In view of what Bob says, and taking another good look at the Ultra white Stan, I'm convinced it is a fake.
Study the contrast between the blue & white area on the hat right of STL--white dots show up and the white bleeds too brightly thru the blue on the neck, face & hat brim. In other words, the white dominates & the blue is weak.
Same goes for the wide uni stripe on Stan's right shoulder (lower left corner)--the white shows thru on the ultra white, but is solid blue on the original.
On all my originals, the blue dominates over the white---no washed out feeling when you look at an original.
I also don't buy that there were varying grades of cardboard used for Wheaties boxes. Mine came off an array of boxes bought at different times & every one is the same stock.
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