1988 Topps Keith Comstock Yellow Name / Letters Variation

[jacksoncoupage]

I recently located a copy of this after many years of searching for it. I first saw mention of it in Dick Gilkeson's 1990 or 1991 book. Does anyone own a copy?

It's definitely among the more elusive of the cataloged junk-era variations, the others being:

1987 Topps Dave Lopes #4 with 1985 copyright on back
1989 Topps Tony Oliva #665 with blacked-out copyright on back
1990 Topps Jeff King #434 with no white on back (all yellow)

I've seen the Jeff King but would love to see pics or get some information or sales history on the others.

[ALR-bishop]

I have the King and an Oliva with no copyright ( but not blacked out) . No Lopes. Can you post your Comstock

[jacksoncoupage]

I will post a photo once I have it in hand.

If I remember correctly, 1988 has a few yellow name subjects, Barry Jones and Ed Romero are others but Comstock is the only one catalogued as far as I know.

Any info on the 1987 Lopes?

Also, I used to have a pic of the Oliva black-out but that was lost with my last computer. I'd love to see another copy.

[jacksoncoupage]

[ALR-bishop]

Thanks for posting that. I had heard about it but had only looked for it off and on since I thought it might be an urban legend

[tulsaboy]

I remember opening box after box of 1988 Topps trying to find one of those. Had no idea that I probably never had a chance...I am sure the boxes I saw weren't from the print runs that included the error.