Gpk In Print

During the nineteen-eighties, newspapers occasionally ran nice puff-pieces about the popular craze, while parents loved to write in to complain about the cards.

Perhaps the most famous example arrived courtesy of MAD Magazine, which engaged with the brand across two distinct eras separated by seventeen years. MAD revisited the cards in September 2003 with issue 433, skipping the cover spotlight this time, but assisting the brand's rebirth under ANS1 by carrying a three-sticker insert produced by Topps with a checklist printed on the reverse.