Joe Shlabotnik Graded Cards

[steve B]

I'm waiting on the price surge for Chico Escuela cards.

[Peter_Spaeth]

They're coming to take me away, ha ha.

[brianp-beme]

All this Schlabotnik talk is making me hungry.

Brian

[Yoda]

But, Frank, everybody knows Lucy has a secret stash hidden away, just waiting until the collecting world is screaming for more JW cards.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

They're coming to take me away, ha ha.

[bobw]

[frankbmd]

I'm just going to throw out a question for the board.

How many Shlabotnik cards do you think are in the PSA backlog of cards waiting to be graded?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I'm just going to throw out a question for the board.

How many Shlabotnik cards do you think are in the PSA backlog of cards waiting to be graded?

PSA has at least a 100 on hand at all times. Problem is that each and every one of them end up getting crushed in the slab machine during the assembly process. From there they are disposed of in PSA's giant trash furnace...never to be seen again, and completely wiped out of existence.

They are then replaced by a newly printed 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. PSA 10, and shipped back to the original customer, who doesn't know whether to be pleasantly surprised, or low-key furious....thereby being stuck in the middle of some unknown information purgatory, and never making it's way out as news to the outside world.

Nobody knows why this happens, and it's probably best we never find out.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I'm just going to throw out a question for the board.

How many Shlabotnik cards do you think are in the PSA backlog of cards waiting to be graded?

Another answer could be zero. Because grown-up Charlie Brown has been hoarding them for his entire life, already cornered the market before 3rd party grading became a thing, and gave up on getting any cards graded when his first 29 shipments to PSA got permanently lost while passing through the Kearny, New Jersey postal facility, during the mid-90's.

Ever since, set collectors across the hobby have engaged in a vast conspiracy to convince the rest of the world, that these cards never existed. Otherwise there'd be no complete master sets in any Topps collection, from the years 1957 to 1964.

[egri]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Another answer could be zero. Because grown-up Charlie Brown has been hoarding them for his entire life, already cornered the market before 3rd party grading became a thing, and gave up on getting any cards graded when his first 29 shipments to PSA got permanently lost while passing through the Kearny, New Jersey postal facility, during the mid-90's.

Ever since, set collectors across the hobby have engaged in a vast conspiracy to convince the rest of the world, that these cards never existed. Otherwise there'd be no complete master sets in any Topps collection, from the years 1957 to 1964.

I'm in that camp as well. Shlabotnik was clearly very short-printed, and Lucy threw away the only known copy. The strip where Lucy throws it away ran in August, implying that Shlabotnik was high number. If there were any others, they likely would've been tossed in spring cleaning, or when the kids went off to college. Or maybe they were dumped in the ocean along with the 1952 Topps high numbers.