1975 Hostess Rader

[Big Red Machine]

Here is my corrected panel that I picked up a couple of years ago and had graded. PSA 5 is one of 3 in this grade with nothing higher. I had been searching for one of these for years.

[Cliff Bowman]

All or nearly all of the corrected 1975 Hostess panels and cards of Doug Rader and Burt Hooton have the factory made crease/bend at the bottom from only being available on the smaller Ho Ho's boxes, I think that is why there aren't higher graded examples.

[judsonhamlin]

And that makes sense as to why the Rader (and Hooten) are both as tough as they are. The Yaz is another toughie that I realize I got lucky on.

[Zach Wheat]

Does anyone know if the 1975 Hostess set of 150 contains the brown ink variations? Or are they only in the 1975 Twinkies set of 60?

[darkhorse9]

The Twinkies set did not have the brown variation. That occurred only in the full box set.

[Zach Wheat]

There is a brown variation in the 1975 Twinkies set. I have attached an example of Madlock's card.

Apparently, since the set had a short time in which it was made available (April-Aug) they were experimenting with making brown backs for the 1976 set late in the cycle. Only a few were made. I am not sure if every card in the set exists in a brown back variation.

Z

Edited: The first pic shows the black & brown back for 1975 Twinkies card of Madlock

[bigfanNY]

My understanding is 1975 Brown backs only on Single cards found in Twinkies and other retail packs of Hostess products.
1976 Brown back variations are on 3 card panels.They can be found in 2 configurations 3 cards stright across and 2 on top and one one bottom (Referred to as L shaped panels) Some of the L shaped Brown variations are quite scarce.
I had a Hostess store located about a mile from my House and My Dad and I would go over and work on sets on markdown days...