2014 Series 2

Arriving in October 2014, with hobby shops officially stocked in early November, 2014 Series 2 served as the second installment in Topps's yearly sequential numbering run. The base set began its count right where Series 1 concluded, picking up at card 67 and running through sticker 132 across familiar twin pairings like Sharp SHAW, Crumby CARL, Connect the DOT, and Insta GRAHAM. Topps initially planned for 152 stickers, but the tally dropped to 132 once planned Marvel superhero parodies were removed from the roster. Store packaging shifted from the red boxes seen on early distributor mock-ups to a light blue finish, split between standard ten-card hobby packs, value boxes with four packs and a bonus card, and Collector Edition boxes holding twenty-four six-card packs. To curb manufacturing expenses, Topps did away with traditional card-face die-cuts and the longstanding "PEEL HERE" arrow.

The high-numbered subset of base cards and several headline inserts followed a superhero theme. On the "a" sides of these superhero cards, mock character stats rated each personality in Strength, Speed, Agility, Energy Projection, and Intelligence. Pack-in variety arrived via four Superhero Battles cards falling one in every three packs, four Comic Covers cards at one in six, and an elusive eleven-card superhero C-name chase inserted roughly once in a hundred packs. Retail channels received separate incentives as well, spreading bonus cards across blaster, value, and hobby formats, with hobby boxes carrying eight bonus stickers, while Brent Engstrom's Fright Rags shirt concepts were adapted into bonus cards B13a Frightening FREDDY and B13b Maniac MIKE. In addition, Topps arranged an agreement with IDW to publish a comic series scheduled for release that December.

Assembling a master run required 1,249 distinct cards across every variation, parallel, and special insert. Parallels branched across ubiquitous Black borders, Neon Green, hobby-exclusive Silver borders, Gold, and Collector Edition exclusives such as Sepia, Metallic Red, and Character Backs, alongside Canvas Texture cards that arrived with black borders rather than the white edges promised in promotional material. The checklist itself, titled and framed in blue, offered a rare tip of the cap to the talent, naming individual artists and writers for the first time since 1991's Trash Can Trolls.

Production errors also affected the set's autograph cards. Six artists, including Simko and Engstrom, signed cards for the 132-sticker lineup, but factory errors meant a vast portion of the designated autograph print run escaped into wrappers completely unsigned.