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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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Card Ladder Review & Guide: A Collector’s Take

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Card Ladder Review & Guide A Collector’s Take “We don’t like sports cards because they’re good investments, they’re good investments because we like sports cards.” That’s the opening line you’ll find on Card Ladder ’s website, and it’s the perfect way to set the tone. This isn’t another “get rich quick” tool disguised as a hobby app, it’s built on the idea that collecting comes first, and the money side should follow naturally. In a world where some hobby platforms care more about the pump than the passion, that’s refreshing. Card Ladder launched on June 23rd, 2020: a date chosen because it’s 6/23, the jersey numbers of the founders’ favorite players, LeBron James and Michael Jordan. Behind the platform are two passionate collectors, Chris McGill and Josh Johnson, who had already been making hobby content for years through House of Jordans and Cardboard Chronicles . They weren’t outsiders chasing a trend, they were part of the community long before creating the site. Wh...
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