General Forum

I'm not looking to buy or sell. A friend gave me his collection to look up here to get more information on what he has. I've already found quite a few stickers that need spelling changes, besides many that are listed as a NNO with a number attached to it. I will try to have all the information for corrections by tomorrow afternoon. I do not yet qualify for making those edits myself. Initially, the stickers appier to be from the late '60's to early/mid '70's.. I remember buying many of the same when i was a kid, but have no idea what happened to them.

i love the topps wacky packs but only have some from the last few years...

Love the original Wacky Packages from late 60s to early 70s.  I have some of the old Sport Americana Non-Sport Price Guides from the 1980s/90s which have the WP stickers in some of them. To the best of my knowledge the stickers were never numbered. The Checklists cards/puzzle pieces listed the stickers that were in their own particular series but they weren't listed alphabetically. One of the Price Guides has a master alphabetical list for the original 16 series (1973 - 1977) and tells which series that sticker was a part of in addition to having each series listed individually. Apparently when Wacky Packages were first introduced in 1967 that original "die cut" set was not very successful, it wasn't til 1973 when they reintroduced them that they became popular and even then it was 1974 that they really took off. According to the Price Guide (#4 1992)

So glad I have kept those dang things, but I really need to inventory which ones I have (Non-Sport, baseball, football) since in recent years I have gotten some of the ones I was missing from Ebay and want to have all of them eventually. I also refuse to buy them for the ridiculous prices they are often at on Ebay. So I don't get "new" ones very often anymore

What is the name of the price guide?

The Sport Americana Price Guide to the Non-Sports Cards.

The number 4 edition has the wacky packages listed, number 2 didn't. I'm not sure if I have number 3 edition or not. Number 4 has Christopher Benjamin as the Author published by Edgewater book company (as all the editions were) Earlier Editions were co-written by Dennis W. Eckes who was the founder of "Den's Collector's Den" a card shop based in Maryland that was also a big mail order company started in '76? and was big in the early 1980s. Dennis was also credited with the first few Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guides that were co-written/co-pulbished with James Beckett they were the start of the Beckett Price Guides

Thanks. I'll let you know if i find a copy.

Hi, I know you said you are not trading, BUT I would be interested in trading for dupes. I just started a small collection. Any interest, please PM me. TY, ~BOB~

There are two duplicates of what stickers i have, but i do not own them. Also, about 6 of them are missing the outer sticker part. I did that all the time when i bought them as a kid...