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12) Trading cards
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Surveys the history of trading cards, explains what factors determine their value, and describes how to care for and protect them.
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In the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll, whose name can't be spoken. The resulting commercial trading cards, and stickers tapped into an international zeitgeist that was brewing in a young generation who felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to them. Learn the truth behind the myth of The Garbage Pail Kids.
16) Wacky packages
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The 35th anniversary collection of Wacky Packages images, sold as trading cards stickers starting in 1967. Collects series 1-7 produced between 1973-1974.
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In 1992, Marvel Entertainment commissioned Jim Lee, the young superstar penciller behind X-Men (vol. 2) no. 1, the bestselling single-issue comic book of all time, to create all of the art for a new set of 105 trading cards - a set that would go on to become one of the most celebrated in Marvel history and the gold standard for non-sports trading-card artwork and design. Lee was the first artist to create all of the original artwork for a Marvel card...