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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I don't know. It's a scary headshot, but still Mr. Hockey personified as a grizzled old man, with a half smirk that almost says, "I'm bout to break you in two, if you so much as go NEAR those boards around me.".
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Agreed! Gordie Howe was the very personification of the game.
Nonetheless, I don't understand what Topps/O-Pee-Chee was thinking when it came to the 2nd series of the 1964-65 Hockey set. Here's a representative page of the cards from the 1st series:
And here's how the majority of the 2nd series cards look:
