Thanks Carl. I would go for the better developed picture too. I picked up a psa 4 George Connor that I thought had a pretty well developed picture relative to the other ones I'd seen.
I got curious about the history after seeing that great image of a box you posted and found what Topps had to say on their site. They list this set as 1949, but other than that confirm that it was the first set with trading cards and they were issued undeveloped (I had never personally thought about this set before recently.):
https://www.topps.com/corporate/history