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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s

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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s In the mid-1980s, while kids were trading baseball cards and begging for Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, Topps decided to stir the pot. The result? Garbage Pail Kids  - a set of hilariously gross, satirical trading cards that became both a playground sensation and a cultural controversy. Adam Bomb – The most iconic Garbage Pail Kid of them all Where it all began First released in 1985 by Topps, Garbage Pail Kids were designed as a parody of the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Each card featured a grotesque yet funny character with pun-filled names like Adam Bomb , Leaky Lindsay , or Up Chuck . Kids loved them. Parents… not so much. Artwork came from comic legends like Art Spiegelman (later Pulitzer Prize winner for Maus ) and John Pound, who turned gross-out humor into collectible gold. Every sticker card had two versions: an “A” and “B” name, but with the same artwork — ...
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DID YOU KNOW #5 - The Baffling 1957 Topps Hank Aaron Card: A Batting Error That Became a Collectors' Treasure

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1957 Topps Hank Aaron Card - A Swing in the Wrong Direction? The iconic (and flawed) 1957 Topps Hank Aaron card Few names in baseball carry as much respect as Hank Aaron . A Hall of Famer, all-time great, and legendary slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. But one of his most famous baseball cards got one major detail hilariously wrong. The 1957 Topps Hank Aaron card features a photo of him batting… left-handed . Yes, the man who clubbed 755 home runs as a right-handed hitter appears to be swinging from the opposite side. Why? The image was accidentally reversed during printing , creating a mirror-image effect that’s obvious to anyone who’s followed Aaron’s career. Instead of a corrected reprint, Topps let it slide. And over the years, that small slip-up turned into one of the most recognizable (and talked about) quirks in vintage card collecting. Still, the card remains a collector’s gem. The 1957 Topps set was the c...
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