Night Owl Cards

I grabbed a couple of 1975 Hostess panels recently. There's a guy on ebay selling them very reasonably, although I suspect none of them feature short-printed cards. Anyway, it's nice to see some rational sales on that site among all the yokels. I thought I needed both of the panels, but I didn't worry about it too much because the great thing about those '70s Hostess sets is that there are endless possibilities with them. You can collect the panels or the individual cards. You can cut the cards off the panels and improve on the individual cards that you have -- likely trimmed by someone with much inferior cutting skills. You can leave the panel intact and compare it with the other one you have and see which one is trimmed more nicely. I know grading-type collectors turn their nose up on Hostess cards. They're too DIY and there's that whole staining issue. I'm happy that I have something that I can collect that few of them are going to hoard up, although ther...