1986 Album Stickers

1986 Album Stickers (Test Set)

There is no album for this set. The set seems to be layed out so that the album would have been very similar to the 1982 album. Similar products tend to be lumped together. The designs are taken from the 1982 album stickers (most of which were reprints already) and the 1985 set of Wacky Packages. Many boxes from this set have been found to only contain a subset of 33 of the 77 stickers, thereby making the other 44 stickers relatively harder to find.

Ed Glicken has found that there are some die-cutting variations for several of the stickers in this set. There are five significant variations and several insignificant variations. All of these variations exist in the "scarce stickers" as listed in Non-Sport Update. Since there are 44 scarce stickers in the set, and figuring that Topps used its standard 132 sticker sheet, there were three of each title on the scarce sheet. The 33 commons were probably 4 per sheet, and this sheet was probably produced in greater quantities. It appears that when preparing the scarce sheet, Topps varied the dies so that 2 out of 3 of the variation stickers have one die cut, and the third sticker has a different cut. Thus, the rare variations would be only 1/3 the production numbers of the regular "scarce stickers". This printing information is speculative. It would be good if everybody that has a large quantity of stickers from this set could check the proportions of these variations. A search of Scot Leibacher's collection indicates approximately the same ratio for these variations.

Below are the five significant variations.

#23 Fearstone exists in a rectangular cut, and a rectangle with the bottom right corner cut off (rarer). It almost looks like they changed stickers and left a different die.
#32 Playbug exists in a rectangular cut (rarer), and a rectangle cut with the bottom right corner cut off.
#33 Schnozmopolitan exists in a wavey magazine cut (rarer), and a rectangular cut.
#30 Mud exists in a rectangular cut (rarer), and a wavey magazine cut.
#53 Bananacin exists with a round top cut (rarer), and a flat top cut.

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#1 Gadzooka Puzzle
#2 Gadzooka Puzzle
#3 Gadzooka Puzzle
#4 Gadzooka Puzzle
#5 Mutt's Apple Juice
#6 Creature Crackers
#7 Cram
#8 Koduck Film
#9 Oscar Moron Bacon
#10 Scary Lee
#11 Brittle Soap Pads
#12 Liptorn Soup
#13 Lavirus
#14 Belch's Grape Wine Jelly
#15 Kook Cigarettes
#16 Muleburro Cigarettes
#17 Sell 'em Cigarettes
#18 Hamel Pigarettes
#19 Windstun Cigarettes
#20 Dampers
#21 Soft-Head Bulbs
#22 Screech Tape
#23 Fearstone Tires
#24 Reaganets
#25 Greaser's Pieces
#26 Kid Kud
#27 Batzooka Bubble Gum
#28 Life Servers Candy
#29 TV Ghoul
#30 Mud Magazine
#31 Shorts Illustrated
#32 Playbug Magazine
#33 Schnozmopolitan
#34 Nooseweek
#35 Burger Thing
#36 Peter Panic Cracked Nut Butter
#37 Soapy Washman
#38 Armor Hot Dogs
#39 Frisk Detergent
#40 Hurtz Canary Food
#41 Dr. Pooper
#42 Hottest Coal Cakes
#43 Shingle's Plaster Chips
#44 Blunder Bread
#45 Go Bums
#46 Stinky
#47 Mashbox
#48 Playskull
#49 GI Toe
#50 Creep Fang Paste
#51 Ram-A-Liar Truth Syrup
#52 Snoot Powder
#53 Bananacin
#54 Ghost Soap
#55 Pepto-Dismal
#56 Paid Killers
#57 L'oggs Panty Hose
#58 Hostage Cupcakes
#59 Bit-O-Money
#60 Chimpwich Ice Cream
#61 Milk Muds
#62 Yicks Cough Drops
#63 Fearasil Cream
#64 Pound's Skin Cream
#65 Irish Ring
#66 Mr. Stubble
#67 Schtick Blades
#68 Killy Putty
#69 Stinkertoy
#70 Brandy Land
#71 Shot Wheels
#72 Crakola Crayons
#73 Fishey-Prize Toys
#74 Muggies Diapers
#75 Mr. Clown
#76 Pimple Magazine
#77 Grave Cat Food