Sitting here at the main Topps Archives Research Complex instead of being at the National doesn't have to mean  all sorts of oddities ar...

While Topps moved their gum production and card cutting, wrapper wrapping and pretty much everything that wasn't nailed down from Brookl...

This seems to be the summer for new Topps oddities.  No sooner do I sort through the Pocket Baseball Game mystery than Friend o'the Arc...

Of all the major sports, when comparing Topps issues and innovation in the 50's, 60's and 70's, baseball and hockey have the mos...

One of the more terrifically tough Topps test issues is 1966's Flipper . Produced in black & white, Flipper was an extremely limited...

Oh, the twists and turns this blog takes!  Today we enter the world of fashion and supermodels for no good reason at all, excepting a post I...

One of the things that constantly amazes me is how organized the Topps sales department was in the 1940's.  I have seen letters involvin...