Wacky Packages are a series of trading cards featuring
parodies of American consumer products. The cards were
produced by the Topps Company beginning in 1967,
normally in a sticker format. The new series sold for
two years, and the conception proved favorite enough
that it has been revived every few years since. At one
moment the merchandise briefly outsold ball cards.
Relying on the talents of such comics artists as Kim
Deitch, George Evans, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith, Jay
Lynch, Norman Saunders, Art Spiegelman, Bhob Stewart and
Tom Sutton, the cards spoofed known brands and
packaging, such as "Blisterine" (instead of Listerine)
and "Neveready" batteries (for Eveready batteries. The
initial series was followed by a slightly distinct Wacky
Ads cable in 1969, featuring gags and roughs by Lynch
and Deitch with finished paintings by Sutton. These
cards were designed more like small billboards with a
die-cut around the parodied merchandise, so it could pop
out of the flat measure
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