Topps Dynamite Magazine

[FireGardy]

Does anybody collect these? I thought I'd never have to buy any because Rod Carew was not listed on any panels in the Standard Catalog, but lo and behold I stumbled across one containing Carew. I ended up getting these other ones too. I'd be interested if anybody else has one containing a Carew card.

Here's the Carew. I also scanned covers for anyone who might want to find other cards.




I've seen this one with an Eddie Murray, but alas I got two repeating commons instead.




Here's some football cards including a Csonka

[FireGardy]

Also got these stickers with some star power



more from another Indiana Jones issue


it also had these

Barbie stickers which I only bothered to get one scan of

[ALR-bishop]

Not sure why Bob L decided to list the particular panels of Topps cards from the magazine in the SCD Catalog, mostly I think from the 70s. Maybe just as examples. When I started looking for the panels listed in the Catlaog ( I have found most but not all) I found that a bunch of the magazines from at least the 70s and 80s have card panels

[FireGardy]

I looked around online for other panels and found several for 1978 and 1979 including the listings of the ones in the Standard Catalog. I was also able to find uncut sheet images from 1978 and 1979. All of the panels I saw for the '79s fall on two sheets, so I'm guessing that you could figure out what other panels might be out there. I was only able to find one '78 sheet that matched any panels, but I would suspect that all the other panels I saw might be on the same sheet. It probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out the possible panels if you had scans of each 132 card sheet Topps used. The six-card panels do seem to leave an unused row. I circled panels I found in red on the sheet.

6 panels

3 panels

2 panels

[Bob Lemke]

In the good ol' days when the catalog had a full-time staff, we added to the Dynamite checklists as panels came to our attention. Today . . . it's not a priority.

[FireGardy]

I guess it gives us nutty player collectors something to do. Most of the Carews listed in the catalog that I still need are either too expensive or too hard to find or both, so it's nice to find other things to track down.

[toppcat]

I remember buying this magazine from the old Scholastic catalog they handed out in grade school. I had a 1972 panel at one point, which I think is the first year they did such a thing. It's long gone now but is probably what piqued my interest into the production of sheets.