TOPPS 1960S PART ONE (1960-1965)

I collected a bunch of scans from Topps trading cards from the 1960s to the present. I figured it would be fun to post some of the wrapper and box pics. There sure are a lot, so I thought it would bee a good idea to break it up into a few posts.

Here are the scans from 1960-1965 (some are poor, but they are getting older and harder to find good images of):




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1960 ANGRY STICKERS WRAPPER


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1960 FUNNY VALENTINES WRAPPER


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1960 FUNNY VALENTINES WRAPPER 2

1960 POPEYE TATTOOS (MISSING IMAGES)


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1960 PRESIDENTS AND FAMOUS AMERICANS WRAPPER


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1961 CRAZY CARDS WRAPPER


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1961 GIANT SIZE FUNNY VALENTINES WRAPPER


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1961 SPORTS CARS BOX


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1961 SPORTS CARS WRAPPER


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1962 CASEY AND KILDARE WRAPPER


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1962 CASEY AND KILDARE BOX


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1962 CIVIL WAR NEWS WRAPPER


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1962 CIVIL WAR NEWS BOX


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1962 MARS ATTACKS WRAPPER


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1962 MONSTER TATTOOS BOX


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1962 SUPERMAN TATTOOS BOX


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1962 VALENTINE STICKERS WRAPPER


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1963 ASTRONAUTS WRAPPER


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1963 BEVERLY HILLBILLIES WRAPPER


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1963 FLAG MIDGEE WRAPPER


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1963 FLAG MIDGEE BOX


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1963 MONSTER LAFFS MIDGEE WRAPPER


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1963 MONSTER LAFFS MIDGEE BOX


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1963 VALENTINE FOLDEES WRAPPER 1


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1963 VALENTINE FOLDEES WRAPPER 2


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1964 BEATLES PLAKS BOX


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1964 BEATLES CARDS WRAPPER


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1964 BEATLES CARDS BOX


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1964 BEATLES COLOR PHOTOS WRAPPER


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1964 BEATLES- HARD DAYS NIGHT WRAPPER


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1964 JOHN F KENNEDY WRAPPER


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1964 JOHNSON VS GOLDWATER WRAPPER


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1964 NUTTY AWARDS WRAPPER


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1964 MONSTERS FROM OUTER LIMITS WRAPPER


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1965 BATTLE WRAPPER


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1965 BATTLE BOX


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1965 FLYING THINGS


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1965 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND WRAPPER


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1965 MONSTER GREETING CARDS WRAPPER


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1965 MONSTER GREETING CARDS BOX


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1965 RAT FINK GREETING CARDS WRAPPER


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1965 RAT FINK GREETING CARDS BOX


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1965 SILLY STICKERS WRAPPER


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1965 SILLY STICKERS BOX


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1965 UGLY STICKERS WRAPPER


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1965 UGLY STICKERS BOX

I hope you enjoyed looking through the Topps product images from the early 1960s. There sure were some excellent, and not so excellent trading cards. Some wonderful packaging art also.
I'll post the scans from the rest of the 1960s soon.

TOPPS SUPERMAN 2 MOVIE CARDS 1980

Time for the next installment of my Topps 1980s posts!!



SUPERMAN II- MOVIE PICTURE CARDS

Here's the wrapper in the classic Superman red, yellow, and blue.



As far as wrapper variations go, the only one I've come across is the Bazooka gum ad.



Like the majority of Topps movie cards around this time, the set has 88 cards and 22 stickers (and of course a stick of gum).
There is a lot of reminiscent charm involved with collecting these for me. Peeling open the wax wrapper, smelling the gum and the brown cardstock, shuffling through the stack sorting them, throwing out the miscut ones and the ones with offset printing, reading through the corny card titles... kind of like a trip back in time.

Enough of that, let's check out the cards!





All the best 80s sets had a header card which looks great on the top of your completed set. I wish they made these for current sets.





Most of the 80s movie sets also started out with character cards introducing all the major players. In this set they are called "Kryptonian Crystal Bank Archives" which I guess means they are from the information stored in the crystal banks at Superman's arctic hideout? Stupid.









Actress Margot Kidder played Lois Lane in all four of the 80s Superman movies. That's back when the movie industry did it's best to keep the same actors/actresses in the sequels.
As a neat tidbit Margot posed in the March 1975 issue of Playboy.


(How do you like my censoring job?)



Terence Stamp who played General Zod in this movie played Chancellor Velorum 19 years later in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
He also returned to his union with the Superman franchise as the voice of Superman's father Jor-el on Tv's Smallville in 2001.





Jack O'Halloran who played the strong but silent character Non was an ex-heavyweight boxer and actually came up with the idea for his character to be mute.





Sarah Douglas who played the beautiful but deadly Ursa also played Queen Taramis in the movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1984. Type-cast as a comic book villainess (unfortunately never posed for Playboy).









Allright, it's Ned Beatty. No Deliverance Jokes.









If Marc McClure, the actor who played Jimmy Olsen, looks a little familiar you may have seen Back to the Future as many times as I have. He also played Marty's brother Dave McFly in the first and third movies in that series.


"See ya later, Pop. Whooo, time to change that oil!"



So that's the main cast, now lets get along to the story.





















































































































































































Watch the whole battle on Youtube.



































The reverse sides of the cards that don't have character profiles, star quotes, or movie summaries have pieces to form puzzles A-F.













Complete a Superman 2 card set with 22 superiffic stickers!