WACKY PACKAGES FLASHBACK 2 SERIES

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 (reportedly not chewed by the majority of collectors), and a puzzle piece with a sticker checklist on the back of it. Wacky Packages returned in 1973 as peel-and-stick stickers. At least two extra Ads, 'Mixwell Hearse Coffee' and 'Muleburro Cigarettes', are now known to have been finished, but were never released as actual cards.ġ970s 'Gulp Oil', a parody of Gulf Oil a sticker from the 11th series (1974) 25, 'Good and Empty', was pulled from the first printing and never replaced after Leaf Brands, which then owned the parodied product Good & Plenty, sued Topps. There were two different printings of the Ads, the first with long perforations on the stickers' die-cuts and the second with short perforations. 30 of the 36 3-by-5-inch (76 mm × 127 mm) cards were designed to look like miniature billboards with a die-cut around the parodied product, so it could be punched out of the horizontal billboard scene, then also be licked on the back and stuck to surfaces. This series was followed by a somewhat different series called Wacky Ads in 1969, featuring parodies and roughs by Jay Lynch and Kim Deitch, with finished paintings by Tom Sutton. In all, 14 of the 44 cards were pulled from the series, all of them due to cease-and-desist letters sent to Topps by the companies that, at the time, owned the products being parodied. 'Moron Salt' was pulled later and replaced by 'Jolly Mean Giant', which was also pulled soon after that. Two of the cards – 'Cracked Animals' and 'Ratz Crackers' – were pulled from production after the initial run. This series featured parodies created by Art Spiegelman and primarily painted by Norm Saunders. The very first Wacky Packages series was produced in 1967 and featured 44 die-cut cards that were made to be punched out, licked on the back and stuck to surfaces. Relying on the talents of such cartoonists and comics artists as Kim Deitch, George Evans, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith, Jay Lynch, Norman Saunders, Art Spiegelman, Bhob Stewart and Tom Sutton, the cards spoofed well-known brands and packaging. There were 16 series produced between 19, with some reprints and several new series released up to the present day.Īt the height of their popularity from 1973 to 1975, Wacky Packages were the best-selling Topps product, even more popular than Topps baseball cards, when they were by far the most sold trading card items in the United States. The cards were produced by Topps beginning in 1967, first in die-cut, then in peel-and-stick sticker format. The Target Bonus Box is the only bonus box in this series.Wacky Packages are a series of humorous trading cards featuring parodies of consumer products.There are four different colors of each base title resulting in a total of 288 printing plates.The original metal printing plates have been cut up and placed randomly into packs.There are ten 'Lenticular' (motion cards) found one in 12 packs.Here the FBII bonus stickers are the original sticker versions. These are all titles that were in Flashback I but as the poster versions.BONUS STICKERS - There are four bonus stickers.Cards 64-72 are never before released 'lost' wackys left over from the never released 1992 series.Cards 51-56 were painted by Norm Saunders, left over from the 80's unreleased can label series.The gold borders are extremely rare, only 40 made of each.Each title was printed with five different border colors:.BASE SET - There are 72 different stickers in the Base Set, numbered 1 to 72.released approximately December 10th, 2008

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