The Great Old Bubble Gum Cards and Some Cigarette Cards was published by Prime Press in 1977. The punch-out book contains 137 perforated reprints of classic trading cards released from 1910–1942. The collection was compiled and authored by Topps Chewing Gum employees Woody Gelman and Len Brown.

Woody Gelman and Len Brown were the creators of the Mars Attacks card series for Topps. Gelman was also co-creator of Topps bubble gum mascot Bazooka Joe. Gelman served as associate editor on Jefferson R. Burdick's 1960 edition of The American Card Catalog: The Standard Guide on All Collected Cards and Their Values.

"A Nostalgia Press Reprint" is printed on the back of each card. Prime Press was a division of Nostalgia Press, Inc. Gelman reprinted collections of vintage comic strips and other pop culture memorabilia from 1960–1979.

"The Comics" subset includes a reprint from the Superman Gum series. "Superman's Arch Enemy" depicts Superman against the original Luthor. Superman Gum was first released in late 1940 by Warren Bowman's Gum, Inc. in Philadelphia. The series was illustrated by Fred Ray, known for his iconic Superman covers during World War II.

The 1910 "Baseball Cigarette Cards" subset includes one of the first mass-produced reproductions of a T206 Honus Wagner card. The Wagner card was originally distributed with packs of Piedmont and Sweet Caporal Cigarettes between 1909–1911.

The reprint is a photograph of the "Ratner-Gammon Wagner" formerly owned by Newark Evening News writer Willie Ratner. The card is also known as the "Original Wagner," the first copy featured in mainstream press. On June 11, 2017, the "Original Wagner" sold at auction for $609,294.