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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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1968 Topps 3-D Test - The Brooklyn Summer When Cards Popped Off the Paper

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1968 Topps 3-D Test - The Brooklyn Summer When Cards Popped Off the Paper Picture New York in the late 60s. Corner drugstores, spinning postcard racks, and a plain white pack for a nickel that promised something strange called “3-D.” Kids cracked them, tilted them under the fluorescent lights, and watched Roberto Clemente and friends jump forward like they were stepping out of the cardboard. Then the cards curled, cracked, disappeared into shoeboxes, and a myth was born. What this test issue actually was The 1968 Topps 3-D set was a tiny test run with 12 unnumbered cards , produced on lenticular plastic by a New York printer called Visual Panographics. Cards are slightly narrow (about 2¼ x 3½ inches), have rounded corners and blank backs, and are widely believed to have been distributed around the New York City area. Stars include Roberto Clemente and Tony Pérez . “Two to a pack, five cents” and a tiny easel Hobby lore points to two-card, five-cent packs, and som...
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