This post is continuation, in a way, of the Penny Arcade series I toyed with several years back.  The premise is simple, I merely examine To...

Some interesting doings along the old, dusty trail today cowpokes, as we take a fresh look at the wrappers from the 1950 Topps Hopalong Cass...

Time traveling back to the early days of TV today kids as we take look at Milton Berle, or more specifically, at an obscure Bowman novelty a...

Topps was always looking for ways to move more product and get their merchandise in the hands of the public.  Very early on they had third p...

Well the 62nd anniversary of the premiere of Hopalong Cassidy has come and gone with nary a nod from the media.  In 1949 it was a different...

Well it's official folks, I am completely flummoxed by the clock at the moment and will be posting a series of shorter posts for the for...

A Muddy Waters song and this blog do not often cross paths unless I have Itunes playing as I type. The title above is from "Rollin...

Still drifting toward the 60's time trippers! Time though now to quickly look again at 1959's print runs , helpfully aided by a rec...

Before I go into the vagaries of the last pre-expansion baseball set Topps would produce in 1960, I thought I would take a fond look back a...

A while back Jeff Shepherd sent along a really nice scan of a 1949 Bazooka ad which I was saving for a rainy day. Well, guess what--it...