12 Lessons Learned from Junk Wax Journey: 1987

When I started the Junk Wax Journey, I didn’t really have any idea what to expect. I had a format in mind, a bunch of boxes lined up, and a very clear emotional goal: celebrate junk wax, team collecting, and the era that made a lot of us collectors in the first place.

What I didn’t have was certainty. I wasn’t sure which parts of the format would actually land, how people would react to bounties and bonus rips, or whether anyone would really want to commit to a year-long idea built around cards that are often written off as “worthless.”

By the end of JWJ 1987, I had some of those answers. And I learned a lot along the way.