Battlestar Galactica trading cards. 1978. #5, #12, #18, #28, and #34 out of a series of 36. Don’t know who made this set of trading cards, there’s no ID. It’s a different series than the Battlestar Galactica set at Bubble Gum Trading Cards. The bottom left card has Jane Seymour.

This looks like it was just one pack (gum long gone) and it’s all I have. I never watched Battlestar Galactica, I wasn’t really into sci-fi very much. I watched Star Trek and Star Wars, but that’s about it.

My wife, however, loved Galactica and so we got it on Netflix for the kids. They really like it. It’s pretty good and there is a lot of story going on.

I was working on a post about me and TV, and how much I didn’t watch, but am now seeing thanks to my wife and Netflix, but it was long, and rambling, and covering too much ground, and really, who but me cares? I may end up dribbling it out a little at a time.

More Rainbow Bread trading cards here. First 5 cards are from the A Great American series in 1976. There were 50 cards in the series. Here’s #1 Abigal Adams, #9 Davy Crockett, #27 Lewis & Clark Expedition, #36 William Penn, #48 Eli Whitney. A few interesting facts about Whitney. He began using interchangeable parts long before Henry Ford. Also, I’ve heard that he invented to cotton gin to alleviate the suffering of slaves, but the cotton gin ended up increasing the workload as plantation owners tried to get even more cotton to market. Another example of unintended consequences. Christian-Hansen is given the copyright credit, is that the artist?

The last three are from the Bicentennial Know Your American Presidents series (1976 of course), # 16 Abraham Lincoln, #18 Ulysses S Grant and #20 James A. Garfield. Copyright is given to Bel-Art Advertising Inc.

Mod Squad trading cards. 1968. Numbers 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 29, 34, and 51. I have no idea where I got these. I’ve never seen the show. Netflix has them however, so I’ll probably end up checking them out. Dig the purple pantyhose on the back of #34.

These Penguin and Superman DC Comics superhero and super-villain trading cards (with mini-comics on the back!) came out of loafs of Rainbow Bread back in the 1970s. My mom rarely bought Rainbow because it was too expensive. People have always thought times were hard. The only times she did buy name brand stuff was when we begged enough to get these kinds of goodies. You can see they are copyright 1974. I used to have 4 of them, but my siblings have probably absconded with some and they are now lost to the ages. EDIT: Big Glee says they came out of Wonder Bread. He has a couple pictures of different ones also.

#21 George the Giant. I used to have 4 or 5 of these Donruss crazy monster sports stickers. I don’t remember the series name though. Anyone help me out?

Dynamite magazine had some trading cards in one issue, and here they are! Trading cards don’t seem to be as popular among the kids like they were when I was a kid. In the 1970s there were several spoof type cards, some of which I will be posting soon, but there were all kinds of cards for all kinds of things. Today, the only trading cards seem to be directed toward adult collectors rather than children. Be sure to check out my posts on Dynamite magazine and Supermag. The Dynamite post even has a picture of the Dynamite Decoder!