Art Spiegelman, the man behind the graphic novel Maus, was a member of the team that made the cards. So he was a natural to write the introduction for a new book, called simply Garbage Pail Kids.
While players passed through a variety of stations to pose for their first Panini NBA trading cards, I went on the prowl to halt the forces of supply and demand, to find out how high or low the players would set their own rookie card prices.
It was only a matter of time. Remember those Operation Enduring Freedom trading cards that Topps put out in 2001? And who could forget those Iraq's Mo...