It should be no surprise to the intrepid readers of this blog that a time machine with the controls set to the late 40's and early 50...

I swear I am not a closet Tiger Beat reader (although my youngest reads it). Mrs. Archive's predilection for the teeny-bopper pop of h...

Oh, it has been a Christmas extravaganza here at the main Topps Archives Research Center (TARC TM ). All sorts of wonders were revealed (wa...

I've been having a bit of a think about the unissued 1953 Topps cards I covered here a little while back . As we all know, there are si...

The early days of Topps continue to bring surprises. Their first really wide-release, multiple series cards were issued in late 1948 into 1...

Ah, the heady days of the Jet Set: Sinatra swingin' on the radio, cocktails clinking and exotic destinations beckoning! Even Topps got ...

No, this is not a piece about the late Pantera guitarist but rather a followup to the end of the 1949 Play Coins of the World post. I sho...