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- The Wacky Ads were Topps' second experiment with product parody. They came out in 1969, a year after the die-cuts.
- Ad Packs contain five stickers and a piece of gum.
- They were two releases of this series:
- This series has no checklist.
- sticker copyright:
- The Ads are punch-outs like the die-cuts, however they have a larger border with artwork depicted also on the border.
- Like the die-cuts, the Ads are numbered, numbers are from 1 to 36, however numbers are on the front.
- As opposed to the die-cuts, there were no substitutions in the Wacky Ad series, however one card was pulled early on, the notoriously hard to find number 25, Good and Empty.
- Those collecting after Good and Empty was pulled would never be able to complete a set as there was no other #25 used to replace it.
- Good and Empty exists only as a long perf, for all other titles there exist both perf types.
- Good and Empty in NM condition has been going for between $500 and $1500 on eBay.
- 24 of the Wackys from the die-cut series were reproduced in this series (four very small images were squeezed onto each of six Ads).
- As opposed to the die-cuts which were painted by Norm Saunders, the Ads were painted by Tom Sutton (who, incidentally, passed away in 2002).
- Read a letter written by Bhob Stewart to Jay Lynch requesting him to draw up some gags for this series.
- When Saunders came back to working on Wackys in 1973 he reproduced most of the Ads series in his own style, this became the 1973 2nd series.
- Five titles were not reproduced in the 1973 2nd series. One title, Garbage Baby Food, was renamed Gurgle in the 2nd series.
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