Let's celebrate Presidents' Day with one of the weirdest little sets from the Topps sixties: 1967's Who Am I? Released as a 44-card set, the first of two incarnations of the set featured its subjects under a scratch-off layer, like a lottery scratch ticket. The subject's name is printed on the card below the scratch-off question layer. (The second incarnation was 42 cards and did not feature the scratch-off layer.)
I'm not sure how I found out about this set, but I love it and have been trying to finish the set for a long time (only recently did I finally complete it). The fright wigs, the buck teeth, the cigars and clown makeup, the Hippie clothing, the sunglasses—it's all too much to pass up.
Much like Topps's earlier nonsports sets featuring famous figures from history, many of its subjects are U.S. presidents (13, to be exact), not to mention three first ladies. It also sprinkles in a few famous baseball players, including Sandy Koufax, one year after his retirement. So now, for your scrolling pleasure, sit back and enjoy the garish costumed wonder that is 1967 Topps Who Am I?
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #1 - George Washington |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #2 - Andrew Jackson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #3 - James Monroe |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #4 - Joan of Arc |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #5 - Nero |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #7 - King Henry VIII |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #8 - William Shakespeare |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #9 - Clara Barton |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #10 - Napoleon Bonaparte |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #11 - Harry Truman |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #12 - Babe Ruth |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #13 - Thomas Jefferson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #14 - Dollie Madison |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #15 - Julius Caesar |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #16 - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #17 - Woodrow Wilson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #18 - Stonewall Jackson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #19 - Charles De Gaulle |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #20 - John Quincy Adams |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #21 - Christopher Columbus |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #22 - Mickey Mantle |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #23 - Albert Einstein |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #24 - Benjamin Franklin |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #25 - Abraham Lincoln |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #26 - Leif Ericsson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #27 - Admiral Richard Byrd |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #28 - Capt. Kidd |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #29 - Thomas Edison |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #30 - Ulysses S. Grant |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #31 - Queen Elizabeth II |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #32 - Alexander Graham Bell |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #33 - Willie Mays |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #34 - Teddy Roosevelt |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #35 - Genghis Khan |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #36 - Daniel Boone |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #37 - Winston Churchill |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #38 - Paul Revere |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #39 - Florence Nightengale |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #40 - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #41 - Sandy Koufax |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #42 - Jacqueline Kennedy |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #43 - Lady Bird Johnson |
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1967 Topps Who Am I? - #44 - Lyndon B. Johnson |
So weird, their cool. They look like something a bored kid in school might do.
ReplyDeleteSimply fascinating!
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