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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.
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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.