Topps introduced the first Garbage Pail Kids trading card series in 1985, created as a hilariously inverted take on the popular Cabbage Patch Kids. These punny, sometimes mean-spirited, and all around ...

Michael Jordan’s rise and domination of the sporting world with the Chicago Bulls happened to coincide with trading card companies pushing their printing presses to unprecedented extremes. As a result ...

Folks, our kids are in trouble! Trouble with a capital “T,” and that stands for … trading cards? Every decade or so, America is swept by a moral panic over how our kids are having fun. In the 1980s, ...

Which card would you rather pull from a pack of 1972 Topps baseball cards: A Carlton Fisk rookie or a Brucette A. Rumanyak card? A Hank Aaron or a Fred A. Sinopoli? Imagine being a kid in 1972 and ...

Folks, our kids are in trouble! Trouble with a capital "T," and that stands for ... trading cards? Every decade or so, America is swept by a moral panic over how our kids are having fun. In the 1980s, ...