If you grew up in the 1970s or ’80s, chances are that your first introduction to satire came either from Mad magazine or Topps’ Wacky Packages card. Of the two, the latter was more of a gamble. When they were origin...
As TR contributor Kevin Guhl reminded us in his Daily List yesterday,Topps’ Mars Attacks trading cards are as wonderfully violent today as they were when the first hit stores 50 years ago. In honor of this pop c...
Half a century ago, Topps unleashed a decadent series of trading cards called Mars Attacks onto the nation’s impressionable young minds. The parental outcry was so strong that the cards were yanked from store shelves only...
From the early 1980s through to the mid ’90s, Topps released a variety of products that placed candy in the noggins of pop culture’s best and brightest. A cross between an action figure and a paperweight, these cool...