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Originally Posted by toppcat
The Doubles were issued in 1952 (so are a reissue) with no candy and they must have paid some poor slob to separate all the cards! Why not just fold them over? Pretty sure the reissue was to get around legal problems with Bowman.
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I had thought that the caramel candy was used in Topps original issue in order to do an end run around legal concerns with Bowman's monopoly on "gum" cards. So, it seems like Topps just dropped the godawful candy altogether and reissued the cards alone to clear out their overstock.