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The boom that the trading card market has seen over the past half-decade is, in a word, amazing. In August 2026, there were over $912 million worth of card sales but when we’d see a month with a billion dollars in card sales. We take a look at five of the top reasons why October…

Hard times are ahead for Labubu: Pop Mart International Group, the Chinese company that distributes the famous figurines, recorded a 50% drop in sales worldwide during the third quarter of 2026. It was foreseeable that the craze for the furry keychains would eventually die down, but until last year things were going extremely well: for…

Topps released Garbage Pail Kids (GPK) in 1985 as a sticker set. It was designed as a parody of Cabbage Patch Dolls, which were popular in the 80s. Each sticker featured a Garbage Pail Kid that was suffering an unfortunate fate or death, or had a deformity. Fast-forward 30 years to 2015, and sports were…

Wolverine’s first comic book appearance was in The Incredible Hulk #180 in 1974. That appearance teased his full debut in The Incredible Hulk #181, which came out a month later. In his full debut, he was featured having a full-length fight with the Hulk. Wolverine would later join the X-Men in May of 1975 in…