1993 “Images of Shadowhawk” Trading Card from Advance Comics
I’ve mentioned the Images of Shadowhawk series before (posted here), and today I’d like to…
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1978 Hostess Cakes Includes Baseball Cards!
Comic ads in the seventies specifically targeted kids, showing off things that any little boy…
“Gum Wrappers, Cards Are Valuable Items”
I thought it might be fun to celebrate the Mars Attacks Kickstarter project by digging…
Mars Attacks Fan Opens a Comic Book Store in the Eighties
Lodi, California’s Lodi News-Sentinel newspaper shares with us this January 11, 1988 story in which…
Spotted Online – Zelda Trading Cards from 1989
Produced by Topps in 1989, these Zelda trading cards (posted at archive.org) are scratch-off game…
Non-Sports Cards Growing in 1993
From the October 26, 1993 issue of The Deseret News we find a short story…
“New Fad for the Skeptical Children of the Seventies”
Topps’ Wacky Packs trading cards (Amazon.com search*) were originally published back in the seventies. These…
Kickstarter – Mars Attacks: Occupation
The new Mars Attacks card set is now live on Kickstarter. I’m swamped at the…