Wacky Packages (Topps)

Now I have that stupid song stuck in my head. But this little gem of a book brought back a lot of laughs long stifled since my childhood. We went nuts for Wacky Packages and we swapped and we traded and we bartered and all of that stuff. My neighbor had some real old vintage ones on her refrigerator that I would go crazy for. But it seems like they haven't included ALL of them. There has to be a sizable number of images that didn't make it into this book. Perhaps I'm mistaken and this book only offers up a few volumes in the series....I know there is stuff that I had that's missing from this book. But - anyway, if you grew up in the 60's and early 70's and you remember purchasing these things for 10 cents or so, this is a wonderful book that looks back on adolescence and hits the funny bone hard. It's short on words and descriptions, but that's fine. The laugh-out-loud images are enough. This book brought a huge smile to my face that didn't go away for a long time. It brought back a wave of great memories and for that, it's worth twice the price!!! I love it!

I found my first Wacky Sticker on the sidewalk walking home from school in 1973. It was the Schtick Razor sticker. After showing it to some older kids in elementary school I found out they had it too and much more. They gave me a few of their duplicates and I was hooked for about the next four years. It was always hard for me as a kid with little to no money to buy Wacky Packages and even harder to get my parents to buy me some packs but I did OK and was able to get most of them. The bulk of them being from the 2nd through 12th series. Over those four years of collecting I longed for Topps to just make a book of their Wacky art. It was this dream book that propmted me to make my own book with staples and heavy paper with cover and all. I stuck all my stickers by series on to the pages of my book. I never gave thought to collector value at the time, nobody ever thought of that back then. The end result all these years later is having a fraction of my Wacky Packs surviving and of those survivors they are only good for nostalgia. So it was a real kick to get both the first and second volumes of the Wacky Packages series. These books are a real gem and for me childhood dream come true. Although I suppose having all my original stickers still surviving in mint condition would be great I find these books much better than sifting through handfuls of baseball card size stickers. What I loved was the art and the silliness of it all and could care less about collector value. If you were a fan of the Wacky Packages series then both books will not disappoint. I love the wax pack paper wrapper for dust covers and the bonus stickers inside. A very nice touch and overall excellent quality for the money. Topps should think about authorizing more of these types of books like the 1960s Monsters cards for example.

This book is great for fans of comic style art (appearing in candy). Those who like to read reams of words will be disappointed. It is 95% pictures and maybe 5 pages max of written words. It's not even that informational, but the art is nice to look at and quite humorous. Each drawing gets its own page.

I was getting nostalgic for the things of my youth and remembered Wacky Packages. Coincidentally this book was published just about the time I was considering going on EBay and purchasing some of the cards of my youth. I have to give this book high marks overall.The pros:The layout is superb, with one card on each page. The cover of the book is clever, looking like one of the card packages. This book makes buying any of the vintage cards unnecessary.The cons:For those of you who have read my Amazon "So you'd like to know more about..." guide to comedy of the 1970s, you know what my tastes are. The big letdown of this book was that I have largely outgrown this sort of humor. I was into MAD magazine as a kid, but I really can't sit down with an issue now. Same thing with these cards. About 1 of every 10 is funny to me. That said, the execution is incredible: world class artists doing world class parody illustration.The other con I have, and you'll probably notice this if you read through the book in one sitting, is how many of the products feature dead, poisoned, or ill-treated dogs. Can't say any of those were at all funny to me.

They were making these stickers when I was still a young child. My brother used to stick them all over his bedstead (fond memories) and I'd stick them on my school portfolios in Middle School. Always good for a laugh, then and now. The book is a neat time machine, of sorts. Though it only covers a few series and decades, it's still a great memorial to the concept "What If...MAD made stickers of the products/genres/fads/styles that they parodied?" (yes I grew up with MAD too.) I recommend this interesting book, esp. if you grew up with the stickers and some of the tacky stuff they make fun of.

This book brought back my fond childhood memories of collecting these stickers! I remember saving my money until I had enough to buy a new package, and the fun and terrible chewing gum of the latest package

This book shows the stickers big, not smaller than the originals in the unofficial similar works. Great work, Topps!

Muy buena impresión, el cubre portada es del mismo material que el de los viejos sobres de cromos, detalle que mezcla nostálgia con originalidad. Las reproducciones de los cromos originales es muy buena, además incluye un sobre aparte con stickers impresos para este libro.

普通の製品パッケージ集ではなく、既存の物をパロディしたジョーク的画集でタイトルの『Wacky』は変ちくりんな、むちゃくちゃな、という意味だそうです。どれも駄菓子屋のガムのおまけでありそうなチープ感たっぷりのイラストばかり（笑）「こういうものか、なるほどね。」といった感じですが、人によってはツボな一冊ではないでしょうか。Wacky Packages』

So glad I found this book and bought it. Tons of laughs and good memories. Just got home from family dinner and showed it to my sisters. We had fun looking through the book and recognizing stickers we had stuck to our school books and beds.

I love this book and worth having for fans of the Wacky Package era!!! So glad these book were published as I had not been able to collect every sticker that was ever released!!