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"Ant Jemima" ([[Aunt Jemima]]), and "Covered Girl"(Clairol Covergirl) [[cosmetics]]. |
"Ant Jemima" ([[Aunt Jemima]]), and "Covered Girl"(Clairol Covergirl) [[cosmetics]]. |
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The initial series was followed by a somewhat different ''<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.lostwackys.com/Wacky-Packages/WackyAds/wackyads.htm Wacky Ads]'' line in 1969, featuring gags and roughs by Lynch and Deitch with finished paintings by Sutton. These cards were designed more like miniature billboards with a die-cut around the parodied product, so it could pop out of the horizontal billboard scene. |
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Wacky Packages returned in 1973 for a highly successful run. For the first two years, these cards were the only Topps product to achieve higher sales than its flagship line of baseball cards. They continued until 1977 through a total of 16 series. Some cards were sold in reprinted editions beginning in 1979 to 1980. (4 series with puzzle/checklist backs) |
Wacky Packages returned in 1973 for a highly successful run. For the first two years, these cards were the only Topps product to achieve higher sales than its flagship line of baseball cards. They continued until 1977 through a total of 16 series. Some cards were sold in reprinted editions beginning in 1979 to 1980. (4 series with puzzle/checklist backs) |
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Revision as of 00:45, 22 July 2007
Wacky Packages are a series of trading cards featuring parodies of consumer products. The cards were produced by the Topps Company beginning in 1967, usually in a sticker format. The original series sold for two years, and the concept proved popular enough that it has been revived every few years since. At one time the product briefly outsold baseball cards.
Relying on the talents of such comics artists as Kim Deitch, George Evans, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith, Jay Lynch, Norman Saunders, Art Spiegelman, Bhob Stewart and Tom Sutton, the cards spoofed well-known brands and packaging, such as "Blisterine" (instead of Listerine) and "Neveready" batteries (for Eveready batteries). They now have a Series 3-5, which includes "Del Monster Fright Cocktail" (Del Monte Fruit Cocktail), "The DaVinci Cold" (The DaVinci Code), "Ant Jemima" (Aunt Jemima), and "Covered Girl"(Clairol Covergirl) cosmetics.
The initial series was followed by a somewhat different Wacky Ads line in 1969, featuring gags and roughs by Lynch and Deitch with finished paintings by Sutton. These cards were designed more like miniature billboards with a die-cut around the parodied product, so it could pop out of the horizontal billboard scene.
Wacky Packages returned in 1973 for a highly successful run. For the first two years, these cards were the only Topps product to achieve higher sales than its flagship line of baseball cards. They continued until 1977 through a total of 16 series. Some cards were sold in reprinted editions beginning in 1979 to 1980. (4 series with puzzle/checklist backs)
Newly designed series were produced in 1985 and 1991, but these strayed from the original concept and were not as successful. An "all-new" series of stickers (ANS1) was released in 2004, and has continued into a fifth set this 2007. These series have been very successful with the return of cartoonist Lynch, plus newcomers Dave Gross and Neil Camera. This series also marks a return to the use of underground comix artists including M. Wartella.
One unreleased design, by John Pound for the 1985 series, spawned the Garbage Pail Kids trading card series.
References
- Fleer Corp. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., 501 F.Supp. 485 (E.D. Pa. 1980).