Show your 1973 Topps Comics

[toppcat]

Further to Fred Mckie's 1973 Pinups thread, let's see your companion Comics. PSA has about two pinups graded for every comic so these seem to be scarcer. My type example is Mickey Lolich; I like these more than the pinups but to each their own:

[raulus]

A few of mine to get the party going.

[Balticfox]

The comics are cooler than that year's cards!

[jmoran19]

I have a psa 7.5 McCovey, will try to find pic of it

[raulus]

Few more from my collection.

[Big Red Machine]

My only 1973 comic.

[raulus]

New day, new batch!

[paul]

Here's my Seaver. It was wrapped around gum for over 30 years before I bought it and unwrapped it.

[raulus]

Time for a few more.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by paul

Here's my Seaver. It was wrapped around gum for over 30 years before I bought it and unwrapped it.

Sweet! I've only seen one other Seaver, it was in Steve Werley's showcase sometime back at a Chicago National and I'm still kicking myself for not buying it.

[raulus]

A few more, including a Seaver.

[Griffins]

My only one, I guess I could try and figure out who is in it without opening it, but have never bothered.

[ASF123]

Interesting that Topps’ MLB trademark license obviously didn’t extend to the comics.

[raulus]

Last 3 for me.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Interesting that Topps’ MLB trademark license obviously didn’t extend to the comics.

Topps was experimenting to see if they could do away with incensing the logos etc. from the teams at the time, or perhaps threatening to do so. The related Pin-Ups set and the 73 Candy Lids are other examples, likely timed to what were upcoming license renewal negotiations. The Action Emblem stickers from the period were a kind of evolution of this.

Many of the Topps football sets have no team licensed logos and the like, early basketball sets too. For some reason, baseball products without team logos seem to be thought of as cheap by collectors and not as fully collectable as those with them.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by toppcat

For some reason, baseball products without team logos seem to be thought of as cheap by collectors and not as fully collectable as those with them.

I wonder how much of that applies to Topps products, compaired to other companies, just because the Topps name gives them a cachet of legitimacy that not all brands have.

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

I wonder how much of that applies to Topps products, compaired to other companies, just because the Topps name gives them a cachet of legitimacy that not all brands have.

I think unlicensed products would lack cachet regardless of the brand. They just don’t look right, whether that’s via airbrushing or more modern methods of removing the logos, and there’s something noticeably missing and off.

It was noticeable when I was a kid collecting in the ‘80s - I can’t imagine the ‘70s were all that different.