be spending a little time here at summer's end to look at some of the more esoteric items to emerge from the Andy Yanchus collection, the bulk of which was recently sold off over the course of...
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Goofing Off
More on the incredible Andy Yanchus collection today kids!Goofy Goggles, a gumless novelty imported by Topps from Japan, remains one of their most elusive issues. I have never seen an example of one...
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Nutty Goodness
As their stable of Mad Magazine associated artists grew during the Sixties, Topps became fond of using certain words - we would probably call them memes today - to describe their more smart-alecky...
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Winner's Circle
A long, long time ago, I took a look at the Milton Bradley Win-A-Card Game that focused on the cards included with this esoteric bit of Topps history. I won't rehash all of that here but to note the...
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Very Nice
All sorts of wondrous non-sports items have been popping up of late, including some really tough Topps test cards. Today's entry is Captain Nice, a failed 30-card test set from 1967 TV show that...
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Contract High
I don't know if his estate is moving items after his death on June 18th of this year but I expect a bunch of Willie Mays' personal memorabilia to hit the market in the coming years. One such item is...
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Hopped Up
Way back in 1950, when television was really starting to take off, a need, quickly voracious, for content developed. With some foresight in this mad scramble, William Boyd, who had gained fame by...
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The Last Pale Light In The West
Last week's peek at Hopalong Cassidy lollipops and candy promised a look at the cards released by Topps in 1950, and here we are. It's not hard to describe the impact Hoppy had on early children's...
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Candy, Man
Way back in 2009 I posted about the 1951 Baseball Candy set and, as part of what is now a mostly obsolete series of observations, examined how this multi-faceted set might have been assembled and...
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And That's The Truth....pffffttttttt
1968 saw a number of wildly inventive sets come out of the increasingly underground-centric New Product Development Department at Topps. Woody Gelman's gang of hirsute pranksters sure look like they...
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Hoppin' Along
Further to last month's post on Hopalong Cassidy's wide range of Topps products way back in 1950 (yup, 75 years ago buckaroos), Friend o' the Archive Lonnie Cummins has sent along some additional...
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Doors Of Imperception
Topps was chugging along with all sorts of esoteric non-sports issues as the odometer rolled over from 1969 to 1970. This was about year four of an internal underground comix and pop-art influence on...
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Bubble Gum Byways
Some odds and sods today kinds!Friend o'the Archive Jason Rhodes passed along this little bit of fun some time ago and I'm just now managing to show it. I would have bought this product had I seen this...
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Oh Ye-a-a-a-h!!
Some time ago (almost exactly seven years to be precise) I took a look at the 1967 Topps Funny Travel Posters set, one of their classic large format sets of the late Sixties. One of the posters therein...
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Funny Traces
Picking up where I left off before Turkey Day weekend, this will continue my look at the Madison Avenue entry from 1967's Funny Travel Posters. First though, here's a look at the retail wrapper and...
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Just Ducky
When Topps issued the 1967 Funny Travel Posters set, they were also wrangling with their first Wacky Packages issue. I've mostly stayed away from the Wacky's here as they are so well documented...
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Orbital Mechanics Mate
I regret I don't have any Christmas-themed objet's d' Topps to share this year but have no fear -a whole buncha of product updates from Friend o'the Archive Lonnie Cummins are here!Further to the...
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Red Robin
Three major Topps rarities of the Postwar era were auctioned earlier this month by Heritage Auctions and I have to say, the results were a little lackluster overall. As previously documented here (and...
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Second Team
I'm on a bit of a Baseball Candy roll of late and today we look at what is the least popular of the five subsets that made up Topps' inaugural release of a standalone baseball set. That would be the...
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