Any of you baseball card collectors ever....

frankhardy

...collect those Garbage Pail Kids from the 80's? I guess you would have to be around my age (33) to have collected them. While buying baseball card collections, I have come across 1 decent sized lot and 1 huge lot of Garbage Pail Kids. I have sold them and done very, very well with them. The funny thing is that (even though I had no desire to collect them) my dad would not let me collect them because he didn't think they were suitable for kids. The other day, I showed him a couple of funny ones, and he got a pretty good laugh out of them.

I know this might should be in the non sports card forum, but I put it in this one because I wanted to know if any of you baseball card collectors collected them as kids.

bobsbbcards

I collected Wacky Packs in the early '70s which was sort of the same thing. I think I enjoyed doing that for a couple summers more than I enjoyed baseball cards.

ROCKDJRW

I will be 32 in March and I remember the GPK craze. I was in 4th grade and word would spread quick if a store had them in stock. After school all the kids would race to the corner store to see if the rumors were true(usually not). I remember kids in the playground would sell single cards for 25 cents per card, which seemed like alot at the time as that was the price of a pack. Good times thanks for bringing them up!

frankhardy

Back about a year ago, I sold a NMMT to MINT Adam Bomb for $70. FYI.

Stingray

<< <i>I collected Wacky Packs in the early '70s which was sort of the same thing. I think I enjoyed doing that for a couple summers more than I enjoyed baseball cards. >>



Same here, also collected KISS cards back in the time.

Tvac897

<< <i>I collected Wacky Packs in the early '70s which was sort of the same thing. I think I enjoyed doing that for a couple summers more than I enjoyed baseball cards. >>



My older brother was into the Wacky Packs when he was younger...I remember when he passed his collection off to me it was chalk full of them lol.

prscott933

i collected them. i still have several series 1 sets at my mother's house somewhere. i told her if she finds them to let me know immediately. i think i kept some unopened boxes of some higher series ( 4 or 6 rings a bell).

WinPitcher

My store was featured on CBS evening news during the GPK craze of 1985. I would have lines of kids every day trying to complete the sets. Many kids learned for the first time the economics of a secondary market. The time between the 1st series and the 2nd series was when it was really crazy. Once 2nd series came out it subsided somewhat. I think a total of 14 series came out and lil by lil those that wanted sets as they came out dropped out. I think at the end only 4 people wanted them. I at one time had an example of every card. A and B minus the various backs and ones that were stopped like anarexus. Fun time I remember it well.


Steve

ebayaddict

I don't own any, however i recall a few being very funny and some just plain wrong. ")

Brian48

Nope. Gave up collecting after High School in '83 so I missed out. Never really found an interest in them anyway.

lsutigers1973

I am 34 and yes I collected them. Stopped by a gas station walking home from school every day and couldnt resist buying one or two packs every day. Still remember the excitement of finally finishing the set and finding out there was a series 2 coming out.

RipublicaninMass

I was in that frenzy between 1-2nd series I still have a handful of seris 1 and a series 2 set. I htink the first series is the only series worth $$ BTW Topps counterpart 1986 topps baseball that everyone stocked up on to retire is now about 1/10 the cost!

BunchOBull

I collected series 1 and 2 but was very young, 4 to 5ish. My father didn't care, but my mother finally won over on her objections when she took matters into her own hands and threw my small collection of 300 or so away. I run across a card or two from time to time when going through old boxes.

larryallen73

Wacky Packs were the only non-sport I ever collected. Not seriously as I was 5-10 years old in the 70's and mostly stuck them on stuff. I was just old enough to miss Star Wars, Garbage Pail, etc....

OnlyThe10s

I, too, collected them, but it was after the "craze" because they were readily available everywhere and nobody really wanted them, lol.

My #1 favorite card was a guy that was getting grated with a cheese grater or something. I dont remember the name of the card.

Good stuff.

frankhardy

I like Horatio Hornblower! He was the guy on the sailboat that turned and farted toward the sails to move the boat.

Downtown1974

My wife bought a few hundred at a card show we went to a couple of years ago. I should pull them out again to take a look.

frankhardy

Yes, you should. Check out some of the Ebay prices.

MeteoriteGuy

32 here and remember them well. Every now and then I see fairly low prices PSA cards but have withheld the urge to start another 10-15 sets.