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Each year, Topps faced the challenge of designing new cards to distinguish them from the year before. The 1952 - 56 sets were varied in presentation, but each were the same size, 2 5/8" x 3 3/4". The '52, '53 and '54 sets were vertical, the '55 and '56 sets horizontal. In 1957, the 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" size card became standard.
Gotham Seasons 1-2 (Cryptozoic, 2016–17) Green Hornet (Donruss, 1966) [54] Guild Seasons 1-3 (Cryptozoic, 2011) Happy Days (O-Pee-Chee, 1976) [63] Hogan's Heroes (Fleer, 1965) [54] Incredible Hulk (Topps, 1979) [54] Kojak (Monty Gum, 1975) [64] Legends of Tomorrow Series 1–2 (Cryptozoic, 2018) Lost in Space (Topps, 1965) [54] Magnum, P.I ...
The last series in 1952 started with card No. 311, which is Topps's first card of Mickey Mantle, and remains the most valuable Topps card ever (and, as of August 28, 2022, the most valuable trading card of all). On August 28, 2022, the Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $12.600 million. [13]
After Upper Deck introduced its premium baseball series, other companies followed with improved photography, better design, and higher-quality paper stock. The sports card market grew from $50 million in 1980 when Topps' monopoly was broken by Fleer, to a $1.5 billion industry in 1992. [10]
In March 1992, Topps Company, Inc., announced the formation of Topps Comics, to be headed by Jim Salicrup, with plans to start publishing in October 1992. [1] [3] The company's first title [4] was Bram Stoker's Dracula, a four-issue series (Oct. 1992—Jan. 1993), along with 100 collectible cards, based on the movie, with art provided by Mike Mignola and a full script provided by Roy Thomas ...
Another Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle card, graded 9.5 by SGC, sold for $12,600,000 in August 2022, becoming the most valuable sports card and item of sports memorabilia of any sort of all time. [55] [56] Condition can play a huge role in the price. Other 1952 Topps Mantle cards, graded 1, have sold for as little as a few thousand dollars. [57]
The Leaf brand was used from 1985 through 1988 on specially made baseball cards distributed in Canada, and in 1990 on a premium series of cards distributed in the U.S. [3] [4] Donruss expanded its Memphis plant from 256,000 square feet (23,800 m 2 ) to nearly 400,000, grew from 550 employees to 720 and continued to make trading cards and bubble ...
Topps finally issued a third version of all six cards with the team name centered in the box. Topps's 1957 set contained Yankee great Mickey Mantle as card number 95. The card is known among collectors as the "ghost Mantle". Topps editors had long been expert at altering pictures to meet their needs.