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A Little History

1980 - Current

Vintage Cards

Wrestling trading cards have been
around for more than 100 years. From
the late 1800s to the early 1900s,
wrestling trading cards were primarily
distributed as tobacco cards. Often
times, classic tobacco cards featured
many sports figures and amung them
would be several wrestling superstars.
During the late 1800s, wrestling stars
were considered some of the best
athletes in the world.

Through the early 1900s, many
tobacco cards featured some of the
time's top wrestling stars. The first real
trading card set devoted to wrestling
exclusively was in 1954 with the
Parkhurst Company (and did so again
in 1956). All through the 1980s several
wrestling card sets were produced by
Topps Inc, Classic, Monty Gum,
Wonderama and others. Throughout
the 1990s, collectors were treated to a
plethora of wrestling trading cards from
some companies such as Action
Packed, Comic Images, Topps Inc. and
many others.

Today, wrestling trading cards can be
found at your local comic book shop,
sports card shop or over the Internet.
Here we have tried to provide you with
checklists to help you find what you
need or let you know what you have.
Use the links on the right to help you
locate the card set you want to see.
We have sorted cards by year, which
we find to be much easier to navigate.

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