Ranking The Weirdest Trading Cards I Found At Comic-Con By How Good The Gum Tastes
Tucked away in a tiny corner at San Diego Comic-Con, past all the big flashy photo-ops and eye-catching displays, behind the giveaways, celebrity signings, and the four-hour line for the convention-exclusive Funko Pop, right next to the nacho cart, is a little booth called Mark's Non-Sports Cards. While the name is entirely accurate, it doesn't quite capture how bizarre and beautiful Mark's collection of vintage trading cards really is. Rather than Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, Mark stocks a wide assortment of licensed Topps trading cards based on old movies and TV shows. Apparently, Topps used to make trading cards out of literally anything. Men in Black, Howard the Duck, Battlefield Earth, Gilligan's Island, Hook, 21 Jump Street — you name it, Topps has probably made trading cards of it, and Mark's got them all.
I stood in awe of Mark's collection for a solid ten minutes before the man himself wandered over and asked if I needed any help. "I just can't believe you have all of these," I said. "Where did you find them?" Mark's eyes got a little glassy as he stared off into the middle distance. "It took a very long time," he said.
There are a lot of amazing things you can find at Comic-Con, but Mark's Non-Sports Cards has the most unique and exclusive selection of any booth there. Where else are you going to find ten packs of the official The Osbournes Premium Trading Cards, with a chance to find an actual Sharon Osbourne autograph?
I bought 5 random packs for $30. As Topps was originally a chewing gum company, almost all of them came with a stick of gum, and some of them have been sitting on a shelf for more than 40 years. Here's is my ranking of the five packs of weird trading cards I bought from Mark's Non-Sports Cards, based
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