1988 Topps Baseball Forum

Does anyone know if the blank back version of the Topps wax box cards exist?  I've found both the Gwynn O-Pee-Chee with the regular back and the blank back, but I haven't been able to find any Topps versions with a blank back.

I don't know why we have OPC Wax Box Blank Backs listed.  Like any other blank back cards of that time, it's a printing glitch.  When printing the boxes they missed a step.

Since Ryan added the OPC set and all the images, let's check in with him and see if it was something they were doing or not. They could be legit.

We don't have Topps Blank Backs listed. Were you simply speculating on their existence?

Yes, I was curious if anyone owns or at least has seen them - only because I've seen the two OPC versions and figured both would exist for Topps too. But of course it's totally possible the blank Topps don't exist too. 

The OPC blank backs seem to originate from a Canadian seller that has empty boxes in quantity. These are all blank back.

https://imgur.com/6rfoi0X

Sportzcommish has some blank back box cards.  99.99% sure not intentional, just a printing glitch.

https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/107/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=32548

Up that to 100% they're misprinted sheets of boxes since those images are from misprinted sheets of boxes.

edk wrote:

The OPC blank backs seem to originate from a Canadian seller that has empty boxes in quantity. These are all blank back.

https://imgur.com/6rfoi0X

When I was a kid and you asked the guy at the counter for the empty box for the cards more often than not they had the backs, sometimes they were blank. Specifically remember this. Years later I bought an unsorted lot of cards and there were many of these wax bottom cards in the lot. Most had back info, some did not. I added the set from the evidence in front of me and my memories of buyting 88 OPC.

Still nothing but blank back printing glitches. Just like all the other blank back cards printing in that era.