Excerpt from "The Cardboard Galaxy"
Star Wars Galaxy Magazine #10
by Steve Sansweet

"Besides being a great experience [working at Topps], it also afforded me, at last, the chance to get the straight answer to a long-burning question: Just how did that card come about? That card, of course, is the so-called X-rated version of green-bordered #207, which appears to show an anatomically correct C-3PO. I had long heard that some printer -- either angry at Topps or just on a lark -- had done the deed. But, even in private, Gary [Gerani, Topps' West Coast Editor] insists that Topps printed the transparency exactly as it appeared from Lucasfilm, and didn't notice the errant appendage until the set had been printed and widely circulated. While dealers place a much higher value on the first print than the corrected version, in reality there could be as many if not more of the initial version in circulation."

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