![]() from Colombia one year earlier and I was still relearning English, but even then I thought Wacky Packages were the most hilarious trading cards I’d ever seen.Īnd, like many kids my age, I just had to have them. My mother and I had moved back to the U.S. I was 10 when I was introduced to Wacky Packages by one of the kids I hung around with in the Miami (FL) suburb of Westchester. But at least it did not sue Topps when this sticker came out in 1973. General Mills probably was not terribly amused by this Wacky Pack that transforms Wheaties into Weakies. The concept was the same, and once again Art Spiegelman was one of the main instigators behind such “Wacky Packs” as Cram, Band-Ache, Weakies, and Gadzooka Bubble Gum. ![]() The original 44-card run – of which 14 cards were withdrawn from the production line – ended in 1969, perhaps because some companies – such as Leaf Brands – sued Topps for making fun of their products.įortunately for kids of the 1970s, including me, Topps revived the Wacky Packages line in 1973, this time as peel-and-stick stickers. (C) 1973 Topps Chewing Gum CompanyĪccording to the introduction by Art Spiegelman, the story of Wacky Packages began six years earlier in 1967, Topps introduced a series of punch-out cards which were designed by Spiegelman and painted by Norm Saunders. Spam becomes Cram in this Wacky Packages sticker from 1973’s Series 5. ![]() Created by a team of artists that included Art Spiegelman ( Maus), Norm Saunders, Jay Lynch, Kim Deitch, and Tom Sutton, Wacky Packages became a fad in the early to mid-1970s and, for a while, were the only Topps trading cards that outsold the company’s best-selling baseball cards. On June 1, 2008, Abrams ComicArts published Wacky Packages, a collection of the first seven series of Topps Chewing Gum Company’s irreverent trading cards that featured parodies of American consumer goods. (C) 2008 Abrams ComicArts & Topps Company, Inc. ![]()
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