![]() ![]() ![]() The Sheet: This series is notable among Topps regular series in how some of the stickers appeared only once on the sheet while others appeared as many as six times.A full box did arise November of 2020, when somebody turned up with "several," the first of which sold on Heritage for an impressive $49,200.A never opened full 1st series box has always been one of the holy grails of the hobby.The Box: The box was purple and held 48 packs.There is a typo on the checklist, "Jail-O Desert" should be "Jail-O Dessert".Checklists/Puzzle: There are nine different checklist backs which come together to form a Gadzooka puzzle. ![]() The Artists: Art Spiegelman conceived the jokes and drew the roughs for this series, Norm Saunders (primarily) did the final paintings.Mainly due to cease-and-desist warnings, fourteen of the original 1967/8 die-cuts did not make it to this series.Whatever the reason, this is the series that put Wacky Packages on the map. Perhaps the peel-and-stick format made the difference (die-cuts were punch-and-lick), or perhaps it was just more in the air come 1973. The 1967/8 die-cut series was not greatly successful however, while the re-release in 1973 was phenomenally successful, so consequently most people think Wackys were born in 1973, however they were already 5 or 6 years old at the time. Although this series is known as "the 1st series", all 30 titles had already been released as die-cuts in 1967/8.Timeline: This is the legendary 1st series that came out in Spring (most likely March) of 1973.Vote for your favorite 1st Series stickers ![]()
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