The Sheet: This series is notable among Topps regular series in how some of the stickers appeared only once on the sheet while others appeared as many as six times.
#WACKY PACKAGES FULL#
A full box did arise November of 2020, when somebody turned up with "several," the first of which sold on Heritage for an impressive $49,200. A never opened full 1st series box has always been one of the holy grails of the hobby. The Box: The box was purple and held 48 packs. There is a typo on the checklist, "Jail-O Desert" should be "Jail-O Dessert". Checklists/Puzzle: There are nine different checklist backs which come together to form a Gadzooka puzzle. The Artists: Art Spiegelman conceived the jokes and drew the roughs for this series, Norm Saunders (primarily) did the final paintings. Mainly due to cease-and-desist warnings, fourteen of the original 1967/8 die-cuts did not make it to this series. Whatever the reason, this is the series that put Wacky Packages on the map. Perhaps the peel-and-stick format made the difference (die-cuts were punch-and-lick), or perhaps it was just more in the air come 1973. The 1967/8 die-cut series was not greatly successful however, while the re-release in 1973 was phenomenally successful, so consequently most people think Wackys were born in 1973, however they were already 5 or 6 years old at the time. 
Although this series is known as "the 1st series", all 30 titles had already been released as die-cuts in 1967/8.
Timeline: This is the legendary 1st series that came out in Spring (most likely March) of 1973. Vote for your favorite 1st Series stickers
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