Dynamite Magazine Panels

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Hi - I have no idea what Hot Dog Magazine is/was - did their issues also include cards?

Neither did I, I think it was distributed through schools. https://www.ebay.com/itm/12547590188...Bk9SR57n2-6OZQ

[deweyinthehall]

Oh, crap - Topps had ANOTHER way of distributing cards?!?

I'm gonna need to incorporate this into my Topps Set Pages (shameless plug - https://mrpekrul.wixsite.com/narciss...ps-set-history)

[Grigsby]

I have been interested in these for a few years now

The magazines arent rare but arent common either

In my opinion they are undervalued

Is there any indication of other sports (football) ?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Grigsby

Is there any indication of other sports (football) ?

While looking at the Hot Dog magazines on eBay I noticed the 1984 Michael Jackson issue had 1984 Topps Football stickers.

[deweyinthehall]

In doing my research, I did see Dynamite issues with Topps football panels - I remember seeing some from 1975 and 1977.

[deweyinthehall]

What? Me worry?

Issue 47, April 1978, featured a birthday tribute to Mad Magazine.

It is likely that Dynamite's circulation took off in 1978, as I have found 33 different panels, often with many multiples of each. It is by far the largest grouping I've found from any one year.

In 1978, Topps took to lettering its printing sheets, A-E, for the first time. All known panels from this year are from sheets A and B, which makes it seem likely that perhaps only these sheets were made available.

This makes me wonder whether the cards were shipped to Scholastic already cut or if they were cut once there.

The Eddie Murray rookie is included in some B Sheet panels.

Sheet A:

Lemon
Randle
Randle

Lemanczyk
Gross
Baylor
Yount
Zachry
Tenace

Oliver
Porter
Cooper
Perez
Cooper
Perez

Gross
Garvey
Yount
Bell
Tenace
Wills

Matlack
Fairly
Dawson
Velez
Concepcion
Morales
(x10)

Lynn
Burroughs
Harrah
Carter
Rice
Dent
(x4)

Lemon
Ott
Randle
Goltz
Randle
Goltz
(x2)

Garland
LaGrow
Romo
Waits
Manning
Kern
(x2)

Stone
Sizemore
Belanger
Rodriguez
Page
Schmidt

Lyle
Lemon
Gullett
Randle
Gullett
Randle
(x2)

Jones
Christenson
Grich
Spencer
Abbott
Forsch

Porter
Cash
Perez
Langford
Perez
Langford

Valentine
Stone
McCovey
Belanger
Montanez
Page
(x2)

Hargrove
Yastrzemski
Johnson
Munson
Fidrych
Hunter

Burleson
Lopes
Jackson
Smith
Kuiper
Kemp

Atkinson
Rozema
Garner
Rose
Garner
Rose

Fairly
Garland
Velez
Romo
Morales
Manning
(x2)

Rivers
Oliver
May
Cooper
May
Cooper
(x17)

Driessen
Bowa
Templeton
Palmer
Woods
Piniella

Sizemore
Blanks
Rodriguez
Morgan
Schmidt
Sutton

Stennett
Carew
Watson
Ford
Parker
Wynegar

Chambliss
McBride
Nettles
Bando
Nettles
Bando

Blyleven
Fingers
Alexander
Reuschel
Griffey
May

By far, 1978's A sheet has the greatest number of cards which can be ID'd on existing Dynamite Panels than any other in any year. Of 132 cards (including 11 DPs), all but 24 are respresented. The only cards on the A sheet not currently known to exist on a Dynamite Panel are: Cey, Winfield, Brett, Thormodsgard, Murcer, Singleton, Barr, Geronimo, Foli, Moskau, DeJesus, Candelaria, Trillo, Borbon, Boone, Jefferson, Orta, Montefusco, Niekro and Sutter.


B Sheet:

Otis
Jones
Bonds
Murray
Mayberry
Scott
(x2)

Torrez
Chalk
Lonborg
Kusick
Remy
Howe

Krukow
Russell
Moore
Bonham
Moore
Bonham

Rhoden
Flanagan
Randolph
Bibby
Hernandez
Campbell
(x2)

Cruz
Tiant
Soderholm
Fisk
Carlton
Bench
(x3)

Bair
Hobson
Veryzer
Poquette
Lopez
Ault

Henderson
Thornton
Cowens
Cabell
Stanhouse
Wilcox

John
Zahn
Lerch
Guidry
Lerch
Guidry

Hendrick
Leonard
Cromartie
Richard
Cedeno
Kranepool

Robinson
Stein
LeFlore
Rudi
DeCinces
Lezcano

[toppcat]

My guess is Topps cut the panels as they were "pushed" into the magazine. Printing plants for magazine may not have been able to set up to configure pushed inserts.