This is a simply spectacular card featuring the most beloved postwar figure in Major League Baseball, the 1956 Topps No. 135 of Mickey Mantle, resplendent in a blazing Ex-Mt-Plus version of the most important card in the set. With sharp, vivid colors and exceptional gloss, the card is truly a superb example right down to the Grey Back that is clean as a whistle and without any of the customary foibles of the issue. This is the most important card of the coveted 1956 set, one that marks the occasion of perhaps Mantle’s finest season when he walloped 52 homers and registered career-bests in Runs (132), RBI (130) and Batting Average (.353). All of that added up to a Triple Crown and the first of his three MVP Awards. The card carries additional cachet as the last Mantle card in the larger Topps format that gave away to the now-standard 2 ½-by-3 ½-inch size that has prevailed for seven decades.