You may be completely right about all that. But I would still like to know who first put these together and when.
On the retail issue there have been posters who have claimed on this board and one other to have seen and bought them at retail, even naming the stores. Maybe their recollections are faulty but I doubt they are lying about it.
I have been collecting since 1957. To me it is just an interesting hobby issue regarding the initial origin of these things. As I said above I do not know anyone who has ever said they were anything other than Topps cards repackaged by a 3d party.
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