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boxingcardmanThese are reuses of candy set images, right? That would explain why Wagner ended up in there despite his apparent stated aversion to tobacco card uses; they reused the images.
I also don't see a disconnect between Wagner smoking cigars and not wanting to promote smoking to kids by licensing his image for cigarette cards.
I don't buy the money angle; it is well documented that Wagner sent the promoter ten bucks so as not to be out the fee; not the act of a cheap man.
FWIW, I do not buy the candy exclusives argument as to Plank or Wagner. If the caramel company was getting exclusives, doesn't it make sense that it would use the same form contract for everyone and get exclusives from the other players? And what about the myriad other cards featuring these players? My hunch is that Plank, like Wagner, never signed the ATC's consent form and that someone at ATC or the printer belatedly realized that he had not signed and ordered production stopped.
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