I heard the cards were recalled or banned in 62. Whats the story on that?
The realism with which the gory cards were drawn, along with some cards that depicted voluptous young women being attacked by Martians and giant bugs caused production of the set to be quickly halted. Although the set wasn’t actually “recalled”, the set had a very short production run due to parental objection and bad press. The cards also had a limited distibution to begin with. These two factors caused the cards to become very scarce. A third factor lamented by many collectors today is that their mothers simply threw them out because they were too shocking!
