Mars Attacks: 50th Anniversary Collection (Topps) Hardcover – 1 Oct. 2012

A great little book with everything you ever wanted to know about this classic card set. Some great insights and fun stories and a bonus 4 reprint cards in the back cover make this a must have for any collector. Great value too and terrific reproductions of the original set plus cards deleted due to their horrific subject matter.

Bought this on a whim when browsing and so glad I did.It is smaller than expected but once you open it up, that is all forgotten. takes me back to you childhood and the secret pleasure we all got collecting these "gruesome" cards that our parents wanted banned. I was surprised that I remembered each one so vividly.As a bonus all you get images of the later additions (quibble that these are smaller images) and a wealth of background sketches,stories etc.Now if they would only do the same for the other Topps card series , Civil War News

Loved this, the original Topps cards have me nightmares as a kid. Perfect gift for a grown up kid like me. Excellent quality.

This was really good, gives you the complete set of Topps cards and extras. The story reads like a comic book with some gruesome images

Perfect little collectible item for anyone interested in collectable merchandise memorabilia. The book was in great near perfect condition considering the listing said it was used and its sleeve was perfectly intact.It even still had the collectable card pack still attached to the inside of the back page. Great illustrations.

This is a fantastic book with loads of info about everything you need to know about the Mars Attack cards with full colour pictures as well. It came the next day, was well worth the price and communication was brilliant. Top marks from me.

The media could not be loaded. In the 1960's I was a puny primary-school kid, and like all my friends I spent my pocket money buying Mars Attacks cards, eating the gum, then trading unwanted duplicates (of which there were many). I still *vividly* remember my delight on the day that I handed over an astonishing *16* cards just to get one in return. But it was worth it, because that's how I got the hitherto elusive card 27 - and completed my collection!All of this was done below my Dad's radar - he'd already made me burn my entire collection of Horror comics because he thought they'd be bad for my impressionable young mind (to be fair, he paid me quite a lot of cash to do this!). But the Mars Attacks cards were MUCH more gory, and some of them were verging on the erotic. Dad would NOT have approved, but I wanted to keep my cards, so he didn't find out about them. And I didn't turn out to be TOO much of a psycho (I have a doctor's note to prove it).Bring back any memories? If so, then like me you're probably of the age when you develop a strange obsession with this nostalgic stuff, and this is the book for you.For me, this really is the ultimate Mars Attack book. You get the entire collection of cards (front and reverse) in handy book format, printed on quality paper, and you also get a massive host of extras: Concept art, background information etc. You also get the second series which was produced a few years before the Tim Burton movie, illustrations from the spin-off comic books, and even four bonus cards!There's nothing here not to like. Whether you're an antique like me, or a young whippersnapper who discovered a later incarnation of the cards, if you're a Mars Attacks fan, this is for you.PS Please forgive my one-handed video (non)skills! But I wanted to give you a sort of 'virtual browse.'

I was a big fan of the Mars attacks cards when they came out in 62 I would buy a pack or two on my way to school most of my friends did the same and we would swop any duplicate ones we had this book is excellent and takes me back to those times great background info on the artists and concepts plus follow up art from other collections buy it you won't be disappointed.