Topps 1968 Milton Bradley set

[ALR-bishop]

Trouble maker

[toppcat]

I have that Wrapper issue. The article was by Ron Wilson:

Pink/gray is the only back all 66 cards appear with

Pin/white and Pink/tan=44 cards. As noted above I believe these are the same issue.

His information on Win A Card is inaccurate, he's short cards in his counts and states there were two games, one in 1969, one in 1970.

Email me at dsh46 at aol dot com for a scan of the article.

[goheels]

In my SCD article somewhere in this thread is a picture of the game from the Milton Bradley "playbook" for 1968--a catalog of all their toys for the year. This catalog was published prior to the International Toy Fair in February 1968. I obtained this from Milton Bradley headquarters many, many years ago. MB salesmen carried this catalog when they went to five and dime stores trying to get orders for toys. Merchants ordered directly from the salesmen, not MB headquarters.

The side of the Win a Card game box says copyright applied for; inside the lid it states copyright 1968. The actual copyright was finally approved a year later, in April 1969. I checked all 5 of my game boxes, they all say the same thing. I will check with my brothers and buddies in Charlotte on their game boxes but I don't think I will find a different date. Recall that production was very limited, and the game was a bust in terms of sales.

More memorably, I remember how I felt in the summer of 1968 when I finally got three Hank Aarons. There is absolutely no evidence that this game came out in 1969 or 1970.

[horzverti]

I checked the copyright dates on my MB game boxes. They read copyright 1968 both on the inside (beneath rules print) and outside (side) of the top covers. It is interesting that I have one game box cover which does not read "Patent Applied For" on the outside side. I would think that they would all be exactly the same. I can only assume the printing of (or lack of) the patent text varied between production runs. Thanks for prompting me to check them out Carlton.
Love the MBs!

[ncinin]

Originally Posted by goheels

In my SCD article somewhere in this thread is a picture of the game from the Milton Bradley "playbook" for 1968--a catalog of all their toys for the year. This catalog was published prior to the International Toy Fair in February 1968. I obtained this from Milton Bradley headquarters many, many years ago. MB salesmen carried this catalog when they went to five and dime stores trying to get orders for toys. Merchants ordered directly from the salesmen, not MB headquarters.

The side of the Win a Card game box says copyright applied for; inside the lid it states copyright 1968. The actual copyright was finally approved a year later, in April 1969. I checked all 5 of my game boxes, they all say the same thing. I will check with my brothers and buddies in Charlotte on their game boxes but I don't think I will find a different date. Recall that production was very limited, and the game was a bust in terms of sales.

More memorably, I remember how I felt in the summer of 1968 when I finally got three Hank Aarons. There is absolutely no evidence that this game came out in 1969 or 1970.

You mention your brothers and buddies in Charlotte, an aunt bought me a MB game as a gift in 1968. I can not recall if it was a birthday or Christmas present. Were sales of these games more prevalent in the Charlotte area than other parts of the country?

[goheels]

New England had the most games for sure. In North Carolina there were games at Mack's and Clark's five and dime stores. I think they were regional and not national stores. There were a lot of cards around Tidewater. I lived there a few years as a young Navy doc and bought a lot of MBs in the late 80s from guys selling cards out of their garage. Lots of games across the Midwest--Missouri, lower Illinois, Iowa--nicest single game I ever got was from Iowa. This game was nationally distributed and I know of games from the western Canadian provinces.

I have personally seen MBs in card shops in at least 20 states. Hard to find vintage card shops these days--sigh.

[ALR-bishop]

I still have my Sonar Sub Hunt game

[goheels]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I still have my Sonar Sub Hunt game

With cards of submariners Ted Abernathy and Dan Quisenberry?