Results: Topps
Topps is chewing gum company that dates back to 1938. In 1950 hit on the idea of collector trading cards to sell more gum. Still around today under the subsidiary Fanatics...
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Sports- this was 1951 with Topps first baseball set. A 1952 Mickey Mantle sold for roughly $12.5 million in 2022. Obvious question, would you pay that much for a single card?
Yes
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79 votes
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923 votes
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Movies / TV - Hopalong Cassidy was the first in this category (1950). These were the types I collected, Star Wars my first as you might expect. Here we have the first card with Luke in his Stormtrooper disguise. Did you collect any from of trading cards growing up?
Yes
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250 votes
No
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752 votes
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Art - Mars Attacks the most notorious and later made a Tim Burton film. Ever wonder why beings from space are typically depicted as unfriendly in sci-fi tales?
Yes
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155 votes
No
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442 votes
Undecided
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131 votes
Not Applicable
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274 votes
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Stickers - while some card sets did contain a bonus sticker, others were entirely that. Garbage Pail Kids one. My fave was Wacky Packages, parodies of popular brand name items. My kind of humor. Ever plaster your school locker, notebooks, or other items with stickers?
Yes
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257 votes
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745 votes
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