# 1970s stickers featuring fake advertisements

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765 "2009-01-30T19:27:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/1 "2009-01-30T19:27:47Z")

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I recall that in my 1970s childhood, the back of my bedroom door was covered with stickers that featured comical advertisements for fake products, parodizing or satirizing real products. I can’t remember, though, what these stickers were called or how one obtained them. Did they come with some other product? I’d love to have a set again. Have they ever been reproduced?

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**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/2 "2009-01-30T19:34:18Z")

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[Wacky Packages.](http://www.wackypackages.org/)

I had 'em when I was a kid. 😃

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/3 "2009-01-30T19:37:25Z")

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Yup. Wacky Packages. They were sold like baseball cards, came with several per package, and included a stick of gum. Very popular in the 70s.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/4 "2009-01-30T19:41:04Z")

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Cool. Anyone know whether any replicas have been produced? I’d like to have them for nostalgia’s sake, but I’m not willing to pay collector prices.

I also seem to recall that there were also monster stickers mixed in – Frankenstein’s Monster, the Werewolf. In fact, that’s how I first learned that “Frankenstein” wasn’t actually the monster’s proper name. Who produced those?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/5 "2009-01-30T19:43:56Z")

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Jack Davis, of MAD Magazine fame, was a contributing artist for Wacky Packages.

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/6 "2009-01-30T19:51:23Z")

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> [@acsenray](#):
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> Cool. Anyone know whether any replicas have been produced? I’d like to have them for nostalgia’s sake, but I’m not willing to pay collector prices.

Looks like Topps produced a collection last year. [Here’s the listing on Amazon.](http://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Packages-Flashbacks-Stickers-Complete/dp/B00188HKRE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1233344868&sr=8-3)

There’s also [A book.](http://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Packages-Topps-Company/dp/081099531X/ref=pd_bxgy_sg_img_c)

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-stickers-featuring-fake-advertisements/483765/7 "2009-01-30T21:57:15Z")

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I wonder if they make ones which have the same dimensions that real product wrappers do, so you can sneak into your local supermarket and surrepititiously paste them over the real thing…